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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.
2) 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...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1940 in Kobe, Japan, a woman finds her loyalties tested when she receives a visit from a military policeman after her husband returns home from Manchuria determined to reveal what he witnessed.
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...
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