d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1933
description:
"This silent feature by the esteemed Japanese director Mikio Naruse takes the form of a domestic melodrama. Sumiko Kurishima stars as Omitsu, a barmaid and single parent long-estranged from her irresponsible, out-of-work husband (Tatsuo Saito). When he suddenly returns without advance warning, she does anything and everything in her power to pull the pieces of her shattered family back together. Naruse employs heavy stylization to tell his story, including the repeated use of montage, a fractured chronology, and metonymical close-ups of characters' moving legs. When combined, these elements imbue the motion picture with much tension and a lingering sense of unease." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.9 (28)
_AMG... n/a
size: 480MB
qlty: VHS
subs: yes
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Each Night I Dream
Ginza Cosmetics
d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1951
description:
"This is a gentle, affectionate take on a middle aged bar hostess, struggling to bring up a child alone and facing financial, sexual and end of career issues, as well as the implied disapproval of society. There is plenty of humour, though, and acute observation of people and relationships in their everyday lives." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 7.9 (41)
_AMG... 4.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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A Wanderer's Notebook
d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1962
description:
"This Japanese drama presents the biography of popular Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi. The story begins as she is born to her poor parents. She eventually goes to school, but must drop out to support herself by taking a series of odd jobs. Along the way, she has several affairs with a variety of men--not all of them nice. Time passes and she writes an autobiographical novel. She then continued writing until she died in 1951." (AMG)
IMDB... 8.0 (71)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 1400MB
qlty: DVD
subs: no
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Yearning
d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1964
description:
"In this depressing Japanese drama, a grocer continues to operate her husband's business long after he has killed himself. Her brother-in-law has been in love with her for ages. Eventually she gives in and a romance blooms until she suddenly rejects him in favor of her husband's memory. The jilted lover becomes so despondent that he too commits suicide." (AMG)
IMDB... 8.5 (70)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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Street Without End
d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1934
description:
"On her way to meet her boyfriend, Sugiko is hit by a car and hospitalized. When she doesn't arrive at the meeting place, her boyfriend believes she has betrayed him, and he returns to his hometown. Yamauchi, the man who was driving the car that hit her, proposes to her. Sugiko marries Yamauchi, but is bored with his family's lifestyle. She leaves him and goes back to work as a waitress." (IMDB)
IMDB... 7.2 (11)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: yes
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Older Brother, Younger Sister
d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1953
description:
"In a village not far from Tokyo, Akaza and his wife Riki worry about their childrens' future. The eldest, Inokichi, is a gambler and a womaniser. The elder of the two sisters, Mon, has gone to Tokyo, and the parents are in the process of trying to marry off their younger daughter, San, to a local shopowner. When Mon comes home one day with the news that she is pregnant, Inokichi loses control and fights violently with the sister to whom he had always been so close."
IMDB... 7.8 (41)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: no (Chinese)
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