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Ugetsu - Criterion Collection 1954

Mothra vs. Godzilla 1964

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Rashomon - Criterion Collection 1951

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Afraid to Die (1960)
Starring:	Yukio Mishima, Ayako Wakao, Keizo Kawasaki, Eiji Funakoshi, Takashi Shimura
Director:	Yasuzo Masumura
Synopsis:	Legendary notorious Japanese novelist and cultural icon Yukio Mishima makes a rare screen appearance as Takeo, a young yakuza who reluctantly leaves prison to re-enter…

Currently 0.00/10

Studio: Fantoma
Release Date: 05/04/2004

Attack From Space (1965)
Starring:	Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, Junko Ikeuchi, Minako Yamada, Akira Tamura
Director:	Akira Mitsuwa, Teruo Ishii, Koreyoshi Akasaka
Synopsis:	Benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman…

Currently 0.00/10

$6.99

Studio: Alpha Video
Release Date: 03/23/2004

Battle in Outer Space (1959) This DVD is disc 3 of 3 in "Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection"
Starring:	Ryo Ikebe, Kyoko Anzai, Koreya Senda, Minoru Takada, Harold Conway
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	A series of mysterious catastrophes sweep the globe, causing the world's scientists to conclude that beings from another planet are attacking earth. Two earth space…

Currently 8.00/10

Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 08/18/2009

The Burmese Harp - Criterion Collection (1956)
Starring:	KÃ´ Nishimura, Rentaro Mikuni, Jun Hamamura, Eiji Nakamura, Hiroshi Tsuchikata
Director:	Kon Ichikawa
Synopsis:	An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close World War II and finds harmony through song. A corporal, thought to be dead,…

Currently 8.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 03/13/2007

Drunken Angel - Criterion Collection (1948)
Starring:	Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tuberculosis-infected criminal who strikes up…

Currently 8.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 11/27/2007

Early Spring (1956) This DVD is disc 1 of 5 in "Late Ozu"
Starring:	Chikage Awashima, Takako Fujino, Ryo Ikebe, Daisuke KatÃ´, Keiko Kishi
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	In his first film after the commercial and critical success of Tokyo Story, Ozu examines life in postwar Japan through the eyes of a young salaryman, dissatisfied…

Currently 8.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 06/12/2007

The End of Summer (1961) This DVD is disc 2 of 5 in "Late Ozu"
Starring:	Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, YÃ´ko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama, Keiju Kobayashi
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu's most deftly modulated blendings of comedy…

Currently 7.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 06/12/2007

Equinox Flower (1958) This DVD is disc 5 of 5 in "Late Ozu"
Starring:	Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed…

Currently 9.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 06/12/2007

Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection (1959)
Starring:	Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Kyu Sazanaka, Asao Sano
Director:	Kon Ichikawa
Synopsis:	An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II and the lengths they go to survive, Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the…

Currently 10.00/10

$23.99

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 03/13/2007

Godzilla - Criterion Collection (1954)
Starring:	Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Terry Morse, Momoko Kochi
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. Itâ€™s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still…

Currently 7.40/10

$23.99

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/24/2012

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Starring:	Hiroshi Koizumi, Minoru Chiaki, Setsuko Makayama, Takashi Shimura, Masao Shimizu
Director:	Motoyoshi Oda, Hugo Grimaldi
Synopsis:	Godzilla is back, and this time he's not alone! While scouting the seas for schools of fish, young pilots Tsukioka and Kobayashi encounter Godzilla and the spiny…

Currently 5.25/10

Studio: Classic Media
Release Date: 04/03/2007

Good Morning - Criterion Collection (1959)
Starring:	Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	Ozu's hilarious technicolor re-working of his silent I was born, but..., Good Morning (Ohayo) is the story of two young boys in suburban Tokyo who take a vow…

Currently 7.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 08/22/2000

H-Man (1958) This DVD is disc 2 of 3 in "Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection"
Starring:	Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Koreya Senda, Makoto Sata
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	The Tokyo sewer system is an oozing mess after a radioactive liquid turns people into slimy blobs that float down the drains following a rainstorm. To add to the…

Currently 8.00/10

Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 08/18/2009

The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection (1960)
Starring:	Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takashi Shimura, Eiko Miyoshi
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	A general and a princess must dodge enemy clans while smuggling the royal treasure out of hostile territory with two bumbling, conniving peasants at their sides;…

Currently 8.33/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 05/22/2001

High and Low - Criterion Collection (1963)
Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s highly…

