| Title (Japanese
Title). Director/Producer. Distributor/Publisher, Publication
Date (Original Release Date). Format. Running Time. |
Summary |
Location |
Call Number |
| Akahige/Red beard
(赤ひげ). Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha. 1999? (1965). VHS. 185 min. |
A young doctor fresh
from study of the latest in Western medicine in Nagasaki
is assigned to an impoverished clinic rather than the
court of the Shogun as he had hoped. At first rebellious
against the seemingly autocratic ways of the clinic's
head, he is won over by the wisdom and compassion he experiences. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 A666
1999 |
| Akai satsui/Intentions
of a murder (赤い殺意). Imamura
Shōhei/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1994 (1964). VHS. 150 min. |
This story describes
varieties of behavior ranging between love and sexual
harassment. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 A63
1994 |
| Akuma no temariuta/Devil's
bouncing ball song (悪魔の手毬唄).
Ishikawa Kon/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha,
1998 (1977). VHS. 144 min. |
This is a story
about 20 years of hatred and revenge between two families. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 A686
1998 |
| Ano natsu, ichiban
shizuka na umi, Scene at the sea (あの夏一番静な海).
Kitano Takeshi/Higashitōri Kabushiki Kaisha. Bandai Bijoaru
Kabushiki Kaisha, 1995 (1991). VHS. 101 min. |
The film describes
the love between two young people who are deaf and mute
and shows how they take care of each other with affection.
|
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 A66
1995 |
| Ano natsu, ichiban
shizukana umi: Kitano Takeshi dai 3-kai kantoku sakuhin,
Scene at the sea (あの夏一番静な海).
Kitano Takeshi. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1991 (1991) VHS.
101 min. |
This is a love
story between two young people. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1997 A67 1991 |
| Baka marudashi/Honest
fool (馬鹿まるだし).
Yamada Yōji /Shōchiku Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1964). VHS. 87 min. |
Yasugoro, a returning
veteran of World War II, arrives in a peaceful village
on Japan'
s inland sea. He takes up temporary residence in a temple
and becomes attracted to Natsuko, the wife of the priest's
oldest son. Her husband is a POW overseas and is presumed
missing. Yasugoro helps Natsuko and her family with the
work of everyday life in this romantic comedy, regarded
by some as the model for the "Otoko wa tsurai yo"
series. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 C55 B35
1995 |
| Bakushō/Early summer
(麦秋). Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.
Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo (1951). VHS. 124 min. |
This is a story
about an old couple and their children's loving care.
|
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 B356
1951 |
| Banshun/Late spring
(晩春). Ozu Yasujirō/ Shōchiku Eiga Kabushiki
Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1949). VHS. 108
min. |
A widowed professor
living with his only daughter, Noriko, feels that at age
27 it is time for her to marry. He convinces her that
he is going to remarry, thereby persuading her to accept
an arranged marriage for herself. Noriko marries and moves
away while her father accepts a life of loneliness. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 B368
1995 |
| Benten Kozō (弁天小僧).
Itō Daisuke/Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha,
1996? (1958). VHS. 86 min. |
The story based
on a kabuki play "Aoto-zôshi hana no nishikie shiranami
gonin otoko (i.e. Shiranami gonin otoko)" by Kawatake
Mokuami. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 B46
1996 |
| Biruma no tategoto/Burmese
harp (ビルマの竪琴).
Ichikawa Kon/Nikkatsu
Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, 1995 (1956).
VHS. 116 min. |
Following the defeat
of the Japanese in Burma,
a closely knit unit of soldiers surrenders to the British,
but are separated from their harp playing comrade, Private
Mizushima. Mizushima, profoundly affected by the destruction
of war, becomes a Buddhist monk and vows to remain in
Burma
until all Japanese dead have been buried. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 B588
1995 |
| Buta to gunkan/Pigs
and battleships (豚と軍艦). Imamura
Shōhei/Kabushiki Kaisha Nikkatsu. Nikkatsu, 1994 (1960).
VHS. 108 min. |
The groups of Japanese
gangster fight each other for the right to get leftover
food to raise pigs from the American military base in
Yokosuka.
A young member of the groups wants to leave his group
to start a new life with his girlfriend. The young man
is manipulated by the gangsters in a brutal way and ends
up with tragedy. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 B883
1994 |
| Chichi yo haha
yo! (父よ母よ!). Kinoshita Keisuke/Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Kabushiki Bideo, 1998? (1980).
VHS. 131 min. |
The film deals
with family problems such as well-off families over-protecting
their children, poor families struggling to make a living,
parents abusing their children at home and schools rejecting
them, etc. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 C45
1998 |
| Chūshingura (忠臣蔵).
Hiroshi Inagaki/Sanezumi Fujimoto, Tomoyuki Tanaka and
Hiroshi Inagaki. Image Entertainment, 2002 (1962). DVD.
207 min. |
Their lord having
been tricked into committing suicide by a corrupt elder
court official, a group of 47 samurai who have been forced
to become ronin nurse their anger and outrage, each becoming
the personification of the samurai spirit, until the time
is right to avenge their dead lord's honor. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
|
| Dekigokoro/Passing
fancy (出来ごころ). Ozu
Yasujirō/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo,
1995? (1933). VHS. 100 min. |
A widower, Kihachi,
and his son live in the tenements and he works at a beer
factory. Kihachi falls in love with a waitress, but when
the waitress rejects him, Kihachi becomes an alcoholic.
In Kihachi's alcohol-induced anger, he abuses his son
and his son reacts by destroying Kihachi's valuable bonsai
plants. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.75 D465
1995 |
| Derusu uzara/Dersu
Uzala (デルス・ウザーラ).
