Atsushi Watanabe
1) 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
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...
3) 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.