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 FLA

Summary: Masuoka is a cameraman possesed by the craving to understand fear. After he brings home a strange girl he finds in the caverns below the subway, he realizes that he has found the key to gaining that terrible knowledge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAR

Summary: Life for minor god Yato isn't getting any easier. He's still broke, shrineless, and his partner-slash-sword-regalia has zero respect for him. Worse yet, Bishamon, one of the deadliest war gods, is after his life. Blaming him for the death of her past regalia, she won't stop until she kills him. But there's more to that story than she could ever realize. And as if that's not bad enough, there's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NOR

Summary: A searing portrait of the self-absorbed English artist Francis Bacon at the height of his fame in the 1960s and his tumultuous love affair with his self-destructive lover George Dyer, a would-be thief whom Bacon discovered one night as the young man attempted to burgle Bacon's studio.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOV

Contents: Use your head (Money Mark) (2:47) -- Corcovado (Everything but the Girl) (3:56) -- Desafinado (Astrud Gilberto + George Michael (3:20) -- Non-fiction burning (PM Dawn with Flora Purim + Airto (4:31) -- The boy from Ipanema (Crystal Waters) (4:24) -- Interlude (0:14) -- Seguranca (Maxwell) (3:29) -- E preciso perdoar (Cesaria Evora + Caetano Veloso + Ryuichi Sakamoto) (6:01) -- Interlude (0:33)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN RED

Summary: Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRI

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRI

Summary: Keita Amano is a fan of one thing: gaming! Whether he's on his phone or console, he just loves playing video games. And when the beautiful president of the game club, Karen Tendo, invites him to join, it seems like an EZ choice. Except, he declines! KO'd by the shock, Karen suddenly makes getting close to Amano her main quest. But she's not the only one interested in him!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME GAM

Summary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIS

Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASS

Summary: Kill Bill Vol. 1: "Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback-- with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start, but is determined to finish!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KIL

Chien Chow Chine, Aurélie

Summary: Creative nonfiction picture book about a little unicorn who feels all kinds of emotions, including fear, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down. Teaches children to identify emotions and manage them effectively.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHI

Emika

Contents: Wash it all away -- Could this be -- Run -- Close -- Promises -- Killers -- Falling (reprise) -- Falling in love with sadness (feat. The Exaltics) -- Escape -- Eternity.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EMI

Summary: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary 'Battle Royale' act. 42 students, three days, no rules, one survivor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN BAT

Sakamoto, Ryūichi

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1983

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SAK

Umino, Chika.

Summary: Takemoto is an art student in Tokyo trying to make ends meet while dealing with friends, family, and relationships.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 0000

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HON

Sakamoto, Ryūichi

Contents: Before long -- Neo geo -- Risky -- Free trading -- Shogunade -- Parata -- Okinawa song : Chin nuku juushii -- After all

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SAK

Umino, Chika.

Summary: "Takemoto, a sophomore art student in Tokyo, thinks his greatest worries in life are finding ways to eat more meat and getting to class on time. But with friends like his, life is never going to be that tame"--Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HON

Lin, Chia-Chia

Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIN

Sakamoto, Ryūichi

Contents: Thousand knives -- Island of woods -- Grasshoppers -- Das neue Japanische elektronische volkslied -- Plastic bamboo -- The end of Asia.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Denon 1984

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SAK

Sakamoto, Ryuichi.

Contents: Station.--Open the door.--1st coronation.--Armo.--Demo guns.--Mouse.--Cut my queue.--The gate.--Tension.--Rain (I want a divorce).--Manchukuo party.--Manchukuo waltz.--The Baby (was born dead).--Russian army.--The Last emperor: Theme.--Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence: Theme.--Germination.--The Seed and the sower.--Ride ride ride (Celliers' brother's song).--The Fight.--Beyond reason.--The...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SAK