Kurosawa Akira. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1998? (1975).
VHS. 140 min. |
In eastern Siberia
in 1902, a native hunter befriends the leader of a Russian
mapping expedition and becomes its guide and primitive
philosopher. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 A3 D468
1998 |
| Donzoko/Lower depths
(どん底). Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1999? (1957). VHS. 125
min. |
The story about
a group of social outcasts living together in a filthy
rooming house, some trying to escape, some attempting
to adjust, and others hoping to maintain their illusions. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 D669
1999 |
| Dōten (動天).
Masuda Toshio/Tōei Bideo Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōei Bideo
Kabushiki Kaisha, 1991. VHS. 122 min. |
The film features
of a merchant's life in the latter days of the Tokugawa
(Bakumatsu) period. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1997 D655 1991 |
| E no naka no boku
no mura (絵の中のぼくの村). Yamagami
Testujiro, Shō Kōshiro; Higashi Yōichi
. Milestone Film & Video; Image Entertainment, 1999?
(1996) DVD. 112 min. |
A nostalgic tale
of twin boys' daily life in a small village of Japan in
1940's. Based on the account of popular children's book
artist, Seizo Tajima, and his twin borther Yukihiko Tajima,
who is also an artist. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 E56
1999 |
| Ējanai ka (ええじゃないか).
Imamura Shōhei/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1998? (1981). VHS. 151 min. |
Set in 1866 on
the eve of Japan's
Meiji Restoration, this story shows how the lower classes
are manipulated by the samurai class until a revolutionary
frenzy is generated with dancing in the streets and chanting
"Êjanai ka!" (literally "What the hell?"
or "Why not?"). |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 H5 E464
1998 |
| Fukushū suru wa
ware ni ari/ Vengeance is mine (復讐するは我にあり).
Imamura Shōhei/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1979). VHS. 140 min. |
Enokizu looks and
talks like the man next door, which is what makes him
so dangerous. He charms strangers and seduces women with
just the right words, robbing them of their secrets first,
their fortunes next, and finally their lives. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 F868
1995 |
| Gionbayashi (祇園囃子).
Mizoguchi Kenji/Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1997? (1953). VHS. 84 min. |
This film tells
the story of two geishas. The passive elderly geisha agrees
to train her young friend, but eventually the younger
woman's romantic vision of her role fades. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 G566
1997 |
| Gojira/Godzilla,
king of the monsters! (ゴジラ). Produced
by Richard Kay and Joseph E. Levine; directed by Ishiro
Honda and Terry O. Morse. Sony Music Entertainment :
Classic Media, 2002 (1956). DVD. 78 min. |
Injured in a disaster
that has destroyed most of Tokyo, foreign correspondent
Steve Martin recounts the events leading up to the catastrophe.
Arriving in Tokyo to visit his friend, Dr. Serizawa, Martin
learns that ships in the vicinity of Oto Island are being
mysteriously destroyed. Martin joins a team of scientists
and security officers who go to Oto to investigate. The
natives insist that a giant creature, Godzilla, is responsible
for the disasters. Martin then joins a scientific expedition,
which witnesses Godzilla rising from the ocean. An apparently
successful mission is undertaken to kill Godzilla using
depth bombs, but Godzilla appears in Tokyo Bay and embarks
upon a destructive rampage across the city. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M335
2000 |
| Hakuchi/Idiot (白痴).
Kurosawa Akira/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1998 (1951). VHS. 166 min. |
Based on Dostoyevsky's
fable of a holy fool, this story takes place in Hokkaido
in the winter. It is about a man who returns home after
a stay in an asylum where he is being drawn toward Christianity,
while his antagonist is an anarchist. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 H3683
1998 |
| Hakuchū no tōrima/Violence
at noon (白昼の通り魔).
Ōshima Nagisa/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1966). VHS. 99 min. |
This is a story
of a brutal rapist and murderer, his protective wife,
and a woman he has previously raped, all of whom live
in a rural commune with a group of Tokyo
intellectuals. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 H3685
1995 |
| Hangyakuji/Conspirator
(反逆児). Itō Daisuke/Tōei Kabushiki
Kaisha. Tōei Kabushiki Kaisha, 1998? (1961). VHS. 110
min. |
A dramatic account
of the Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa's bloody family history,
during which a tragedy occurs in front of the Tsuyama-dono
during the War States period. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 S24 H364
1998 |
| Hateshi naki yokubō/Endless
desire (果しなき欲望).
Imamura Shōhei/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1999 (?). VHS. 101 min. |
In this comedy
of reconciliation between parent and child, a successful
Tokyo businessman
is sympathetic and encouraging when his friend's children
choose not to follow the traditional Japanese arranged
marriage. However, when his own daughter gets engaged
without consulting him, he refuses to attend the wedding. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 H384
1999 |
| Higanbana/Equinox
flower (彼岸花). Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1951?/1958?).
VHS. 118 min. |
In this comedy
of reconciliation between parent and child, a successful
Tokyo businessman
is sympathetic and encouraging when his friend's children
choose not to follow the traditional Japanese arranged
marriage. However, when his own daughter gets engaged
without consulting him, he refuses to attend the wedding. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 H543
1995 |
| Hoshi o tsugumono
(ほしをつぐもの)
Komizu Kazuo. Matsutake Fuji
Kabushiki Kaisha, 1990. VHS. 105 min. |
The film features
57-years old Yoshida Kenji, who after losing consciousness,
dreams about his childhood journey from the temple in
Nagano to
Tokyo with
5 other children. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1997 H67 1990 |
| Hotaru no haka/Grave
of the Fireflies (蛍の墓). Isao Takahata.
Central Park Media, 1988. DVD.
