Summary: Young widow Tanpopo attempts to start a small ramen noodle restaurant. She has little success until she meets Gorō, a cowboy-hat-wearing truck driver who decides to helps her to make the perfect bowl of top ramen. A story that features various subplots and an eclectic group of supporting characters, all of whom have expressively passionate relationships with food.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAMSummary: An old man's unexpected death creates hilarious havoc with his family. The traditional three-day undertaking becomes a sly comedy of manners as the younger generation struggles with the complex rituals of the Buddhist ceremony.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUNSummary: "It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNSummary: When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ISLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISLSummary: A heartwarming comedy about coal miners' daughters who took a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape their monotonous lives, only to become unwitting heroes to their depressed mining town. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HULSummary: Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius. You've never met a college student quite like 'Rancho.' From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down-along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for 'Virus, ' the school's uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THRDe Niro, Robert
Summary: When a retired man takes on an internship at a growing company, he becomes a mentor for the female founder of the company.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Intern 2016De Niro, Robert
Summary: When an aging comedian trying to make a comeback is sentenced to community service for accosting an audience member, he meets the daughter of a real estate mogul and the pair find inspiration in each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMSummary: 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 GIALong, Justin
Summary: A successful writer goes to great lengths to learn skills in which he has no interest to impress the adventurous girl behind the counter of his favorite café.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mpi Media Group 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CASSummary: Her funding rejected by the Royal Society, and pursued by an obsessed member of German nobility, Lily travels from London to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank's questionable services to guide her downriver in search of an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities which would change the future of medicine. Thinking she sees Frank for who he truly is -- a pun-loving con man who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUN1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUN
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Jungle 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUNSummary: Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAXHamatsu, Takayuki
Summary: While shooting a low-budget zombie movie, the director refuses to stop filming when he and his crew are attacked by real zombies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Distribution Solutions 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONESummary: When a western-clad stranger passing through town finds the widow Tampopo's restaurant food intolerable, he stays just long enough to teach her to prepare the perfect noodle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TAMSummary: Life for New England realtor Hildy Good begins to fall apart when she hooks up with an old flame of hers from New York.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GoodSummary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ISLSummary: The seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden agenda fueled by the arrival of a privileged young yuppie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMALopez, George
Summary: Papi and Chloe, their puppies, and their owners move into a fancy hotel where the family learns about inner strength.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEV RATED GSummary: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAR3 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure. The doctor is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOLSummary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007