Summary: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEASummary: 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: "Master thief Lupin III, a.k.a. 'The Wolf, ' and his right-hand gunman Jigen are hot on the trail of a double-crossing counterfeiter. But when their search leads them to the secluded European country of Cagliostro, they find far more than they bargained for. Lupin unwittingly attracts the attention of the nation's mysterious monarch when he tries to help a damsel in distress escape the Count's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Manga Video 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CASSummary: "Ten years ago, yakuza mid-boss Ikegami led an assault against rival don Muto. Now, on an eve of his revenge, all Muto wants to do is complete his masterpiece, a feature film with his daughter in the starring role, before his wife is released from prison and The F Bombers are standing by with the chance of a lifetime: to film a real, live yakuza battle to the death... on 35mm!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHYSummary: Three stories of undying love. Bound by a long red cord, a young couple wanders in search of something they have forgotten. An aging yakuza returns to the park where he used to meet his long-lost girlfriend. A disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan ... Three stories delicately intertwined by the beauty of sadness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOLSummary: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RASSummary: A documentary of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa featuring his family, colleagues and critics from Japan and America commenting on the man and his films. Includes excerpts from many of his famous works.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KURSummary: Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSummary: In Kore-eda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AFTSummary: 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: Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you're a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that's been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term 'Odd Jobs' means REALLY ODD jobs. But when some more than slightly suspicious secrets from the shadows of Gintoki Sakata's somewhat shady former samurai past and a new pair of odd jobs collide, the action is bound to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentai Filmworks 2012
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GINSummary: Set in postwar Japan, the film follows the last two decades in the life of Hyakken Uchida, a free spirited writer and teacher, highlighted by his relationship with his students who venerate him in his old age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WinStar TV & Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MADSummary: Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LETSummary: Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Letters 2007Summary: The Harunos are a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family. Eight-year-old Sachiko is bothered by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her. Her older brother, Hajime, privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. Mom struggles to come out of retirement as an animator and Dad is a professional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Homevision 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONISummary: After fierce battles with the Akatsuki, Sakura, Granny Chiyo, Kakashi and Naruto have finally retrieved Gaara from Deidara's clutches. But is it all too late?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NARSummary: When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SPI1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPI
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPI RATED PGSummary: In the year 12,090 AD, the Earth has fallen into the clutches of vampires. Humans are enslaved by a corrupted feudal system, prey to the whims of vampire aristocrats. Vampire Hunter D is the only being who dares to challenge the authority of the immortal vampires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Urban Vision Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME VAMSummary: After fierce battles with the Akatsuki, Sakura, Granny Chiyo, Kakashi and Naruto have finally retrieved Gaara from Deidara's clutches. But is it all too late?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010