159 min. |
Two orphans in
war-time Kobe, Japan,
face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as
the war and their lives come to an end. |
Memorial MMC rm.
443 |
In process. |
| Ichiban utsukushiku/Most
beautiful (生きものの記録).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? (1944). VHS. 85 min. |
This is a story
of a group of girls who work in a precision optical instruments
factory, making lenses, binoculars, etc., during wartime
in Japan.
This was filmed in a real factory with real workers, which
gives the movie a documentary flavor. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 I453
1998 |
| Ikimono no kiroku/Record
of a living being (生きものの記録).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1999? (1955). VHS. 103 min. |
An elderly and
wealthy industrialist becomes obsessed with a fear of
the atomic bomb. In a futile attempt to save his family,
he pressures them to leave Japan
and move to the rainforest in Brazil
where he believes they will be safe. His family, complacent
and cynical, is outraged and move to have him declared
insane. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 I565
1999 |
| Ikiru/To live (生きる).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1999 (1952). VHS. 143 min. |
The story is about
a very responsible city clerk, who searches for meaning
in his life after discovering he is in the terminal stages
of cancer. Finally, he decides to build a playground for
the children in the slums. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 I558
1999 |
| Inugamike no ichizoku/Inugamike
family (犬神家の一族).
Ichikawa Kon/Kadokawa
Haruki Jimusho. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1998? (1976).
VHS. 150 min. |
This is a detective
story of the "Inugami" family, a pharmaceutic
tycoon who left a large sum of money. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 I686
1998 |
| Jigokumon/Gate
of hell (地獄門). Kinugasa Teinosuke/Daiēi
Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiēi Kabushiki Kaisha, 1996? (1953).
VHS. 89 min. |
A noblewoman disguised
as an empress chooses death before dishonor. A brilliant
tapestry of 12th century Japan. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 S24 J54
1996 |
| Jinruigaku nyūmon/Introduction
to anthropology (人類学入門).
Imamura Shōhei/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998 (1996). VHS. 128 min |
Ogata, a small
time porno filmmaker in Osaka,
lives on the edge of society, struggling to cope with
the corrupt sexual mores in his family, the world outside,
and in himself. He peddles his 8mm loops to condescending
executives and panders a little on the side, believing
he provides a socially valuable service. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 S45 J567
1999 |
| Jōiuchi/Rebellion
(上意討ち). Kobayashi Masaki/Tōhō
Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1999? (1967).
VHS. 128 min. |
During the Edo
period the concubine of the governer falls in love with
a general and bears him a son. A duel then results between
the governer and the general. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 J658
1999 |
| Josei no shōri/Victory
of women (女性の勝利).
Mizoguchi Kenji/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1995? (1946). VHS. 81 min. |
Hiroko Hosokawa,
a female lawyer, agrees to defend her friend, Moto Asakawa,
who accidentally suffocated her child in despair over
her husband's death. The prosecuter is her brother-in-law
who put Hiroko's lover in prison for his political thought.
He demands a five years prison term for the accused for
failing her duties as a mother. In her defense, Hiroko
claims that Moto is the victim of a male dominated feudal
society and cries out for women's liberation. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 W6 J684
1995 |
| Joyū Sumako no
koi/Love of Sumako the Actress (女優須磨子の恋).
Mizoguchi Kenji/Shōchiku Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1947). VHS. 89 min. |
Film biography
of actress Matsui Sumako. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN2928 M388 J69
1995 |
| Kagemusha (影武者).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1980. VHS. 179 min. |
This is a sixteenth
century epic tale of a Japanese peasant who impersonates
a nobleman in battle. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 S24 K333
1980 |
| Kakushi toride
no san akunin/Hidden fortress (隠し砦の三悪人).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? (1958). VHS. 139 min. |
The headstrong
Princess Yukihime is under the protection of a brave and
resourceful samurai, General Rokurota. They are pursued
by enemies of her clan bent on capturing the family war
fund of gold bars. The gold is hidden but is discovered
by two cowardly, opportunistic samurai, Tahei and Matashichi.
Rokuroto surprises them in their thievery and forces them
into serving the princess in her dangerous and eventful
journey to safety. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 S24 K368
1998 |
| Karigane/Mistress,
Wild Geese/(雁). Shiro Toyoda; Yuji Hirao, Kenji
Kuroiwa/Daiei Film Productions. Embassy Home Entertainment,
1986 (1959). VHS. 106 min. |
A woman discovers
that the man she was married to was already married and
that she is no more than his mistress. The film explores
the conflict between the demands of society and individual
freedom. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M58
1986 |
| Karumen kokyō ni
kaeru/Carmen comes home (カルメン故郷に帰る).
Kinoshita Keisuke/Shōchiku Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1998? (1951). VHS. 86 min. |
Japan's
first full color film follows the return of a well known
Asakusa music hall stripper by the name of Lilly Carmen
to her home town in Karuizawa. Accompanied by two other
performers, they create a sensation in the quite village
with their flamboyant clothes and manners. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 K378
1998 |
| Kaze no naka no
mendori/Hen in the wind (風の中の牝鶏).
Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1948). VHS. 84 min. |
Tokiko is a young
wife who struggles to make a living with her small son
while her husband is in service overseas. She needs money
desperately when her child becomes ill and needs to go
to the hospital. Tokiko decides to spend the night with
a stranger in order to earn some of money for the expenses.
Her husband is furious after finding this out, but finally
he understands the situation and remains with the family. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 K394
1995 |
| Kazoku/Family (家族).
