Ayako Wakao
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (86 min.; 119 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in...
2) Irezumi
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Otsuya is the daughter of a rich merchant who is tempted by her lover, Shinsuke, a lowly employee of her father's, to elope. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of another man, radically altering her relationships with...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (299 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father--setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters--one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional--disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
Women of the night. The story of two sisters, Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko,...