Catalog Search Results
1) Ikiru
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
3) Rashomon
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
5) 13 assassins
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Thirteen brave samurai must face overwhelming odds in an epic battle against a sadistic lord and his army of 200 to prevent him from plunging Japan into war.
6) Tokyo story
Series
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo, where they are greeted less than enthusiastically by their adult children, until death quiets the conflicts.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great spirit war, where he meets a group of friendly spirits who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the spirits from oppression.
Pub. Date
1998 (English version)
Description
In a world caught in the grip of information overload, Major Kusanagi is an elite officer and heavily modified cybernetic agent. She is on the trail of a computer-criminal who turns people into human marionettes, controlled by computer. She discovers that his true identity lies at the center of a vast and lethal political conspiracy.
17) Ran
Pub. Date
1985.
Description
An aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom peacefully among his three sons, but is driven to madness when they turn against him.
20) Wolf children
Pub. Date
♭2012
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,...