Toshirō Mayuzumi
Series
Criterion collection volume 84
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Satiric comedy in which two young brothers refuse to talk until their parents agree to buy them a television set. Set in a 1950s residential suburb of Tokyo.
Series
Criterion collection volume 207
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Description
A small time porno filmmaker in Osaka, struggles to cope with the corrupt sexual mores in his family, the world outside, and in himself. He peddles his films to condescending executives and panders a little on the side, believing he provides a socially valuable service.
Series
Criterion collection volume 84
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
"A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning Technicolor...
Series
Criterion collection volume 155
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all...
Series
Criterion collection volume 474
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[©2009], ©1964.
Language
English
Description
Sadako is a typical Imamura heroine: one who revels in the pleasures of food, labor, sex, and self-preservation. Carrying the burden of her status as a lowly, poor, prostitute-birthed commoner wife, Sadako is subjected to an escalating series of belittlement both at home and in society.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
A collection of five films by Japanese director Koreyoshi Kurahara.
Intimidation: Sinister blackmail, a daring heist, and two bank coworkers at odds; Kurahara's noir seethes with tension.
The warped ones: Akira, possibly the most reckless youth in film history, tears up Tokyo in this frenetically shot and edited jazz-scored trip to hell.
I hate but love: Tired of life in the public eye, a celebrity leaves the city for a faraway village, but the...