Currently 8.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 07/22/2008

I Live in Fear (1955) This DVD is disc 5 of 5 in "Postwar Kurosawa"
Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyoko Aoyama
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	Both the final film in which Kurosawa would so directly wrestle with the demons of the second world war and his most literal representation of living in an atomic…

Currently 5.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/15/2008

Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection (Mothra / H-Man / Battle in Outer Space) (1958)
Starring:	Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyoko Kagawa, Ken Uehara, Emi Ito
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	MothraÂ (1961) Members of a Japanese expedition to a heavily-radiated island find two tiny, beautiful girls and take them home for observation. When the…

Currently 7.50/10

$19.99

Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 08/18/2009

The Idiot (1951) This DVD is disc 4 of 5 in "Postwar Kurosawa"
Starring:	Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Chieko Higashiyama
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	After finishing what would become his international phenomenon Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa immediately turned to one of the most daring - and problem-plagued - productions…

Currently 6.25/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/15/2008

Jigoku - Criterion Collection (1960)
Starring:	Shigeru Amachi, Yoichi Numata, Utako Mitsuya, Kanjuro Arashi, Hiroshi Hayashi
Director:	Nobuo Nakagawa
Synopsis:	Shocking, outrageous and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners Of Hell) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror…

Currently 7.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 09/19/2006

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Starring:	Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yu Fujiki, Ichiro Arishima, Jun Tazaki
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	The two mightiest monsters of all time battle in the thrilling adventure classic, King Kong vs. Godzilla. When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote…

Currently 6.00/10

$10.99

Studio: Universal Studios
Release Date: 11/29/2005

Late Autumn (1960) This DVD is disc 4 of 5 in "Late Ozu"
Starring:	Setsuko Hara, YÃ´ko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	The great actress and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara plays a mother gently trying to persuade her daughter to marry in this glowing portrait of family love and conflict—a…

Currently 8.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 06/12/2007

Late Ozu - Criterion Eclipse Series 3 (Early Spring / Tokyo Twilight / Equinox Flower / Late Autumn / The End of Summer) (1956)
Starring:	Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Michiyo Aratama, Keiju Kobayashi, Yako Tsukasa
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	Criterion presents five wonderful works of art by Japanese master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu that show him at the top of his game, visually and narratively. Elegant,…

Currently 10.00/10

$54.99

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 06/12/2007

Late Spring - Criterion Collection (1949)
Starring:	Haruko Sugimura, Chishu Ryu, Jun Tanizaki, Yumeji Tsukioka, Setsuko Hara
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu's family portraits, Late Spring (Banshun) tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved…

Currently 9.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 05/09/2006

Latitude Zero (1969)
Starring:	Akira Takarada, Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Linda Haynes, Akihiko Hirata
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	When a volcano erupts, a deep-sea vessel full of scientists suffers damage and begins to lose control. To their rescue comes Captain MacKenzie (Joseph Cotton), commander…

Currently 5.50/10

Studio: Tokyo Shock
Release Date: 12/11/2007

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958)
Starring:	Kazuo Hasegawa, Shintaro Katsu, Koji Tsuruta, Raizo Ichikawa, Machiko Kyo
Director:	Kunio Watanabe
Synopsis:	A timeless tale of honor and revenge, The Loyal 47 Ronin is the true story of a group of samurai who became ronin (masterless samurai) after their Lord was forced…

Currently 4.00/10

$21.99

Studio: Animeigo
Release Date: 04/07/2009

Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)
Starring:	Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	Directed by Ishiro Honda (The Godzilla Series!) After a yacht is damaged in a storm and it's boarders stranded on a deserted island the passengers; a psychologist…

Currently 0.00/10

Studio: Tokyo Shock
Release Date: 03/15/2005

Mothra (1961) This DVD is disc 1 of 3 in "Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection"
Starring:	Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyoko Kagawa, Ken Uehara, Emi Ito
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	Members of a Japanese expedition to a heavily-radiated island find two tiny, beautiful girls and take them home for observation. When the girls are taken off the…

Currently 8.00/10

Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 08/18/2009

Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Starring:	Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yu Fujiki, Ikio Sawamura
Director:	Ishiro Honda
Synopsis:	After a fierce typhoon, a mysterious gigantic egg washes ashore. The twin fairies of Infant Island plea for the egg's return to Mothra, its rightful owner, but it's…

