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Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, black and white.
Description
The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint. The story was dramatized for centuries in Noh and kabuki theater, and here it becomes one of the director's most riveting early films.
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Dostoyevsky's fable of a holy fool, this story which takes place in Hokkaido in the winter is about a man who returns home after a stay in an asylum. He is being drawn toward Christianity; his antagonist is an anarchist.
6) Pom poko
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An extraordinary tale of transformation and hope is told as the human world begins to encroach upon the animal world. When the raccoons of the Tama Hills are forced from their homes by encroaching houses and shopping malls, they band together and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are able to appear as humans.
Series
Criterion collection volume 159
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (185 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai revenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young samurai Sozaemon Aoki (Junichi Okada) has arrived in Edo to seek revenge against Jubei Kanazawa (Tadanobu Asano). Kanazawa is the man responsible for the death...
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
10) Take this waltz
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author, but when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
11) The cat returns
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
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