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  • Film, Video
    Sanka
    讃歌 / | English title from IMDb : Hymn Catalog Record Only
    "The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind Shamisen teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings."--imdb viewed on September 16, 2021.
    • Contributor: Watanabe, Tokuko - Otowa, Nobuko - Shindō, Kaneto - Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō
    • Date: 2019
  • Film, Video
    Mirai seiki, Nishinari Mapping the future, Nishinari
    Mapping the future, Nishinari | Feature documentary
    Nishinari, one of the neighborhoods in Osaka, had been labeled a slum or flophouse district for a long time, defined by the many flophouses, homeless persons, buraku (a discriminated community of descendants of outcast groups), and Korean-Japanese communities found there. Now a new strategy for changing the social system has begun in this area in south Osaka centered on redefining the concept of "all."...
    • Contributor: Yamada, Tetsuo - Tanaka, Yukio - Fura Creation Office - Flug Inc
    • Date: 2012-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Kono hiroi sora no dokokani = Somewhere beneath the wide sky
    この広い空のどこかに = Somewhere beneath the wide sky / | Somewhere beneath the wide sky | Kobayashi Masaki kantoku sakuhin = A film by Masaki Kobayashi Catalog Record Only
    "A family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems"-- IMDb, May 23, 2017.
    • Contributor: Kusuda, Yoshiko - Kobayashi, Masaki
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    W no higeki = Tragedy of W
    Wの悲劇 = Tragedy of W / | English title from IMDb: W's tragedy | Tragedy of W Catalog Record Only
    "Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage play with professionals. Shizuka is willing to go to great lengths to master this role of a lifetime, but as the plot unfolds, she realizes that real life events are beginning to parallel events in the play."--imdb viewed on September 23, 2021.
    • Contributor: Yakushimaru, Hiroko - Natsuki, Shizuko - Sawai, Shinʼichirō
    • Date: 2019
  • Film, Video
    Tsugaru jongarabushi
    津軽じょんがら節/ | English title from IMDb : Jongara Catalog Record Only
    "The newcomers to a fishing village are a man who is escaping the gangsters after him and his girlfriend who is returning to her hometown. This may be as safe a place as any to lie low. Bored and fretting at first the couple find preoccupation in opposite ways. One settles in and becomes part of the community. The other picks up corruption and...
    • Contributor: Nakajima, Takehiro - Enami, Kyōko - Saitō, Kōichi - Oda, Akira
    • Date: 2019
  • Film, Video
    Tsumugiori : Sasaki Sonoko no waza
    紬織 : 佐々木苑子のわざ / Catalog Record Only
    V-1206198JV JASRAC Title from disc label. Full screen (4:3). Disk characteristics: Disk is single-sided, single-layered.
    • Contributor: Japan. Bunkachō
    • Date: 2012
  • Film, Video
    Kosŭp'ilmop'ondŭ palgul yŏngsang moŭm palgul toen kwagŏ, ne pŏntche = Moving images from Gosfilmofond : the past unearthed, the fourth encounter
    고스필모폰드발굴영상모음 발굴된과거, 네번째 = Moving images from Gosfilmofond : the past unearthed, the fourth encounter / | Palgul toen kwagŏ, ne pŏntche | Moving images from Gosfilmofond | Past unearthed, the fourth encounter Catalog Record Only
    "This DVD collection contains various propaganda films of the era, films which the militarist Japanese empire designed to mobilize the colonized Chosun people to the front or into a support role in the rear, from 1937 when the Sino-Japanese War broke out to the early 1940s when the Pacific War was close to its end."--Accompanying booklet.
    • Contributor: Pŭlluk'ino (Firm) - Han'guk Yŏngsang Charyowŏn (Seoul, Korea) - Gosfilʹmofond Rossii
    • Date: 2009
  • Film, Video
    Anata kaimasu = I'll buy you
    あなた買います = I'll buy you / | I'll buy you | Kobayashi Masaki kantoku sakuhin = A film by Masaki Kobayashi Catalog Record Only
    "Kobayashi's pitiless take on Japan's professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. An excoriation of the inhumanity bred by a mercenary, bribery-fueled business, it follows the shark-like maneuvers of a scout dead set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyo Flowers"-- IMDb, May 23, 2017.
