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The Masseurs and a Woman / Anma to onna (1938) Hiroshi Shimizu, Shotaro Akagi, Shin’ichi Himori, Ayuko Hirano

rarefilm — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:24:17 +0000

Two blind masseurs Toku and Fuku walk to a mountain retreat to work for the season. The film follows Toku and his interactions with his blind colleagues and various guests from the inns. Toku is attracted to a mysterious single woman, whom he can tell is from Tokyo by her scent. She is intrigued by him, but also makes friends with another visitor from Tokyo who is traveling with his young nephew. The bored nephew, looking for amusement, meets with the woman from Tokyo, as well as with Toku. A rash of thefts at the inns soon after they arrive causes Toku suspect one of these guests.

Also Known As (AKA): Une femme et ses masseurs

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File Name : The Masseurs and a Woman 1938.mkv
File Size : 760.11 MB
Resolution : 664×448 @ 590×448
Duration : 01:06:27
Video : AVC, 1 404 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama

The_Masseurs_and_a_Woman_1938.mkv

Children in the Wind / Kaze no naka no kodomo (1937) Hiroshi Shimizu, Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Masao Hayama

rarefilm — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:23:38 +0000

On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

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File Name : Kaze no naka no kodomo.avi
File Size : 1022.69 MB
Resolution : 672×496
Duration : 01:26:08
Video : MPEG-4 Visual, 1 529 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : MPEG Audio, 118 kb/s (VBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Japanese (idx/sub files)
Genre: Drama

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Kaze_no_naka_no_kodomo.idx
Kaze_no_naka_no_kodomo.sub

Odoriko / Dancing Girl (1957) Hiroshi Shimizu

rarefilm — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:30:14 +0000

In the heart of Asakusa, Tokyo, a struggling couple—Yamano, a violinist, and Hanae, a revue dancer—lives in poverty. Their fragile world is turned upside down when Hanae’s younger sister unexpectedly arrives, bringing chaos and mischief to their already precarious lives. As her unruly presence begins to unravel their carefully maintained routine, tensions rise, and the boundaries between love, jealousy, and survival become ever more blurred.

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File Name : Odoriko 1957.mkv
File Size : 1.21 GB / 1235.02 MB
Resolution : 716×480 @ 636×480
Duration : 01:35:49

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama

Odoriko_1957.mkv
Odoriko_1957.srt

Ohara Shôsuke-san / Mr. Shosuke Ohara (1949) Hiroshi Shimizu, Koume Akasaka, Akiko Kazami, Denjirô Ôkôchi

rarefilm — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:38:42 +0000

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara.

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File Name : Ohara.Shosuke-san.1949.mkv
File Size : 1.81 GB / 1853.67 MB
Resolution : 720×478 @ 640×478
Duration : 01:31:16

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Ohara.Shosuke-san.1949.mkv

A Woman Crying in Spring (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Akiko Chihaya, Ryuko Fuji, Shizue Hyôdô

rarefilm — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:47:46 +0000

Described by David Bordwell as ‘probably the greatest revelation’ of the retrospective of Shochiku’s early sound films at Bologna last year, Shimizu’s first talkie is an intense melodrama about the love between an itinerant woman and a miner. Though Shimizu is known for his heartwarming films about children, this bleaker film illustrates what Wong Ain-Ling calls the director’s ‘affinity [with] fallen souls,’ his interest in vagrants and fallen women.

Also Known As (AKA): Nakinureta haru no onna yo, Voici les Femmes du Printemps Qui Pleure, The Lady Who Wept in Spring

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File Name : Nakinureta.haru.no.onna.yo.1933.mkv
File Size : 1451.61 MB
Resolution : 700×474 @ 638×474
Duration : 01:36:15

Quality: VHSRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Spanish (srt)
Genre: Drama

Nakinureta.haru.no.onna.yo.1933.mkv
Nakinureta.haru.no.onna.yo.1933_english.srt
Nakinureta.haru.no.onna.yo.1933_spanish.srt

Tokyo Profile (1953) Hiroshi Shimizu

rarefilm — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:08:38 +0000

A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. A friendly couple, a sign carrier and and a shoe-shine girl, start helping her. The mother is simultaneously looking for the lost child.

