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...
Format: moving image
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: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN IRESummary: Following the death of her father, ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns from the Middle East to claim her inheritance only to find that her thirteen-year-old son, Charlie, has been kidnapped. Desperate to save her son. Clair embarks on a perilous journey deep into the Alaska Mountains to hunt down the mysterious leader of the gang who is holding him for ransom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DAUSummary: It is the haunting, hypnotic tale of a mysterious disappearance set in a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest. Thirteen-year-old Luna, always dreaming, has a crush on her handsome classmate Giuseppe; they begin a tentative romance. But one day Giuseppe fails to show up at school. As the days pass with no sign of him, Luna tries to raise concern with family and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SICSummary: Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years before, a beautiful young mother (Makiko Esumi as Yumiko) struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, with time, she awakens to find love, understanding, happiness and a sense of peace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MABFujitani, Ayako
Summary: An aimless artistic couple try to make their names and works known in Tokyo; a homeless person periodically emerges from the Tokyo sewers to terrorize people; an agoraphobe meets a beautiful pizza delivery woman just as an earthquake strikes Tokyo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Liberation Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKMarano, Laura
Summary: A retelling of the classic fairytale where modern-day Cinderella, an aspiring singer and songwriter, is prevented by her step mother and step sisters from going to the biggest performing event of the year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE CINCarano, Gina
Summary: An black-ops agent for a government security contractor becomes a target for assassination when she is betrayed and left for dead after a successful mission, so she stops at nothing to uncover the truth and get her revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAYSummary: Whilst wandering war torn country during the Sengoku period, a nameless ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotaro, his dog and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Seeing something of his own past within the child, the nameless swordsman chooses to act his bodyguard, but can he truly keep Kotaro from the clutches of the Ming...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SWOSummary: Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FORSummary: The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: Fourteen-year-old Pio wants nothing more than the respect of his older brother, whom he emulates in every way, including his career as a petty criminal. When both his father and brother are arrested, Pio is determined to prove that he can step up and be the head of his Romani family. But a fateful night and a wrenching decision soon test just how ready he is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN A CSatayev, Akan
Summary: Follows several generations of a Kazakh family as they live through some of the most dramatic periods of Kazakhstan's history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROAPinto, Freida
Summary: A young Indian woman falls for a British businessman who has come to India to work for her father's business, but must overcome the pressure of society in order to make their relationship work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRISummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midway 2020Summary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN RURSummary: Paola is the beautiful and jealously guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANSummary: The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLASummary: "In an empire ruled by fear, the people's only hope is the ulitmate weapon: Zatoichi--a blind, nomadic samurai whose sword has made him a hero and whose courage has made him a legend! Determined to help the desperate residents of a village, Zatoichi seeks justice through revenge"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLISummary: MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage but is shaken to the core when a stranger shows up with the same unique birthmark, and a deadly assassin shows up moments later. In order to protect his family -- and the fate of the earth -- Cole and his companions must travel across the world and into other dimensions to discover their unique magical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021