    • Contributor: Ono, Minoru
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Karamiai = The inheritance
    からみ合い = The inheritance / | Inheritance | Kobayashi Masaki kantoku sakuhin = A film by Masaki Kobayashi Catalog Record Only
    "Company president Kawahara's days are limited as he suffers from cancer. His estate is valued at three hundred million yen and he has no legitimate heir other than his wife. He entrusts his faithful employees with the task of locating three children born of casual female acquaintances. Among those sent out on this now urgent mission is his secretary, Yasuko. One by one, as...
    • Contributor: Kobayashi, Masaki - Nanjō, Norio
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Ningen no yakusoku : Promesse
    人間の約束 : Promesse | Promesse Catalog Record Only
    Drama about a family with three generations living together. When the matriarch starts to lose her mind, she turns up dead and the police try and discover if it was murder and who did it.
    • Contributor: Hosono, Haruomi - Mikuni, Rentarō - Satō, Orie - Murase, Sachiko - Sae, Shūichi - Jeneon Entateinmento Kabushiki Kaisha - Tōhō Tōwa Kabushiki Kaisha - Miyauchi, Fukiko - Yamazaki, Yoshihiro - Kawarasaki, Chōichirō - Yoshida, Yoshishige
    • Date: 2004
  • Film, Video
    Kurīn Sentā homonki
    クリーンセンター訪問記 / | Dokyumentarī eiga no daiuchū : Catalog Record Only
    Title from disc label. Originally released in 1975. Full screen. DVD, NTSC; region 2; Dolby digital 2.0.
    • Contributor: Ogawa, Shinsuke - Ogawa Purodakushon
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Kuroi kawa = Black river
    黒い河 = Black river / | Black river | Kobayashi Masaki kantoku sakuhin = A film by Masaki Kobayashi Catalog Record Only
    "Perhaps Kobayashi's most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on and around U.S. military bases following World War II. Kobayashi spirals out from the story of a love triangle that develops between a good-natured student, his innocent girlfriend, and a coldhearted petty criminal (Tatsuya Nakadai, in his first major role) to diagnose a social disease that had Japan slowly...
    • Contributor: Kobayashi, Masaki - Tomishima, Takeo
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Nipponkoku Furuyashikimura
    ニッポン国古屋敷村 / | Dai 34-kai Berurin Eigasai Kokusai Hihyōka Renmeishō jushō sakuhin Catalog Record Only
    Title from disc label. Full screen. "Dokyumentarī eiga no daiuchū Ogawa Purodakushon." Originally released in 1982. DVD, NTSC; region 2; Dolby digital 2.0.
    • Contributor: Ogawa, Shinsuke - Ogawa Purodakushon
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Tōkyō Saiban = International military tribunal for the Far East
    東京裁判 = International military tribunal for the Far East / | English title from IMDb : Tokyo Trial | International military tribunal for the Far East Catalog Record Only
    "Documentary covering the 1946-48 Tokyo Trials"--imdb viewed on September 16, 2021.
    • Contributor: Satō, Kei - Kobayashi, Masaki - Kōdansha
    • Date: 2019
  • Film, Video
    Sensuikan Rogō imada fujōsezu
    潜水艦ろ号未だ浮上せず Catalog Record Only
    Japan is losing in the World War II. A crew member of a submarine named Rogo, Nagata meets a geisha girl and is attracted to her, but he must ride in Rogo and fight against the enemies.
    • Contributor: Ogasawara, Hiroshi - Imagica Corp - Tanba, Tetsurō - Vap Inc - Suzuki, Shinji - Arai, Hajime - Fujita, Susumu - Yamamoto, Shin - Nomura, Hiromasa - Hattori, Tadashi - Shintōhō Kabushiki Kaisha - Oka, Ryūzō - Nagata, Shin
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    Uta
    哥 / | English title from IMDb : Poem Catalog Record Only
    "As a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit."--imdb viewed on September 16, 2021.
