BFI

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Akira Kurosawa's classic Japanese drama follows a dying man as he regains his zest for life along with a desire to do some good after 30 years of working for the civil service. Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), Chief of the Citizen's Section of the Town Hall, learns that he has terminal cancer and has only months left to live. Seeking to make a difference, he rediscovers a passion for life and uses his influence to cut through bureaucratic red tape and facilitate the construction of a children's playground. The cast also includes Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka and Nobuo Kaneko.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored (Limited Edition)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Yasujirô Ozu directs this 1950s Japanese drama that explores ageing, mortality and intergenerational tensions. When elderly couple Tomi and Shukichi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama and Chishu Ryu) travel from their rural village home to visit their married son and daughter in Tokyo, their reception is disappointing. Met with impatience and selfish indifference by their children and their grandchildren, they are soon packed off to a spa - but when Tomi falls ill, her descendants are forced to re-evaluate their priorities.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Yasujiro Ozu directs this intimate family portrait telling the story of widowed college professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu), who must face the inevitability that his only daughter, 27-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara), will soon be married off. Noriko, however, sees no reason to disrupt the harmony of the family home and repeatedly insists that marriage is not for her. Yet the social pressure continues to build, and eventually Somiya tricks his daughter into marrying by informing her that he is planning to remarry himself.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Comedy from the great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. In a suburban community in the 1950s two brothers, Minoru (Koji Shitara) and Isamu (Masahiko Shimazu), are frustrated and disappointed when their parents will not buy them a television. Not understanding the way adults converse, the brothers refuse to speak to all grown-ups from this point on and run away from home. But will their protests convince their parents to get a television?<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Trilogy of war dramas directed by Roberto Rossellini. 'Rome, Open City' (1945) takes place during the last days of the Nazi occupation of Italy during World War II. Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero) flees the Gestapo and seeks a place to hide with the help of his friend Francesco (Francesco Grandjacquet), his pregnant fiancée Pina (Anna Magnani) and the priest who is due to marry them, Don Pietro Pellegrini (Aldo Fabrizi). Giorgio's ex-girlfriend Marina (Maria Michi) betrays him and his fellow fighters to the Gestapo in order to get her hands on some luxury items and it's not long before the Nazis and the local police find him and Don Pietro. They are captured and tortured but will they crack under the pain or be executed for their silence? 'Paisà' (1946) is Rossellini's account of the liberation of Italy during World War II, told in six chapters. In each chapter a different view of the liberation is given as it spreads across the country. Different characters are also followed in each segment including American chaplains, soldiers, monks and prostitutes. Finally, 'Germany Year Zero' (1948) is Roberto Rossellini's moving account of life in post-war Germany telling the story of a 13-year old black marketeer who poisons his ailing father out of pity and necessity.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Peter Weir's critically acclaimed first film is a surreal and fantastic horror. On the outskirts of the small town of Paris, cars crash with alarming regularity. Arthur survives one such accident and becomes a prisoner of the town of Paris, although he's unaware of his predicament as the town has provided him with a surrogate family. But the crashes are not accidents; the townspeople have been laying traps for the passing traffic and the dead are disposed of while the injured are stored for mdeical experimentation. Paris lives off cars but these same cars begin to take revenge.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored (Limited Edition)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>A young boy witnesses the landing of a flying saucer during a thunder storm. However, no-one believes his outrageous story, and the aliens from the ship press ahead with their plan to control the minds of the local community.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored</i>