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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 14
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The first film in the Samurai trilogy, a fictionalized retelling of the life of legendary Kensei Musashi Miyamoto.
4) Yōjimbō
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A wandering Samurai-for-hire eventually finds a dramatic solution to the problems of a town with two warring clans.
5) Harakiri
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([26] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
After an unemployed samurai is forced to commit harakiri before a feudal lord, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
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...
8) 47 ronin
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord."--IMDb.com.
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
Series
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 186 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 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.
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