Summary: A 16th century Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off bandits. When the samurai arrive, a spectacular series of battles begins.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 1998
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVSummary: A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IKISummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RASSummary: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003