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Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
An orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's revenge attempts start off a trail of assassinations and ninja swords fights spanning from Hokaido, Alaska to California where Tien-Hei's secrets gradually unfold. The revenge road leads to a climactic battle with Tien-Hei on the fall of Japan's Shogun-era.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
日本語
Description
In Koreeda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
Series
Criterion collection volume 708
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Over a period of two days, a young prostitute and a widower develop an unexpected connection.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1089
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Description
"If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life's high-concept premise is grounded in Kore-eda's documentary-like...
Publisher
U.S. Manga Corps
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Betrayed from within and overwhelmed by dark magic, the kingdom of Pars (Palse) has fallen, overrun by the fanatical warriors of Rucitania. Young Prince Arslan, the sole heir of Pars (Palse), escapes the ruins of his homeland. A fugitive hero, he assembles a company of five extraordinary allies -- a priestess, an exiled warrior, a minstrel and an artist and his aide. Together they must reclaim the lost land of their fathers, or the world will forever...
7) Perfect days
Series
Criterion collection volume 1226
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breathtaking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. In a radiant, performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges...
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
Description
The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2004.
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 in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
Series
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in...
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
日本語
Description
A collection of Koji Yamamura's most remarkable works, including his masterpiece Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor, a nightmarish, virtuoso drawing-on-paper rendering of the famed short story and winner of seven Grand Prizes at major animation festivals worldwide.
Series
New people artist volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
Follows Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara as he travels the world scouting for inspiration for his "AtoZ" exhibit in his home town, Hirosaki.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
日本語
Description
Presents the story of a group of girls who work in a precision-optical-instruments factory, making lenses, binoculars, etc., during wartime in Japan. This was filmed in a real factory with real workers which gives the movie a documentary flavor.
16) Swan Lake
Publisher
Media Asia Group
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess Odette. The princess is charmed by an evil wizard Rothbart who is crazy about marrying Odette. Handsome Prince Siegfried together with two merry squirrels struggle to defeat the evil wizard to complete this classic fairy tales.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Haruka is on a mission to find her mirror, a precious childhood gift from her mother that mysteriously disappeared. While following a strange fox-like creature in the woods, she tumbles into a mystical world where once-cherished toys and treasures go when their owners neglect them. Join Haruka and her new friend Teo on a roller coaster ride of adventure as they contend with the island's greedy ruler, who wants the mirror for his own...
18) Tokyo Olympiad
Series
Criterion collection volume 155
Publisher
Toho Production
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors--the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two mysteries. What is the secret of the great sin it committed in...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes, and the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a nearly magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh house again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding...
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