Also Known As (AKA): Tokai no yokogao

IMDB

File Name : Tokyo Profile 1953.mkv
File Size : 1.12 GB / 1143.68 MB
Resolution : 712×478 @ 654×478
Duration : 01:14:34

Quality: TVRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

Tokyo_Profile_1953.mkv
Tokyo_Profile_1953.srt

A Mother’s Love / Bojô (1950) Hiroshi Shimizu, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Musei Tokugawa, Yatarô Kurokawa

rarefilm — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:04:57 +0000

A poor mother leaves behind three children,whom she had with different fathers, at relatives and foster parents, and heads for the road.

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File Name : Bojo 1950.avi
File Size : 0.98 GB / 1000.8 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:20:36

Quality: VHSRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (hardcoded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

Bojo_1950.avi

Unlucky Monkey / Anrakkî monkî (1998) SABU, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akira Yamamoto

rarefilm — Tue, 21 May 2024 20:53:34 +0000

Yamazaki has spent a lot of time plotting a robbery of a local bank, but when he actually gets to the bank he finds another robber escaping with the money. Through an improbable chain of events Yamazaki gets hold of the money and during a panicked escape accidentally kills an innocent girl.

Also Known As (AKA): Des Wahnsinns fette Beute

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File Name : Anrakki monki.rarefilm.net.avi
File Size : 1.36 GB / 1395.69 MB
Resolution : 704×384
Duration : 01:46:20

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (idx/sub files)
Country: Japan
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Anrakki_monki.rarefilm.net.avi
Anrakki_monki.rarefilm.net.idx
Anrakki_monki.rarefilm.net.sub

Introspection Tower / Mikaheri no tô (1941) Hiroshi Shimizu, Chimura Enoki, Teruo Furuya, Mamiko Harada

rarefilm — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:47:30 +0000

Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Here there are no fences and no one is ever beaten. The kids steal, play pranks, run away and help fix a water problem. Reformed kids introspect and go back home.

Also Known As (AKA): La Tour d’introspection

IMDB

File Name : Introspection.Tower.1941.mkv
File Size : 1.71 GB / 1750.57 MB
Resolution : 720×480 @ 640×480
Duration : 01:51:25

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

Introspection.Tower.1941.mkv

Forget Love for Now (1937) Hiroshi Shimizu

rarefilm — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:03:34 +0000

The lives of unhappy children and women, particularly mothers, burdened by societal restrictions, prejudices and straitened economic circumstances.

Also Known As (AKA): Koi mo wasurete

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File Name : Enough to forget the Love 1937.rarefilm.net.mkv
File Size : 0.4 GB / 404.98 MB
Resolution : 720×480
Duration : 01:13:09

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

Enough_to_forget_the_Love_1937.rarefilm.net.mkv
Enough_to_forget_the_Love_1937.rarefilm.net.srt

Eclipse / Kinkanshoku (1934) Hiroshi Shimizu, Mitsugu Fujii, Hiroko Kawasaki, Michiko Kuwano

rarefilm — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:55:16 +0000

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rick Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.

IMDB

File Name : Eclipse 1934.mkv
File Size : 448.72 MB
Resolution : 720×480
Duration : 01:36:59

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Japanese intertitles
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

Eclipse_1934.rar

Four Seasons of Children / Kodomo no shiki (1939) Hiroshi Shimizu, Teruo Furuya, Masao Hayama, Shin’ichi Himori

rarefilm — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:13:39 +0000

A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists’ minor adventures and real-world awakenings over spring and summer, then autumn and winter.

IMDB

File Name : Four.Seasons.of.Children.1939.mkv
File Size : 1487.23 MB
Resolution : 720×480 @ 640×480
Duration : 02:21:51
Video : AVC, 1 273 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama

Four.Seasons.of.Children.1939.mkv

The Boss’s Son at College AKA Daigaku no wakadanna (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Mitsugu Fujii, Harurô Takeda, Yoshiko Tsubouchi

rarefilm — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:15:37 +0000

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young women, Fuji resists family pressure to settle down and marry after college. Instead, he spends much of his time drinking and womanizing, behavior which eventually leads the college officials to expel him from the team. He becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his teammates, a girl performing in a musical revue. Fearing the possibility of the tabloid press reporting on the affair, a scandal which would bring negative publicity to the team, and needing Fuji to win the big game, his peers decide to reinstate him. First, however, they discipline him by administering a beating. For her part, the revue girl is forced by her brother to agree to break off her relationship with Fuji. The film climaxes with the game during which Fuji’s skills lead his team to victory. As it concludes, Fuji is seen in the locker room shower sadly reading the revue girl’s farewell letter he has just been given. Paralleling Fuji’s story are the experiences of his brother-in-law. The family arranges his marriage to one of Fuji’s two sisters, but he soon begins neglecting his duties to his wife, spending his nights away from home, drinking and carrying on with geisha girls.

