Summary: This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOMuramatsu, Kevin
Summary: Step-by-Step Guide to Parts Placement for Today's Most Popular Shotguns! Shooters, gunsmiths and collectors alike will find the revised version of this handy guide an essential reference for disassembling and reassembling a variety of shotguns. Step-by-step photographs and clear, simple text make it easy to disassemble and reassemble a wide range of modern and vintage models. Plus, author...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gun Digest Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 MURSatō, Shōzō
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.1 SATKoike, Shōzō
Summary: Japanese master artist Shozo Koike reveals the simple secrets of Sumi-e, offering step-by-step instructions with clear photographs and online video tutorials showing you how to paint 19 traditional subjects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.42 KOISatō, Shōzō
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.92 SATSummary: 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.Summary: When Lu comes ashore and adds her mermaid singing to a middle-school rock band, a threatening ancient prophecy follows her, so Kai and her other bandmates step up to come to Lu's--and the village's--rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME LUSummary: Sent to the seaside to stay with relatives for the summer, Anna strikes up a friendship with Marnie, who lives there in an old mansion surrounded by marshes. As their friendship grows, so does Anna's curiosity about the truth surrounding her new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WHE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHE
Summary: After suffering a humiliating loss at the Grand Prix Final, Japan's number one skater, Yuri Katsuki, is ready to hang up his skates for good. But when his idol and five-time champion Victor Nikiforov offers to be his coach, Yuri's put on a trek for gold and to discover the true meaning of victory. Together, they'll face skaters from all around the world while discovering where their true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who had retired from the spotlight 30 years prior. As she recounts her career, Genya and his crew are literally pulled into her memories where they witness her chance encounter with a mysterious man on the run from the police. Despite never knowing his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME MILSummary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOSummary: Past and present collide as a film director discovers a mysterious key that unlocks the secrets of a legendary actress who vanished at the height of her career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME MILSummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSummary: Inspired by four shocking and true events, the film focuses on four characters who are driven to violent ends. An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014