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Publisher
Filmination
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
This is a story about a married couple,”Mr. & Mrs. Hikita” who have been having difficulty with fertility treatments for several years.The couple had enjoyed their life like an adventure, so they have never thought about having a baby (like an ordinary life). One day, the young wife just said, “I want to meet Hikita-san’s baby!” Then they started trying to have a baby. However, it’s not easy to become pregnant. Mr. Hikita is 49 years old...
2) I Wish
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (129 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Koichi's wish is for his family to be reunited. He learns a new train line will open and starts to believe that a miracle will take place with the trains. Koichi sets out on a journey with a group of friends, each hoping to witness a miracle.
3) VR Workplace
Publisher
Filmination
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
The near future where smartphone games playing in VR are in fashion. The game “VR WORKPLACE”, developed to support employment for the increasing number of NEETs, is attracting attention.“VR WORKPLACE” reproduces "paradise for workers" in the game. It is an epoch-making game because players can aim to return to society while working with friendly AI colleagues in an environment where there is no unreasonableness or compliance violation. But...
Publisher
Filmination
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
In a small town with a big red bridge, a run-down apartment, which everyone calls a haunted house, stands still. A few days before the summer break begins, two high school girls, Kaede and Azusa, find a boy living in the abandoned place by himself. Naming him "Mon", they take care of him without being noticed by anyone. One day, they meet Sugai, an officer of the child support center of the town, telling them that Mon may have been neglected by his...
5) Bean Cake
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
The year is 1933 and a young boy in Tokyo named Uchido has recently moved from the country and attends his first day of school. The class is run in a traditional and strict manner that is designed to teach the children to conform to a strict code of social behavior that includes expressing loyalty to the Emperor. Uchido runs afoul of this intention when he answers the teacher’s question by expressing his love for bean cakes instead of the emperor....
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
A MATTER OF SIZE is an Israeli comedy (yes, comedy!) like nothing you've seen before, a hilarious and heart-warming tale about about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling!
7) Tokyo!
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Three short films set in TOKYO chronicle the metamorphosis of a woman, the trial of a man who emerges from a manhole, and a reclusive man's first experience with human contact during an earthquake. Cannes Film Festival: Un Certain Regard Award - Nominee (Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry); Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival: Special Mention - Winner (Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry), Titra Fild Award - Winner (Bong Joon...
8) Kanzô sensei
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
In a tense war-torn climate, on the eve of the Japanese surrender in 1945, Doctor Akagi, the local doctor of a seaside village on one of Japan's islands, takes a stand to save his professional integrity. He is concerned by the growing number of people coming down with hepatitis the main cause of death in an undernourished country. He bands together with his old buddies, a dissolute monk and a nihilistic morphine-addicted surgeon. They're all on the...
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
A young woman goes from rural to royal in this anime classic. In ancient China, Ginga, a country girl, seizes the opportunity to become a concubine for a young Emperor. When she uncovers an evil plot inside the royal walls, Ginga finds herself in a world far from home.
10) Pulse
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Japanese teens investigate a series of suicides linked to an internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
11) 13 Assassins
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (125 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
A group of elite samurai are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord.
12) Pray
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami Mizukawa) have the perfect plan. They decide to kidnap a young girl and hide out in an abandoned school, until their demands are met. Everything is going according to plan, until they realize they have made one gross miscalculation. Their hostage died a year ago today and now it's their turn.
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Uzumasa, Japan's Hollywood, has produced many beloved jidaigeki period films, but would not be the same without the kirareyaku, actors who never see the limelight. This story of the end of their era is told with melancholy and soul.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
From groundbreaking animation outfit STUDIO 4°C, creators of MFKZ and the upcoming Children of the Sea, comes an extraordinary project with a simple vision: to take an all-star team of some of the best animators working in Japanese animation today, and give each free reign to tell a unique short story. The results are GENIUS PARTY and GENIUS PARTY BEYOND, two animated anthology films full of boundless imagination, fantastic worlds, and unique visual...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (228 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
An epic story of revenge deferred that functions as a tale of urban theater and class warfare. After 30 years in prison, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and subsequent discovery of the man who framed her. Inspired by Tolstoy, THE WOMAN WHO LEFT is a sensitive expression of family and forgiveness. Winner of The Golden Lion at the **Venice International Film...
17) Tatsumi
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
TATSUMI celebrates the life and work of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi—a manga pioneer who elevated the genre to a new level of creative expression and adult realism. A comics-crazed teenager, Tatsumi began to get published and was able to support his poor family in postwar occupied Japan. He finds even greater inspiration after meeting his idol, the famous Disney-esque animator Osamu Tezuka. But despite his success, Tatsumi became dissatisfied...
18) Big Man Japan
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
A pathetic but truly unique hero who is entrusted with defending Japan from a host of monsters by transforming into a stocky, stick-wielding giant. But while his predecessors were national heroes, he is an outcast among the citizens he protects.
19) Being Natural
Publisher
Filmination
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Since Jiro lost his wife, his heart is set on his pet turtle. Jiro’s son Noboru hates his father, school, and everything. One day in summer, Jiro’s missing brother Shintaro suddenly visited them with his fiancée. Shintaro forced Jiro to go on a trip together for their wedding ceremony. The journey of four people and a turtle goes reckless and crazy because of Shintaro. And another purpose of the journey gradually comes to light. That is related...
20) Obon
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko's childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan's subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima's ruins. Official...
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