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Series
Criterion collection volume 645
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable...
Series
Criterion collection volume 645
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan in 3 roles as the women in Joe's life have their way.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Korean
Description
It's springtime in a small house floating on a small raft on a small lake, surrounded on all sides by steep walls of forest or stone, broken here and there by ravines. Old Monk lives here with his young apprentice. The lesson for Spring is about pain and guilt and conscience, Summer's the cruelty of desire, Autumn's about letting go of rage, and Winter's about penance and finding peace. And so Spring comes around again, and the cycle begins anew,...
6) Apocalypto
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Mayan
Description
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
"Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all."--IMDb.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Formats
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The sublime adaptation by Jean Cocteau of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont's fairy-tale masterpiece, in which the true love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral, but gentle beast, is a landmark feat of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.
10) Apocalypto
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Mayan
Description
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
Series
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
In the fourth and final tale of the Blind Dead, a remote coastal town in Portugal must sacrifice virgins to the blood cult of the Knights Templar. For seven nights every seven years, these eyeless zombies rise from the sea to feast on human flesh as the souls of the dead are trapped in the screams of gulls.
12) Zhao shi gu er
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In an effort save the last remaining child of the Zhao Family, whose whole clan has been massacred by a dangerous minister, a doctor sacrifices his own son, and seeks revenge on the minister once the child has matured.
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