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Series
Criterion collection volume 313
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, a former farmer, dreams of being a samurai. The other, a former samurai, prefers living anonymously.
Series
Zatōichi volume 1
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The first of a series of films set in medieval Japan about Ichi, a blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and uses his deadly cane sword against his enemies.
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.
6) 13 assassins
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era. 13 Assassins - a "masterful exercise in cinematic butchery" (New York Post) - is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 132 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan...
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set during the Edo period, a samurai and his two servants, including spear-carrier Genpachi, meet various people on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, and a young child and a woman who are to be sold into prostitution.
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A mysterious samurai arrives at the doorstep of his feudal lord, requesting an honorable death by ritual suicide in his courtyard. The lord threatens him with the brutal tale of Motome, a desperate young ronin who made a similar request with ulterior motives, only to meet a grisly end. Undaunted, the samurai begins to tell a story of his how, with an ending no one could see coming.
Series
Criterion collection volume 116
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry...
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
For 350 years, the Iikura family have honored bushido, the stern code of the samurai, above all other considerations. Susumu, a modern-day Japanese professional, chronicles the shocking stories of his forefathers as he decides whether to break free from the bonds of an ancient code of honor, or take up the role that tradition has ordained for him.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (139 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry...
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 312
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"Spy networks gather information for the clans supporting and opposing the shogunate."--Www.kitparker.com.
16) Harakiri
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
After an unemployed samurai is forced to commit harakiri before a feudal lord, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
17) 47 Ronin
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
18) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special ed., English subtitled version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
19) Red Sun
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A samurai and a western outlaw team up to retrieve a stolen sword and a cache of gold.
20) Samurai marathon
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In the late feudal era of Japan, a young ninja is operating undercover in the court of an aging lord during a peaceful era of Japan that is on the brink of change. After the lord challenges his lazy samurais to a punishing marathon to toughen them up, the ninja finds his loyalties put to the test. Facing impossible odds, this unusual band of characters is running a race to win or die.
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