Contents: Komoriuta: Lullaby (variations) / Tanaka (Hozan Yamamoto, shakuhachi ; Utazumi Kunishige, koto) (7:42) -- Toge hachi-ri: Eight miles through a mountain pass / Tanaka (Tozan Tanno, Tozan Hara, Shakuhachi) (7:06) -- Kuon no hikari: Eternal lights / Tanaka (Hozan Yamamoto, shakuhachi ; Utazumi Kunishige, koto) (6:50) -- Umi: Sea fantasy / Hoshida (Tozan Hara, Shakuhachi ; Soyo Nakamura, Reiko...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hemisphere 1998

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Summary: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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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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Summary: Best friends Mimmi and Ronkko have each other's backs, always. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma, on the contrary, has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Examines the long career of the Grateful Dead featuring new interviews with the surviving members of the group and never-before-seen footage of the group's performances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2018

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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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bandai Entertainment 2006

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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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Summary: A terrorist bomb destroyed a tanker truck on Highway One on Mars releasing a deadly virus killing hundreds. The rewards for the bomber's capture is massive and the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop would love to get their hands on it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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Summary: 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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Summary: Black comedy about a modern dysfunctional family and their shared dream of opening an inn in the country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Chimera Entertainment 2001

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Summary: After his classes' school trip fund is stolen, Yuichi and his best friends are abducted to play a debt repayment game. But there's more than money on the line. Their bonds will be tested with dark secrets and a lingering question: Who's behind it all? Contains episodes 1-12 of the anime directed by Hirofumi Ogura.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration of a family saga. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) follows a poor Bengali family living in a village. The boy Apu's development grows as he witnesses the protection of family members' reputations, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Aoki, Hisako.

Summary: The forest animals are alarmed when it appears that Santa might be too tired to make his Christmas rounds, until he recounts for them the Nativity story which gives the holiday its true significance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 1991

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Aoki, Kazuko

Summary: Kazuko Aoki has a unique talent for translating the beauty of the garden with needle and thread. By offering forty motifs, Aoki invites us to explore her gardens through embroidery. The forty motifs explore the roses and wildflowers that appear season to season, as well as the bees and butterflies that enjoy their nectar. The designs here are exquisite, detailed, and artfullly rendered. Beyond...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roost Books 2015

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Summary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

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Aoki, Ryka

Summary: "Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021

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Summary: Based on the novel of the same name, this film follows the sudden disappearance of Anna Lou, a sixteen-year-old girl from a small mountain village in the Italian Alps. Called to investigate the mystery is Detective Vogel, who soon realizes that this case is far from simple. Working against the clock and amidst an unprecedented media frenzy, Vogel must make use of his unconventional methods to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Megan Thee Stallion

Contents: NDA -- Ungrateful / (feat. Key Glock) -- Not nice -- Budget / (feat. Latto) -- Her -- Gift & curse -- Ms. Nasty -- Who me / (feat. Pooh Shiesty) -- Red wine -- Scary / (feat. Rico Nasty) -- Anxiety -- Flip flop -- Consistency / (feat. Jhené Aiko) -- Star / (feat. Lucky Daye) -- Pressurelicious / (feat. Future) -- Plan B -- Southside royalty / (feat. Sauce Walka, Big Pokey and Lil Keke) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Reino, Jessica

Summary: Explains what food allergies are, how food allergy sufferers can become their own advocates, and how to cook well and live well with dietary restrictions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015

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