catalogue of video recordings (vhs, dvd) - The Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library
Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; 16:9
anamorphic wide screen (1.85:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in
5.1 Dolby Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: R18+, including Mediun level violence.
Summary: "Set in feudal Japan, Azumi is an anime come to life. Azumi
is part of an elite group of assassins raised from birth to carry out
deadly missions. When the assassin clan is forced to leave its training
home to seek out and kill key political figures, Azumi begins to
question her master's wisdom. On the trail of a warlord, Azumi
encounters unfriendly ninja, bandits, soldiers and a mysterious villan
dressed in white. Director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus) creates another
furious heart-pounding action-adventure with Azumi. With the beautiful
Aya Ueto and Kitamura's frantic direction, Azumi is destined to
become an action classic." -- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 778.21 KIT
Title: Boiling point = 3-4x 3
10-gatsu
| written and directed by Takeshi
Kitano ; executive producer Kazuyoshi Okuyama.|Boiling point = 3-4x
3
十 月 | written and directed by Takeshi Kitano ; executive producer
Kazuyoshi Okuyama.|
Series title: Takeshi Kitano collection
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2005].
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 93 min.) :sd.,
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dula layer; anamorphic
wide screen (1.85:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Feature sound track in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Medium level violence, Medium level
coarse language.
Summary: Genuinely original and often comic slow-burn thriller peopled
by eccentrics in which a teenager, Masaki, accidentally breaks the arm
of a yakuza in a fight, leaving himself and the gas station where he
works open to reprisals. Masaki and two friends fly to Okinawa to buy
a gun for protection only to be caught up in a gang war when they tag
along with an off-the-wall yakuza played by Takeshi.
Call Number: 778.21 KIT
Title: Dolls | directed, written and edited by Takeshi Kitano.
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006].
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 113 min.) :sd.,
col. ;4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (19 p.). Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anamorphic
wide screen (16:9) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 and 2.0
Dolby Digital.
Language: Feature soundtracks in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Moderate violence, Moderate themes.
Summary: "The first concerns a rising young executive who turned his
back on his girlfriend in pursuit of his career. After her failed suicide
attempt, which leaves her in a mindless daze, he runs to his former
love's side and they roam the country together, bound by a red cord,
in search of something they have lost. The second follows an ageing
yakuza who also abandoned his girlfriend for the sake of success. 30
years later, he is compelled to return to the park where they used to
meet. The final tale is of a former pop star who becomes a recluse
following a disfiguring accident. One day, one of her greatest fans
comes to prove his devotion to her..." -- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 778.21 KIT
Title: Hana-bi = Fireworks | directed by Takeshi Kitano.
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD, PAL, all regions) :sd., col. ;4
3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anomorphic
wide screen (16:9) presentation; Japanese soundtrack i 2.0 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rarting: MA15+, including High level violence.
Summary: "Detective Nishi is bitter when he learns that his wife
Miyuki is terminally il and his partner Horibe was shot and now tied to
a wheelchair. Horibe wants to become a painter, but doesn't have
money for that. To help him and a young police widow whose husband
was shot dead during an arrast , he borrows money from yakuza. After
that he buys an old car, paints it as a police car, and, dressed in
uniform, singlehandedlly robs a bank. With the money he goes on a final
farewell journey to gether with his wife." -- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 778.21 KIT
Title: Sonatine
Series title: Takeshi Kitano collection
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c1993
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD, PAL, region 4) :sd., col. ;4 3/4
in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; 16:9
anamorophic wide screen (1.85:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack
in 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: MA 15+, Medium level violence.
Summary: "SONATINE is a masterwork from legendary writer, actor
and director Takeshi Kitano. Kitano is Murakawa, a yakuza chife sent
to Okinawa to settle a dispute between two factions. Several of his
men die in suspicious circumstances so Murakami and the rest of the
gang retreat to remoto beach house to await further orders. Soon he
realised that he has been set up and Murakami sets out to find his
powerful yakuza bosses for a final showdown. Images of beauty are set
against extream violence in this unique, clever and original piece of
Japanese yakuza cinema." -- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 778.21 KIT
Title: Takeshis' | written, edited and directed by Takeshi Kitano ;
produced by Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida.
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2007], c2005.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 102 min.) :sd.,
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anamorphic
widescreen (16:9) presentation; Japanese soundtracks in 5.1/2.0 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Feature soundtracks in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong themes and violence.
Summary: "Beat Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of
a show biz celebrity. But his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy
convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his big
break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series of frustrating
auditions, Kitano seems to mysteriously fall into a fantasy state
highlighted by aspects of Beat's real life and violent onscreen
persona..." -- from Container.
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