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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...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A deaf elementary school girl named Shoko Nishimiya transfers to a new school and meets a boy named Shoya Ishida. Shoya leads the school in bullying Shoko over her disability until she transfers to another school. Immediately, the class bullies Shoya for having bullied Shoko. Shoya loses contact with Shoko, and for years he suffers the consequences of his guilt. Upon entering high school, Shoya finally decides he must find Shoko, determined to make...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (198 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
From visionary director Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve) comes PATEMA INVERTED, a perspective-twisting sci-fi adventure about two kids separated by opposite gravities. Patema lives in an underground world of tunnels, the long-abandoned ruins of a giant industrial complex. Though she is a princess, she is held back by the rules imposed by the elders of her clan. One day when she is exploring in a forbidden zone, she is startled by a strange bat-like...
4) 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.
5) Paprika
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A revolutionary machine has been built that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After the machine is stolen, a fearless detective and brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a "dream terrorist."
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...
7) Good morning
Series
Criterion collection volume 84
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning Technicolor...
8) Avalon
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
"In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers"--IMDb website.
9) 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.
10) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Special ed. , English subtitled version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 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.
11) 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.
12) 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...
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...
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