Video Recording collection - The Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library
Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Moderate violence, Moderate sexual
reference.
Summary: The last in the renowned Streetfighter series sees tough guy
Terry hired to recover tapes used in making cheap heroin. When he is
double crossed, Terry takes off and finds a group of deadly assassins on
his trail.
Call Number: 778.21 OZU
Title: An autumn afternoon [videorecording] = Sanma no aji /
directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; screenplay by Kogo Noda, Yasujiro
Ozu.|An autumn afternoon [videorecording] = 秋 刀 魚 の 味 / directed
by Yasujiro Ozu ; screenplay by Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu.|
Series title: Directors suite. Yasujiro Ozu
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, 2006.
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (DVD) (feature length 120 min.) :sd.,
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; full frame
original ration (4:3) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 2.0 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Disc 1 (the feature film): Feature soundtracks in Japanese with
optional Japanese subtitles. Disc 2: Soundtrack
Rating: OFCL rating: PG, including Mild themes.
Summary: "Since the death of his wife, salaryman Shuhei Hirayama has
depended on his unmarried daughter Michiko. After a chance encounter
with an old friend, he decides he must find his daughter a husband, and
enlists the help of his weternised son Koichi and his wife Akiko. As
Hirayama assesses potential suitors, director Yasujiro Ozu focusses on
the competing pressures of loss, hope and the relevance of traditional
culture within a modernising society" -- From Container.
Call Number: 778.21 OZU
Title: Early Summer [videorecording] = Bakushū / written by Kogo
Noda, Yasujiro Ozu ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu.|Early Summer
[videorecording] = 麥 秋 / written by Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu ;
directed by Yasujiro Ozu.|
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006].
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (feature length 120 min.) :sd.,
b&w for the feature ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; full frame
original ration (4:3) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 1.0 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Feature soundtracks in Japanese with optional English
subtitles. Multi-lingual soundtrack for "Talking with Ozu
Rating: OFLC rating: G.
Summary: The Mamiya family are seeking a husband for their daughter,
Noriko. But Noriko is a modern woman and has ideas of her own. She is
not particularly enthusiastic about marrying, even moking her married
friends. But, when her brother proposes a potential suitor, she impulsively
chooses a local widower. -- From Container.
Japan collide, Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece deepens into a sublime
meditation on family, ambition and morality." -- From Container.
Call Number: 778.21 RAM
Title: Rampo noir [videorecording] = Ranpo jigoku.|Rampo noir
[videorecording] = 乱 歩 地 獄 |
Publisher: [Australia] : Siren Visual Entertainment, [2006], c2005.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (134 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.
Video Recording
System requirements:DVD (Region 4, PAL); aspecto ration (16:9);
soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese with English subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong horror, Violence,
Themes and Sex scenes.
Summary: Acclaimed director Takeuchi Suguru begins proceedings with
Mars Canal, which sees a naked man (Asano Tadanobu) collapse at the
edge of a lake that descends, seemingly into the bowels of hell itself. This
segment is used to effectively tie together the three main narrative
segments of the film. Mirror Hell, directed by Jissoji Akio, sees a
detective (Asano again) following a trail of beautiful female corpses back
to a mad mirror maker. The Caterpillar (by Sato Hisayasu) sees a limbless
war veteran return home only to be systematically abused by his wife.
And in Crawling Bugs, by manga artist Kaneko Atsushi, a chauffeur
(Asano yet again) becomes obsessed with his actress employer.
Call Number: 778.21 SAI
Title: Blood and bones [videorecording] = Chi to hone / [executive
producer Masaaki Wakasugi ; written by Yoichi Sai & Wi-Shing
Chong ; directed by Yoichi Sai].|Blood and bone [videorecording] =
血 と 骨 / [executive producer Masaaki Wakasugi ; written by Yoichi
Sai & Wi-Shing Chong ; directed by Yoichi Sai].|
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006], c2004.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (140 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.
Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; letterb9x
widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 dts,
Japanese sou
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: R18+, including Highlevel sex scenes.
Summary: "Kitano stars as Shunpei Kim, a Korean immigrant in Japan
whose life is a troubled tableau of cruelty, abuse, and snarling, sudden
violence. Kim is a despicable creature, who physically and sexually
assaults his estranged wife, abuses workers at his fish cake factory, and
gambles away his earnings instead of using them to feed his family.
When his ruthless ways result in success, Shunpei opens up a loansharking
business, bringing even more potential victims into his
destructive orbit. As the years pass, Shunpei's continuing heartlessness
reveals the ugly and even unique human in his daily life in Osaka's
Korean ghetto. Shunpei is a cunning survivor, but at what terrible cost" -
- from Container.
Call Number: 778.21 OZU
Title: Tokyo story [videorecording] = Tōkyō monogatari / directed by
Yasujiro Ozu ; screenplay by Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu.|Tokyo story
[videorecording] = 東 京 物 語 / directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; screenplay
Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu.|
Series title: Directors suite. Yasujiro Ozu
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, 2006.
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (DVD) (feature length 136 min.) :sd.,
b&w. ;4 3/4 in.+ 1 liner notes booklet (10 p.) Video Recordi
System requirements:DVD (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; full frame
original ration (4:3) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 2.0 Dolby
Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Feature soundtrack of the documentary on disc 2
Rating: PG
Summary: "When an elderly couple travel to a rapidly-rebuilding Tokyo
to visit their children, they are met with unexpected indifference,
ingratitude and selfishness. As the bastly different pre- and post-war
Call Number: 778.21 SAM 1
Title: Samurai. 1, Musashi Miyamoto = Miyamoto Musashi
[videorecording] / directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.|Samurai ; 1, Musashi
Miyamoto = 宮 本 武 蔵 [videorecording] / directed by Hiroshi
Inagaki.|
Series title: The samurai trilogy ;1
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, [200-]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.
Video Recording
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; 4:3 original
ratio (1.33:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 1.0 Dolby Digital.
Language: Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Rating: OFLC rating: PG, including Medium level violence.
Summary: During a civil war, Musashi Miyamoto goes off in search of
glory, only to suffer defeat on the wrong side. He returns as an outlaw,
half-mad and uncontrollable, and is saved only by the intervention of a
village girl who loves him and a Buddhist priest who tries to heal him.
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