Summary: "A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KWASummary: When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his friends in order to find the greatest treasure ever left by the legendary Pirate, Gol D Roger: the famous mystery treasure named 'One Piece.' In this collection, Luffy's impulsive attack on Gecko Moria ends up costing the rubber-man his shadow! Luckily, his skeleton friend, Brook, will lend a hand in exchange for a little help defeating a zombie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ONESummary: The harrowing Thriller Bark arc reaches its brutal end with a superhuman slugfest! Luffy, battered beyond belief, pushes his body past the breaking point as he seeks to save his friends and deliver the decisive blow against Gecko Moria. When the dust clears, only Zoro and Sanji are left standing to protect their fallen captain from the brutish Bartholomew Kuma.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ONESummary: 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 MILSummary: Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. In a fun twist, six NASCAR stars pop up in non-driver cameo roles in the film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOG RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LoganSummary: This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GIASummary: Having crossed continents and cheated death, Jotaro, Joseph, and crew finally arrive in Egypt to root out the charismatic evil threatening the Joestar lineage and the world. Fighting Stand with Stand, the ever-clever Joestars are put to the ultimate test as a bizarre new army of adversaries hailing from the Egyptian pantheon strike in ways more brutal and outrageous than ever before....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME JOJSummary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STOSummary: After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. Okko discovers there are spirits who live there that only she can see; not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company and play games. The inn₂s motto is that it welcomes all and rejects none, and it is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME OKKSummary: In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UGE1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC FOREIGN UGE
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Summary: In the 41st century the astronaut Barbarella travels to the planet Lythion to destroy the evil Durand Durand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Circus is a super-powered security force of entertainers with special abilities who keep villains off the streets by serving up justice with a side of razzle-dazzle. Despite their best efforts, a sinister organization named Kafka is gaining power through the world using grotesque monsters to carry out their plots. When Circus saves a mysterious boy from Kafka's grasp, the kid gets swept up in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME KARSummary: "Switch on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the only intergalactic program with enough firepower to blast misbegotten B movies into the can't-miss hits that delusional filmmakers believed they were creating! Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson join forces with two robots who would never be lost in space - the wisecracking Tom Servo and madcap Crow. Together, our heroes strive to make the universe safe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYSSummary: 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 BLASmit-McPhee, Kodi
Summary: After an Ice Age man is injured and left for dead, he befriends a lone wolf and sets out to make the journey home with his new companion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ALPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALPSummary: Madison is a spoiled big city sixteen-year-old with a full teenage social life. But when her mom is deployed overseas for three months, Maddy is sent to live with her hard-nosed grandfather at his rural cattle ranch. In this strange place with no Wi-Fi, Maddy will meet cute seventeen-year-old dog trainer Eli, grow to love and respect her stubborn grandpa, and bond with an old cattle dog who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MySummary: An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music. This fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 1994
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA