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Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set during the Edo period, a samurai and his two servants, including spear-carrier Genpachi, meet various people on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, and a young child and a woman who are to be sold into prostitution.
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a servant. Caught together, the man is beheaded and Oharu and her family are exiled. After enduring further misfortunes as a concubine, a courtesan, wife, and prostitute, Oharu becomes a mendicant nun in her old age. A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout its history, Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) had already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu; in 1952. But this epic portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the incredibly talented Kinuyo Tanaka as an imperial lady-in-waiting who gradually descends to street...
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.
5) Yojimbo
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
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...
7) Late Ozu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (636 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Early spring: A young salaryman in postwar Japan, dissatisfied with career and marriage, begins an affair with a flirtatious co-worker.
Tokyo twilight: Follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy, and marital discord.
Equinox flower: A stubborn businessman who disapproves of his daughter's fiancé must learn to embrace modern romance.
Late autumn: A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the...
8) Rashōmon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (44 pages).
Language
日本語
Description
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
9) Yōjimbō
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.