Machiko Kyō
1) Rashōmon
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.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (86 min.; 119 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 653
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (299 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Okinawa 1946- occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily oriental interpreter and a determined geisha girl, along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
8) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (247 min.) : sd., b&w (disc 1) and col. (disc 2) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (69 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
9) Rashōmon
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
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.
10) Ugetsu
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in 16th century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. It focuses on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai.
Series
Criterion collection volume 392-395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (521 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....
