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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, this documentary pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between.
Series
Criterion collection volume 15
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
日本語
Description
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Among other characters, viewers meet an apprentice geisha, a tuna fisherman, a tattoo artist, school girls, and a robot-designing family ... These unique individuals demonstrate how the Japanese are masters of the future and guardians of the past."--Container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently, creating the paintings sold under her father's name. Shy in public, in the studio O-Ei is brash and uninhibited. Seeking to come into her own as an artist, O-Ei sets out into the bustling city of Edo (present-day Tokyo), where she encounters spirits, dragons, con-men and traders.
Series
Criterion collection volume 988
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color and black and white; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting people who still carried on the fading customs...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Using film footage and composition notes left by the late Ogawa Shinsuke, Chinese director Peng Xiaolian shot additional film and completed the work, which colorfully yet elegantly depicts the manufacturing process of the Kaminoyama red persimmon. The inhabitants of the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else,...
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3 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In the late twenties and early thirties, Yasujiro Ozu was working steadily for Shochiku studios, honing his craft on dozens of silent films in various genres, from romantic melodramas to college comedies to gangster pictures -- and, of course, movies about families. In these three droll domestic films -- Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But, and Passing Fancy, presented here with all-new scores by renowned silent-film composer Donald Sosin -- Ozu movingly...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1125
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
"It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Bourdain has explored every corner of the globe trying to satisfy his curiosity about the international cultural landscape. You'd think he'd seen it all by now. But in this collection of No Reservations, Tony pushes himself even more, in destinations like Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua. Things are going to be a little more difficult for Tony this time around, and perhaps even for the viewer. Political, moral, class or philosophical issues trouble...
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1 videodisc (approximately 145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1929, an impoverished fishing village father sells his nine-year-old daughter, Chiyo, to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and she becomes subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. As she grows older, her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo. She is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 832
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out booklet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
"This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. Kikunosuke (Shotaro Janayagi), the adopted son of legendary kabuki actor, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection -- and she soon gives up everything...
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A giant talking frog and an elusive cat help a listless bank employee, his traumatized wife, and a lonely accountant seek meaning in their lives and possibly save Tokyo from catastrophe in this animated feature based on stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The feature debut of composer Pierre Foldes, the film won the Jury Special Mention at the renowned Annecy Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Anima Festival in Brussels....
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Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (86 min. ; 119 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in...
15) Kwaidan
Series
Criterion collection volume 90
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
日本語
Description
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...
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