Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's KING LEAR magically mixes Japanese history, Shakespeare's plot and Kurosawa's own feelings about loyalty in the epic masterpiece,... more
Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. One of Akira Kurosawa's classic screen achievements takes form in this compelling tale of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in medieval Japan. The crimes... more
In this Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film (1994), little things mean a lot in the world of 10-year-old Mui, a girl who's trained to be a house servant in 1950s Vietnam. As Mui grows up in... more
The residents of an impoverished farming village in 16th-century Japan, anticipating an attack by bandits after harvest, hire seven rōnin to defend them. Upon arrival, the warriors set about to... more
From the director of SEX AND FURY and SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST comes the controversial and horrifying masterpiece, STAR OF DAVID: BEAUTIFUL GIRL HUNTER! Tatsuya (Shun Domon) is a young man hiding a... more
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi. Eight mythical, dreamlike vignettes thematically united by their concern with man's relationship to nature tell stories of animal weddings, ghosts of... more
Minako Mizushima, Yuko Asuka, Noriaki Abe. A tabloid reporter investigates the sordid life of an up-and-coming singer, who he suspects is drugged up by her record company 24/7. Directed by Katsuhiko... more
This Yasujiro Ozu double feature presents the sensitive original silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura. 1934/b&w/89 min.) followed by the celebrated remake Floating... more
Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
Akira Kurosawa defined the path for Japanese filmmakers by opening the post-World War II door to American audiences. This multi-disc set features five of Kurosawa's finest: No Regrets for Our Youth... more
Following a volcanic eruption along the China-North Korea border that leaves the entire Korean peninsula in shambles, seismologists warn that an even greater eruption is forthcoming - one that could... more
Nobuko Miyamoto. The widow of a ramen shop owner travels Japan looking for the best ramen recipe, encountering crazy food-obsessed characters along the way. In Japanese with English subtitles.... more
Toshiro Mifune. The tour-de-force trilogy by one of Japan's greatest actors is collected here, visually and sonically re-mastered. Follow swordsman Musashi Miyamoto from his days training to his... more
As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unprecedented efforts of a serial murderer, the instinctive but overmatched local cop (Song Kang-ho) in charge finds his... more
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more
The late Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed 53 films over the course of his career; these are some the finest from his artistic prime. Includes Early Spring (Haruko Sugimura. 1956/145 min.),... more
Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai. Isaburo, an aging samurai, takes issue with his lord when the lord wants back the mistress he initially ordered Isaburo's son to marry. Now the son is in love with... more
Toshiro Mifune. His father's mysterious death on the job prompts a man to seek revenge against the powerful construction company that employed him. In Japanese with english subtitles. 1960/b&w/151... more
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara. Ozu's moving masterpiece finds generational conflict within a post-WWII Japanese family. An elderly couple travels to Tokyo from their small fishing village to visit their... more
Critically acclaimed effort from Wong Kar-Wai ("Chungking Express"), set in Hong Kong in 1962 and centering on newspaper reporter Tony Leung and executive assistant Maggie Cheung, two married people... more
Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko. The renowned director, Akira Kurosawa, combines poetic imagery and complex flashbacks to tell the story of a man who vows to make his final days meaningful after he... more
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Daisuke Ryu. A petty criminal takes the place of a dying warlord in 16th-century Japan to fool those that plan to assassinate the ruler and inspire his followers... more
Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo. A poor unemployed family of four slowly ingratiates themselves into the lives of a similar—but extremely wealthy—family of four by posing as four unrelated... more