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Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Affluent architects Ryota and his wife Midori face a terrible dilemma when they learn that their six-year-old son, Keita, was accidentally switched at birth and is not their biological child. In the wake of this revelation, Ryota's sense of fatherhood is shaken to the core as he witnesses both his wife's enduring devotion to Keita and his own conflicting feelings of nature versus nurture. Now his decision on which boy is truly his son will change...
2) Summer wars
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[DVD/ Blu-ray combo pack]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray disc.
Language
日本語
Description
Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has--until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Remastered deluxe ed. ; Standard ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 25 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Longtime believer, Linus believes that this year the Great Pumpkin will come and he decides to keep watch all night in the pumpkin patch to welcome him. Charlie Brown dresses up as a ghost, but does not scare up the usual kinds of Halloween loot when trick-or-treating. Snoopy crashes into Violet's party, as well as Linus' vigil.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (499 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Collection expands the dimensions of the familiar Winchester mythology. Journey down the backroads of America with brothers Sam and Dean as they search for clues to their father's disappearance, hunt down the supernatural in all its unearthly forms, and enter into the unexpected mystery of their destinies, in vibrant, exciting anime. Includes 22 episodes.
5) Shoplifters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love--not blood--that defines a family."--Container.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
When four young orphans—Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura—first meet, their parents’ bodies are being turned into dust, like fine Parmesan atop a plate of spaghetti Bolognese, and yet none of them can shed a tear. They are like zombies; devoid of all emotion. With no family, no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward, the young teens decide that the first level of this new existence involves salvaging a gaming console, an old electric...
7) Kagemusha
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In 16th century feudal Japan, a thief is saved from execution to train as a double for one of the warlords, Shingen. Three warlords, Shingen, Nobunaga, and Ieyasu, battle for total power over Japan. When Shingen receives a mortal wound, the double must take his place to hold the Takeda clan together.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori's chances of winning the case seem low; his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim's family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection, and she soon gives up everything for her beloved's...
10) Miss Hokusai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently, creating the paintings sold under her father's name. Shy in public, in the studio O-Ei is brash and uninhibited. Seeking to come into her own as an artist, O-Ei sets out into the bustling city of Edo (present-day Tokyo), where she encounters spirits, dragons, con-men and traders.
11) House
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home.
12) Rush hour 3
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen and widescreen eds.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there's only one culture-clashed, crime fighting duo for the job. Ready to raise cane in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee and Detective Carter get themselves caught in an explosive battle between French police, the Triad gang, an angry cabbie and two gorgeous femmes fatales. But, Lee and Carter manage to uncover the secret at the heart of the Triad syndicate.
13) Wife of a Spy
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the **Venice Film Festival** for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria,...
14) Kwaidan
Series
Criterion collection volume 90
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...
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