Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
1) High and low
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sd., b&w with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A botched kidnapping of a Japanese executive's son turns into a race-against-time.
3) Kuroneko
Series
Criterion collection volume 584
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011], c1968
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Language
日本語
Description
In medieval Japan, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling...
Series
Criterion collection volume 567
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[Special ed.].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs.
5) Your name
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town and for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
Series
Criterion collection volume 413
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed., full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
Set in post-war Tokyo in 1945, a tuberculosis-infected criminal starts an unhealthy relationship with an alcoholic doctor. The patient needs to feel better so that he can retain his status as gang-leader after the ex-leader is released from prison, and the doctor needs to feel like he has a place in society and that life is worth living.
7) Godzilla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
8) High and low
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
[1-disc]; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer guide ([4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma -- should he pay the ransom anyway and risk losing his position?
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen format (aspect ratio 1.33:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When American reporter Steve Martin investigaates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face with an ancient creature so powerful and so terrifying, it can reduce Tokyo to a smoldering graveyard.
10) Stray dog
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004, c1949
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A bad day gets worse for rookie detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the thief, whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, the cop and the criminal's lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami's own dark side.
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Special ed.]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (45 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
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.
12) Ikiru
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Special ed.; full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
13) Shogun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen presentation.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (547 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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 shōgun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
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...
Publisher
ToHo Studio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A disgraced kamikaze pilot returns to his obliterated house after witnessing an unbelievable attack on Odo Island. Rebuilding his home and life out of the detritus of the city, he takes in a displaced baby and the woman who found her, creating a family that gives him the courage to bring his neighbors together to fight when the monster returns to Japan while the citizens are already at their lowest point.
17) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special ed., English subtitled version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
19) Hausu: House
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father--he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things soon start to go very badly for the teenagers. While there...
Series
Criterion collection volume 791
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 186 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father's murder and her mother's rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant widescreen composition.