    • Contributor: Tamura, Ryō - Shinoda, Saburō - Kishida, Shin - Jissōji, Akio - Ishidō, Toshirō - Shimizu, Kōji - Yanami, Eiko - Sakurai, Hiroko
    • Date: 2019
  • Film, Video
    Tetsuyu toki : Hara Kiyoshi no waza
    鉄釉陶器 : 原清のわざ / Catalog Record Only
    Title from disc label. Full screen (4:3) Disk characteristics: Disk is single-sided, single-layered.
    • Contributor: Japan. Bunkachō
    • Date: 2011
  • Film, Video
    Tankin : Taguchi Toshichika no waza
    鍛金 : 田口壽恒のわざ / | Taguchi Toshichika no waza Catalog Record Only
    Title from disc label. Wide screen (16:9). Disk characteristics: Disk is single-sided, single-layered.
    • Contributor: Japan. Bunkachō
    • Date: 2010
  • Film, Video
    Kinkakuji = The temple of the Golden Pavillion
    金閣寺 = The temple of the Golden Pavillion / | Temple of the Golden Pavillion Catalog Record Only
    "About the psychological decline of a novice Buddhist monk. After the death of his father, the stammering Goichi Mizoguchi seeks succour and loftier insights in religion. Only to find all too soon that reality and the imagination are worlds apart. The social upheavals that began after World War II did not stop even at Buddhist temples. Convinced that all loftier values have long since...
    • Contributor: Shinoda, Saburō - Kaga, Mariko - Takabayashi, Yōichi - Mishima, Yukio
    • Date: 2019
  • Film, Video
    Kyōkanoko musume Dōjōji
    京鹿子娘道成寺 / | English title on container: Kabuki dance Catalog Record Only
    The maiden falls in love with a young Buddhist monk of the Dōjōji temple and later kills him.
    • Contributor: Bandō, Tamasaburō - Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha
    • Date: 2003
  • Film, Video
    Inugamike no ichizoku
    犬神家の一族 / | English title from IMDb: Inugami Family | Inugami-ke no ichizoku Catalog Record Only
    "After the death of the Father, His family are gathered to share Inheritances , but suddenly a woman with a mysterious masked man arrive there , claiming to be the other wife of the man"--imdb viewed on September 21, 2021.
    • Contributor: Ishizaka, Kōji - Yokomizo, Seishi - Ichikawa, Kon
    • Date: 2019
  • Film, Video
    Kabe atsuki heya = Room with thick walls
    壁あつき部屋 = Room with thick walls / | Room with thick walls | Kobayashi Masaki kantoku sakuhin = A film by Masaki Kobayashi Catalog Record Only
    Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture on October 31, 1956. Full screen (4:3). Disk characteristics: Disk is single-sided, single-layered. In Japanese.
    • Contributor: Abe, Kōbō - Kobayashi, Masaki
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Daichi no komoriuta
    大地の子守歌 / | Masumura Yasuzō kantoku sakuhin Catalog Record Only
    "The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies"-- IMDb, May 19, 2017.
    • Contributor: Masumura, Yasuzō - Moto, Kukiko
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Kuro no shisōsha
    黒の試走車 / | Kuroi tesutokā Catalog Record Only
    It's industrial spy vs. industrial spy when rival car companies roll out their latest test models. Frenzied boardroom meetings ensue while trade secrets are revealed in the backroom and in the bedroom. Careers are made and ruined and souls are bought and sold for the slightest competitive edge.
    • Contributor: Funakoshi, Eiji - Masumura, Yasuzō - Kanō, Junko - Tamiya, Jirō
    • Date: 2006
  • Film, Video
    Toki o kakeru shōjo
    時をかける少女 / | English title from IMDb: Little girl who conquered time Catalog Record Only
    "A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel."--imdb viewed on September 23, 2021.
    • Contributor: Ōbayashi, Nobuhiko - Kenmochi, Wataru - Tsutsui, Yasutaka - Harada, Tomoyo
    • Date: 2019