Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
1) Sanjuro
Series
Description
A skilled but slovenly ronin comes to the aid of a group of naive young warriors fighting their corrupt clan leaders and manages to keep them out of trouble and alive in spite of their high ideals.
Series
Criterion collection volume 425
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Antonio Gaud? designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks. Takes viewers on a tour of Gaud?'s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : col. ill. ; 19 cm.).
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.
6) Ikiru
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
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.
7) Godzilla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
8) Your name
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town and for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
10) Seven samurai
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
11) Rodan
Series
Publisher
Toho International Co. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a small mining village starts to experience strange deaths in the nearby mines, the authorities discover that the caves are besieged by giant caterpillars with an appetite for humans!
12) Tokyo Olympiad
Series
Criterion collection volume 155
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVDs (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (42 p.)
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.
13) Yojimbo
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Derives from Noh and Kabuki plays depicting a famous twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a small group of samurai cross enemy territory disguised as monks and must persuade border guards to let them through.
17) Kaidan
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
18) Makioka sisters
Series
Criterion collection volume 567
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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.
19) Chushingura
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (207 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Their lord having been tricked into committing suicide by a corrupt elder court official, a group of 47 samurai who have been forced to become ronin nurse their anger and outrage, each becoming the personification of the samurai spirit, until the time is right to avenge their dead lord's honor.
20) Dodes'ka-den
Series
Criterion collection volume 465
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. As desperate as their circumstances may seem, each of them, including the homeless father and son who dream of a home; the young woman hiding from the abuse she receives from her uncle; and a young boy who dreams of being a trolley conductor, find reasons to carry on.
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