FCCJ Kent Campus Library Video Collections -
Asian Humanities - Movies

*The following information was taken from LINCC as of April 2001.
Movies - 5 titles
  1. The River
    Oriental International Films, Inc. Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1988. 1 videocassette (99 min.)

    In postwar India, three adolescent girls develop competing crushes on a young American veteran who lost a leg in combat. As their romances and rivalries deepen, the background of the Indian society, culture and environment influences all their personlities in subtle and symbolic ways.
    VT - 2418

  2. Gandhi
    Columbia Pictures ; produced and directed by Richard Attenborough ; written by John Briley. Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983. 2 videocassettes (VHS) (ca. 180 min.)

    Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture.
    VT - 656

  3. Heat and dust
    Merchant Ivory Productions ; directed by James Ivory ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, c1983. (130 min.)

    Released as a motion picture in 1983. Based on the book of the same title by Ruth Praser Jhabvala. VHS 80058. Photography, Walter Lassally ; music, Richard Robbins. Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor.

    Story of a woman who goes to India to find the truth about her aunt who left her British husband for an Indian prince.
    VT-1366

  4. Shogun
    Paramount Pictures. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, 1980. (124 min.)

    Chamberlain plays Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked on tthe coast of feudal Japan, who becomes a samurai. Mifune is Toranaga, the warlord driven to become Shogun - supreme military dictator. Shimada plays Mariko, Blackthorn's interpreter and ill-fated lover.
    VT - 6356

  5. Seven years in Tibet
    Mandalay Entertainment presents a Reperage and Vanguard Films/Applecross Production ; produced by Jean-Jacques Annuad, John H. Williams, Ian Smith ; screenplay by Becky Johnston ; directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1998

    Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes friends with the young Dalai Lama.
    VT - 6373

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