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1) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Description
Two young sisters spend a summer in the Japanese countryside with their father. The children's strange new home turns out to be a wonderland filled with creatures and a trio of furry woodland sprites who can only be seen by children.
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
The Harunos are a rather unconvential, 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. Throw...
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
日本語
Description
When Risa Koizumi, the tallest girl in class, is cast with Atsushi Otani, the shortest boy in class, as the unwilling stars of a bizarre romantic comedy duo, Risa develops feelings towards Otani as their friendship develops, leaving her to see if she can be honest with herself and get over her lovely complex.
Series
Criterion collection volume 386
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
日本語
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers. Accompanying booklet features an essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu; the story on which the film was based, Mori Ogai's "Sansho dayu," from 1915, in an acclaimed translation by J. Thomas Rimer; a written form of an oral variation of the same tale, dating back to the...
8) Okko's Inn
Publisher
GKids, Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
Description
After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. Okko discovers there are spirits living there that only she can see; not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company and play games. The inn's motto is that it welcomes all and rejects none, and it is soon put to the test as a string of new guests challenge...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
Series
Criterion collection volume 567
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
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.
Series
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
日本語
Description
A traveling troupe of actors visits a small town, and the chief actor renews his contact with a woman who bore him a son years ago. The son thinks his father is dead, and falls in love with one of the actresses, his father's current mistress.
Publisher
Distributed by FUNimation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
日本語
Description
Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiance at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI.
Publisher
Studio Chizu
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
日本語
Description
Hana was a student before she was a mother. Then she met a man, who turned out to be a wolf, and together they built a family. Hana loved her mate fiercely, but fate took him from her, leaving her alone with two unusual kids she didn't know how to raise. This is a mother's journey. Teach your children to chase their dreams - and smile through the tears as they disappear into the world in search of who they will become. Hana wasn't always a mother,...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
日本語
Description
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
16) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
17) Your name
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
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 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?
18) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
English
Description
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
19) Gojira: Godzilla
Publisher
Distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
1st disc: Testing of nuclear weapons over the Pacific Ocean triggers the awakening of a 400-foot, fire-breathing prehistoric lizard who begins to wreak havoc on the city of Tokyo.
2nd disc: When American reporter Steve Martin investigaates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face with an ancient creature so powerful and so terrifying, it can reduce Tokyo to a smoldering graveyard.
Series
Criterion collection volume 240
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004, 1951
Language
日本語
Description
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
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