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1) Kwaidan
Series
Criterion collection volume 2540
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Formats
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
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Full screen.
Language
日本語
Description
Masaki Kobayashi's pitiless take on Japan's professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. A condemnation of the inhumanity bred by a mercenary, bribery-fueled business, it follows the shark like maneuvers of a scout dead set on signing a promising player to the team for the Toyo Flowers.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Full screen.
Language
日本語
Description
Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War II, this drama about a group of rank-and file Japanese soldiers jailed for crimes against humanity was adapted from the diaries of real prisoners.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown. A bevy of lawyers and associates begin machinations to procure the money for themselves, resorting to the use of impostors and blackmail. Yet all are outwitted by the cunning of the man's secretary, in this entertaining condemnation of unchecked greed.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
A clan lord orders an aging swordsman to have his son marry the lord's mistress, but reverses his decision after the young couple falls in love. The samurai rebels against his master when the master demands back his mistress, who has become the samurai's beloved daughter in law.
7) Black River
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
日本語
Description
Examines the rampant moral corruption on and around U.S. military bases in Japan following World War II. Kobayashi spirals out from the story of a love triangle that develops between a good-natured student, his innocent girlfriend, and a coldhearted criminal to reveal a nation slowly succumbing to lawlessness and violence.