Maeda, Koki

Summary: Separated from his father and younger brother by his parents' divorce, twelve-year-old Koichi puts all his hope in the tale that if two people make the same wish while watching two trains pass each other, the wish will come true and his family will be together again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012

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

Summary: Story of a contemporary Japanese family torn apart after its patriarch unexpectedly loses his job. Ashamed, he keeps this a secret, but as he grows more despondent, his family resorts to drastic measures to break away from their fractured lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DAW

Yakusho, Koji

Summary: A penniless samurai during a time of peace asks to commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of the House of Ii, but is instead told the story of the fate of another warrior who came with a similar request, but was actually hoping to get money instead.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2013

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

Summary: 1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Tells the gritty tale of police detective turned pimp Jung-Ho. When one of his girls goes missing, Jung-Ho thinks she has been kidnapped or sold off. The truth is far worse, as a sadistic killer has entrapped the poor woman and plans to torture and then kill her as the latest of his victims. Worst yet, even when the killer is detained by police, a series of mistakes and incompetence lets the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHA

Summary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002

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

Summary: An action comedy about two tough cops who heat up the streets of Miami.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAD

Summary: On the fast track and ready to taste the success of corporate America, John Crowley walks away from it all in hopes of finding a cure for two of his fatally ill children. With his wife Aileen by his side, he teams up with brilliant, but unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill, and together they form a company to develop a life-saving drug. But just when it appears that a solution may be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ro

Summary: "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 STO

Summary: Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl, emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Owen, an alienated 12-year-old boy, recognizes a fellow outcast and opens up to her, forming a unique bond. But as a string of grisly murders occupy his town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LET

Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010

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

Summary: "Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR RATED G