Hayashi, Hiromi
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JOIE 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.982 HAYSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIFSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KURSummary: Sword of vengeance: He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido. Their first commission: to save the life of Daimyo and kill the traitors that plot his death. Baby Cart at the River Styx: The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami and his son Diagoro wander the countryside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As Serena and her friends enjoy Christmas vacation, an unusual snow storm hits the town. When the Sailor Scouts search for the source, they discover the evil Snow Queen, Kaguya, who wants to freeze the earth! Sailor Moon has to defeat Snow Queen Kaguya and her ice maiden minions to save the Earth and her loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Entertainment (USA) 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SAISummary: 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.Tanaka, Yoshiki
Summary: "In the prosperous kingdom of Pars lies the Royal Capital of Ecbatana, a city of splendor and wonder, ruled by the undefeated and fearsome King Andragoras. Arslan is the young and curious prince of Pars who, despite his best efforts doesn't seem to have what it takes to be a proper king like his father. At the age of 14, Arslan goes to his first battle and loses everything as the blood-soaked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HERSummary: The wicked Badiyanu has come to capture all the children to gain enough power to absorb the earth into her Black Dream Hole. The Black Dream Hole is located in the center of Badiyanu's castle and absorbs all the dream energy from the children. Once it reaches a certain size, it will be large enough to swallow the planet sentencing all the people to eternal sleep in evil dream boxes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Entertainment (USA) 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SAISummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Homevision 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONISummary: The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN NAKTanaka, Yoshiki
Summary: Though Arslan and his party have escaped Kharlan s forces, Kharlan will stop at nothing to capture the former prince of Pars. To draw out Arslan, Kharlan has an underhanded plan to massacre innocent villagers until the prince makes his appearance, but Arslan will not stand idly by while the lives of his people are at stake, so he heads out to take on Kharlan and his army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Tanaka, Yoshiki
Summary: "The priestess Farangis and wandering minstrel Gieve have joined Prince Arslan in his quest to reclaim his kingdom. But these new additions are far from enough to stand up against the vast army of Lusitania and the nefarious scheming of the Man in the Silver Mask. Arslan must seek reinforcements from Kashan Fortress and is warmly greeted by its lord, Hodir, but Hodir's hospitality will come at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HERSummary: In the walled enclave where the remnants of humanity shelter from the Titans, giant creatures who have taken over the rest of the world, Eren and Mikasa join the fight against them after the city is breached and a Titan kills their mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME ATTSummary: Ten years after the Holy War in Hong Kong, Mochizuki Jirou, aka the Silver Blade, and the lone hero who fought and defeated the Kowloon Children despite the loss of his lover, returns to Japan with his young brother, Mochizuki Kotaro. The two quickly discover that the Kowloon Children who survived the Holy War are seeking to infiltrate the "Special Zone"--A thriving city protected by an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2008
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLASummary: Four ninjas with kekkei genkai who have been guarding the Hidden Villages of Cloud, Stone, Mist, and Sand disappear from their respective villages. The Land of Fire comes under suspicion as it is the only country to have suffered no loss, and the tension among the five countries almost brings about a fourth Great Ninja War. In the Hidden Village of Leaf, Tsunade orders her men to keep strict...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NARSummary: In two featured episodes, 'tales of a gursy Ninja: Jiralya Nija Scrolls,' go back in time to witness how the young Jiralya meets his destiny at Mount Myoboku and trains to become the Toad Sage! Back in present, Jiralya successfully infiltrates the Hidden Rain Village and finds the hideout of the Akatsuki's Pain. But will he be as successful in discovering the secret behind the multiple Pains?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NARSummary: Piccolo and Gohan must battle descendants of the Red Ribbon Army's leaders for the future of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN UZUSummary: An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains togo to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Home Video Corp. 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GIASummary: Orochimaru's minion Guren will do anything to stop the Leaf ninja from sealing Three Tails, but the Leaf's top shinobi will be tough to beat! While a sealing team tracks the location of the beast and its host, a guard team led by Kakashi and Naruto fends off attacks from Guren. But it's no ordinary battle when Naruto finds himself fighting alongside his enemy in a most unusual location-inside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NARSummary: Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME YOUSummary: "Switch on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the only intergalactic program with enough firepower to blast misbegotten B movies into the can't-miss hits that delusional filmmakers believed they were creating! Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson join forces with two robots who would never be lost in space - the wisecracking Tom Servo and madcap Crow. Together, our heroes strive to make the universe safe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018