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1) Girl model
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with...
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat...
3) Smash & Grab
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with {dollar}30 million in diamonds. They are captured – not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their...
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the Red Baron, a biography of the World War I ace known as the Red Baron, who shot down eighty Allied planes before he was killed. In Lindbergh & the Spirit of St. Louis, tells about Charles Lindbergh's thirty-three hour flight from New York to Paris on May 10, 1927. In Daredevil pilots, take a trip back to the first cross-country daredevil pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service. Includes rare, historic footage.
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Language
日本語
Description
The drama, unfolded around the filming activities on the campus of a university in Tokyo, presents the modern youth of Japan, their personal life and love.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A musical odyssey exploring five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron and Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks. Features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
LOVE AFFAIR (1932) -- Here he is enterprising, modest and occasionally perplexed as a working class aircraft engineer who is pursued and eventually seduced by a wealthy but jaded socialite (Dorothy Mackaill). Typical of the Pre-Code era, the film is notable for scenes of sexual suggestiveness and moments of refreshingly frank dialogue courtesy of Jo Swerling and Ursula Parrott.
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949) -- A tense courtroom drama with undercurrents...
Publisher
A.D. Vision
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The series takes place in the year 2196, where the Earth is in a war with a race of alien invaders called the "Jovian Lizards." To combat them, a company called Nergal designs a powerful space battleship, the ND-001 Nadesico. The main problem with the Nadesico is the crew. While it consists of the top civilian experts in their fields, these individuals tend to have some slight personality disorders.
Series
Criterion collection volume 432
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
"Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on the last day of Mishima's life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's past as well as...
Publisher
Tokyo Shock
Pub. Date
2003
Language
日本語
Description
Feudal lord Kanzen Inukai receives a precious sword from the Shogun only to have it stolen by the samurai Kazamatsuri. Kanzen's young son, Heishiro, insists on retrieving the sword himself to protect the family from the shame of losing such a precious gift.
Series
Publisher
Brilliant Classics
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"This documentary film on Bach takes a close look at his life, the places where he worked, his works and the techniques he used when composing, as well as at the political and cultural life during the composer's time. Recorded at original places, such as Lepizig, Köthen, Arnstadt and Mühlhausen."--Container
Publisher
Newton Channel 13
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
In celebration of Newton's 300th anniversary, a panel of Newton business owners discuss how they achieved their success, and give advice to those who want to start businesses themselves. The symposium participants include Jack Connors, founding partner of Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulos; Richard Smith, former CEO of General Cinema Corp; Mario Bocabella, local restaurant owner, and Robert Danziger, President and CEO of Northland Investment Corp. The...
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