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The Fantastic Planet
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Based on French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul's Oms en Serie ("Oms by the Dozen"), René Laloux's La Planète Sauvage (its title changed to Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release) paints an animated tale of humans kept ...More…
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Samurai Rebellion (Widescreen)
Amazon CA — EAN 9780780018709 Format NTSC ISBN 0780018702 Release Date 1997-12-16 SKU 84,0780018702,15.0,0780018702,02 UPC 037429106334More…
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Imagine the Sound
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com When Imagine the Sound was released in 1981, Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum deemed it "the best documentary on free jazz that we have." Decades later, the same praise holds true. Director Ron Mann (Grass, Comicbook ...More…
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Branded to Kill (Widescreen)
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Seijun Suzuki's absolutely mad yakuza movie bends the hit-man genre so out of shape it more resembles a Luis Bunuel take on Martin Scorsese. Number three killer Goro Hanada (Jo Shishido) is a hired killer who loves his work, but when ...More…
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Odd Obession
Amazon CA — Actor Machiko Kyô Actor Ganjiro Nakamura Actor Junko Kano Actor Tatsuya Nakadai Actor Jun Hamamura Audience Rating Unrated Director Kon Ichikawa EAN 9780780020528 Format NTSC ISBN 0780020529 Release Date 1998-02-24 Running Time 107 minutes UPC ...More…
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Double Suicide
Amazon CA — Actor Kichiemon Nakamura Actor Shima Iwashita Actor Hôsei Komatsu Actor Yûsuke Takita Actor Kamatari Fujiwara Director Masahiro Shinoda EAN 9780780020535 Format NTSC ISBN 0780020537 Release Date 1998-02-24 Running Time 105 minutes UPC 037429119839More…
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Lower Depths, the
Amazon CA — Amazon.com Essential Video In faithfully adapting Maxim Gorky's classic play The Lower Depths, Akira Kurosawa incorporated themes from several of his better-known films. Transplanted from the play's Russian setting to Japan's Edo (pre-Tokyo) ...More…
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Bad Sleep Well, the
Amazon CA — Amazon.com Essential Video The Bad Sleep Well tells the story of corruption at the highest levels of Japanese business and its tragic consequences. Though flawed by a tedious introductory sequence and by an ending that seems out of sync with the story, it ...More…
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No Regrets for Our Youth
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com One of the more obscure early finds in master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre, this earnest 1946 film explores the nature of politics and passion. The plot centers around the daughter (Setsuko Hara) of an academic as she is thrust ...More…
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Story of a Prostitute
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Seijun Suzuki followed up the success of his lurid adaptation of Tajiro Tamura's lusty Gate of Flesh with this melodramatic tale of sexual possession, revenge, and all-consuming passion under fire from another Tamura novel. Set on the ...More…
