Summary: A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LostSummary: It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all too probable future, where technology has run amuck, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
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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 BLINHayashi, Hikaru
Summary: Information and techniques for drawing, Manga style, the male form--from posture to shoes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic-sha Publishing 2002
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Summary: "Popular and prolific author and knitwear designer Kotomi Hayashi presents 55 innovative stitch designs--specifically for those who have never tried Japanese-style knitting before. These include re-imagined modern variations on traditional stitches as well as Hayashi's own innovative inventions, which incorporate influences from her travels all around the world."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.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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Summary: Contains line illustrations that show how different articles and styles of clothing and accessories are drawn in manga comics and novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic-sha 2003
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Summary: Learn how to turn ordinary, square origami paper into intricate flowers with five, six and eight petals, or even doubled numbers of folded petals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: JOIE 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.982 HAYKojima, Takashi
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1954
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 513.028 KOJHayasaki, Erika.
Summary: A journalist details how Norma Bowe, the professor of a popular class on the stages of dying, death, and bereavement at Kean University in New Jersey, shows her students how to truly heal and live their lives through contemplating the end.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.9 HAYKawashima, Tadashi.
Summary: A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicide--and becoming a lethal pandemic in less than a week. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALIHayasaki, Erika
Summary: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAYHayashida, Kyū
Summary: "Everyone in space wants Zaha Sanko dead, thanks to the legend that whoever claims his bones will obtain their heart's desire. Being public enemy number one makes life pretty hard for a young guy like Sanko, but so far he's been the one doing the bone collecting. Sanko and his skeletal buddy Avakian break in their brand new ship, cruising the spacelanes in a galaxy full of bizarre customers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAIHabash, Gabe
Summary: "In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABHayashida, Kyū
Summary: "The galaxy's least favorite outlaws continue their journey through the cosmos, one step ahead of the very long list of people who want to rip out Zaha Sanko's bones. Maybe someday they'll figure out why everybody thinks his bones grant wishes, but for now it's just a weird fact of life. Sure enough, almost immediately after setting down on the planet Kenzarn, Sanko and pals once again find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2023
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Summary: "What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: The white Genji clan and the red Heike clan battle over a treasure hidden on a mountain, and when a mysterious gunman comes into town both clans try to lure him to their side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUKHayashida, Kyū
Summary: Zaha Sanko is the most wanted man in the universe. They say that if you claim his bones, you'll receive anything your heart desires. Having the entire galaxy trying to kill you all the time is kind of a drag when you're just fourteen years old, but Sanko has the mysterious power of darkness on his side, not to mention a talking spaceship and three horribly powerful space weirdos. Together,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2022
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Summary: "Marimo, comes home mentally drained after being laid off from her job. Her father runs Japanese candy business, facing a severe decline in customers and acquisition threat from a local competitor. One night, Marimo doses off in her bedroom. In her dream, she meets the mysterious duo of Rosie and Emo. From them, she learns how to rebuild her family's business through marketing, and starts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 YASHayashida, Kyū
Summary: Zaha Sanko is the most wanted man in the universe. They say that if you can take his bones, you'll be rewarded with anything you might desire. That's made no end of trouble for Sanko, who's a pretty normal teenage dude (when he's not killing people with an axe made out of pure darkness). Currently the prisoner of an ancient space cult, he'll need everything he's got to reclaim his freedom....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAISummary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KURKawashima, Tadashi.
Summary: "Taisuke and Yuta are searching for their kidnapped friends when they are ambushed by the wind-wielding Morio. Can Taisuke use his burgeoning powers to escape? Whom can Taisuke and Yuta trust?"--P [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALIKawashima, Tadashi.
Summary: Taisuke, having defeated Adou and Ron, must decide whether he can trust them to lead him to Acro's Heart where mastermind Katsumata waits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALIOzawa, Tadashi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic-sha Pub. 2001