Summary: This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BALJeon, Do-Yeon
Summary: Various people cross paths in a sequence of events propelled by a Louis Vuitton bag full of cash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEAContents: 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: Rinka is a normal Tokyo high-schooler with big dreams and a small income. She works a part time job to support her and her single dad, but she yearns for the day she'll get to loosen the strings on her pocketbook. Her ordinary life takes a turn for the extraordinary when she witnesses a penguin and a school of fish flying through the air. After one of the fish seems to pass through her, she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME TOKSummary: Given one more chance by Being X, a ruthless Japanese office worker is reincarnated as Tanya Degurechaff, a young and still-ruthless girl tasked with fighting on the front lines of war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME SAGSummary: After the death of his mother, child prodigy Arima Kosei gave up the piano forever. That vow turned out to be no match for the persistence of sprightly violinist Kaori Miyazono, who's roped Arima back into the world of competetitive classical music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME YOUSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME SILSummary: Some people may treat life like a game, but when young noblewoman Catarina Claes accidentally bumps her head, she has a horrifying revelation. In a previous life, she was an avid otaku and game player, and the life Catarina is living is that of the villainess of the game Fortune Lover, a character doomed to be either killed or exiled no matter how the game is played! Forewarned and forearmed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME MYSummary: A documentary examining opposing cultural movements in India (tradition vs. modernism), contrasting the experiences and attitudes of contestants in the Miss India beauty contest with those of participants at a Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WORSummary: Introducing Ryan, an adorable 6-year-old knitter who has taught his own grandmother to knit! Ryan will teach a variety of knitting aspects like Casting On and Criss Cross Applesauce. There is also a great toy ball project the kids will enjoy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TriCoast Studios 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ARTSummary: Learn hundreds of creative ideas and how to have a great party. Includes visual and written step-by-step instructions, invitation and decoration ideas, 40 fix-ahead recipes and much more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Leisure Arts 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.2 CRESummary: Melissa Leapman provides beginning crocheters with basic instructions so that even novices will be able to learn enough stitches and techniques to complete the simple projects that are included. Parallel instructions for left-handed crocheters are displayed in a separate box on the screen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Leisure Arts 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Nonfic ISummary: When a massive gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A ragtag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side: the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After his family was brutally murdered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado's journey as a demon slayer began. Tanjiro and his comrades embark on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train, on track to despair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME DEMSummary: Detective Maiku Hama navigates the Yokohama underworld with super cool threads and two-fisted street smarts. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he's in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant on the threshold of Yokohama's gutter, Hama's client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOSSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANSummary: A frustrated, unemployed architect travels to a remote fishing village in search of a treasure rumored to be hidden in a house near a red bridge. He builds an intense relationship with one of the occupants of the house, a young woman with an "unusual" condition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment [distributor] 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: Thirteen brave samurai must face overwhelming odds in an epic battle against a sadistic lord and his army of 200 to prevent him from plunging Japan into war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 13ACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THISummary: 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: Ouran Academy: An institution of extravagance and prestige where learning is secondary to luxury. Haruhi began the year as an out of place scholarship student, but she's found new popularity as a member of the Host Club. Playing the part of a sensitive suitor and wooing the ladies of the school has become a full-time job. Of course, now that Tamaki and the other boys can no longer deny the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME OURSummary: In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOJSummary: Sixteen-year-old Haruka is on a mission to find her mirror, a precious childhood gift from her mother that mysteriously disappeared. While following a strange fox-like creature in the woods, she tumbles into a mystical world where once-cherished toys and treasures go when their owners neglect them. Join Haruka and her new friend Teo on a roller coaster ride of adventure as they contend with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Production I.G. 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OBL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OBL
Summary: At prestigious Cross Academy, Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu keep watch over the Day Class students, who are all infatuated with the beautiful, elite Night Class students. As Guardians, Yuki and Zero must also protect the secret of the Night Class - they're all vampires!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME VAMSummary: Ciel Phantomhive is the most powerful boy in all of England, but he bears the scars of unspeakable suffering. Forced to watch as his beloved parents were brutally murdered, Ciel was subsequently abducted and violently tortured. Desperate to end his suffering, the boy traded his own soul for a chance at vengeance, casting his lot with the one person on whom he could depend: Sebastian, a demon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2011