Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (389 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Ringu follows a reporter who investigates the curse surrounding a mysterious videotape after the inexplicable death of her young niece.
Rasen, the sequel to Ringu, finds a doctor linking the horrifying death of his former medical school classmate with four teens who died after watching a cursed videotape.
Ringu 2 reveals more bone-chilling truths about the hanunted girl on the deadly videotape. Now, the girl attempts to possess a young boy and begin...
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 157 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A dramatization of the end of WWII and the destruction faced by the Japanese people. This is the story of August 15, 1945, Japan's longest day, where in a single 24-hour period, the fate of 100 million people would be decided.
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.
Publisher
AminEigo
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"No good deed goes unpunished for Zatoichi, the blind masseur and master swordsman. After delivering the baby of a dying woman and fulfilling her last wish to take her infant to the town of Shiobara, he finds the father missing and must leave the child with his aunt, Oya-e. Immediately taking a liking to the young woman, he resolves to help her when her inn is turned into a brothel by Tetsugoro, the local yakuza boss. Things take a turn for the worse...
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
Series
Criterion collection volume 155
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors-- the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field.
7) Kuroneko
Series
Criterion collection volume 584
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Widescreen format, English-subtitled version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Kyuta, a young orphan living on the streets of Shibuya, stumbles into a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by Kumatetsu, a gruff, rough-around-the-edges warrior beast who's been searching for the perfect apprentice. Despite their constant bickering, Kyuta and Kumatetsu begin training together and slowly form a bond as surrogate father and son. But the unlikely pair will be put to the ultimate test; a final showdown.
9) Dodesukaden
Series
Criterion collection volume 465
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. As desperate as their circumstances may seem, each of them, including the homeless father and son who dream of a home; the young woman hiding from the abuse she receives from her uncle; and a young boy who dreams of being a trolley conductor, find reasons to carry on.
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
11) 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.
12) House =: Hausu
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home.
13) 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.
14) Throne of blood
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
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.
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A giant egg washes ashore in Japan and becomes an instant tourist attraction. The only problem is, it belongs to a giant butterfly-like creature from Monster Island named Mothra - and she wants it back!
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...
18) Shogun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or shogun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
Series
Criterion collection volume 791
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (approximately 3 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 foldout.
Language
日本語
Description
Lady Snowblood. A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for her father's murder and her mother's rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance, set in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan, respectively, are bloody, beautiful...