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Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
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.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Home Vision Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
5) After life
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
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.
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...
10) Still walking
Series
Criterion collection volume 554
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Director approved special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a celebratory ritual that only gradually makes itself clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a family's entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys.
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
2012.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A widowed father forces his adult daughter to begin her own life by fooling her into believing he will remarry.
13) Queer Japan
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, this documentary pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between.
Series
Criterion collection volume 240
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1951.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Language
日本語
Description
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat...
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...
18) Late spring
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
[Special ed.].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : ill. ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the way to his grandmother's heart.
20) The only son
Series
Criterion collection volume 525
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A good-natured mother gives up everything to ensure her son's education and future. Special feature: New interviews with film scholars Tadao Sato, David Bordwell, and Kristin Thompson.
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