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Ryōkan 1758-1831 Comic books, strips, etc Japan Translations into English Demonology Cartoons and comics Demonology Comic books, strips, etc Demonology Fiction Japan Supernatural Cartoons and comics Supernatural Comic books, strips, etc Yōkai (Japanese folklore) Cartoons and comics Yōkai (Japanese folklore) Comic books, strips, etcSummary: 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 TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEPSummary: An entomologist is tricked by villagers into spending the night in a shack in a sandpit with a widow whose task is endlessly to haul away sand. He finds he cannot escape and gradually develops an intense bond with his companion and resigns himself to a lifetime of hypnotic routine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film and Video/Image Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: Piccolo and Gohan must battle descendants of the Red Ribbon Army's leaders for the future of the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Osada, Hiroshi
Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text depict nature darkened by a brief rainstorm then, at sunset, colors brighten, rain drips like crystals, and the bright white moon shines as we fall asleep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFTSummary: A year after a botched hostage negotiation with a serial killer turned deadly, ex-detective Koichi and his wife move into a new house with a deeply strange new neighbor. His old cop colleagues come calling for his help on a mysterious case, which may be related to the strange goings-on next door, in this insidiously constructed narrative that braids plot twists on top of plot twists and shock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRERusko
Contents: Woo boost -- Hold on (feat. Amber Coffman (of Dirty Projectors)) -- Rubadub shakedown (feat. Ron Azlan) -- Dial my number -- I love you-- Kumon kumon -- Scarewear (feat. Redlight) -- Raver's spesh -- Feels so real (feat. Ben Westbeech) -- You're on my mind baby -- Got da grove (feat. Gucci Mane) -- Oy -- My mouth -- District line.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Decent 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RUSSummary: 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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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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINOgawa, Yōko
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGARyokan
Summary: Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication (he excelled in scriptural studies, in calligraphy, and in poetry), Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool," refusing to place himself within any established religious institution. In contrast to Zen masters of his time who presided over large...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.6 RYOOno, Yōko.
Contents: A story (2:38) -- Loneliness (3:33) -- Will you touch me (2:39) -- Dogtown (3:32) -- Tomorrow may never come (2:52) -- Yes, I'm a witch (3:11) -- She gets down on her knees (4:50) -- It happened (3:52) -- Winter friend (3:17) -- Heartburn stew (2:09) -- Hard times are over (4:37) -- Anatano te/Your hands (3:35) -- Extension 33 (1:27) -- Now or never (1:18)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ryko 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONOOno, Yōko.
Summary: Yoko Ono continues an astonishing bout of creativity with a new album. Among the special guests on Take Me To The Land of Hell are ?uestlove, Lenny Kravitz, Nels Cline, and tUnEyArDs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chimera Music 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONOSummary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STOOgawa, Yōko
Summary: "On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGAOno, Yōko.
Contents: Witch shocktronica intro (with Hank Shocklee) -- Kiss kiss kiss (with Peaches) -- O'oh (with Shitake Monkey) -- Everyman everywoman (with Blow Up) -- Sisters o sisters (with Le Tigre) -- Death of Samantha (with Porcupine Tree) -- Rising (with DJ Spooky) -- Nobody sees me like you do (with The Apples in Stereo) -- Yes I'm a witch (with The Brother Brothers) -- Revelations (with Cat Power) -- You...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONOTawada, Yōko
Summary: Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient--frail...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAWShiibashi, Hiroshi
Summary: "Rikuo encounters three siblings from the house of Keikain who are from a generations-long line of yokai hunters. Yura, the sister of the trio, is not sure what to think of Rikuo and seems to be unconvinced as to whether he is friend or foe. But her brothers have other ideas. And the battle that ensues is epic!" -- from publisher's web site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NURShiibashi, Hiroshi
Summary: Rikuo Nura, three-quarters human and one quarter yokai, a supernatural creature that thrives on human fear, transforms from an ordinary teenager into the leader of the Nura clan, leading a hundred demons in defense of the clan's status when it is challenged by a mysterious group of travelers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NURYoshimura, Hiroshi.
Contents: Creek -- Feel -- Sheep -- Sleep -- Green -- Feet -- Street -- Teevee.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sona Gaia 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC YOSSakurazaka, Hiroshi
Summary: "When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haikasoru 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAKShiibashi, Hiroshi
Summary: "Thanks to rumors, all of Tokyo is terrified of Rikuo and wants him dead! But Rikuo's got other problems too. In Shibuya, a yokai is turning human girls into monsters, and he's got a special spell in store for Rikuo when he tries to stop him." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NURShiibashi, Hiroshi
Summary: "Rikuo trains for a rematch against the yokai Tsuchigumo, who has his friend Yuki-Onna in his clutches. To get him up to par, Gyuki of the Nura clan has ordered Rikuo to attain a technique worthy of the Lord of a Hundred Demons in just three days. But time is running out and Rikuo hasn't gained anything but bumps and bruises. Will he be able to save Yuki-Onna?"--Publisher's web site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2013