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2) 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.
4) Phantom
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
In Tokyo, a young man and woman are about to endure the most crucial night of their lives. They will experience a range of emotions, including alienation, terror and joy. Searching for their place in the world through the maze of Tokyo's nightlife, they will come out the other end transformed.
5) Gintama
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After the unexpected guest Chibi-Usa falls from the sky and tries to claim the Silver Crystal as her won, Usagi quickly learns this cheeky little pink-haired girl is the least of her problems. The Black Moon Clan, in their unending quest to destroy Neo Crystal Tokyo and change the future, have come back in time to corrupt present day Tokyo. Together the Guardians fight the Black Moon's dark forces, but struggle to understand truth behind their sinister...
7) Akira
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
日本語
Description
A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons lying dormant within his subconscious.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full-length director's cut.
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister are trapped in the hellish night time world of Tokyo, where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which the movie plunges viewers into death and rebirth like no film has ever done before.
9) Shutter
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they are involved in a tragic car accident, leaving a young local girl dead. When they regain consciousness, they find no trace of the girl's body. A bit distraught, the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his photographs. Jane believes...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the "engineers." These genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a combat form. Ruka, the daughter of the police chief's murdered right-hand man, is now the top engineer hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency she cuts through the psychotic engineers and tracks down their home base, a truly bizarre fetish...
11) Shin Godzilla
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray and DVD, Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
When a massive gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through Tokyo, the Japanese government scrambles to save its citizens. A ragtag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side, because the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
12) Pale flower
Series
Criterion collection volume 564
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
DVD special ed.
Language
日本語
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.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Wide screen presentation.
Language
English
Description
Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla: Scientists implant a telepathic amplifier in the brain of Godzilla to bring him under control. When earth is threatened by a mutant Spacegodzilla, Godzilla may become its greatest ally!
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah: With a super-charged blast from his nuclear past, a new Godzilla emerges from his own ashes, radioactive and ready to take on Tokyo. The great lizard's nuclear energy is increasing by the minute, and a monster meltdown...
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...
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...
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