Summary: After his family was brutally murdered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado's journey as a demon slayer began. Tanjiro and his comrades embark on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train, on track to despair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME DEMSummary: "Before the Knight Sabers arrived in Mega Tokyo, the overworked, underfunded, and outgunned AD Police had to hold a swelling violence. Boomers, a class of intelligent androids, have the potential to free mankind from physical labor. But alas, anything that can be used can also be misused"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: AnimEigo 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLASummary: A rare glimpse of early Japanese anime and prewar Japanese culture, The roots of Japanese anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo's Momotaro's sea eagle, the notorious war cartoon billed as Japan's first feature anime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zakka Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROOSummary: A portrait of a woman victimized by the strictures of seventeenth-century feudal Japanese society, from her beginnings as the daughter of a samurai and ending up as a prostitute.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LIFSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN NAKSummary: Japan's first feature-length animated film set the stage for the rise of anime. A notable accomplishment for its time, the project was funded by the Navy Ministry of Japan during World War II. Along with another early masterpiece, Spider and Tulip (Kumo to chûrippu), these films are preserved as milestones of the industry and historical artifacts of the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOMSummary: After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. Okko discovers there are spirits who live there that only she can see; not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company and play games. The inn₂s motto is that it welcomes all and rejects none, and it is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME OKKSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition for a phony film, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all and the widower becomes drawn into her sadistic and vengeful world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AUDSummary: 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