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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....
2) Black rain
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two New York cops are caught in a Yakuza gang war. They capture the leader of one of the gangs and are told to bring him to Japan.
3) Himizu
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
Two teenagers living in post-tsunami Japan try to survive the storm's aftermath and their indifferent parents by inflicting violence on evil wrongdoers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 949
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
An exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker2s wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death.
5) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry...
6) 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!
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Highly trained in martial arts, armed with a deadly steel yo-yo and an undercover identity, K infiltrates an elite high school, Seisen Academy. Her mission: to identify and eliminate suspected terrorists. Her only lead is an underground website with an ominous timer counting down the minutes. Wielding her deadly yo-yo, K must stop the terrorists before they achieve their apocalyptic plot to destroy the city.
9) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Japan, this follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
10) Tokyo fiancée
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a French woman with a passion for all things Japanese buys a one-way ticket to Tokyo, she becomes a French tutor and falls in love with her first student.
11) The naked island
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.
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The drama, unfolded around the filming activities on the campus of a university in Tokyo, presents the modern youth of Japan, their personal life and love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 467
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
1895, Japan. In a small village, Seki is the wife of the litter carrier Gisaburo. Seki has an affair with Toyiji, a man twenty-six years younger her. Toyiji becomes jealous of Gisaburo and plots with Seki to kill him. After Gisaburo has had plenty of sake to drink and goes to bed, the two strangle Gisaburo and dump his body inside a well in the woods. Seki tells the locals that Gisaburo moved to Tokyo to work. Finally, three years later, suspicions...
Series
Criterion collection volume 386
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers.
15) 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.
17) Lu over the wall
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
After his family moves from Tokyo to a small fishing village, teenager Kai spends his days sulking and adrift. When his classmates invite him to play keyboard in their band, their jam sessions bring an unexpected guest: Lu, a young mermaid whose fins turn to feet when she hears the beats, and whose singing causes humans to compulsively dance. But when an ancient prophecy threatens Lu and the village, Kai and his new friends must save the day in this...
18) Samurai spy
Series
Criterion collection volume 312
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Spy networks gather information for the clans supporting and opposing the shogunate."--Www.kitparker.com.
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
20) Mr. Baseball
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An arrogant and aging major league baseball player attempts to revive his career by signing to play in Japan.
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