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1) Red Beard
Series
Criterion collection volume 159
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002, c1965
Language
日本語
Description
A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.
Series
Criterion collection volume 377
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
日本語
Description
A widowed woman who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's postwar Ginza district struggles to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. 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.
4) 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.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2013.
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...
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.
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.
8) Onmyoji
Publisher
Pioneer Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen version (16:9)
Language
日本語
Description
During the dark ages of demons and ghosts, the Heian Emperor relies upon the Imperial Order of the Onmyoji to protect the kingdom. However, as the birth of the emperor's heir approaches, political intrigue and jealousy will lead to the most dangerous of betrayals - from within the Onmyoji and the Emperor's family itself. It will be up to the most talented of the order to face his master and the dark magic that threatens to destroy them all.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
"One of the most important and complex works by two-time Palme d'Or winning director Shohei Imamura, A MAN VANISHES begins as an investigation into one of the thousands of missing persons cases that occur in Japan each year. The film follows the case of Tadashi, a handsome businessman who has suddenly vanished. Imamura and his crew interview the man's fiancée, Yoshie, who is desperately searching for him, and the filmmaker becomes increasingly involved...
10) Gate of flesh
Series
Criterion collection volume 298
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
11) The inheritance
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.
12) Norwegian wood
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo, the late 1960s. Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in turmoil. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that...
Publisher
U.S. Manga Corps
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The year is 1580 and the unholy armies of Lord Nobunaga Oda steadily spread across Japan. Narrowly escaping the slaughter of her clan, a young ninja (Ayame) steals into the shadows wielding a dagger that is one of three mystical blades. Now, Ayame and two other renegade ninja must unite their weapons and skills to fulfil the prophesy of the enchanted swords or die trying.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Description
With an intergalactic cast of thousands, Koji Masunari's colorfully explosive debut feature sets a new high for visual spectacle and sheer inventiveness of character design - in what has to be one of the most gleefully surreal depictions of alien life forms ever portrayed in cinema. It seems like just another lazy summer is in store for Amane and her older cousin Natsuki. Lolling about the Japanese countryside, the days are blithe and boundless. But...
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
日本語
Description
Three sisters, Sachi, Yoshino and Chika, live together in the city of Kamakura, Japan. When their father, absent from the family home for the last fifteen years, dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their shy, teenage half sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings.
17) Rashomon
Series
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
DVD special ed., Full screen.
Language
日本語
Description
Portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, as an imperial lady-in-waiting gradually descends to street prostitution.
20) Silence
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
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