Summary: "Switch on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the only intergalactic program with enough firepower to blast misbegotten B movies into the can't-miss hits that delusional filmmakers believed they were creating! Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson join forces with two robots who would never be lost in space - the wisecracking Tom Servo and madcap Crow. Together, our heroes strive to make the universe safe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYSContents: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Pub. 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 941.0859 ReagaSummary: Cell has finally reached his perfect form, and he won't rest till civilization falls! Only a herculean effort by Earth's heroes can stop Cell's rampage, but a superhuman slugfest of unprecedented brutality leads to Goku's shocking retirement! Young Gohan alone must now battle the monster and his miniature minions. The outlook appears bleak, but somewhere Goku lurks, waiting to lend his strength...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOSAkagawa, Jirō
Summary: An incident occurred at a wedding hall where Akiko Nagato was working part-time. The bride disappears just before the ceremony, and there is a corpse in the wedding dress. Akiko shows her curiosity and pursues the case. Youth humor mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKATaniguchi, Jirō.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DISSummary: A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TORAkagawa, Jirō
Summary: Ayumi, a second-year college student, was invited to a wedding reception by her senior at the club, Tamura, but it seems strange. On top of that, Tamura left behind saying, "It's just like that, but the bride is another woman," and went to Honeymoon. And murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKATaniguchi, Jirō
Summary: "Two defeated samurai are exiled from Japan during the Boshin War of 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold. Ending up in Crow Territory in North America, they encounter Crazy Horse, chief of the Oglalas, and soon form a profound friendship and respect for each other's cultures. This respect was felt so deeply that the two Japanese travelers end up fighting alongside the Oglalas at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare/Ponent Mon 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKYHorikoshi, Jirō
Summary: A record of the success of valuable technological development, in which the chief designer of the famous Zero Fighter, which remains in the history of aviation in the world, clearly spelled out the process from idea to completion based on the records at that time. It was a perfect crystallization of foresight, creativity, and constant effort. "We, the people of technology, should not be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa Shoten 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 HORTaniguchi, Jirō.
Summary: "Middle-aged businessman Hiroshi Nakahara has been catapulted back into his life as a 14 year-old but with all his adult memories and knowledge intact. As he settles into his past in a way that only someone who has seen the future can, he experiences again the friendship, the exhilaration and the love of youth. But subtle changes occur in his history and, as the summer break reaches its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fanfare/Ponent Mon 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DISSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLASummary: In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JIR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JIR
Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014
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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WINSummary: Affluent architects Ryota and his wife Midori face a terrible dilemma when they learn that their six-year-old son, Keita, was accidentally switched at birth and is not their biological child. In the wake of this revelation, Ryota's sense of fatherhood is shaken to the core as he witnesses both his wife's enduring devotion to Keita and his own conflicting feelings of nature versus nurture. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKSummary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STOSummary: Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFTSummary: When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ISLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISLKurosawa, Akira
Summary: While young Sanshiro is enrolled in a jujitsu school, he also secretly studies the more spiritual art of judo; follows the stories of several female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II; Sanshiro becomes the target of revenge; Lord Yoshitsune and his samurai bodyguards dress as monks in order to pass through enemy territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010