Yamada Yōji/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1970). VHS. 107 min. |
When their mine
goes bankrupt, Seiichi moves his family to Hokkaido
to start a new life on a farm. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F35 K396
1995 |
| Kazoku gēmu/Family
game (家族ゲーム). Morita
Yoshimitsu/Tōwa Bideo Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōwa Bideo Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1996 (1983). VHS. 106 min. |
A film that pokes
fun at contemporary Japanese ideals, portraying a middle-class
family as it battles against the Japanese educational
system. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 C55 K396
1996 |
| Kizzu ritān/Kids
return (キッズ・リターン).
Kitano Takeshi/Bandai Bijuaru Kabushiki. Bandai Bijuaru
Kabushiki, 1998? (1996). VHS. 108 min. |
"Masaru and
Shinji are two delinquent teenage slackers who cut classes,
play pranks on their teachers and extort money from their
fellow students. With few prospects for the future, the
two drop out of school. Shinji, the shy one of the pair
shows a real flair for boxing. Masura, the loud mouth,
talks his way into the local Yakuza gang. But just as
they're about to attain success in their new professions,
the past returns to haunt them." |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 J67 K599
1996 |
| Kumonosu-jō/Throne
of blood (蜘蛛巣城). Kurosawa
Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1999?
(1957). VHS. 110 min. |
An adaptation of
Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan.
Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master
and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 K866
1999 |
| Maboroshi no hikari/Maboroshi
(幻の光). Koreeda Hirokazu/TV Man Union.
New Yorker Video, c2000 (1995). DVD. 110 min. |
Haunted by the
mysterious loss of her grandmother many years before,
a beautiful young mother (Makiko Esumi as Yumiko) struggles
to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband.
Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new
husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed
Sea of Japan. There, with time, she awakens to find love,
understanding, happiness and a sense of peace. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M335
2000 |
| Marusa no onna/Taxing
woman. (マルサの女). Jūzō
Itami/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1988
(1987). VHS. 127 min. |
Comedy about a
tireless, single-minded investigator for the Japanese
Revenue Service, and her confrontation with a businessman
who thinks he knows all the angles when it comes to cheating
the government. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 C66 M378
1987 |
| Mikan no taikyoku/Go
Masters (未完の対局). Duan
Ji-Shun & Junya Sato/Toko Tokuma Co., Ltd. & Beijing
Film Studio. Sony, 1988 (1982). VHS. 134 min. |
A Chinese father
allows his son to be adopted by a Japanese master of the
game Go, so that his talented son may train at the master's
academy. The story also tells a poignant story of love,
loyalty and destiny, pitting personal pride against national
power. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M553
1988 |
| Miyamoto Musashi
(宮本武蔵). Uchida Tomu/Tōei
Bideo Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōei Bideo Kabushiki Kaisha,
1997 (1962). VHS. 570 min. |
A dramatization
of the life of Japan's most famous samurai warrior, Miyamoto
Musashi, from the time he left his village to go to war,
through his perfection of the art of swordsmanship, to
his final confrontation with a lifelong rival, Sasaki
Ganryû. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M593
1997 |
| Musuko/My sons
(息子). Yamada Yōji/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.
Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha Bideo Jigyōbu, 1994? (1991).
VHS. 212 min. |
A story about the
relationship between a father and a son, a handicap overcome
by love, and how they find real happiness. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M888
1994 |
| Musuko yo/My son!
My son! (息子よ). Kinoshita Keisuke/Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1979).
VHS. 130 min. |
A story about how
parents are filled with despair after unexpectedly learning
that their beloved son is being tried as a murderer. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M8888
1995 |
| Nagaya shinshiroku/Record
of a tenement gentleman (長屋紳士録).
Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1947). VHS. 72 min. |
After Tamoto meets
the orphan, Yukihei, he takes the boy home to provide
him with loving care. The story reflects the way some
members of Japanese society took care of others after
the second World War. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.95 F67 N343
1995 |
| Naniwa ereji/Osaka
elegy (浪華悲歌). Mizoguchi Kenji.
Public Media Home Vision, 1988? (1936). VHS. 71 min.
|
Ayako lives in
Osaka, a city whose men are notorious for their greed
and spinelessness. In Osaka, money talks, men whine and
the women do the dirty work. Ayako finds the out the hard
way. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1997 O824 1988 |
| Nianchan/My second
brother (にあんちゃん).
Imamura Shōhei/Kabushiki Kaisha Nikkatsu. Kabushiki Kaisha
Nikkatsu, 1998 (1959). VHS. 101 min. |
This story is based
on the diary of a 10-year-old girl who, despite her parent's
death and struggle against poverty, finds strength and
hope in their lives. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 N636
1998 |
| Nihon no higeki/Japanese
tragedy (日本の悲劇). Kinoshita
Keisuke/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo,
1995? (1953). VHS. 116 min. |
This is a story
about how a widow, whose husband was a victim of the World
War II, struggles to raise two children and survive the
difficulties after the war. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 N545
1995 |
| Nihon no yoru to
kiri/Night and Fog in Japan
(日本の夜と霧). Ōshima
Nagisa/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo,
1995? (1960). VHS. 107 min. |
In 1950, a demonstration
against the Japan-United States Security Treaty (Anpo)
by student movement activists dramatically impacts a friend's
wedding ceremony and turns into a case of murder. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 N546
1995 |
| Nijūshi no hitomi/Twenty-four
eyes (二十四の瞳). Japan
Society, 1990. VHS. 155 min. |
|
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 C4 C456
1990 |
| Ningen no jōken/Human
condition (人間の條件).
Kobayashi Masaki/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo,
1995? (1959). VHS. 391 min. |
An epic chronicle
of one man's struggle to remain human as he descends into
the hypnotic, distorted reality of war. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 N565
1995 |
| Nora inu/Stray
dog (野良犬). Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1999? (1949). VHS. 122
min. |
Set in Tokyo
during the late 1940's, the film captures the chaos and
humiliation widely felt in Japan
immediately after World War II. When detective Murakami
loses his revolver he must descend into Tokyo's
underworld and face the killer who has taken it. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F6 N683
1999 |
| Nusumareta yokujō/Stolen
desire (盗まれた欲情).
