Pirate Thread, Aargh! (theoretical purposes only)

A lot of interesting film, especially from East Asia, has completely fallen down rabbit holes. It’s hard to find, often only being screened at things like film centers or having been released to VHS on some defunct label catering either to university libraries or expat communities back in 1990. But because the copyrights on these, though still active, aren’t really enforced, they are findable, but it’s hard. But they’re often hiding right under your nose, and subtitles often aren’t a problem because if it’s a VHS scan they’re right there on the tape.

One place that’s surprisingly good for this stuff is Youtube. I actually saw Mishima on youtube, but that got snatched up I think. Shohei Imamura’s excellent Black Rain now has a legit youtube release, but the free version’s still there too. I lost the link (but downloaded the video), but the multilingual Full Moon in New York, about three women from HK, Taiwan, and the mainland living in New York, was tough to find because of its generic title, and when I did find it there there were no English subtitles. Looking for it in Chinese characters, though, yielded a subtitled VHS rip. I’ve actually started paying for Nitroflare, allowing my to access two movies basically for their soundtracks: Golden Dog, a TV film about a dog spy scored by Lupin III’s Yuji Ohno, and Paradise View, scored by Haruomi Hosono (and the movie’s considered a pioneering work in Okinawan cinema, about which I know nothing). Also Hard Boiled is somehow free on youtube, top of search results and everything.

Another old movie that slipped through the cracks was Powell & Pressburger’s Contraband, a fun spy story from immediatelybefore WWII. I can’t remember where I found some nice cool unsubtitled French action/heist movies—Peur sur la ville, Le casse (there it was hard finding a not-dubbed-into-English version—even though it’s the sort of film I’d be fine with dubbed, but I know what Belmondo sounds like and I know what Omar Sharif sounds like speaking English, so I couldn’t do it—it’s the same with dubbed Bruce Lee, but I can do dubbed Jackie Chan because that’s how I first heard him), and maybe Le Doulos, but I honestly can’t remember if that was one I got from a weird site, or even if I have it at all or if it’s just on the list.

Anyone have tips on where one might procure this version of this song?