Satoshi Kon
1) Memories
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Magnetic Rose: Two space travellers follow a distress signal and are drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. Stink bomb: A young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Cannon fodder: Depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.
Author
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
413 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dream Fossil is a collection of 15 short stories by the late Satoshi Kon. These stories, serialized in a variety of magazines in the 1980's, give a rare glimpse into the early stages of Kon's uniquely compelling style of storytelling. The buds of dream-like themes and imaginative worldviews that would blossom in his later animated works are also readily apparent. Yes the flights of fancy are anchored by knowing, empathetic portrayals of the very human...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Opus is Kon's metafictional tale of Chikara Nagai, a creator under pressure to finish his latest graphic novel, Resonance, who finds that the harshest critic of the shock ending he's got planned is the character who'll have to die in it! Nagai's stregths and weaknesses as a creator are tested beyond their limits as his present and his past, and the worlds of the manga and of reality, become the levels of a maze he may never escape... let alone get...
5) Paprika
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A beautiful scientist turns into a dream warrior named Paprika at night, in this psychedelic sci-fi anime adventure, that will take both versions of the woman to save the world.
6) Perfect blue
Publisher
Manga Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mima Kirigoe leaves her musical group for a movie role, her life begins to fall apart.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Past and present collide as a film director discovers a mysterious key that unlocks the secrets of a legendary actress who vanished at the height of her career.
