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Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Uzumasa, Japan's Hollywood, has produced many beloved jidaigeki period films, but would not be the same without the kirareyaku, actors who never see the limelight. This story of the end of their era is told with melancholy and soul.
2) Happy Hour
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (318 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
A powerful affirmation of the immersive potential of cinema. HAPPY HOUR is a slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty-something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe. As they navigate the unsteady currents of their work, domestic, and romantic lives a sudden, unexpected rift opens between that propels each to a new, richer understanding of life and love. Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi's wise, precisely observed, compulsively...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (272 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
With an intergalactic cast of thousands, Koji Masunari's colorfully explosive debut feature sets a new high for visual spectacle and sheer inventiveness of character design - in what has to be one of the most gleefully surreal depictions of alien life forms ever portrayed in cinema. It seems like just another lazy summer is in store for Amane and her older cousin Natsuki. Lolling about the Japanese countryside, the days are blithe and boundless. But...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in 1940 in Kobe, Japan, a woman finds her loyalties tested when she receives a visit from a military policeman after her husband returns home from Manchuria determined to reveal what he witnessed.
7) Maborosi
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years before, a beautiful young mother (Makiko Esumi as Yumiko) struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, with time, she awakens to find love, understanding, happiness and a sense of peace.
8) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Japan, this follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
9) Silence
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
10) Minamata
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp plays celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen (Minami) urging him to go and a much needed commission from "Life" Magazine...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2000.
Edition
Special 007 ed.; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When U.S. and Soviet manned spaceships are hijacked in Earth's orbit, Agent 007 must race to prevent a nuclear war between the superpowers. His dangerous mission takes him to Japan, where he battles the evil SPECTRE organization and its diabolical leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld"--Container.
12) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove, seen from four different perspectives.
Publisher
FUNimation Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kaname Chidori, one of the most popular girls at her high school, becomes the target of terrorists who believe she possesses the coveted abilities of "The Whispered." To keep Kaname safe, Sousuke Sagara, from the counterterrorist organization Mithril, goes undercover at her school.
14) The taste of tea
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The Harunos are a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family. Eight-year-old Sachiko is bothered by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her. Her older brother, Hajime, privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. Mom struggles to come out of retirement as an animator and Dad is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his trade on his own family....
15) Silk
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Herve Joncour is a married silkworm smuggler in 19th century France. He travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo after his original shipment was destroyed. While in Japan, he spots a beautiful Japanese woman who is the concubine of a local baron. He immediately becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins...
16) 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?
17) Kamikaze girls
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"Kamikaze girls depicts the unusual friendship betweem a bored girl stuck in rural Japan who fantasizes about 18th century France and a spunky biker girl."--booklet.
18) Makioka sisters
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.
20) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry...
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