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Story of the Last Chrysanthemu
Amazon CA — Actor Shôtarô Hanayagi Actor Kôkichi Takada Actor Gonjurô Kawarazaki Actor Kakuko Mori Actor Tokusaburo Arashi Director Kenji Mizoguchi EAN 9780780019157 Format Subtitled Format NTSC ISBN 0780019156 Release Date 1997-09-09 Running Time 148 minutes ...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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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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High & Low (Widescreen)
Amazon CA — Amazon.com Essential Video Although best known for his samurai classics, Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa proved himself equally adept at contemporary dramas and thrillers, and 1962's High and Low offers a powerful showcase for Kurosawa's ...More…
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Triumph of the Will
Amazon CA — Amazon.com essential video Triumph of the Will is one of the most important films ever made. Not because it documents evil--more watchable examples are being made today. And not as a historical example of blind propaganda--those (much shorter) movies are ...More…
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Man Escaped
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com "This story is true," reads the opening statement of A Man Escaped. "I give it as it is, without embellishment." Based on the memoir by Andre Devigny, a member of the French Resistance imprisoned and sentenced to death ...More…
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Sous les toits de Paris
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris is a delightful pastiche of vignettes loosely held together by a creaky plot involving theft, romance, and mistaken identity. Albert loves Pola, who is being romanced by a seedy thief. Albert ends ...More…
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Andrei Rublev
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com At last, the complete version of Andrei Tarkovski's 1966 masterpiece about the great 15th century Russian icon painter (a film suppressed by the Soviet Union and unseen until 1971) is available. It's a complex and demanding ...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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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…
