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1) Bean Cake
Language
日本語
Description
The year is 1933 and a young boy in Tokyo named Uchido has recently moved from the country and attends his first day of school. The class is run in a traditional and strict manner that is designed to teach the children to conform to a strict code of social behavior that includes expressing loyalty to the Emperor. Uchido runs afoul of this intention when he answers the teacher’s question by expressing his love for bean cakes instead of the emperor....
2) Obon
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日本語
Description
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko's childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan's subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima's ruins. Official...
3) Whole
Language
日本語
Description
Haruki, a biracial student decides to quit college and travel to Japan to better understand his Japanese roots. Upon arrival Haruki experiences racial adversity and struggles to connect with his parents, however, one day Haruki meets a guy named Makoto; a construction worker raised in the projects of Kansai who is also biracial. Although Haruki and Makoto are complete opposites in terms of personality and socioeconomic-status, they quickly form a...
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日本語
Description
"A thrilling collection of stories exploring heroism in everyday life. Two crab siblings must survive underwater perils to reunite with their parents, a young boy and his mother learn to live with a life-changing allergy, and a man struggles with his fading existence, in this action-packed and beautifully-animated anthology, brought to life by some of the greatest talents working in Japanese animation today"--Container.
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日本語
Description
Momotarō, umi no shinpei: This film, Japan's first feature-length animated film that set the stage for the rise of anime, was a propaganda piece ordered by the Japanese Naval Ministry during World War II made to show the Japanese public how the Japanese military had achieved such decisive victories in the South Pacific. It tells the story of young Japanese boys -- a bear cub, a monkey, a pheasant, and a puppy -- from their school days to their joining...
8) Hospitalité
Series
Language
日本語
Description
Hospitalité : Mikio Kobayashi lives quietly with his wife, daughter, and divorced sister in downtown Tokyo, where xenophobic neighbors insist they attend community watch meetings, and the only recent excitement is the disappearance of a pet parrot. One day Kagawa appears, claiming to be the son of a financier who once helped Kobayashi's company. Kagawa soon ingratiates himself as a live-in employee and proceeds to comically turn the Kobayashi's monotonous...
Language
日本語
Description
Mao-chan is a second grader whose grandfather is the Chief of Staff of the Ground Defense Force. She has been trained to become a valuable member of the force since she was born. When she turns eight, she, together with her friends, form the Elementary School Defense Team. They protect the land, the sea and the skies. These pint-sized girls do their best to protect Japan from "cute" alien invaders.
10) Otaku no video
Language
日本語
Description
A thinly fictionalized history of the Gainax anime studio filled with in-jokes for devoted fans of Japanese animation and mangas. Also includes interviews with adult fans.
11) Sagiri no kuni
Language
日本語
Description
Set in Kyushu during the Meiji era, a blind girl, named Takiri, and the blind monster from a nearby lake, named Nebula, fight against greedy developers who threaten to take over her family's land. Using an all puppet human cast and a fantastic monster suit, it offers a new aesthetic in the world of kaiju films.
Series
Language
日本語
Description
"Teshigahara and Abe" is about the collaboration between director Hiroshi Teshigahara and author/screenwriter Kōbō Abe, which includes exclusive video interviews with film programmer and professor Richard Peña, Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, set designer Arata Isozaki, screenwriter John Nathan, and producer Noriko Nomura ; "Hokusai" explores the work of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai ; "Ikebana" is a documentary about...
Series
Criterion collection volume 433
Language
日本語
Description
Depicts the ritual suicide of a naval officer in both Japanese (27 min.) and English (29 min.) versions. Bonus features include an 49-minute audio recording of Mishima at the Foreign Correspondent's Association of Japan, a 50-minute making-of documentary, interview excerpts featuring Mishima discussing World War II and death.
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日本語
Description
In modern day Kyoto, young Daijiro Kyogoku has finally taken over his family's traditional Japanese sweets shop. One day at the shop, Daijiro comes across a mysterious giant candy-making robot named Doamygar-D hidden in the shop's basement. This robot is a master of treats, and along with Daijiro, they make the perfect dessert crafting pair.
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日本語
Description
When aliens suddenly invade the world, Earth seems to be fighting a losing battle until Arikawa, one of the defense command staff, accidentally discovers a young man lying on a hill. Tests soon prove the impossible: this one teenager, Kakashi, has the power to defeat the attackers! Unfortunately, Kakashi has also lost his memory, and with it the knowledge of how to actually use his power.
Language
日本語
Description
Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades him to live in the old apartment ₁Chikuseisou₂ where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter Hakone Ekiden Marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. He soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices.
Series
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日本語
Description
Funeral parade of roses is a headlong dive into the dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. Hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet, ignites a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda.
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