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Series
Criterion collection volume 526
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A widowed high school teacher finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son's future, the more they are separated.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takada is an aging Japanese fisherman who has been estranged from his son for many years. When the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. When his son refuses to see him, Rie gives him a videotape about the work his son was doing on a documentary film in a remote region of China's Yunnan province. Still troubled by the relationship, Takada decides to go to China and complete his son's work in part...
84) 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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 472
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Portrays postwar Japan through the power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka, where there are American soliders based.
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.
88) Passing fancy
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in a crowded city tenement, a story of contrasts depicting an illiterate, lighthearted brewery worker, who is also a single father to a young, educated son. Their relationship is complicated when a woman becomes involved.
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.
90) 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.
91) Dersu Uzala
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells of the friendship between Vladimir Arsenyev, a well-known Soviet explorer, and his Mongolian guide, Dersu Uzala. It is the story of a man's unity with nature and of the struggle for survival in the wilderness.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment, distributor
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world caught in the grip of information overload, Major Kusanagi is an elite officer and heavily modified cybernetic agent. She is on the trail of a computer-criminal who turns people into human marionettes, controlled by computer. She discovers that his true identity lies at the center of a vast and lethal political conspiracy.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two bruised souls enact a tender, hesitant romance in a wartime love story. A soldier is forced to prolong his stay at a rural spa when he accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.
94) The Warped ones
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on an angry rampage, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
95) Tokyo!
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman finds her life useless and goes on to experience a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian who calls himself "Merde" emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution, he speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. Three Tokyo-set stories.
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...
97) Pale flower
Series
Criterion collection volume 564
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] p. ; 18 cm.)
Description
In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict. What at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path.
98) Tekkonkinkreet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Treasure Town, life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White, two street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. When foreign investors want to destroy the town and turn it to an amusement park, they face their greatest adversaries yet.
99) Dodes'ka-den
Series
Criterion collection volume 465
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. As desperate as their circumstances may seem, each of them, including the homeless father and son who dream of a home; the young woman hiding from the abuse she receives from her uncle; and a young boy who dreams of being a trolley conductor, find reasons to carry on.
100) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
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