Imamura Shōhei/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1999 (1958). VHS. 92 min. |
|
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 N88
1999 |
| Ochazuke no aji/Tea
and Rice (お茶漬の味).
Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1952). VHS. 115 min. |
This story is about
the love between a husband and wife in a mid-life crisis
and how they deal with their problems with wit and wisdom. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 O439
1995 |
| Ohayō/Good morning
(おはよう). Japan
Society, 1990. VHS. 94 min. |
|
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 C4 C456
1990 |
| Ōedo gonin otoko
/Five men of Edo (大江戸五人男).
Itō Daisuke/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1951). VHS. 133 min. |
The story of a
brave and courageous businessman who fights against villains
during the Tokugawa period. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 S24 O446
1995 |
| Okaasan /Mother(おかあさん).
Mikio Naruse/Toho International Co., Ltd.; Shintoho Co.,
Ltd. Sony, 1988 (1952). VHS. 98 min. |
A portrait of one
family, the Fukuharas, whose struggles reflect the hardships
faced by many working class families in Japan
in the postwar era. The story is told through the eyes
of the oldest daughter. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 O633
1988 |
| Ōshō (王将).
Itō Daisuke/Tōei Bideo Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōei Bideo Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1995? (1962) VHS. 92 min. |
This is about the
dramatic life of Sakada Sankichi, the famous "Go"
[Japanese chess] player between the Meiji and Taishô periods. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 O846
1995 |
| Oyūsama/Lady Oyu
(お遊さま). Mizoguchi Kenji/Daiei
Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha, 1951. VHS.
95 min. |
This is a tragic
story which reflects the social life and customs of Japanese
society. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 F67 O898
1951 |
| Ran (乱).
Kurosawa Akira/AAA, acteurs auteurs associés and Revcom
Films. Fox Lorber Home Video, 1998 (1985). DVD. 160
min. |
Set in 16th century
Japan,
an aging ruler, Lord Hidetora attempts to peacefully divide
his kingdom among his three sons. Instead they turn against
each other and betray their father. It drives the father
insane, shatters his kingdom, and destroys his family. |
MMC Memorial
Room
443 |
PN1995.9 H5 R362
1999 |
| Ran (乱).
Kurosawa Akira/CBS/Fox Company, Greenwich Film Production,
Herald Ace Inc, Nippon Herald Films Inc. CBS/Fox Video,
1986 (1985). VHS. 160 min. |
Set in 16th century
Japan,
an aging ruler, Lord Hidetora attempts to peacefully divide
his kingdom among his three sons. Instead they turn against
each other and betray their father. It drives the father
insane, shatters his kingdom, and destroys his family. |
Learning Support
Services 259 Van Hise |
JA2.026 |
| Rashōmon (羅生門).
Kurosawa Akira/Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Tokuma Japan
Komyunikēshonzu, 1995? (1950). VHS. 87 min. |
Four people report
differing views of what actually happened during the murder
of a gentleman in feudal Japan
and the seduction of his wife. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 R374
1995 |
| Rashōmon (羅生門).
Kurosawa Akira/RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; Janus Films.
Public Media Home Vision, 1993? (1950). VHS. 83 min. |
Four people report
differing views of what actually happened during the murder
of a gentleman in feudal Japan
and the seduction of his wife. |
Law Library Circulation
Desk |
Film Video Collection |
| Rikisha-man (りきしゃまん).
Inagaki Hiroshi/Tōhō Co., Ltd. Video Action, 1986 (1958).
VHS. 105 min. |
A tragic melodrama
about a rickshaw puller who helps raise a young boy after
his father dies, and who loves the boy's mother from afar. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 R56
1986 |
| Sanma no aji/Autumn
afternoon (秋刀魚の味).
Ozu Yasujirō. New Yorker Video, 1991 (1962). VHS. 112
min. In Japanese with English subtitles. |
"This serenely
beautiful film tells the timeless, moving tale of a father
giving up his only daughter in marriage." |
Learning Support
Services 259 Van Hise |
JA2.027 |
| Sanshō dayū (山椒大夫).
Mizoguchi Kenji/Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? (1954). VHS. 128 min. |
Two children set
off with their mother to find their father, a noble banished
for protecting farmers. Their guide separates them and
sells the children as slaves to Sansho, a tyrant. After
years, they escape. The daughter commits suicide; the
son becomes a great lord, displaces Sansho, and sets out
to find his mother. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 S24 S368
1998 |
| Sasameyuki/Makioka
sisters (細雪). Ichikawa
Kon/Toho Eiga Production. Toho Co. Ltd., 1983. VHS.
140 min. |
In 1938, four daughters
of an old merchant family unknowingly face the end of
a gentler way of life in Osaka. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 M365
1983 |
| Seishun zankoku
monogatari/Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語).
Ōshima Nagisa/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1998? (1960). VHS. 96 min. |
A teenage girl
and her criminal boyfriend perform sexual shakedowns on
well-to-do middle-aged men. This story portrays the disillusionment
of the young generation in Japan
following World War II. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S43
1998 |
| Sensō to ningen.
Dai 1-bu: Unmei no jokyoku/Men and war, Part I (戦争と人間第一部運命と序曲).
Kinoshita Keisuke/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu
Kabushiki Kaisha, 1993 (1951). VHS. 200 min. |
This is the story
of the connection between the governing official of a
colonial area who has to deal with the corrupt business
of the gambling tycoons, the Godai family, in Manchuria
during the early Showa period. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 W3 S468
1993 |
| Sensō to ningen.
