Summary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: After moving to the country to be near their ailing mother, two young sisters are befriended by a variety of mysterious creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family My 2010Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pazu is an engineer's apprentice who finds Sheeta, a young girl, floating down from the sky, wearing a glowing pendant. Together, they discover both are searching for Laputa, a legendary floating castle, and vow to unravel the mystery of the luminous crystal around Sheeta's neck. Their quest won't be easy. There are greedy air pirates, secret government agents and astounding obstacles to keep...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaSummary: The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship before Ponyo's father forces her to return to the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the balance of nature and only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PoSummary: After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A schoolgirl named Shizuku, who longs to discover her true talents, meets the mysterious Seiji, a boy who is determined to follow his dreams, and The Baron, a magical cat who helps her listen to the whispers in her heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young boy and a mysterious girl search for a fantastic floating castle while trying to outrun pirates, the army, and government agents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: Spell of the Unown: A once-beautiful town has had a crystal catastrophe unleased upon it. Ash's mom is kidnapped by Entei, a powerful Pokémon, who was thought to only exist in legend. Ash goes to his mom's rescue and unlocks the real secret behind this turn of events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The adventure explodes into action with the debut of Mewtwo. Determined to prove its superiority, Mewtwo lures Ash, Pikachu, and others into a Pokemon match like none before. Mewtwo vs. Mew. Super-clones vs. Pokemon. It's the ultimate showdown...with the very future of the world at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME POKSummary: The third film in the Animerama Trilogy. The setting is a village in medieval France. On the day of their wedding, Jean and Jeanne visit the lord of the village to pay a tribute. Instead of receiving the tribute, the lord and his vassals rape her, and the marriage is marked with misery and unhappiness. One day, a tiny creature visits Jeanne, an evil spirit. In time, the spirit seduces her body...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BELSummary: When American reporter Steve Martin investigaates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face with an ancient creature so powerful and so terrifying, it can reduce Tokyo to a smoldering graveyard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR GODSummary: Toshiro Hitsugaya is suspected of treason when he disappears after the Ouin is stolen, and substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo vows to prove his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLESummary: Feature films based on characters from the Bleach manga, and from the television series. A mysterious girl is the key to a plot for revenge that involves the Soul Society and the World of the Living. Now it's up to Ichigo and Rukia to help save her and the two worlds from certain devastation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Studiopolis 2008
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLESummary: Abandoned by her boyfriend in Tokyo, a young woman finds a job working for a tyrannical chef in a local ramen house and learns how to put excitement and enthusiasm back into her life as well as her cooking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAMSummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: Earth's last city, Olympus rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city's population. Human terrorists seek a return to power and clash with a legendary soldiers, Deunan Knute and her boyfriend who is 75% machine. To save humanity and end the conflicts, retrieving the Appleseed is a must. Deunan alone holds it's secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon 2005
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME APPSummary: Planet terror: A small town sheriff's department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. The gun-legged Cherry and one-man wrecking crew El Wray try to save the world from the horde of flesh-eating...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co., LLC. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GRISummary: Gojira: A prehistoric monster, Godzilla, ravages metropolitan Tokyo. Scientists suspect that H-bomb tests awakened it from a two-million year sleep and they try to develop techniques to stop the monster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young widow Tanpopo attempts to start a small ramen noodle restaurant. She has little success until she meets Gorō, a cowboy-hat-wearing truck driver who decides to helps her to make the perfect bowl of top ramen. A story that features various subplots and an eclectic group of supporting characters, all of whom have expressively passionate relationships with food.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAMSummary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002