Third Window Announces Director Company Films Part 3

Yes, film fans, Third Window's continuing strand of Directors Company releases has been teased for some weeks, tantalising us with glimpses of what is to come in 2025 and finally they have been announced.

Not only that we are being hit with a triple whammy of releases, but all three will be available on February 17th in deliciously restored versions, and one I have seen at the cinema so can attest to them being the best quality going.

So what have Third Window in store for us? First up: Bumpkin Soup (1985) an early rebellious pink film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa; next some bloody revenge in the highly awaited Mermaid Legend (1984) by Toshiharu Ikeda; and, last but not least, Roman Porno drama in Scent of a Spell (1985) Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda.

Bumpkin Soup

A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

Mermaid Legend

When a fisherman is killed by greedy land developers for standing in the way of their expansion plans, his pearl-diver wife Migiwa moves into unforgiving and vindictive payback on those yakuza responsible. Framed for her husband’s murder and forced to shelter in a brothel, hell hath no fury as the bloody battles begin.

Scent of a Spell

While a young man (Johnny Okura) is on his way home from a bar in a torrential downpour, he comes across a woman (Mari Amachi) trying to kill herself by jumping off a bridge. Without thinking, he jumps in to rescue her and save her from drowning. After taking her to his home, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband whom he decides to try and protect her from. He starts to fall for her, but finds out that there’s more to her story than she’s willing to tell at first.

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