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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIN
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRSummary: "Afraid of judgment, Wakana Gojo hides his love of crafting hina dolls. Marin Kitagawa is the opposite, boldly loving her obsessions. Their worlds collide when she shares her secret. Now, they're learning about cosplay and falling in love!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME MYSummary: "Arucard awakens with his thirst for vengeance stronger than ever. This bloodthirsty monster unleashes every heinous trick in his deadly repertoire while baring his fangs at an army of fiendish Nazi werewolves"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions Ltd. 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME HELSummary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INMadokoro, Hisako
Summary: A puppy named Buster helps a lost and frightened kitten find its mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Madokoro, Hisako
Summary: Buster is frightened by the strong winds outside his dog house until he goes outside to play and discovers what fun the wind can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Summary: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: Ben is from a Filipino-American family who is soon to graduate from high school. Currently, most of his family is preoccupied with an elaborate coming-out party being thrown for Ben's sister Rose. Ben isn't too thrilled about having to attend, so he invites his best friends Rick and Doug. To their surprise, Rick and Doug find themselves having a great time getting a glimpse of Filipino culture,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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Summary: Buster the puppy ignores his mother's instructions and goes outside for an adventure in the rain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The epic coming-of-age tale of Nausicaä, a compassionate princess warrior. Her rural valley lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2017
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Summary: The forest animals are alarmed when it appears that Santa might be too tired to make his Christmas rounds, until he recounts for them the Nativity story which gives the holiday its true significance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 1991
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE AOKMadokoro, Hisako
Summary: Puppy friends Buster and Snapper venture through the meadows, blowing at dandelions and exploring new worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Madokoro, Hisako
Summary: Puppy friends Buster and Snapper find a lost mitten in the snow and track down its owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Madokoro, Hisako.
Summary: Barney is a roly-poly puppy who loves adventure. Today, the first snow has fallen. Barney tramps through it. Zoof, zoof, zoof Crunch, crunch, crunch. Suddenly, he sees something red in the snow. What could it be?
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Publisher / Publication Date: R.I.C. Publications 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MADBuchanan, Rowan Hisayo
Summary: '"This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration."--Lorrie Moore. Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Berlin, and Connecticut, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront the mother who abandoned him when he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCMurasaki, Hisato
Summary: "Based on the popular video game, this manga's phantom thieves will steal your heart. After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power--the power of one's true self, a Persona.sona."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PERTashiro, Chisato
Summary: When too many cats move into their neighborhood, five mice team up to build themselves a new home from objects they find at a landfill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TASWakui, Ken
Summary: "After leaping 12 years into his past, Takemichi has now fallen in with two leaders of the Toman gang, Mikey and Draken. He's failed to avoid an encounter with the opposing Moebius gang, and a Toman member ends up in jail for assault! A schism splits Toman, with Mikey on one side and Draken on the other. Takemichi mediates between them, but not everybody gets the message, and the festival night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKMurasaki, Hisato
Summary: "After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power--the power of one's true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Mementos, Akira and his friends take on the role of Phantom Thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of those around them. Akira and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PERMurasaki, Hisato
Summary: "After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power -- the power of one's true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Mementos, Akira and his friends take on the role of Phantom Thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of those around them." --back of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PERMurasaki, Hisato
Summary: "After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power--the power of one's true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Momentos, Akira and his friends take on the role of phantom thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of those around them ... Akira Kurusu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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Summary: "The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017