Summary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLA

Summary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIR

Contents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIN

Summary: Abandoned by her boyfriend in Tokyo, a young woman finds a job working for a tyrannical chef in a local ramen house and learns how to put excitement and enthusiasm back into her life as well as her cooking.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAM

Summary: Spontaneous Human Combustion plagues the world, and the Fire Force are the only ones who can stop it. In their investigation, Shinra and Fire Force Company 8 confront the Evangelist and venture into the netherworld to save Shinra's missing brother, Sho.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME FIR

Summary: Follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN DAR

Summary: Otsuya is the daughter of a rich merchant who is tempted by her lover, Shinsuke, a lowly employee of her father's, to elope. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN IRE

Summary: Delhi 1795: John Beecham, a former soldier in the East India Company, is determined to leave the past behind and start a new life. At the grand house, the staff is shocked that their new master has arrived with his infant son, a baby of mixed parentage. John is determined to reunite his family in Delhi and keep the identity of his child secret, but at what cost to himself and those he loves?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEE

Summary: When Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who had retired from the spotlight 30 years prior. As she recounts her career, Genya and his crew are literally pulled into her memories where they witness her chance encounter with a mysterious man on the run from the police. Despite never knowing his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME MIL

Summary: Ciel Phantomhive is the most powerful boy in all of England, but he bears the scars of unspeakable suffering. Forced to watch as his beloved parents were brutally murdered, Ciel was subsequently abducted and violently tortured. Desperate to end his suffering, the boy traded his own soul for a chance at vengeance, casting his lot with the one person on whom he could depend: Sebastian, a demon...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLA

Summary: A world of adventure! Just, not for him. Kazuma Sato decides that today is the day to get out of the house for a bit. Since he dies, pointlessly, it's clearly a bad choice. The goddess who greets him in the afterlife, however, offers him a chance to be reborn in a world not unlike that of a video game, and as a bonus she'll even throw in a cool item or power! Can't possibly be a bad choice,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME KON

Summary: In the movie, high school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. The last thing he expects is for the gods to answer. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat. Who will survive the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN AS

Summary: Ako Tamaki looks to her fellow high school friends for help in separating real life from her life in the fantasy online gaming world of Legendary Age, or LA.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME AND

Summary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEA

Summary: "Before the Knight Sabers arrived in Mega Tokyo, the overworked, underfunded, and outgunned AD Police had to hold a swelling violence. Boomers, a class of intelligent androids, have the potential to free mankind from physical labor. But alas, anything that can be used can also be misused"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: AnimEigo 2004

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANIME AD

Summary: "Back in 1978, Shinichi was obsessed with a short-lived TV superhero show called Zebraman, set in the year 2010. When 2010 actually rolls around, Shinichi is a grade school teacher and family man who can't get any respect from his students or his family. To escape this not-so-wonderful life, he makes himself a Zebraman costume and begins to prowl around the city at night. But what begins as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyo Shock 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN ZEB

Summary: Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEE

Summary: A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MIC

Summary: Home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta must turn around and embark on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts, where they sense that a rebellion is simmering, and probably sparked by Katniss. The Capitol proves they are very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games: an anniversary competition that will draw contestants from previous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI HUN

Summary: Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo, a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MA