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101) Children of the sea
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad worked. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora, who were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does.
102) Godzilla
Series
Criterion collection volume 594
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire populations fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. Here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American...
103) Kuroneko
Series
Criterion collection volume 584
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011], c1968
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
In medieval Japan, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling...
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Flunky, Work Hard (1931, 28 min): An atypical breezy comedy about a poor insurance salesman trying to provide for his family. No Blood Relation (1932, 79 min.): A maternal-instinct melodrama about an actress desperate to reclaim the daughter she left behind.
105) Drunken angel
Series
Criterion collection volume 413
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Set in post-war Tokyo in 1945, a tuberculosis-infected criminal starts an unhealthy relationship with an alcoholic doctor. The patient needs to feel better so that he can retain his status as gang-leader after the ex-leader is released from prison, and the doctor needs to feel like he has a place in society and that life is worth living.
106) Tales from Earthsea
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a mythical world filled with magic and bewitchment, crops are dwindling, dragons have reappeared, and humanity is giving way to chaos. Journey with Lord Archmage Sparrowhawk, a master wizard, and Arren, a troubled young prince, on a tale of redemption and self-discovery as they search for the force behind a mysterious imbalance in the land of Earthsea.
107) None but the brave
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations.
108) The insect woman
Series
Criterion collection volume 473
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Portrays 45 years in the life of a woman and her struggles to survive. The story progresses from her life as a country girl to her years as a successful and ruthless madam in Tokyo and back again to her native village.
109) Nikkatsu noir
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (432 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
I am waiting: An ex-boxer gets roped into the criminal underworld when he falls hard for a mysterious young woman fleeing her gangster boss.
Rusty knife: Best friends, who are former criminals and trying to go straight, are outed as witnesses to a murder committed by a local Yakuza boss. The police try to convince them to come forward. The gangsters try to pay them off, with the threat of death looming.
Take aim at the police van: A prison guard...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 650 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they make life's awkward moments a thousand times worse. Along with a colorful bunch of classmates, they learn their most important lessons the hard way. Like whether goats are an appropriate form of transportation, who would win in a wrestling match between the principal and a deer, and most notably, if the three-second rule applies to weenies that fly through mohawks.
Series
Criterion collection volume 392-395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (521 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....
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