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Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
An orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's revenge attempts start off a trail of assassinations and ninja swords fights spanning from Hokaido, Alaska to California where Tien-Hei's secrets gradually unfold. The revenge road leads to a climactic battle with Tien-Hei on the fall of Japan's Shogun-era.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
日本語
Description
In Koreeda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
Publisher
U.S. Manga Corps
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Betrayed from within and overwhelmed by dark magic, the kingdom of Pars (Palse) has fallen, overrun by the fanatical warriors of Rucitania. Young Prince Arslan, the sole heir of Pars (Palse), escapes the ruins of his homeland. A fugitive hero, he assembles a company of five extraordinary allies -- a priestess, an exiled warrior, a minstrel and an artist and his aide. Together they must reclaim the lost land of their fathers, or the world will forever...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1089
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Description
"If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life's high-concept premise is grounded in Kore-eda's documentary-like...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2004.
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.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
日本語
Description
A collection of Koji Yamamura's most remarkable works, including his masterpiece Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor, a nightmarish, virtuoso drawing-on-paper rendering of the famed short story and winner of seven Grand Prizes at major animation festivals worldwide.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Haruka is on a mission to find her mirror, a precious childhood gift from her mother that mysteriously disappeared. While following a strange fox-like creature in the woods, she tumbles into a mystical world where once-cherished toys and treasures go when their owners neglect them. Join Haruka and her new friend Teo on a roller coaster ride of adventure as they contend with the island's greedy ruler, who wants the mirror for his own...
10) Swan Lake
Publisher
Media Asia Group
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess Odette. The princess is charmed by an evil wizard Rothbart who is crazy about marrying Odette. Handsome Prince Siegfried together with two merry squirrels struggle to defeat the evil wizard to complete this classic fairy tales.
Series
New people artist volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
Follows Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara as he travels the world scouting for inspiration for his "AtoZ" exhibit in his home town, Hirosaki.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two mysteries. What is the secret of the great sin it committed in...
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live quietly among us. But when tenacious and tiny Arrietty is discovered by Shawn, a human boy, their secret and forbidden friendship blossoms into an extraordinary adventure.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
日本語
Description
Presents the story of a group of girls who work in a precision-optical-instruments factory, making lenses, binoculars, etc., during wartime in Japan. This was filmed in a real factory with real workers which gives the movie a documentary flavor.
16) Tokyo Olympiad
Series
Criterion collection volume 155
Publisher
Toho Production
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors--the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
日本語
Description
An eerie tale of a family who is brutally killed in their own home, leaving behind an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. When an unknowing homecare worker enters the spirit is awakened and a terrifying chain of events begin.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes, and the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a nearly magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh house again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding...
19) Haibane-Renmei
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2003?]
Language
日本語
Description
An allegorical Christian story of the Haibane, youthful human-like creatures with halos and small flightless wings who live in a small town enclosed by walls through which they cannot pass and only escape from sin can free them.
20) Cha no aji
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
"Meet the Harunos, a rather unconventional but happy and loving family. They live in a small town in the mountains just outside Tokyo where life is good and quiet - but that doesn't mean they don't have their own little problems"--Container.
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