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1) True mothers
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (140 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family's orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato's biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family....
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction, and a chance encounter with the past. Propelled by coincidence and imagination, and guided by love₂s gentle current, acclaimed director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Happy Hour, Asako I & II) returns with an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities. An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction, and a chance encounter with the past. Propelled by coincidence and...
3) Ping pong
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Peco and Smile, are best friends and ping pong rivals; Peco is very competitive, while Smile sees it as a way to kill time, and looks up to Peco as a hereo. When Peco is badly defeated, Smile becomes the newest celebrity.
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...
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
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2020, three days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. While she should be studying for her exams, Kokone Morikawa is often dozing off, stuck between reality and a dream world full of fantastic motorized contraptions. But after her father, a talented but mysterious mechanic, is arrested for stealing technology from a powerful corporation, it's up to Kokone and her childhood friend Morio to save him.
7) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Daigo Kobayashi is a cellist without a job. He decides to move back to his hometown with his wife, and takes a job that his wife despise. However, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of the departed and the family of the departed.
8) Sweet bean
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade bean jelly convinces him to hire her, which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food. Nominated for an Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto Film Festival.** *"Its sentimentality is tempered by the elegant restraint of the fine lead...
9) 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.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A critically-acclaimed and powerful, heartfelt story about four children who are forced to rely on one another after they are abandoned by their mother.
11) Porco Rosso
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Slouching towards middle age, Porco Rosso makes his living by flying about in his red bi-plane and fighting sky bandits who prey on cruise ships sailing the Adriatic. When he's not engaging in dog fights, this pilot lives on a deserted island retreat. Porco was once a strappling young man, but after his entire squardron was wiped out, he is mysteriously transformed into a pig. Then he is defeated in a dogfight against a dashing American rival, who...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (138 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
In the debut directorial feature by actor Joe Odagiri, the film follows an old ferryman in a remote Meiji-era community. His life is a peaceful, cyclical existence, given meaning by the essential role he plays in transporting people, livestock and goods across the water, connecting villages and lives. When news arrives that a bridge is being built, it's clear that his services will no longer be needed. Meanwhile, his life will be equally transformed...
13) 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.
14) 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,...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (299 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
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...
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (104 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
日本語
Description
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it feels like a vacation until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! With All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.
18) 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.
19) 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.
20) 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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