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A young war photographer (Yusaku Matsuda) comes home to Tokyo carrying deep psychological scars from the battlefields he covered across Asia. Back in the city he begins planning a string of murders and robberies — rehearsals, in his mind, for a bank heist on a scale never attempted before. For a partner he recruits Tetsuo (Takeshi Kaga), a volatile young waiter as alienated as he is. Toru Murakawa's dark thriller, written by Shoichi Maruyama, marked Matsuda's goodbye to the action-hero image that had defined his 1970s career.

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A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers finds itself transported through time to the country's warring-states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan, and teams his troops up with those of Kagatori, a samurai daimyo who also aspires to become Shogun. Are either of these power-hungry warriors to be trusted?

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Disc 1 (4K Ultra HD) contains the film, presented in a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative with HDR10. After fainting in her school science lab, high school student Kazuko Yoshiyama begins involuntarily leaping back and forth through time, reliving moments as past days return to the present. As the disorienting leaps continue, she confides in her friends and in a mysterious young man who seems to know more about her condition than he admits. Nobuhiko Obayashi's adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1967 novel is a lyrical coming-of-age romance about first love and the wish to hold on to the present.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the film plus the special features: audio commentary by Obayashi scholar Alex Pratt; the visual essays 'A Movie: Obayashi's Cinematic Life' by Max Robinson and 'Now and Then, Here and There: Onomichi Pt. 2' by Alex Pratt; a conversation with Nobuhiko Obayashi from 2015; an archival interview with Obayashi; 'The Tomoyo Harada Story'; the 'Toki o Kakeru Shojo' music video; and theatrical trailers. After fainting in her school science lab, high school student Kazuko Yoshiyama begins involuntarily leaping back and forth through time, reliving moments as past days return to the present. As the disorienting leaps continue, she confides in her friends and in a mysterious young man who seems to know more about her condition than he admits. Nobuhiko Obayashi's adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1967 novel is a lyrical coming-of-age romance about first love and the wish to hold on to the present.

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Disc 1 contains The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) on 4K UHD — the 4K disc itself carries no bonus features. (The commentary with director Mamoru Hosoda and the voice cast, the storyboard presentations, and the teasers and trailers are all on Disc 2, the Blu-ray.) Makoto Konno is an ordinary high-schooler who fills her days hanging out with friends — until a near-fatal encounter with a train reveals she can leap backward through time. She gleefully uses the power to fix every small embarrassment, from failed tests to awkward love confessions, but tampering with the past carries consequences, and she soon has to fight to prevent a future she cannot undo.

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A monochrome-tinted reverie that playfully worships the biker culture of another era, His Motorbike, Her Island is a sentimental, freeing portrait of young love. Fresh off a painful breakup, hot-tempered biker Koh (Riki Takeuchi) rides out of town on his cherished Kawasaki W3 650 and, touring the countryside, meets Miyo (Kiwako Harada, elder sister of Obayashi regular Tomoyo Harada), a free-spirited girl from a rural island who becomes fascinated by Koh and by his motorbike alike. They fall in love — but Miyo's natural gift for riding and her appetite for thrills feed Koh's dread that she will one day push it too far. Steeped in nostalgia, the film looks back fondly on a vanished biker world.

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When the wealthy patriarch of the Inugami family dies, his fortune goes to Tamayo, a young woman from outside the family — on the condition that she marry one of his grandsons. As the family gathers at the mansion, a series of grisly murders begins, and detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives to investigate, uncovering the family's secret bloodline history. Kon Ichikawa's gothic murder mystery was a massive hit in Japan that changed its film industry, yet it has rarely been seen abroad.