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1) Shoplifters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
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 567
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
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.
Series
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground i the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
7) Godzilla
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire populations fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. Here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American...
8) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
9) Kyua =: Cure
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
日本語
Description
Set in and around a bleak, decaying Tokyo, a series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions. Detective Kenichi Takabe puts his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the terror.
10) Rashōmon
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
日本語
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.
11) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Janus Films
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.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a yellow lab retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill. We follow Quill from the litter, his selection to become a guide, and his life with a foster family until his first birthday, followed by highly specialized schooling in guiding the sightless. He is paired with a blind man who is at first reluctant to rely on Quill. But Quill's great patience, gentleness, and skill eventually win him over and they become inseparable friends.
15) A snake of June
Publisher
Tartan Video USA
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
日本語
Description
"A dark erotic force infiltrates the lives of a reserved careet woman in her thirties and her obsessively clean workaholic husband."--Container.
16) Left handed
Publisher
Vanguard Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
Takes place in a suburb of Tokyo and centers around a disaffected teenage boy, Hiroshi, who is struggling at school, socially and academically. One day he shuts himself away in his bedroom and for the next two years refuses to come out or let anyone in. Hiroshi's parents are so ashamed that they attempt to conceal his condition from family and friends.
17) Ran
Series
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
"Set in 16th century Japan, Ran related the tale of how an aging ruler, Lord Hidetora, announces his intention to divide his land equally among his three sons. This decision to step down unleashes a power struggle among the three, as Hidetora falls prey to the false flattery bestowed upon him by the two older sons and banishes the youngest when he speaks the truth. The ruthless betrayal ultimately drives Hidetora insane, destroying his entire family...
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