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(0)Ryuzo Kikushima
Series
Criterion collection volume 377
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A young widow with family obligations, Keiko is the madam of an upstairs bar in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo in 1960. As she approaches 30, she realizes that her life is at a crossroads: she must either go into business and open her own bar or marry.
2) 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
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A botched kidnapping of a Japanese executive's son turns into a race-against-time.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
5) High and low
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages ; 16 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy Japanese shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (139 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry...
Series
Criterion collection volume 116
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry...
8) Sanjuro
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might...
10) Postwar Kurosawa
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (593 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
No regrets for our youth. Yukie, the spoiled bourgeois daughter of a university professor, begins a soul-searching journey that takes her from the elegance of Kyoto to the peasant farms of impoverished rural Japan, the rise and fall of ultranationalism corresponding with her own moral awakening.
One wonderful Sunday. Yuzo and Masako, a middle-class couple suffering from economic postwar decline, meet on Sunday in Tokyo with only thirty-five yen to...
11) 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.