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(0)Tomoyuki Tanaka
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!
2) Rodan
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a small mining village starts to experience strange deaths in the nearby mines, the authorities discover that the caves are besieged by giant caterpillars with an appetite for humans!
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.
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.
6) Kagemusha
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 Blu-rays (21 hrs. 35 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + book (34, 2 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 37 cm.
Language
日本語
Description
In 1954, an enormous beast clawed its way out of the sea, destroying everything in its path--and changing movies forever. The arresting original Godzilla soon gave rise to an entire monster-movie genre (kaiju eiga), but the King of the Monsters continued to reign supreme: in fourteen fiercely entertaining sequels over the next two decades, Godzilla defended its throne against a host of other formidable creatures, transforming from a terrifying symbol...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Blu-ray ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (176 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 pages).
Language
日本語
Description
Godzilla: A prehistoric monster ravages metropolitan Tokyo. Scientists suspect that H-bomb tests awakened it from a two-million year sleep. They try to develop techniques to stop the monster.
Godzilla, king of the monsters: An American reporter investigating a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan comes face to face with Godzilla, an ancient powerful creature capable of reducing Tokyo to smoldering rubble.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) Godzilla
Series
Criterion collection volume 594
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : black and white photographs ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
12) 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.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (468 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 27th day (1947, b & w, 76 min.): Five ordinary humans are given a box by aliens containing capsules capable of killing millions of people. If they can refrain from using the capsules for 27 days, the Earth will be spared. Will they be able to stand firm, especially when word leaks out and a panicked and furious population starts to hunt them down?
The night the world exploded (1957, b & w, 64 min.): Dr. Conway develops a device for predicting...
14) 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.