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121) Kagemusha
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Pub. Date
2009
Language
日本語
Description
A petty criminal in 16th century Japan is hired to impersonate a famous dying warlord, and finds himself transforming into the leader of 25,000 samurai warriors.
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat. Lawrence speaks Japanese, and ceaselessly tries to mediate between...
123) Nana
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
A chance encounter between two girls of the same name, "Nana, " triggers a series of events resulting in them moving in together and setting up their new lives.
124) Still walking
Series
Criterion collection volume 554
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Director approved special edition.
Language
日本語
Description
Every year, the Yokoyama clan gets together to honor the life of eldest son Junpei, drowned 15 years earlier while saving a man from drowning. Retired physician father Shohei still mourns, while his wife Toshiko has become a passive-aggressive domestic goddess, the two bicker continually. Surviving son Ryota has married at last-his new wife Yukari is a widow with a young son. Daughter Chinami and her car-salesman husband have their two kids in tow....
Series
Criterion collection volume 384
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
A true crime story about Iwao Enokizu, self-styled "King of criminals." Director Imamura turns this fact-based story of the seventy-eight day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family, into a cold, perverse, and at times funny tale of the primitive coexisting with the modern.
Series
Criterion collection volume 413
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
Dr. Sanada is an alcoholic, in part due to the despair that constantly assails him as he tries to keep the inhabitants of a post-World War II Tokyo slum as healthy as possible. Food and medical supplies are scarce, the neighborhood is around an open sewer, and the only place to buy medicines is the black market-- controlled by the Yakuza. Matsunaga, a young yakuza with a violent temper, seeks Sanada's help to remove a bullet from his hand, but Matsunaga's...
128) Early summer
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
日本語
Description
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Language
English
Description
Being Natsuki Subaru is suffering. After being suddenly transported to another world, he discovers a terrible truth-he can't die. Or rather, he can't remain dead. Instead Subaru experiences the pain of death and the reality that he must start life over from a predetermined 'save point.' At first this ability seems like a gift, a way to make things right and save the girl he loves. But the more he dies, the more tragedy he experiences, and the...
131) Zhan tai: Platform
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Letterboxed.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Spans the turbulent 1980s by following four performers in the state-run Peasant Culture Group. Based in Fenyang, these "art workers" praise the late Chairman Mao with approved revolutionary classics. When an "open door" cultural policy is instituted, China begins to move toward Western-influenced consumer capitalism.
Series
Criterion collection volume 466
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Description
The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his strangulation and mutilation. Kichizo is tired of life, of the...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Nausicaä is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a global war that nearly destroyed all life on Earth.
134) High and low
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
A shoe company magnate must decide whether to save his company or his chauffeur's kidnapped son.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Batman : Gotham Knight: (76 min.) Six spellbinding chapters chronicling Batman's transition from novice crime-fighter to the Dark knight.
Batman : Year One: (64 min.) Experience a bold and dynamic vision of the Dark Knight's first year in action and the start of his enduring friendship with Jim Gordon.
Batman : under the Red Hood: (76 min.) Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm.
Batman : Bad...
Pub. Date
[2012]-
Language
English
Description
"Kagome is an ordinary schoolgirl who finds her destiny linked to the half-demon Inuyasha and the powerful Shikon Jewel. In their quest to restore the shattered Shikon Jewel, Inuyasha and Kagome face their ultimate enemy, the demon mastermind Naraku. Meanwhile, Sesshomaru learns the truth behind his sword Tenseiga, and Kikyo discovers a secret that could defeat Naraku! With the jewel nearly complete and in enemy hands, the race to collect the remaining...
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