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Series
Criterion collection volume 811
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A family of four struggles to make a living as the only inhabitants of a small island in the Japanese Setonaikai archipelago.
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Harunos are a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family. Eight-year-old Sachiko is bothered by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her. Her older brother, Hajime, privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. Mom struggles to come out of retirement as an animator and Dad is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his trade on his own family....
Series
Criterion collection volume 554
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, as they gather for a commemorative ritual.
6) Hospitalité
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hospitalité: Mikio Kobayashi lives quietly with his wife, daughter, and divorced sister in downtown Tokyo, where xenophobic neighbors insist they attend community watch meetings, and the only recent excitement is the disappearance of a pet parrot. One day Kagawa appears, claiming to be the son of a financier who once helped Kobayashi's company. Kagawa soon ingratiates himself as a live-in employee and proceeds to comically turn the Kobayashi's monotonous...
7) Tokyo sonata
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of a contemporary Japanese family torn apart after its patriarch unexpectedly loses his job. Ashamed, he keeps this a secret, but as he grows more despondent, his family resorts to drastic measures to break away from their fractured lives.
8) The only son
Series
Criterion collection volume 525
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The story examines the motherly love of a peasant woman who gives up everything so that her son can receive education in Tokyo. Ten years later, the mother pays her son a visit in Tokyo, believing that he has become a successful young man. However, upon arrival, she is bitterly disappointed to find out that her son is working as a night-school teacher and living in poverty with his family.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in a crowded city tenement, a story of contrasts depicting an illiterate, lighthearted brewery worker, who is also a single father to a young, educated son. Their relationship is complicated when a woman becomes involved.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Affluent architects Ryota and his wife Midori face a terrible dilemma when they learn that their six-year-old son, Keita, was accidentally switched at birth and is not their biological child. In the wake of this revelation, Ryota's sense of fatherhood is shaken to the core as he witnesses both his wife's enduring devotion to Keita and his own conflicting feelings of nature versus nurture. Now his decision on which boy is truly his son will change...
11) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
12) Tokyo story
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-Ray (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
An aging couple visit their grown children in postwar Tokyo, but find that their children are too busy to spend time with them.
Series
Eclipse volume series 41
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 412 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc 1: Port of flowers ( Hana saku minato ) -- Two con men arrive in a seaside town to swindle the locals, but soon they have a crisis of conscience (1943) Disc 2: The living magoroku ( Ikite iru Magoroku ) -- Under pressure form neighbors, a wealthy family must decide if they want to cultivate soil that hasn't been tilled for centuries in order to aid the war effort. (1943) Disc 3: Jubilation street ( Kanko no machi ) -- A close community must...
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