Tetsurō Tanba
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Home Vision Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A disaster in space pushes humankind toward World War 3, and only James Bond can prevent it. Agent 007 travels to Japan to stop the Evil Spectre organization and its leader from instigating global warfare from his giant headquarters inside of an active volcano.
3) Kwaidan
Series
Criterion collection volume 90
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...