Dai 2-bu: ai to kanashimi no sanga/Men and war, Part II
(戦争と人間第二部愛と悲しみの山河)
Kinoshita Keisuke/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu
Kabushiki Kaisha, 1993 (1951). VHS. 200 min. |
This is the story
of the connection between the governing official of a
colonial area who has to deal with the corrupt business
of the gambling tycoons, the Godai family, in Manchuria
during the early Showa period. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 W3 S468
1993 |
| Sensō to ningen.
Kanketsuhen/Men and War, Part III (戦争と人間完結篇).
Yamamoto Satsuo/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1993 (1973). VHS. 201 min. |
This is a historical
narrative of the Sino-Japanese War, focusing on the Japan-Russia
conflict in the northern part of China
near the border of Manchuria area
in 1939. The story concerns Godai Toshisuke, a gambling
tycoon, who is involved with the war and later becomes
a prisoner. It also reveals the backlash of the Japanese
army due to the enemy's cruelty. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 W3 S4683
1993 |
| Seppuku (切腹).
Kobayashi Masaki/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1998? (1962). VHS. 136 min. |
In this violent
yet poetic masterpiece, Masaki Kobayashi exposes the harsh
code of the 17th century samurai; during war, the samurai
thrives on killing, but in peacetime, it is his turn to
die. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 S24 S477
1998 |
| Shall we dansu?
(Shall we ダンス). Suō Masayuki/Arutamira
Pikuchāzu. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1995. VHS. 136 min. |
Shohei is a typical
Tokyo "salary
man" who has a nice family with cozy house in a suburban
area, but he does not enjoy life. One evening after work
he sees a lovely dancing instructor from the train and
wants to add some excitement and glamor to his routine
life. ... An entertaining bitter-sweet comedy about a
man's mid-life crisis. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 C66 S5436
1995 |
| Shiawase no kiiroi
hankachi (幸福の黄色いハンカチ).
Yamada Yji/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1995? (1977). VHS. 108 min. |
A widowed woman
and her young boy living on a dairy farm in Hokkaido
are visited by a strong, handsome man who adds a new perspective
to their lives. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S438
1995 |
| Shichinin no samurai/Seven
samurai (七人の侍). Kurosawa
Akira/Toho Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, (1954).
VHS. 207 min. |
A 16th century
Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off
bandits. An example of the jidai-geki or period piece.
|
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 S24 S4535
1954 |
| Shiko funjatta/Sumo
do, sumo don't (シコふんじゃった).
Suō Masayuki/Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha,
1992. VHS. 103 min. |
A comedy about
a group of students in a sumo club. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 C55 S456
1992 |
| Shinjū ten no amijima/Double
suicide (心中天網島). Masahiro
Shinoda/ Hyogensha/Nippon Art Theater Guild. ,
1989? (1969). VHS. 105 min. |
A beautiful treatment
of an ill-fated love affair between a prostitute and a
merchant in the style of a Bunraku play. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 Lost |
PN1997.85 J33 1989 |
| Shinjū ten no amijima/Double
suicide (心中天の網島). Masahiro Shinoda/ Hyogensha/Nippon Art Theater
Guild. Criterion
Collection, 2000 (1969). DVD. 105 min. |
In this stylized
dramatization of the puppet theater play, Jihei abandons
business, family and self respect for a passionate love
affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As
the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course
of action to be death together with the lover he is unable
to obtain in life. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 Lost |
PN1995.9 F67 S45
2000 |
| Shinobi no mono/Band
of assasins (忍びの者). Yamamoto
Satsuo/Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha,
1995? (1962). VHS. 105 min. |
The story of the
Iga clan's struggle to defend themselves and several esoteric
Buddhist sects from mass genocidal purges by a sadistic
warlord. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S457
1995 |
| Shiroi kyotō (白い巨塔).
Yamamoto Satsuo/ Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1966. VHS. 95 min. |
A story of how
medical professors use their professional judgement in
the Osaka Naniwa Daigaku Igakubu. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S457
1966 |
| Shitamachi no taiyō
(下町の太陽). Yamada Yōji/Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1996? (1963).
VHS. 86 min. |
Machiko, a young
working class woman, works at a factory to support her
family. Even though she is poor, she has a boyfriend and
lives each day cheerfully. When another man falls in love
with her and asks her to marry him, Machiko must choose
whether to follow him or be independent and find her own
happiness. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 W6 S458
1996 |
| Shizukanaru kettō/Silent
Duel (静かなる決闘).
Kurosawa Akira/Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha. Tokuma Japan
Komyūnikēishionzu, 1999? (1949). VHS. 94 min.
|
A young army doctor
accidentally contracts venereal disease through open cuts
on his hand. When he returns after the war, his shame
causes him to leave the girl who has waited for him for
six years. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S459
1999 |
| Shōnenki (少年期).
Kinoshita Keisuke/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1951). VHS. 110 min. |
The youngster,
Katsurô, describes in his diary the way his family
overcomes hardships on the eve of the Pacific war.
|
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S466
1995 |
| Shukujo wa nani
o wasuretaka /What did the lady forget? (淑女は何を忘れたか).
Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku
Hômu Bideo, 1995? (1937). VHS. 71 min. |
|
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S58
1995 |
| Sonachine (ソナチネ).
Kitano Takeshi/Shōchiku Daiichi Kōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Bandai Bijoaru Kabushiki Kaisha, 1995? (1993). VHS.
93 min. |
A seasoned mobster,
Marukawa, goes to the island
of Okinawa
on a "peacekeeping" mission, even though he
suspects his boss is secretly trying to eliminate him.
