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Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number Summary: Final showdown for Musashi Miyamoto and his archrival Kojiro Sasaki. Samurai III brings this epic to a close with its famous sunset scene. Call Number: 778.21 SAT Title: Princess blade | directed by Shunsuke Sato. Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c2003 Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD, PAL, all regions) (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 2.0 Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: MA15+, including High level violence. Summary: "The samurai tradition is given a jolt into the 21st century with this fast paced, cyberpunked adaptation of classic love and revenge themes. Set in a post apocalyptic Japan, Princess Blade is the story of Yuki, the most talented assassin in the Takemikazuchi clan. Yuki discovers a shocking secret. After finding that the clan's leader murdered her mother Yuki shallenges her master and finds herself exiled from the clan. On the run, she falls in love with a man who has a dark past. With Yuki's Assassin clan close at their heels, can they, and their love survive?" -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 778.21 SAT Title: The bullet train = Shinkansen dai-bakuha | directed by Junya Sato.|The bullet train = 新幹線大爆破 | directed by Junya Sato.| Series title: The Sonny Chiba collection ;[1] Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006], c1975. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 153 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; 16:9 anamorphic wide screen (2.35:1) presentation ; Japanese soundtrack in 2.0 Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: M Summary: Terrorists plant a bomb on one of Japan's famous bullet trains. The bomb will explode if the train slows below 80 km/h. It's up to the train driver to save the passengers from certain death. Call Number: 778.21 SHI Title: Death trance | executive producers, Kumi Kobata, John Sirabella ; screenplay [by] Junya Kato ; directed by Yuji Shimomura. Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, 2007. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 91 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording 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; English soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese and dubbed in English. Optional English subtitles. Summary: In an unknown place and time, a lone samurai known as Grave has stolen a coffin from a temple. Trapped inside is said to be the Goddess of Destruction. A young monk from the temple goes in pursuit of the stolen coffin before anyone can open it and unleash an unstoppable cataclysm. Call Number: 778.21 SHI Title: Dororo | producer, Takashi Hirano ; screenplay by Naka Masa Mura, Akihiko ko Shiota ; director, Akihiko Shiota.|どろろ | producer, Takashi Hirano ; screenplay by Naka Masa Mura, Akihiko Shiota ; director, Akihiko Shiota.| Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2008]. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 133 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong violence and Fantasy themes. Summary: "A powerful samurai, Daigo Kagemitsu, makes a deal with 48 demons who offer him the power to win all future battles and become the lord protector of Japan. In return Daigo Kagemitsu must allow the demons to take away 48 body parts of his future unborn son. Daigo Kagemitsu accepts the demon's offer. The boy eventually is born but without 48 body parts and left abandoned. With luck he is found by a magician who creates prosthetic body parts for him and raises him. Years pass and the boy, now called "Hyakkimaru", embarks on an epic journey to kill all 48 demons to regain the body parts that are rightfully his." -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 778.21 SHI Title: Genbaku no ko | kantoku, kyakuhon Shindō Kaneto.| 原爆の子 | 監督・脚本新藤兼人 .| Publisher: [Tōkyō] : Asumikku, 2003, c1952.|[ 東京 ] : アスミック, 2003, c1952.| Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 96 min.) :sd., b&w ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements:DVD (Region 2, NTSC); single layer; full frame (1.33:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in monaural Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional Japanese closed-captions, English subtitles. Summary: One of the first films to be produced after the war, kaneto Shindo's powerful film shows the horrific devastation of the atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima. A young teacher returns to Hiroshima after a four-year absence and is shocked to come face-toface with the children she once taught. Based on the real life stories of children who were atomic bomb victims. Call Number: 778.21 SHI Title: Marebito = The stranger from afar | [[directed] by Takashi Shimizu ; screenplay [by] Chiaki Konaka].| 稀人 = The stranger from afar | [[directed] by b y Takashi Shimizu ; screenplay [by] Chiaki Konaka].| Series title: Rialto collection Publisher: [South Melbourne, Vic.] : Rialto Home Entertainment, c2006. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 92 min.) :sd., digital ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in Japanese with subtitles in English. Rating: OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong violence, Strong themes. Summary: Masuoka is a cameraman possesed by the craving to understand fear. After he brings home a strange girl he finds in the caverns below the subway, he realizes that he has found the key to gaining that terrible knowledge. Call Number: 778.21 SHI Title: Shinobi : heart under blade Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006], c2005. 59 21-Apr-10
Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; 16:9 anamorphic wide screen (2.35:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong violence. Summary: "After years of war, Japan is united by the Shogun. Bound by a code of peace, the trives of the Iga and Koga ninja maintain an easy truce. Beautiful Oboro is the leader of the Iga, heroic Gennosuke the Koga leader. The tow fall in love, not knowing who the other is. The Shogun hatches a plan to destroy both clans and five of the best warriours from each clan are chosen for a final showdown." -- from Container. Call Number: 778.21 SHI Title: The grudge ju-on Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c2004 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; anamorphic wide screen (16:9) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby Digital, 2.0 Dolby Digital and 5.1 Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: M 15+, including Medium level violence. Summary: "Volunteer home-care worker Rika calls on the house of an old lady in what seems a routine job. Investigating a strange noise from an upstairs cupboard, Rika faints when a small ghostile boy emerges. Slowly a chilling series of events unfold. An evil force in the house keft behind by the dead is attaching itself to the living. Vengeance from beyond the grave could be the grudge that no one can stop! With the contribution from RING scriptwriter Takahashi Hiroshi, The GRRUDGE is the latest in Japanese terror." -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 778.21 SOR Title: Ichi | directed by Sori. Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2009]. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 115 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 5.1 Dolby Digital and 5.1 dts. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong violence. Summary: Ichi is beautiful, blind and lethal; a new generation of the Zatoichi legend. As a wandering blind singer, she performs her songs for money, whilst on a quest to find the man, a blind masseur, who raised her and cared for her as a child. She seems helpless but can swiftly dispatch trouble with a deft slash from her sword. Together with Toma, an aimless samurai, they help a village break its grip from a heartless yakuza clan. Now the deadly battle is about to begin! Call Number: 778.21 SOR Title: Ping pong | directed by Fumihiko Sori. Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Aztec International Entertainment, c2002, 2005 Physical description: 2 videodiscs (DVD) (114+100 min.) :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 in 5.1 Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: PG, including Medium level violence. Summary: "Ever since the day Peco Hoshino (Yūsuke Kubozuka) rescued Smile (arata) from a gang of bullies and introduced him to the game of table tennis, the pair have been insparable friends with interwined fates. Now Peco is cocky teenager who wants no less than to be the best payer in the world, but lacks the self-discipiline to carry his plan through - while the withdrawn, slightly arrogant Smile probably has more natural talent than anyone, but plays 'to kill time' rather than to win, and his reluctance to see other players (especially Peco) humiliated makes him hold back in his own game, much to the annoyance of Ota, his coach (Naoto Takenaka). After Peco is sorely beaten (or 'skunked') in a tournament and quits the game, Smile continues his rise to the top, preparing the way for the return of his hero, who he is destined in one last match." -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 778.21 SUZ Title: A tattooed life = Irezumi ichidai | produced by Masayuki Takagi ; screenplay [by] Kinya Naoi, Kei Hattori ; directed by Suzuki Seijun.|A tattooed life = 刺青一代 | produced by Masayuki Takagi ; screenplay [by] Kinya Naoi, Kei Hattori ; directed by Suzuki Seijun.| Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2007], c1965. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 84 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements:DVD-5 (Region 4, PAL); single layer; 16:9 anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in dual mono Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Moderate violence. Summary: "Hired killer Tetsu wants to retire from life as a hitman but the partners of his last kill have other ideas. Tetsu's brother Kenji tries to help but when a Yakuza is killed, both brothers flee to China and hide as workers on a construction site. The Yakuza will not rest until the brothers are found and bloody vengeance follows." -- from Container. Call Number: 778.21 SUZ Title: Branded to kill = Koroshi no rakuin | produced by Kaneko Iwai ; scenario by Hachiro Guryu ; directed by Seijun Suzuki.|Branded to kill = 殺しの烙印 | produced by Kaneko Iwai ; scenario by Hachiro Guryu ; directed by Seijun Suzuki.| Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2007], c1967. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 88 min.) :sd., b&w. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements:DVD-5 (Region 4, PAL); single layer; 16:9 anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in dual mono Dolby Digital. Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Moderate violence, Moderate sex scene and nudity. Summary: "Hanada is the 'Number 3' killer in the Japanese underworld. Hired by a mysterious woman, the scheduled hit goes very wrong and Hanada is launched into a deadly cat and mouse game with the sexually perverse rice sniffing 'Number 1' killer." -- from Container. 60 21-Apr-10
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