Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the future it is thought that wolves have become extinct, but in reality they have taken human form; this story follows a pack of wolves as they attempt to find a mysterious paradise called "Rakuen" meant only for creatures of their kind. Contains entire series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bandai Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WOLSummary: Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary teenage girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the "wired," where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary teenage girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the "wired," where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: When Lu comes ashore and adds her mermaid singing to a middle-school rock band, a threatening ancient prophecy follows her, so Kai and her other bandmates step up to come to Lu's--and the village's--rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME LUSummary: 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 IRESummary: "Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea. Hinako is so distraught that she can no longer even look at the ocean, but one day she sings a song...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME RIDSummary: After bullying the new transfer student Shoko Nishimiya into transferring again, Shōya Ishida is ostracized by his classmates and later tries to ease his regret by finding the deaf girl to apologize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME SILSummary: A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father₂s murder and her mother₂s rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADSummary: Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: Soul Mate traces the relationship between two best friends (Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun) and the eventual collapse of their friendship when a boy comes between them. Anchored by two of the most promising young actresses of their generation, Soul Mate is an evocative drama that dissects young love with style and verve. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOUSummary: A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The intrigue and danger continue with a new charge for BK-201, the masked Contractor known as the Black Reaper. After a paranormal phenomenon takes over Yin, BK-201 is left to hunt for answers from the shadows, alone--until he encounters Suo, a young girl whose life changed the night a meteor crashed to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aniplex 2011
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME DARContents: 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 Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ONESummary: Two Japanese clans that are ancient enemies have been forbidden to fight. The heirs to these clans have fallen in love, to their families' horror. When tragedy strikes this love-struck couple, will a final battle make them stronger or pull them apart?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHISummary: The world's favorite blue hedgehog is back for a next-level adventure in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2. After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang, she slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi's gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies. A bizarre blend of the female Yakuza film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLISummary: "Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion introduces Nami, a gullible young woman unjustly imprisoned, who must find a way to escape in order to exact revenge upon the man who betrayed her. The visually avant-garde Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 sees director Shunya Ito and star Meiko Kaji re-unite as Nami and six other female convicts escape prison once more. The Gothic horror-inspired Beast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEMSummary: Sent to the seaside to stay with relatives for the summer, Anna strikes up a friendship with Marnie, who lives there in an old mansion surrounded by marshes. As their friendship grows, so does Anna's curiosity about the truth surrounding her new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WHE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHE