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Tora-san, His Tender Love (1970)
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year’s approaches.
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Flag in the Mist (1965)
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan’s top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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Shin Heike Monogatari
Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of peace, this tale of “Heike” (another name for the Taira clan) focuses on Taira Kiyomori who fights alongside other members of his clan to at first successfully overcome the Minamoto clan and their bid for power. Battles and intrigue abound, as the puppet Emperor and Buddhist monks take sides in the power struggle. At issue is Kiyomori’s parentage, not an unusual problem for the nobility in that era where clandestine liaisons among courtiers and the upper classes were common.
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Kaji, having lost his exemption from military service by protecting Chinese prisoners from unjust punishment, has now been conscripted into the Japanese Kwantung Army. Despite his anti-militarism, Kaji excels in his training and tries to implement his ideals in his dealings with other soldiers in the face of the prevailing brutality. The film ends with the Soviet army’s victorious onslaught.
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)
A salaryman’s drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life’s story.
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The Sword of Doom (1966)
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
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Kwaidan (Original)
This is the film adaptation of four stories from the book “Kwaidan: Stories and studies of strange things” by Lafcadio Hearn and is actually a collection of Japanese ghost stories, taken from various sources, some even stemming from China.
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Region: 2
Important: A lot of DVD players around now are region free – which play any DVD region. It completely depends on what DVD player you have.
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Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son’s fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.
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