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4 film favorites Cartoon Network collector series Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 331 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 53 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 539 Criterion collection ; 84 Mononoke Viridian Collection World War II collection ; vol. 2Filter By Authors
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4 film favorites Cartoon Network collector series Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 331 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 53 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 539 Criterion collection ; 84 Mononoke Viridian Collection World War II collection ; vol. 2Summary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEESummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Daigo Kobayashi, a cellist, dreamt of going around the world with his wife Mika. Unfortunately, the orchestra folds, so he sells his instrument, retreats to the small town he came from, lives in his late mother's house, and tries to start a new life. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is for a travel agency. Daigo's actual responsibilities entail preparing the local...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyo Broadcast System 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DEPSummary: Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father--he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOUOzu, Yasujiro
Summary: Feeling that he is keeping his adult daughter from marrying, a widowed father devises a plan which will force her to leave him and find a life of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LATSummary: Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe, all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives, on the world's fastest train.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BULCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BULSummary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRSummary: While visiting family in the Japanese countryside, 27-year-old Taeko remembers her childhood spent solely in the city and wonders if her life has followed her childhood dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ONLSummary: Summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, Wolverine becomes embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOL RATED PG-13Summary: In the year 2017 of the Imperial Calendar, parts of the world are under the control of the Holy Britannian Empire. Japan is now known as Area II, the proud people treated as lower-class citizens. Lelouch Lamperouge was once a Britannian princ, but when his mother was assassinated he was sent to Japan and thought to be killed. But he survived. - From the container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Reki, a high school sophomore and skater, is addicted to 'S,' a highly secret and dangerous downhill skateboarding race that takes place in an abandoned mine. The skaters are especially wild about the 'beefs,' or heated battles that erupt in the races. Reki takes Langa, a transfer student returning to Japan after studying abroad, to the mine where the races are held. Langa, who has no...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME SK8Summary: The inhabitants of a small Japanese seaside town come under the influence of a strange force that causes an obsession with spiral forms. One by one, the townspeople fall under its spell until they begin descending on a self-inflicted spiral of terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SANSummary: "Tony Stark arrives in Japan to help implement his goal of world peace by building the arc reactor, a carbon-neutral power plan that, once operational, will be able to provide limitless (thus free) energy to the world. Set to retire his Iron Man persona, and about to mass-produce a line of Iron Man armor known as "Iron Man Dio", Stark's plans are derailed by a series of high tech mech...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IROSummary: When Aoi Ashito tries out for the J. League youth team, his soccer skills are put to the test. Now, this small-town star is playing with the best up-and-comers in the country. Is his raw talent enough to go pro? Or will he be beat out by the competition?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME AOASummary: An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then they dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Homevision 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONISummary: The adventures of Jack, a young samurai and prince whose family has fought the evil demon Aku for control of their kingdom and continues to do so when he mysteriously travels to a future city where Aku and his henchmen-robots rule.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe, all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives, on the world's fastest train.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BULSummary: SAMURAI WOLF: Isao Natsuyagi stars as Kiba, a charismatic ronin who wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that's more than meets the eye. After dispatching a pair of highway criminals seen robbing a courier wagon, Kiba agrees to assist a beautiful blind woman who runs the local shipping company. SAMURAI WOLF 2: HELL CUT: Charismatic ronin Kiba returns, once again...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SAMSummary: Baker Sentaro's business enjoys new success when his new 76-year-old assistant Tokue shares her recipe for the sweet red bean paste used in the bakery's dorayaki pancakes, but another of Tokue's secrets may bring their happy work life to an early end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SWESummary: In feudal Japan, evil spirits known as mononoke plague the countryside. A mysterious man known as The Medicine Seller is the only one with the power to destroy them, using his Exorcism Sword.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm Entertainment/Flatiron Film Company 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME MONSummary: "Ginko sees what most cannot - Mushi, unexplainable forces which have altered the course of mankind since the genesis of life. Walking quietly through nature, Ginko investigates these rare embodiments of the primeval, aiding those plagued by the supernatural phenomena which surround the Mushi for reasons yet unknown. He is a Mushi-shi, one with the ability to peer into the places where the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation Entertainment 2009