Janus Films
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
2) Tokyo story
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Dual-format edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs + 1 Blu-ray (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Newly restored special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
5) Scanners
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (103 min.) : monaural, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
6) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special ed., English subtitled version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Blu-ray ed.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
10) Zatoichi
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
17 DVDs + 9 Blu-rays (2,197 min.) : DVD video, Blu-ray, sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (95 pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen's great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. Features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, starring Shintaro Katsu, collected in one package for the first time.