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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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.
2) First love
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
When a duplicitous scheme by the low-level yakuza, Kase goes hilariously wrong, a terminally ill boxer, Lee , and a disturbed drug addicted call girl, Monica, find themselves innocently caught in the crosshairs of two warring gangs. Over the course of the increasingly ludicrous night, the two fall passionately in love, while the hail of bullets and blood fall quietly in the background. From prolific auteur Takashi Miike, this noir-tinged, violent...
5) Perfect blue
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mima quits her career as a pop singer to try her hand as an actress on a detective/murder mystery television program. Then her life falls apart as reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. She discovers Internet sites describing every intimate detail of her life. Her associates are threatened and even killed by a mysterious stalker.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
7) Rashomon
Series
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star.
Language
English
Description
Wizard Negi Springfield may be a boy, but he has a man-sized job to do. Fresh from the Academy of Magic, Negi continues his training as an instructor at Mahora Academy in Japan. But before he can get his Master's in magic, the 31 schoolgirls of class 3-A are gonna keep him up all night cramming for a final exam in will power.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless peoples lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches, these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way, encounters with seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future,...
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
日本語
Description
"There is a street where no one lives, where ghostly lights flicker in the shadows. It is whispered that children who play hide-and-seek there after dark are kidnapped by demons and disappear forever. Tonight, a boy named Hikora joins the game in search of his missing sister. The street lamps flare though no one is there to light them. The game, and the terror, are about to begin!"--Container.
11) Ran
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
日本語
Description
In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons, who turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane.
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
After an unemployed warrior is forced to commit harakiri, his father-in-law returns to the scence, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual. Tensions grow to excruciating levels until the thrilling climax, when the elder warrior strikes out one last time against the abusive society that crafted such cruelty.
14) The Mysterians
Pub. Date
[2005, 1957]
Language
日本語
Description
A race of gigantic scientific intellectuals determine to take over Earth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a widower and his daughter who through devotion to him is getting past a marriageable age. The father pretends to marry a young wife so his daughter will feel less obligated to stay with him. She marries and he prepares to live the remainder of his life alone.
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,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next...
18) Summer wars
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
日本語
Description
Kenji, a teenage math genius, accidently cracks a security code and hacks into a virtual world and now must repair the damage and find a way to stop any further damage to the system.
Series
Criterion collection volume 584
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai, and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.
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