Summary: A middle-aged businessman's dull life takes an interesting turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class just to meet the beautiful dance instructor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHASummary: 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.Friko
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Shinto shrine -- Taiko drumming (Kaoru Watanabe) -- The municipal dome -- Six months later + Dogfight -- The hero pack -- First crash-landing -- Kanbei & Katsushiro - Kikuchiyo's mambo : from Seven samurai / written by Fumio Hayasaka-- Second crash-landing + Bath house + Beach attack -- Nutmeg -- Kosame no oka : from Drunken angel / written by Ryoichi Hattori and Hachiro Sato (David Mansfield)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ABKCO 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ISLSummary: 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: With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A terrorist bomb destroyed a tanker truck on Highway One on Mars releasing a deadly virus killing hundreds. The rewards for the bomber's capture is massive and the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop would love to get their hands on it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME COWWatanabe, Shigeo
Summary: Despite difficulties, a young bear eats his lunch all by himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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Place a hold to request this item.Watanabe, Crystal.
Summary: Explains how to make unique food creations based on the Japanese bento boxes, which feature healthy meals decorated to look like fun creatures, fairy tale characters, and special surprises.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641 WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5952 WATWatanabe, Shigeo
Summary: A little bear asks passersby if they have seen his daddy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1982
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Place a hold to request this item.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 EMIFruko.
Contents: Fruko disc: La pintosa -- Ocho dias -- Botando corriente -- Oriza -- Descarga Fruko -- El muerto vivo -- Canto a Panama -- Tu sufrirás -- Pa' teso yo! -- El violento -- Rumbero soy -- El preso -- Fiebre de cumbia -- El negro chombo -- Catalina del mar -- Salsa brava -- San Juan de Puerto Rico -- El hijo del Guaguanco -- Tifit hayed -- Sabor jibaro -- El esclavo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nascente 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN FRUWatanabe, Issa
Summary: The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last the journey is over and the migrants arrive. This is the new place. With forceful simplicity, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals leaving a leafless forest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WATWatanabe, Sadao
Contents: Saudadés de elis (4:47) -- Minha profissão (3:29) -- Made in Coração (4:18) -- O que passou passou (4:10) -- Filho meu (2:34) -- Samba da volta (4:54) -- Carinhoso (3:25) -- Sentimentos iguais (4:00) -- Bons momentos (3:37) -- Inquieto amor (3:51).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN WATSummary: A young waitress asks two very different warriors, one rash and animalistic, the other cool and composed to accompany her on a journey in search of a mysterious samurai.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2011
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SAMSato, Eriko
Summary: DeMYSTiFieD makes learning Japanese a no-brainer! Demystified Japanese provides you with a friendly, non-intimidating method that takes the confusion out of learning the language, walking you step by step through the fundamentals and moving on to more advanced topics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 SATTeranishi, Eriko
Summary: "Finger Knitting for Kids shows young crafters (and their parents) how to make cute and easy knitted pieces using only their fingers and a bit of yarn. Clear and simple step-by-step lessons walk them through a series of delightful projects--ranging from simple knitted hair ties and bags to braided scarves and pom pom hats"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 746.432 TERContents: Komoriuta: Lullaby (variations) / Tanaka (Hozan Yamamoto, shakuhachi ; Utazumi Kunishige, koto) (7:42) -- Toge hachi-ri: Eight miles through a mountain pass / Tanaka (Tozan Tanno, Tozan Hara, Shakuhachi) (7:06) -- Kuon no hikari: Eternal lights / Tanaka (Hozan Yamamoto, shakuhachi ; Utazumi Kunishige, koto) (6:50) -- Umi: Sea fantasy / Hoshida (Tozan Hara, Shakuhachi ; Soyo Nakamura, Reiko...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hemisphere 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN TANSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOErivo, Cynthia
Summary: "A girl dreams of a rocket ship, and her mother encourages her to follow her big, bright, bold dream"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ERIJean, Emiko
Summary: Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever After. When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Now, shes overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JEARico
Contents: Man from Wareika This day -- Ramble -- Lumumba -- Africa -- Man from Wareika -- Rast -- Over the mountain -- Gunga din -- Dial Africa -- Africa -- (Free) ganja -- (Free) ganja (vocal version) -- Far east -- No politician -- Fire stick -- Ska wars -- Sidewinder
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline international 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE RICJean, Emiko
Summary: At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki's life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She's a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese parents. And, most recently, she's been fired from her latest dead-end job. Mika is at her lowest point when she receives a phone call from Penny--the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022