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Series
Criterion collection volume 386
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to defend for themselves and eventually are separated by vicious slave traders. Under the dazzling direction of Kenji Mizoguchi, Sansho the Bailiff is a classic Japanese story which is seen as a Japanese masterpiece, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.
Publisher
Distributed by Geneon Entertainment USA
Pub. Date
[2008, p2006]
Language
日本語
Description
Rokuro Okajima is meek, mundane, and metropolitan. His business trip to South East Asia turns from pleasure cruise to festival of pain when modern day pirates board the ship and take him hostage. Revy, Dutch, and Benny are merciless, maniacal, and mean. Together they make up the crew of the Black Lagoon. They are the exact opposite of Rokuro in every way but one. A mercenary group has targeted them to steal the data disc that Rokuro had, and with...
Publisher
MVD Marquee Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two clans battle for a legendary treasure hidden in a desolate mountain town. One day, a lone gunman, burdened with deep emotional scars but blessed with incredible shooting skills, drifts into town. Two clans try to woo the lone gunman to their sides, but he has ulterior motives. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire and love collide as the situation erupts into a final, explosive showdown.
Series
Criterion collection volume 116
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry...
7) The Yakuza
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan - and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. He returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the brutal Japanese mafia.
8) Sanjuro
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
9) Silk
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Herve Joncour is a married silkworm smuggler in 19th century France. He travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo after his original shipment was destroyed. While in Japan, he spots a beautiful Japanese woman who is the concubine of a local baron. He immediately becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins...
10) Rashomon
Series
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The human-hating Hordy Jones and his army of 100,000 troops has Fish-man Island's royal family by the gills. Luckily, the Straw Hats make it in time to show off a boatload of powerful new moves! But just when Luffy kicks into gear, an ancient ship nearly half the size of the island heads straight for Shirahoshi. Only the cowardly mermaid can guide the vessel away before it crushes them all.
12) Fukushima 50
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Description
March 11, 2011 2:46 PM, Japan₂s Tohoku Region: at a magnitude of 9.0, the strongest earthquake in the country₂s history strikes, triggering a huge tsunami and carnage that would end up killing thousands of people and displacing many more. It mercilessly engulfs the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, causing a crippling station blackout. Unable to be cooled, the nuclear reactors quickly turn into hydrogen bombs at the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 949
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
"One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound...
14) A letter to Momo
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight, and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter that he had started to write her, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother from bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio, she soon discovers three goblins living in her attic, a trio of mischievous spirit creatures who have been assigned to watch over her.
15) Only yesterday
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
16) Silence
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
日本語
Description
Kagome is a modern-day student with typical teenage problems. He battles demons and searches for the Sacred Jewel shards. He is also preparing for a school festival and a love scene in the class play. But demons wait for no one, and soon Kagome is back in the past encountering demon women. That will test the bond between Miroku and Sango.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
It is the era of adventure, as countless souls are lured along the Grand Line in pursuit of dreams far greater than any they've ever dared to imagine. Wealth, fame, power is all available for the taking to the lucky soul that can find it: The legendary One Piece. Among those on the high seas is a youth on a quest to be king of them all, Luffy, the Straw Hat Pirate! But first he must find a ship, a crew and some supplies. Determined to recruit those...
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nightmare Luffy's impressive punching power momentarily swings the momentum in favor of the heroes, but when the rubber-man's hulking physique returns to normal, the bad guys get back in the game. Gecko Moria devours every shadow in sight as he monsters up in a heinous attempt to permanently sink the Straw Hats. Luffy, battered beyond belief, pushes his body past the breaking point as he seeks to save his friends and deliver the decisive blow in this...
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