vhs video: Hiroshi Akutagawa

vhs video: Hiroshi Akutagawa

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Hiroshi Akutagawa

Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa

Embassy Home Entertainment, 1991

A Japanese Classic
Director Shiro Toyoda has wrought a deeply affecting film which is not only a beautiful cinematic work, but also an exceptional study of female psychology. A woman believes that she is married to a prosperous man, but suddenly discovers that he is already married and ...

Dodes 'Ka-Den

Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai

Homevision, 2000

Clackety-clack: a brilliant look at poverty in Japan (or anywhere, actually)
Kurosawa's first color film and a magnificently poignant and deeply human tribute to a group of slum dwellers living in a modern Japanese city. It consists of a series of vignettes, all held together by their commonly shared poverty motif, and are about: a dreamer who ...