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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat...
2) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sciopathic 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.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Japanese version goes beyond the stereotypical images of Japan that are too often presented to Americans, and asks the questions: What happens to Western cultural ideas and objects when they are placed in a new setting? How have the Japanese navigated the flood of foreign influences that has been inundating their culture for a thousand years? With its series of entertaining yet revealing sequences, The Japanese Version is truly a cross-cultural...
5) Akira
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Edition
25th Anniversary edition.
Language
日本語
Description
Clandestine army activities threaten the war-torn city of Neo-Tokyo when a mysterious being with powerful psychic abilities escapes his prison and inadvertently draws a violent motorcycle gang into a heinous web of experimentation. As a result, a biker with a twisted mind embarks on a path of war, seeking revenge against a society that once called him weak.
6) Air strike
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a U.S. Army colonel trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters, a hotheaded pilot begs to fly a powerful bomber that could stop the attacks. Meanwhile, a team of spies and refugees must carry a game-changing decoder device through the war-torn countryside.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
In Kore-eda's thought-provoking vision; the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
9) Ikiru
Series
Language
日本語
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
10) Fit Surroundings
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on more than a decade of field research, this colorful report on the high-touch craft of shellfish diving, takes us to the coast of the Shima Peninsula in central Japan.
11) Rashōmon
Series
Language
日本語
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.
12) Sweet bean
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade bean jelly convinces him to hire her, which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food. Nominated for an Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto Film Festival.** *"Its sentimentality is tempered by the elegant restraint of the fine lead...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
[Blu-ray-only ed.].
Language
日本語
Description
The most powerful wizards in fairy tail travel to a remote island rich in magic and history. There, they compete against one another to see who among them deserve to be given the title of s-class. But where these wizards go, chaos is sure to follow. Their trials are interrupted when the most powerful of the dark guilds-grimoire heart show up in search of a legendary wielder of black magic. Once they find him, they'll use his skills to bring death...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
The most powerful wizards in fairy tail travel to a remote island rich in magic and history. There, they compete against one another to see who among them deserve to be given the title of s-class. But where these wizards go, chaos is sure to follow. Their trials are interrupted when the most powerful of the dark guilds-grimoire heart show up in search of a legendary wielder of black magic. Once they find him, they'll use his skills to bring death...
16) Yojimbo
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
Toshiro Mifune stars as a wily samurai who turns a war between two clans to his advantage .
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
The most powerful wizards travel to a remote island rich in magic, and history. There, they compete against one another to see who among them deserves to be given the title of 'S-Class.' But where these wizards go, chaos is sure to follow. Their trials are interrupted when the most powerful of the dark guilds, Grimoire Heart, shows up in search of a legendary wielder of black magic. Once they find him, they'll use his skills to bring death to every...
20) Tokyo sonata
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Description
Story of a contemporary Japanese family torn apart after its patriarch unexpectedly loses his job. Ashamed, he keeps this a secret, but as he grows more despondent, his family resorts to drastic measures to break away from their fractured lives.
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