Determined not to go down without a fight, he and his
gang know exactly what they have to do. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S634
1995 |
| Subarashiki nichiyōbi/One
wonderful Sunday (素晴らしき日曜日).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? (1947). VHS. 108 min. |
A young factory
worker and his fiancee spend their weekly holiday together.
It is a Sunday in spring and they have just thirty-five
yen, but together they overcome several near disasters. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S833
1998 |
| Sugata Sanshirō/Sanshiro
Sugata : the judo saga (姿三四郎).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, (1943). VHS. 161 min. |
A story of a handsome
bumptious young man who wishes to learn judo as a path
to philosophical knowledge, rather than a mere set of
self-defense techniques. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S8638
1943 |
| Suna no onna/Woman
in the dunes(砂の女). Eishin, Teshigahara Hiroshi. Image Entertainment,
c1999 (1964). DVD. 127 min. |
An amateur biologist
escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in
remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus, he accepts
a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack
at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds
he is trapped. At first enraged, the man's hatred for
the woman soon turns to searing, erotic lust. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 S863
1999 |
| Tanin no kao/Face
of another (他人の顔). Hiroshi
Teshigahara/ Teshigahara Productions. Japan
Society, 1989? (1960). VHS. 124 min. |
An examination
of the themes of alienation and loss of identity in contemporary
Japanese society. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1997.85 J33 1989 |
| Tampopo (タンポポ).
Itami Juzo, Itami Productions/Republic Pictures. Republic
Pictures Home Video, 1988 (1987). VHS. 114 min. |
Tampopo follows
the life of a young widow (Nobuko Miyamoto) who runs a
small noodle restaurant in Tokyo
and her quest to make the perfect bowl of ramen. Helping
her to attain top ramen status is Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki),
the truck driver who at first criticizes Tampopo's cooking
ability and then helps her to master it. |
Learning Support
Services 259 Van Hise |
JA2.025 |
| Tengoku to jigoku/High
and low (天国と地獄). Kurosawa
Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1999?
(1963). VHS. 143 min. |
A complex crime
thriller in which the son of the chauffeur for a wealthy
shoe manufacturer is kidnapped by mistake, and the kidnapper
faces a moral dilemma. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 D4 T464
1999 |
| Tenkū no shiro
rapyuta/Laputa: the castle in the skies (ラピュータ天空の城).
Miyazaki Hayao; Hara Tooru, Sutajiro Jiburi. Buena Vista
Japan, Ltd, 1998? (1986). VHS. 124 min. |
|
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 T46
1998 |
| Tōkyō boshoku/Tokyo
twilight (東京暮色). Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1957).
VHS. 140 min. |
Shûkichi
raised two daughters after his wife eloped with her lover
20 years ago. Shûkichi's elder daughter has already
married. Now his second daughter, Akiko, is getting old
and is still unmarried. The story is about how Akiko finally
meets her real mother. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 T669
1995 |
| Tōkyō monogatari/Tokyo
story (東京物語). Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1993? (1963).
VHS. 135 min. |
An elderly couple
visit their grown-up children in Tokyo,
but find themselves a burden to the family. The mother
dies after returning home and leaves the father to face
the future alone. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F35 T669
1993 |
| Tōkyō no yado/Inn
in Tokyo (東京の宿). Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1998? (1936).
VHS. 80 min. |
Kihachi, an unemployed
ironworker, does his best to care for his two sons as
he looks for work in the industrial section of Tokyo.
One evening he meets Otaka and her young daughter, Kuniko.
Both families become friends and try to help each other
through the hard times of depression era Japan. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.75 T669
1998 |
| Tora no o o fumu
otokotachi/Men who tread on the tiger's tail (虎の尾を踏む男達).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? (1945). VHS. 110 min. |
A new version of
an historical incident, involving the escape of a young
lord from his would-be assassins, made famous by both
Nô and Kabuki theatres. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 T673
1998 |
| Ugetsu (雨月物語).
Mizoguchi Kenji/Daiei Motion Picture Company. Voyager
Company, 1986 (1953). VHS. 96 min. |
Two peasants in
war-torn 16th-century Japan
abandon their families to seek their fortunes. In attaining
his goal, each man destroys his own life. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 U44
1986 |
| Ukigusa/ Floating
Weeds (浮草). Ozu Yasujirō/Daiei Kabushiki
Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha, 1995? (1959). VHS.
119 min. |
A traveling troupe
of actors visits a small town, and the chief actor renews
his contact with a woman who bore him a son years ago.
The son thinks his father is dead, and falls in love with
one of the actresses, his father's current mistress. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 U564
1995 |
| Umarete wa mita
keredo/I was born but . (生れてはみたたけれど).
Ozu Yasujirō/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1993? (1932). VHS. 91 min. |
A young father's
promotion brings his family to his boss's neighborhood
in the suburbs. But the move is not rewarding to his sons
who are bullied by neighborhood ruffians and feel humiliated
by their father's public submission to his boss. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.75 U638
1993 |
| Unagi/Eel (うなぎ).
Imamura Shōhei/Keiesuisu. Keiesuisu, 1998? VHS. 117
min. |
Yamashita's quiet
country life fatally changed when he found out about his
wife's affair and killed her instantly. On parole after
eight years in prison, he returns to his sleepy hometown
to open a small barber shop. An eel was the only one he
could trust and feel comfortable with, until he accidentally
helped the life of a strange young woman, Keiko, who was
attempting suicide. An odd love story of a reformed wife-killer
and a troubled runaway, with a lot of twists. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 U635
1998 |
| Uta andon/Lantern
(歌行燈). Kinugasa Teinosuke/Daiēi
Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiēi Kabushiki Kaisha, 1995?