IMDB

File Name : The Bosss Son at College 1933.mkv
File Size : 1280.02 MB
Resolution : 636×476
Duration : 01:24:48
Video : AVC (AVC), 1 850 Kbps, 24.000 fps
Audio : AC-3 (AC3), 256 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: VHSRip
Language: Japanese intertitles
Subs: English, Spanish (embedded)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport

The_Bosss_Son_at_College_1933.rar

The Shiinomi School AKA Shiinomi Gakuen (1955) Hiroshi Shimizu, Kyôko Kagawa, Yukiko Shimazaki, Jûkichi Uno

rarefilm — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:08:05 +0000

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shimizu’s skillful direction.

Also Known As (AKA): Una lettera per Tezuo

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Shiinomi_Gakuen_1955.avi

Kids Return: The Reunion AKA Kizzu ritân: Saikai no toki (2013) Hiroshi Shimizu, Yûta Hiraoka, Takahiro Miura, Bengal

rarefilm — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:54:58 +0000

Set 10 years after “Kids Return.” Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective fields.

IMDB

File Name : Kids.Return.The.Reunion.mkv
File Size : 1138.77 MB
Resolution : 718×358 @ 850×358
Duration : 01:46:43

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport

Kids.Return.The.Reunion.mkv

Japanese Girls at the Harbor AKA Minato no nihonmusume (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa

rarefilm — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:26:25 +0000

A bad boy can win their hearts and drive them apart even in the 1930s and even in Japan and even to Christians and even when the two girls have made a vow to each other. The two schoolgirls make a promise that is easily melted away and ignored once the western-named bad boy Henry and his motorcycle come into the picture. Their lives diverge instead of holding steady and clinging to their promise.

IMDB

File Name : Japanese Girls at the Harbor 1933.mkv
File Size : 865.7 MB
Resolution : 642×448 @ 570×448
Duration : 01:11:53

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese intertitles
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama

Japanese_Girls_at_the_Harbor_1933.mkv

Mr. Thank You (1936) Hiroshi Shimizu, Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka

rarefilm — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:04:46 +0000

Mr. Thank You is the kindly young driver of a local bus traveling from poverty stricken coastal villages, over the mountains, to the town. He thanks everybody when they let his bus pass on the narrow road. Among the passengers is a worldly young woman, who flirts with the driver while trying to put the villagers in their place. There is also an embarrassed mother who is taking her virginal daughter to the train station to be sent to Tokyo, presumably to be sold.

Also Known As (AKA): Arigatô-san, Sr. Obrigado

IMDB

File Name : Mr. Thank You 1936.mkv
File Size : 905.77 MB
Resolution : 664×448 @ 590×448
Duration : 01:16:07

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Mr._Thank_You_1936.mkv

Suicide Bus (1998) Hiroshi Shimizu, Dankan, Nanako Ôkôchi, Toshinori Omi, Comedy, Drama

rarefilm — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:55:10 +0000

A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from his uncle. The tour appears to be normal (expect that everyone appears to be quite somber) but Mitsuki learns it’s true purpose. All passengers and the tour manager have a suicide pact to send the bus over a cliff so the families can collect the insurance money.

Also Known As (AKA): Ikinai, Zájezd

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Ikinai_1998.rar

Hachi no su no kodomotachi / Children of the Beehive (1948) Hiroshi Shimizu

rarefilm — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:29:13 +0000

The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means of black market work for a one-legged tramp whilst avoiding being picked up by the police for vagrancy. Soon however, they find a more inspiring role model in the figure of a nameless soldier just repatriated after the war. An orphan himself, the soldier also has no home to return to, and so sets out across the country with the kids in tow in search of work before settling on the goal of leading them to the orphanage where he himself grew up.

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Download Hachi no su no kodomotachi / Children of the Beehive (1948)

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