Summary: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: 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
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KAGSummary: The cherry blossoms are blooming, the sun is shining, and it's the perfect time to hit the pool! Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa, and Rei are anxious to get into the water warm up their winter muscles ASAP, but things aren't all flip-turns and finish lines. Haru's passion for swimming is drying up, which dashes Rin's hope for a true rivalry. With their futures after high school looming over them, Makoto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FRESummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME LUTsuji, Shizuo
Summary: When it was first published, Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art changed the way the culinary world viewed Japanese cooking, moving it from obscure ethnic food to haute cuisine. Twenty-five years later, much has changed. Japanese food is a favorite of diners around the world. Not only is sushi as much a part of the Western culinary scene as burgers, bagels, and burritos, but some Japanese chefs have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International Ltd. 1980
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Publisher / Publication Date: Suzuki Method International, Summy-Birchard 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.87 SUZContents: 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 BLINKimura, Shinichi.
Summary: Seemingly normal high school student Ayumu Aikawa is actually a zombie and bodyguard to a necromancer, and his crazy life becomes more complicated when he steals the powers of a magical girl and turns into one himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ISKimura, Shinichi.
Summary: Seemingly normal high school student Ayumu Aikawa is actually a zombie and bodyguard to a necromancer, and his crazy life becomes more complicated when he steals the powers of a magical girl and turns into one himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ISTsui, Sam
Summary: Travel the world and learn about the reasons we sing--to have fun and share our stories, to pass the time and remember times past, and to come together and celebrate! With gentle rhyming text, this musical adventure around the globe is the perfect introduction to the magical world of singing--from Bollywood to Broadway to your own backyard!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TSUTsui, Bonnie
Summary: "Bonnie Tsui looks at our love affair with the water, from evolution to mythology, from survival and well-being, from community swim clubs to competitive races, and she goes around the world to explore its significance in many cultures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIROyelana, Tunji.
Contents: Disc 1: Ojo -- Lisabi Egba -- Ipasan -- Osekere -- Fiya jemi -- Ifa -- Ogun Adubi -- Agba lo de -- Iwo ko lo dami -- Omoba d'eru ri -- Jewele jewele -- To whom it may concern.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OYETsuda, Nobuko.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weatherhill 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5952 TSUTsuge, Yoshiharu
Summary: "Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2019
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TSUTsuge, Yoshiharu
Summary: "Nejishiki represents the pinnacle of avant-garde manga. Originally published in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in 1968, the title story marks cult cartoonist Yoshiharu Tsuge's radical turn to dreams, surrealism, and existential horror. Tsuge's literary landscapes were once lush and inviting; now they are shadowy and haunted. His cheery travelers have lost their innocence; they have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TSUSummary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KURSummary: "Afraid of judgment, Wakana Gojo hides his love of crafting hina dolls. Marin Kitagawa is the opposite, boldly loving her obsessions. Their worlds collide when she shares her secret. Now, they're learning about cosplay and falling in love!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Canavan, Trudi
Summary: Five years have passed since the Rebels confronted the Raen. Five years, in which the boy Rielle rescued, Qall, has safely grown up among the Travellers. Five years, in which Tyen has made a new home for himself, hidden from those who call him a traitor and the Spy.Five years of chaos in the world, barely contained by Baluka and the Restorers. Worlds are at war, some overrun by machines, some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANKanter, Trudi.
Summary: A true story of a Jewish Austrian hat designer who rescued herself and the businessman she loved during the 1938 Nazi invasion, seeking safety amid the horrors of World War II Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5482 KANTER, TRUDI KANSummary: Sixteen-year-old Haruka is on a mission to find her mirror, a precious childhood gift from her mother that mysteriously disappeared. While following a strange fox-like creature in the woods, she tumbles into a mystical world where once-cherished toys and treasures go when their owners neglect them. Join Haruka and her new friend Teo on a roller coaster ride of adventure as they contend with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Production I.G. 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OBL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OBL
Hahn, Sumi
Summary: "A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020