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

Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library
Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
Oguni ... [et t al.] ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.|The bad sleep well = 悪
い 奴 ほどよく 眠 る | produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Akira Kurosawa ;
screenplay by Hideo Oguni ... [et al.] ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.|
Series title: Directors suite
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2007], c1960.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 151 min.) :sd.,
b&w ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anamorphic
wide screen (2.35 : 1) presentation; soundtrack in mono 2.0 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles; Audio commentary soundtrack in English.
Call Number: 778.21 KUR
Title: The hidden fortress | directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Series title: Akira Kurosawa collection
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c1958
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD, PAL, region 4) (138 min.) :sd.,
b&w ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anamorphic
wide screen (16:9) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby
Digital ans Japanese mono.
Language: Feature in Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Rating: FOLC rating: PG, including Low level violence.
Summary: "This is the movie that inspired George Lucas's script for
the 1977 classic STAR WARS. Lured by the promise of gold, two
peasants accompany a haughty girl and a gruff warrior through enemy
territory - not knowing that the girl is in fact the Princess Yuki
accompanied by her general Rokurota. Filled with beautiful
cinematography, generous amounts of comedy and some of the finest
action sequences ever filmed - THE HIDDEN FORTREES was the first
of Kurosawa's films to be shot in 'widescreen' and is a must for all fans
of great film-making" -- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 778.21 KUR
Title: The idiot = Hakuchi | directed by Kurosawa Akira ; screenplay
by Hisaita Eijiro and Kurosawa Akira.|The idiot = 白 痴 | directed by
Kurosawa Akira ; screenplay by Hisaita Eijiro and Kurosawa Akira.|
Series title: Directors suite. Akira Kurosawa
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006].
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 159 min.) :sd.,
b&w. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; original ration
(4:3) presentation; Japanese soundtrack with 1.0 Doldby Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: PG, including Adult themes.
Summary: Based on Dostoyevsky's tale of love and murder, this story
takes place in the snowy northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Kameda, a mentally fragile innocent incapable of dishonesty, meets
Akama on his return home from an asylum. They become involved with
the brash former concubine Taeko and the innocent Ayoko, leading to
an intricate, complicated and ultimately tragic web of love, hate and
human frailty.
Call Number: 778.21 KUR
Title: The lower depth = Donzoko | produced by Akira Kurosawa ;
screenplay by Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira
Kurosawa.|The lower depth = どん 底 | produced by Akira Kurosawa ;
screenplay by Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira
Kurosawa.|
Series title: Directors suite
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2007], c1957.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 125 min.) :sd.,
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; full frame
original ratio (4:3); feature soundtrack in Dolby mono 2.0.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles; Audio commentary soundtrack by Freda Freiberg in English.
Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Moderate themes.
Summary: A revival of Gorky's classic proletarian drama about human
flotsam living in a Moscow dosshouse. The film remains faithful to the
text while transplanting the play into Tokyo of the Edo period, a setting
which is deliberately ironic because it is a period that is usually
romanticised by the Japanese. The film focuses on a slum tenement
where prostitutes, actors, gamblers and thieves bewail their lot in life.
Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they
both desire, the thief Sutekichi.
Call Number: 778.21 KUR
Title: The quiet duel = Shizukanaru kettō | [written by Kazuo Kikuta,
Akira Kurosawa and Senkichi Taniguchi ; directed by Akira
Kurosawa].|The quiet duel = 靜 かなる 決 鬪 | [written by Kazuo Kikuta,
Akira Kurosawa and Senkichi Taniguchi ; directed by Akira Kurosawa].|
Series title: Directors suite
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, 2007, c1949.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 92 min.) :sd.,
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anamorphic
wide screen (16:9) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 1.0 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Moderate themes.
Summary: "During a life-saving operation, army surgeon Fujisaki
(Toshiro Mifune) cuts himself with a surgical knife and contracts
syphilis from his patient. Agonizing over the disease, which he knows
will be fatal, he retreats from his friends and family, but continues to
work in his father's private hospital. Unable to reveal the truth to his
fiance, Fujisaki begins to treat her coldly and is soon left alone. When
he discovers his own patient is the man who infected him, Fujisaki is
forced to face the demons which plague him." -- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 778.21 78.21 KUR
Title: Yojimbo | directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Series title: Akira Kurosawa collection
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c1961
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD, PAL, region 4) :sd., b&w ;4 3/4
in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anomorphic
wide screen (16:9) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby
Digital and 1.0 Dolby Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English
subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: PG, including Low level violence.
Summary: "Legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune returnes for his
9th collaboration with master director Akira Krosawa in Yojinbo, a film
that has inspire countless filmmakers. The plot of this film was literally
stolen by the great'Spaghetti Western' director Sergio Leone and
remade as the classsic "A Fistful of Dollars" in 1964. Yojinbo is the
story of a samurai who wanders into a town in turmoil. Pitting the
town's two warring clans against each other, the mysrerious samurai
plays a profitable, yet dangerous game. Yojinbo is laced with expert
swordplay, black humore and wonderfully atomospheric score from
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