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Throne of Blood (1957)

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura

Kurosawa's version of 'Macbeth' spares no effort in creating an atmosphere of obsessive madness and supernatural compulsion. The black and white contr... Read more

Rashomon (1950)

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori

Akira Kurosawa's first huge international success is this superlative study of truth and human nature; four people involved in a rape-murder tell vary... Read more

Woman of the Dunes (1964)

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Starring: Eiji Okuda, Kyoko Kishida, Koji Mitsui, Hiroko Ito

When teacher Junpei Niki misses his last bus home after a day out collecting insects on a remote stretch of coast, he is invited by a local villager t... Read more

Tampopo (1986)

Director: Juzo Itami
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamakazi, Nobuko Miyamoto

One of the funniest, most enjoyable, satirical comedies is this treasure of a movie, the plot of which, loosely concerns the quest for the perfect Jap... Read more

Yojimbo (1961)

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Eijiro Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu, Toshiro Mifune

Kurosawa's first full-length comedy. Toshiro Mifune is the unemployed samurai warrior who comes to a small village torn apart by two warring factions... Read more

Dersu Uzala (Blu-ray) (1975)

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Yuri Solomon, Maxim Munzuk

Kurosawa's remarkable, personal tale of the friendship between a wise old man and a young Soviet explorer, filmed in the beautiful expanse of Siberia,... Read more

Hypnosis (1999)

Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Starring: Goro Inagaki , Miho Kanno, Ken Utsui

What is the only thing these three deaths have in common: a groom that hangs himself at his own wedding reception, a seventy-year old man who throws h... Read more

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)

Director: John Junkerman
Starring: Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky's voice may be controversial, but his incisive arguments, based on decades of research and analysis, deserve to be heard and considered.... Read more

FLCL ( Fooly Cooly ) - Volume 2 (2000)

Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki

Volume 2 of 3. Episode 3: With a robot and alien at home, Naota tries to at least have a normal school life. The class is putting on "Puss 'n Boots" a... Read more

FLCL ( Fooly Cooly ) - Volume 3 (2000)

Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki

Volume 3 of 3. Episode 5: Mabase's safe for now, but there's a new kind of danger. Naota finds himself in the midst of a survival game, with Karuko on... Read more