(1960). VHS. 114 min. |
A cocky young Yokyoku
artist is enraged by a criticism of his master's performance
and is disowned by his master for his unworthy behavior.
He then begins a long journey to win back his master's
permission to perform Yokyoku. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1959.9 F67 U83
1995 |
| Utamaro o meguru
gonin no onna/Five Women Around Utamaro (歌麿をめぐる五人の女).
Mizoguchi Kenji/Shōchiku Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha. Shōchiku
Hômu Bideo, (1946). VHS. 95 min. |
Director Mizoguchi
depicts the life of the Ukiyoe artist Utamaro and the
relationships he had with five different women. Provides
insight into the life and culture of the Edo
period. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 U8836
1946 |
| Uwasa no onna/Woman
in the Rumor (噂の女). Mizoguchi Kenji/Daiei
Kabushiki Kaisha. Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha, 1995? (1964).
VHS. 84 min. |
This is a story
of the suicide of a jealous mother's heart-broken son
and the real reason behind the tragedy. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 S24 U838
1995 |
| Waga seishun ni
kuinashi/No regrets for our youth (わが青春に悔なし).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? (1946). VHS. 110 min. |
An epic drama of
feminist self-discovery set against the unlikely backdrop
of militarist Japanese society. An idealistic young woman
moves in with one of her father's students, a rebel who
is executed as a spy. Renouncing society, she takes his
ashes to the farming village of his parents, and remains
there, working the land. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 W343
1998 |
| Wandafuru raifu/Wonderful
life (or After Life) (ワンダフルライフ).
Kore-eda Hirokazu/ TV Man Union, Inc., Engine Film, Inc.
New Yorker Video, 2000 (1998). DVD. 118 min. |
In Kore-eda's thought-provoking
vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station
somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated
caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one
cherished memory from their life that they will relive
for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness
and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event
is no simple task. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 W36
2000 |
| Warui yatsu hodo
yoku nemuru/The bad sleep well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? (1960). VHS. 151 min. |
Features a grieving
son who seeks revenge for his father's murder as he infiltrates
the corrupt construction company that was responsible
for his father's death. The grieving son marries the daughter
of the company's president and when he falls in love with
his wife, his plans for revenge falls apart. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 W388
1998 |
| Watashi wa nisai/Being
two isn't easy (私は二歳). Japan
Society, 1990 (1962). VHS. 88 min. |
Describes how a
young middle-class couple struggles to raise their infant
son. The story is told from the baby's point of view. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 C4 C456
1990 |
| Yoidore tenshi/Drunken
angel (醉いどれ天使).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1999? (1948). VHS. 98 min. |
The story of how
a physician, who was brought up in the ashes of a poor
area in Tokyo after World War II, tries to be a healer
in a world of hoodlums. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 G3 Y654
1999 |
| Yōjinbō/Bodyguard(用心棒).
Kurosawa Akira/Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōhō Kabushiki
Kaisha, 1998? VHS. 110 min. |
In the year 1860,
a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two
clans fighting for control of a small town to his own
advantage. This is a satire of greed, violence, paranoia
and human weakness. Toshirô Mifune plays the wandering
samurai who becomes embroiled in the small town's feud
and orchestrates the town's self-destruction. A humorous
parody of a classic western. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 S24 Y6556
1998 |
| Yorokobi mo kanashimi
mo ikutoshitsuki/Years of joy and sorrow (喜びも悲しみも幾歳月).
Kinoshita Keisuke/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1957). VHS. 160 min. |
A story of a couple
who spend the 25 years after their wedding in a light
house on the sea coast. Vividly describes their stressful
daily life in the period after Japan
started war with the United
States, the year after
their marriage. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 Y686
1995 |
| Yoru no onnatachi/Women
of the night (夜の女たち).
Mizoguchi Kenji/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1948). VHS. 73 min. |
This is a realistic
drama about the brutal world of prostitutes, drug dealers
and female street gangs in the city of Osaka
after the Second World War. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 P67 Y688
1995 |
| Yoru no tsuzumi/Night
Drum (夜の鼓). Imamura Shōhei /Shōchiku
Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1958).
VHS. 97 min. |
|
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 Y6783
1995 |
| Yukiguni/Snow Country
(雪国). Shiro Toyoda/Tōhō Co. Japan
Society, 1989? (1957). VHS. 134 min. |
Adapted from Nobel
prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata's story of love between
a Tokyo writer,
a beautiful geisha and her stepsister set in a hot-spring
resort high in the snowy mountains. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1997.85 J33 1989 |
| Yukinojō henge/Actor's
Revenge (雪之丞変化). Kinugasa
Teinosuke/Shōchiku Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku
Hōmu Bideo, 1995? (1935). VHS. 97 min. |
Hasegawa Kazuo,
appearing in this film under the name Hayashi Jirô,
plays three roles; Yukinojô, Yamitarô, and
the mother of Yukinojô. In his role as a kabuki
actor he plots revenge against the men who caused the
painful and tragic death of his parents. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 Y886
1995 |
| Yume/Dreams (夢).
Kurosawa Akira. Warner Home Video, 1991. VHS. 120 min.
|
Eight episodes
exploring the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power
and humankind's need to harmonize with nature |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 J34 Y8964
1991 |
| Yūyake gumo/Flaming
Sunset (夕やけ雲). Kinoshita
Keisuke/Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. SHV Shōchiku Hōmu
Bideo, 1996? (1953). VHS. 77 min. |
The story is about
how the elder son of a fish store and his family face
the difficulties of life. |
MMC Memorial
Room 443 |
PN1995.9 F67 Y893
1996 |
