d. Shohei Imamura
c. Japan
y. 1987
description:
"The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the decidedly dicey true tale of Iheiji Muraoka, also known as Zegen, the man who became the most powerful pimp in modern Japanese history, a man who could honestly regard himself as "The Boss of the South Seas." At the time, between the World Wars, Japan was involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji (Ken Ogata) decided to set up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grew, so did his prosperity, as the man is quite literally surrounded by sex of all kinds, much of it shown onscreen. Interestingly enough, this engaging rogue was convinced that his entrepreneurship was not only personally rewarding, but was his way of doing his patriotic best to advance his country's global ambitions." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.9 (51)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 1400MB
qlty: DVD
subs: no (Chinese)
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Zegen
History Of Postwar Japan As Told By A Bar Hostess
d. Shohei Imamura
c. Japan
y. 1970
description:
"The star of this documentary is a quintessential Imamura heroine: a hard-nosed, ruthless survivor, with a sense of loyalty and an earthy sense of humor. In this movie, she sits in a Tokyo bar, which she used to own, and tells the story of the various means she used to survive, beginning with the day the atom bomb fell. It is a history of compromises and hard deeds, though there are few outright betrayals." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.4 (44)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no (French)
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A Man Vanishes
d. Shohei Imamura
c. Japan
y. 1967
description:
"A Man Vanishes is a really unique film. The film plays with the documentary form of filmmaking and what part a director plays in the forming of a documentary. The film is always interesting, and is consistenly surprising. This film never is even mentioned in the discussion of the director's work. This is unfortunate, due to the fact that on closer examination the film is tackling many different issues. During the filming the wife of the man that is missing, starts to fall in love with the director of the documentary. This is only one of the plot twists in the film. This is my personal favorite of all of Imamura's work. If you can't find this film rent another one, because he is one of the great surprises in the history of japanese film." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 7.9 (67)
_AMG... 4.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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My Second Brother
d. Shohei Imamura
c. Japan
y. 1959
description:
"Director Shohei Imamura is one of the better-known names of Japanese cinema and here he helms a consistently downbeat drama of miserable lives in a miserable little mining town. Four orphaned siblings struggle against the crushing poverty that threatens to separate them. Unfortunately, no one else in the town is in very good economic shape either. Even though the children receive all the sympathy they need and kind offers of whatever food the townspeople have available, it slowly becomes apparent that their efforts to stay together are woefully unrealistic in the face of economic pressures. Throw in a mining disaster, the poignancy of a supposedly tough storekeeper with a gentle heart, and several heart-wrenching scenes and the sad story slides along the edges of melodrama." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.4 (56)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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Endless Desire
d. Shohei Imamura
c. Japan
y. 1958
description:
"On the tenth anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender, a motley group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 7.4 (41)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: yes
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