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1) Stray dog
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
Description
A young detective goes undercover in Tokyo's sweltering streets to find the pickpocket who stole his gun. This film probes the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of criminal mind.
2) 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 267
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 232
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
Description
Both films concern a troupe of travelling players visiting a remote town where the ex-mistress of the leading actor lives. She has a son by the leading actor, but hasn't told her child who his father is.
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a widower and his daughter who through devotion to him is getting past a marriageable age. The father pretends to marry a young wife so his daughter will feel less obligated to stay with him. She marries and he prepares to live the remainder of his life alone.
8) Ronin gai
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2005
Language
日本語
Description
Story of ronin on the outskirts of Edo in the last of the samurai era. These masterless samurai have taken to drunkeness and debauchery with the local prostitutes. They can regain their honor when renegade samurai invade the area to kill the prostitutes. This project was undertaken in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the death of Shozo Makino, the 'father of the Japanese cinema.
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
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Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
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.
12) Rashōmon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
13) Makioka sisters
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.
14) Mirai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
Description
When four-year-old Kun's new baby sister is named Mirai (meaning 'future'), and the baby quickly wins the hearts of Kun's entire family. As his mother returns to work, Kun becomes increasingly jealous of baby Mirai, until one day he storms off into the garden, where he encounters guests from the past and future, including his sister Mirai as a teenager. Together, Kun and teenage Mirai go on a journey through time, uncovering their family's incredible...
16) Ikiru
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
Publisher
Canal+, Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Although the Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda waits 10,000 days demanding orders direct from his CO before he stops fighting.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a contract, the terms of which Calcifer cannot reveal. They promise...
19) Shall we dance?
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
A middle-aged businessman's dull life takes an interesting turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class just to meet the beautiful dance instructor.
Publisher
Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
Description
Though only fifteen, Maquia knows she will live for centuries without aging past adolescence. She belongs to the Iorph, a clan of ageless beings just like her. Maquia's elders warn her not to fall in love with anyone outside their realm, lest she wish to encounter true loneliness in the end. But fate pushes Maquia out into the mortal world one night, when an invading territory separates her from the clan. There she discovers an orphaned baby, Ariel,...
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