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

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.
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