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Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior

  Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief (Tatsuya Nakadai) who is recruited to impersonate Shingen (also Nakadai), an aging warlord, in order to avoid Read More

Kwaidan (DVD)

  Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk.  Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish, widescreen Read More

Kids Return

  Shinji and Masaru are high school delinquents, terrifying their classmates, stealing money, and even setting their teacher’s car on fire. After some of their victims hire a boxer to Read More

Kiki’s Delivery Service

  In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village’s tradition for witches Read More

Kwaidan

  Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai (Rentarô Mikuni) marries for money with tragic results. A Read More

Porco Rosso

  In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is Read More

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

  In an alternate history, following World War II, civil unrest and terrorism run rampant in a devastated Japan under foreign occupation. During a botched interception of underground munitions being Read More

Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time

  200 years ago, Inuyasha’s father sealed away a powerful demon from a foreign land named Hyoga. A Shikon Jewel Shard awakens Hyoga’s son, Menomaru, inspiring him to absorb the Read More

The Haunted Lantern

  Strange occurances plague Shin and his new fiancee during the Festival of the Dead. He has nightmares of a woman disappearing in a supernatural spray of blood and gruesome Read More

I Was Born, But…

  Two brothers, Keiji (Tomio Aoki) and Ryoichi (Hideo Sugawara), move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, gets a promotion. The boys Read More