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41) Napping princess
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2020, three days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. While she should be studying for her exams, Kokone Morikawa is often dozing off, stuck between reality and a dream world full of fantastic motorized contraptions. But after her father, a talented but mysterious mechanic, is arrested for stealing technology from a powerful corporation, it's up to Kokone and her childhood friend Morio to save him.
43) Shall we dance?
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
日本語
Description
A middle-aged businessman's dull life takes an interesting turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class just to meet the beautiful dance instructor.
45) 13 assassins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
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.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a yellow lab retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill. We follow Quill from the litter, his selection to become a guide, and his life with a foster family until his first birthday, followed by highly specialized schooling in guiding the sightless. He is paired with a blind man who is at first reluctant to rely on Quill. But Quill's great patience, gentleness, and skill eventually win him over and they become inseparable friends.
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
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...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
49) Phantom
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
In Tokyo, a young man and woman are about to endure the most crucial night of their lives. They will experience a range of emotions, including alienation, terror and joy. Searching for their place in the world through the maze of Tokyo's nightlife, they will come out the other end transformed.
50) Gate of hell
Series
Criterion collection volume 653
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
日本語
Description
In the midst of epic, violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love.
51) Floating weeds
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Description
An aging actor returns to the town where his son lives, who has believed all these years to be his uncle rather than his father.
52) Your name
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
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?
54) Unagi: The eel
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Letterboxed.
Language
日本語
Description
Yamashita's quiet country life is fatally changed when he finds out about his wife's affair and murders her. On parole after eight years in prison, he returns to his sleepy hometown to open a small barber shop. His only solace is an eel that he has kept as a pet until, as a favor to the town's priest, he agrees to help a young woman with a troubled past.
55) Dreams =: Yume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Language
日本語
Description
Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director's own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life.
56) Creepy
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
A year after a botched hostage negotiation with a serial killer turned deadly, ex-detective Koichi and his wife move into a new house with a deeply strange new neighbor. His old cop colleagues come calling for his help on a mysterious case, which may be related to the strange goings-on next door, in this insidiously constructed narrative that braids plot twists on top of plot twists and shock on top of shock.
57) Vital
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
日本語
Description
After losing his memory due to a car accident, Hiroshi Takagi tries to pick his life back up and enrolls in medical school. There, his memory becomes jarred by a female cadaver; he begins to have visions of a life with this woman, and unlocks the dark memories of his forgotten past.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
An astronaut dies on a mission, but he has a clone, which has been imprinted with his memories. Unfortunately, the upload malfunctions and the clone fixates on a tragic memory from the dead astronaut's youth, setting off a chain of events that will result in tragedy and a profound exploration of what it means to be human, and have a soul.
59) Key of life
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
日本語
Description
A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house--only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.
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