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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 190 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Koji Wakamatsu's epic docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its "deviant" members during a 1972 training session. An uncompromising piece of filmmaking from one of Japan's most controversial filmmakers, with a score by American musician (and ex-Sonic Youth member) Jim O'Rourke.
2) Happy Hour
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (318 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
A powerful affirmation of the immersive potential of cinema. HAPPY HOUR is a slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty-something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe. As they navigate the unsteady currents of their work, domestic, and romantic lives a sudden, unexpected rift opens between that propels each to a new, richer understanding of life and love. Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi's wise, precisely observed, compulsively...
Author
Language
日本語
Description
Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even more poor. The people, livestock and goods won't need his services much longer. His life also takes an abrupt turn another way. He meets a girl on a day when everything was supposed to go like any other day.
4) Harmonium
Author
Language
日本語
Description
With his highly perceptive attention to character, director Koji Fukada creates an explosive family drama with HARMONIUM (FUCHI NI TATSU). Intended as a companion piece to the black comedy HOSPITALITE, HARMONIUM returns to the domestic sphere as it captures the collapse of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. Life for Toshio, his wife, and their younger daughter Hotaru carries on as usual until he hires the mysterious Mr. Yasaka, an old acquaintance...
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Series
Dive!! volume 6
Language
日本語
Description
Things go from bad to worse and Tomoki may drop out of the club entirely. Not if Coach Asaki has anything to say about it.
7) Fukushima 50
Author
Language
日本語
Description
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan risk their lives to prevent total destruction after an earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.
8) Tokyo Idols
Author
Language
日本語
Description
TOKYO IDOLS - an eye-opening film gets at the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity. This ever growing phenom is told through Rio, a bona fide "Tokyo Idol" who takes us on her journey toward fame. Now meet her "brothers": a group of adult middle aged male super fans (ages 35 - 50) who devote their lives to following her-in the virtual world and in real life. Once considered to be...
Author
Language
日本語
Description
To the Ends of the Earth was commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan. Yoko (former J-pop idol Atsuko Maeda) travels with a small crew to Uzbekistan (breathtakingly captured by veteran DP Akiko Ashizawa) to shoot an episode of her reality TV travel show. In front of the camera her persona is carefree and happy-go-lucky, but behind the scenes she is cautious and introverted....
10) Complicity
Author
Language
日本語
Description
Cheng Liang is a young Chinese illegal immigrant living in Japan. Desperate for work, he pretends to be someone else to get a job in a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master (Tatsuya Fuji, In the Realm of the Senses), but always fearing to have his real identity disclosed at any monent.
11) Parks
Author
Language
日本語
Description
University student Jun has a lot of free time on her hands. She encounters Haru who is in high school and looks a woman she knew in her past. They meet Tokio, who is the grandson of the woman she knew, and learn that the person is dead. They come across media of the woman's work.
Author
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a traditional, Kyoto woman who runs a failing, kimono business and the biracial entrepreneur who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way they fall in love but his need for change clashes with her desire for the world to stay the same. In the end, can they change enough for the other? In Japanese and English with English subtitles.
15) Heaven's Story
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Language
日本語
Description
Sato is an 8-year-old girl. She is at the sea with her friends when her parents and older sister are murdered. The killer is apparently a man who blamed his business trouble on her father. It is decided that Sato will live with her grandfather. When Sato is on her way to her new home with her grandfather, she sees the news on an appliance shop TV. A young man (Tomoki) whose wife and child were murdered, says at a media conference that he will get...
Author
Series
Dive!! volume 7
Language
日本語
Description
The selection committee has decided on three final candidates. Unfortunately, that also means not everyone made the cut...
17) The Third Murder
Author
Language
日本語
Description
High-powered attorney Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama) reluctantly agrees to defend murder-robbery suspect Misumi (Kōji Yakusho), knowing the man already confessed and had been convicted of murder thirty years ago. But as he digs deeper, Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client could be the murderer after all. From Palme d'Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda, The Third Murder is a gripping and morally complex crime procedural that incisively explores the...
18) True Mothers
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Language
日本語
Description
A couple decide to adopt a baby after battling infertility. When the birth mother confronts them, they are forced to question their own parenthood.
19) A Girl Missing
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Language
日本語
Description
Koji Fukada's followup to the critically-acclaimed HARMONIUM (also available from Film Movement), A GIRL MISSING "is a satisfying slow-burn drama expertly told" (Screen Daily). Ichiko is a private home-nurse who has worked for the elder matriarch of the Oishos for years and regards them as her own family. Ichiko's quiet, routine life is shattered when a young member of the Oishos clan is kidnapped. When it is revealed that the kidnapper is none other...
20) Seven Weeks
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Language
日本語
Description
At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2013 in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido Prefecture, Mitsuo Suzuki (Toru Shinagawa) takes his last breath at the ripe age of 92. As the patriarch's far-flung family gathers to make preparations for his passing, a mysterious and unknown woman (Takako Tokiwa) appears among them. Together, they begin to unravel the secret history of Mitsuo's long life, including shocking tales of war in Sakhalin (an island in the Japanese archipelago that...
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