Currently 6.17/10

$14.49

Studio: Classic Media
Release Date: 04/03/2007

The Mysterians (1959)
Starring:	Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Fuyuki Murakami
Director:	Ishira Honda
Synopsis:	After a Japanese town is totally destroyed, the military arrive to investigate. They encounter a giant robot that is decimating everything in its path. A dome appears…

Currently 0.00/10

Studio: Tokyo Shock
Release Date: 03/01/2005

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) This DVD is disc 1 of 5 in "Postwar Kurosawa"
Starring:	Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Haruko Sugimura, Eiko Miyoshi
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	In Akira Kurosawa's first film after the end of World War II, Japanese film star (and eventual Ozu regular) Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie,…

Currently 4.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/15/2008

One Wonderful Sunday (1947) This DVD is disc 2 of 5 in "Postwar Kurosawa"
Starring:	Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe, Zeko Nakamura, Ichiro Namiki
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	Akira Kurosawa examined the harsh economic truths of postwar Japan with this affectionate tribute to young love. Trying to make their meager thirty-five yen last…

Currently 0.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/15/2008

Postwar Kurosawa - Criterion Eclipse Series 7 (No Regrets for Our Youth / One Wonderful Sunday / Scandal / The Idiot / I Live in Fear) (1946)
Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	Perhaps best known for his action-packed samurai classics, Akira Kurosawa began his career by delving into the state of his nation immediately following World War…

Currently 7.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/15/2008

Rashomon - Criterion Collection (1951)
Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an…

Currently 9.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 03/26/2002

Sanjuro - Criterion Collection (1962) This DVD is disc 2 of 2 in "Akira Kurosawa Double Feature"
Starring:	Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama, Reiko Dan, Akihiko Hirata
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo,…

Currently 6.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/23/2007

Sansho the Bailiff - Criterion Collection (1954)
Starring:	Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa
Director:	Kenji Mizoguchi
Synopsis:	When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart…

Currently 8.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 05/22/2007

Scandal (1950) This DVD is disc 3 of 5 in "Postwar Kurosawa"
Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yoko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Eitaro Ozawa
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	A handsome, suave Toshiro Mifune lights up the screen as painter Ichiro, whose circumstantial meeting with a famous singer (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) is construed by the…

Currently 8.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/15/2008

Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection (Remastered Edition) (1954)
Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukio Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	One of the most beloved movie epics of all time. Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate…

Currently 9.25/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 09/05/2006

Tokyo Twilight (1957) This DVD is disc 3 of 5 in "Late Ozu"
Starring:	Ineko Arima, Kamatari Fujiwara, Setsuko Hara, Nobuo Nakamura, Chishu Ryu
Director:	Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis:	One of Ozu's most piercing portraits of family strife, Tokyo Twilight follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy,…

Currently 8.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 06/12/2007

Twenty-Four Eyes - Criterion Collection (1954)
Starring:	Hideko Takamine, Shizue Natsukawa, Kumeko Urabe, Chishu Ryu
Director:	Keisuke Kinoshita
Synopsis:	Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-four Eyes (Nijushi no hitomi) is an elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher's unwavering commitment to her students, her profession,…

Currently 6.00/10

$23.99

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 08/19/2008

Ugetsu - Criterion Collection (1954)
Starring:	Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ikio Sawamura, Eigoro Onoe, Eitara Ozawa
Director:	Kenji Mizoguchi
Synopsis:	"Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers," said Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And Ugetsu, a ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese…

Currently 6.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 11/08/2005

Warning from Space (1956)
Starring:	BontarÃ´ Miyake, Keizo Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagasawa, Shozo Nanbu
Director:	Koji Shima
Synopsis:	Astronomers discover an extraterrestrial satellite orbiting in space, pounding Earth's surface with thousands of meteorites. The meteors turn out to be flying saucers,…

Currently 0.00/10

$6.99

Studio: Alpha Video
Release Date: 10/07/2003

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs - Criterion Collection (1960)
Starring:	Daisuke KatÃ´, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director:	Mikio Naruse
Synopsis:	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of Keiko (the heartbreaking Takamine Hideko),…

Currently 7.50/10

$31.99

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 02/20/2007

Yojimbo - Criterion Collection (1961) This DVD is disc 1 of 2 in "Akira Kurosawa Double Feature"
Starring:	Daisuke KatÃ´, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Tani, Daisuke Kata
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless…

Currently 7.50/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/23/2007

Yojimbo & Sanjuro - Two Films By Akira Kurosawa - Criterion Collection (1963)
Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama, Akihiko Hirata
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:	Yojimbo (1961, 100 min) The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village…

Currently 6.00/10

Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 01/23/2007

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