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2) 47 Ronin
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From ancient Japan's most enduring tale, the epic fantasy-adventure is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honor to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Series
Zatōichi volume 1
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, 1962
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Practicising his trade as a masseur in a small province, Zatoichi finds himself caught in a turf war between rival yakuza gangs. Aware of Zatoichi's reputation as an undefeatable swordsman, yakuza leader Sukejoro tries to hire him -- unsuccessfully -- as a mercenary. But it's too late. The other gang leader, Shigezo hires a warrior with an equally fierce reputation to challenge Zatoichi. Thus, the legend of Zatoichi begins with internsely choreographed...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan...
7) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (45 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
10) The last samurai
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
11) Rashomon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr., 28 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife, which director Akira Kurosawa presents with striking imagery and an ingenious use of flashbacks. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced...
12) Throne of blood
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : col. ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
O-Shin, a beautiful young geisha in 19th century Japan, meets a samurai named Fusanosuke, who is on the run for killing a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. Despite the protests of O-Shin's friend, the two fall in love. Eventually he leaves O-Shin, only to return later and reveal that he is engaged. O-Shin, eventually, falls in love again - to Ryosuke, who is also a samurai.
14) Shogun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (547 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or sho?gun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
15) Sanjuro
Series
Description
A skilled but slovenly ronin comes to the aid of a group of naive young warriors fighting their corrupt clan leaders and manages to keep them out of trouble and alive in spite of their high ideals.
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