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1) Ichi
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Beautiful Ichi wanders blindly from village to village, searching for the sightless swordsman who long ago taught her to kill. Her technique is exquisite and explosive, her defenses as impenetrable as the darkness in which she moves. Many along her solitary path are touched, some by the sound of her delicate music, others by the edge of her lethal blade.
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.
3) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Description
Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister plots and giant talking bugs.
4) Kurosawa
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (215 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa featuring his family, colleagues and critics from Japan and America commenting on the man and his films. Includes excerpts from many of his famous works.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
6) Red Beard
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002, c1965
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.
7) House
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home.
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.
9) Astro Boy
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in futuristic Metro City. When a brilliant scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot boy he names Astro Boy. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, Astro Boy embarks on a journey in search of acceptance. Along his way he experiences betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Akira Kurosawa's patriotic World War II morale booster focuses on a volunteer corps of women working at an optics factory to produce lenses for binoculars and targeting scopes, and was shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory in Hiratsuka.
11) 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...
12) Broken English
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.
13) 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.
14) Marie Antoinette
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.
15) Stray dog
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004, c1949
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bad day gets worse for rookie detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the thief, whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, the cop and the criminal's lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami's own dark side.
16) Ponyo
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship before Ponyo's father forces her to return to the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the balance of nature and only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.
17) The lower depths
Series
Criterion collection volume 239
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (218 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Les bas-fonds (93 min.): A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and to takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.
Donzoko (125 min.): Sutekichi, a vulgar, comical thief takes up residence in a slum flophouse inhabited by many eccentric, destitute people. Osugi, the cruel...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young witch named Kiki and her chatty black cat Jiji befriend a bakery owner. Kiki is an enterprising young girl, but she must follow tradition in order to become a full-fledged witch. Landing in a far-off city, and with the help of her new friend, she sets up a high-flying delivery service and begins a wonderful experience of independence and responsibility as she finds her place in the world.
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.
20) 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.
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