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1) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An accident in Morocco sets off a chain of links that connect people in Mexico, Japan, and California, despite distance and cultural differences
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Okinawa 1946- occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily oriental interpreter and a determined geisha girl, along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Publisher
ADV Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
日本語
Description
The tales of six lovelorn women during one particularly snowy winter on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. These episodes focus on Atsuko, a quiet young woman who is slated for an arranged marriage; and Karin, a terminally ill girl who creates a web blog and meets someone very surprising.
4) September 11
Publisher
Distributed by Empire Pictures Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Multiple
Appears on list
Description
11 directors from different countries and cultures. 11 visions of the tragic events that occurred in New York City on September 11th 2001. 11 points of view committing their subjective conscience. Complete freedom of expression. Reflecting on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame each. In subject matter, they range from the very personal, to an oscillation between didacticism and relativism,...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In May, 1943, Bill Jones and his friend Andy Petrus were part of a force of U.S. soldiers who fought the 3,000 Japanese who had invaded and occupied the Aleutian Islands of Alaska during World War II. Now, 60 years later, they embark on a intense and emotional journey back to the remote Aleutian island of Attu, where they relive the brutal 19 day battle that the American government kept secret.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Austronesian
Description
After Japan invades Taiwan in 1930, the native Seediq people are in danger of losing their culture and way of life. The men are taken from their traditional lives as hunters and forced to perform hard labor at low wages. The women are taken away to be household workers for the Japanese. The Seediq are also forbidden to tattoo their faces, which many believe is necessary to cross the 'Rainbow Bridge' after death. The Seediq men plan to go to war against...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1973
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
8) Rising sun
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A Los Angeles cop is called in to investigate the murder of a prostitute in the boardroom of a Japanese-owned company, only to discover a "shadow world" of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties.
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