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1) 13 assassins
Author
Language
日本語
Formats
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
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 116 min.) : anamorphic, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Two of Japan's legendary actors star in this classic tale of greed and misfortune. Zatoichi the Blind Masseur revisits a village he has fond memories of, only to find that much has changed.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After her husband is arrested on suspicion of being a Communist, a woman is suddenly in charge of taking care of her household and her two daughters, with the help of her husband's sister, during the early days of World War II.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Collector's set.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary 'Battle Royale' act. 42 students, three days, no rules, one survivor.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a yellow lab retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill. We follow Quill from the litter, his selection to become a guide, and his life with a foster family until his first birthday, followed by highly specialized schooling in guiding the sightless. He is paired with a blind man who is at first reluctant to rely on Quill. But Quill's great patience, gentleness, and skill eventually win him over and they become inseparable friends.
Series
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The true story of a group of leaderless samurai who are willing to risk everything for revenge after their master is forced to commit suicide for assaulting a rude court official.
Series
Criterion collection volume 386
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 folded-out.
Language
日本語
Description
The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen format (1.85:1).
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A schoolgirl named Shizuku, who longs to discover her true talents, meets the mysterious Seiji, a boy who is determined to follow his dreams, and The Baron, a magical cat who helps her listen to the whispers in her heart.
Series
Criterion collection volume 377
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A young widow with family obligations, Keiko is the madam of an upstairs bar in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo in 1960. As she approaches 30, she realizes that her life is at a crossroads: she must either go into business and open her own bar or marry.
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Iratsume, a woman of noble descent becomes obsessed with Buddhism introduced to Japan from China. One night she sees a luminous vision that she believes to be the Buddha, compelling he to leave home and journey to a sacred temple. At the temple she meets the ghost of Prince Otsu and she begins a quest to save him.
12) Gate of Flesh
Series
Criterion collection volume 298
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 60 cm, folded to 19 x 13 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hotels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 150 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 392-395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (521 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....
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