Summary: 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: 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: Magnetic Rose: Two space travellers follow a distress signal and are drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. Stink bomb: A young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Cannon fodder: Depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD ANIME MEMSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inari is a sweet and shy middle school girl with a HUGE crush on Tanbabashi, one of the cutest guys in her grade. But she’s not smooth enough to tell him how she feels, and every time she tries things just keep getting worse! That is, until one day she saves an injured fox struggling on a riverbank. To Inari’s surprise, the fox turns out to be the familiar of Uka, a beautiful goddess. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation Prod 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME INAWatanabe, Shigeo
Summary: Despite difficulties, a young bear eats his lunch all by himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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Place a hold to request this item.Tanabe, Yellow.
Summary: "By night, teenager Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KEKWatanabe, 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.Misako Rokkusu
Summary: Lilico's life in Japan is going well. She has great friends and is the captain of the school's basketball team. She's happy! Then comes her parents' news: they're moving to America! Before she knows it, Lilico finds herself in Brooklyn, New York, forced to start all over. And that won't be easy with her closest friends thousands of miles away or a school bully who immediately dislikes her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Tanabe, Yellow.
Summary: Yoshimori is forced to fight alongside his absentee mother in the battle for Karasumori and the Shadow Organization, but finds he has trouble trusting her. Then, the witch Kakeru returns with a plan to release magic that could destroy the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KEKWatanabe, 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 WATTakamatsu, Misaki
Summary: The critically acclaimed romantic comedy about a country girl chasing her dreams in Tokyo! Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SKIMadokoro, Hisako
Summary: Buster is frightened by the strong winds outside his dog house until he goes outside to play and discovers what fun the wind can be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Madokoro, Hisako
Summary: A puppy named Buster helps a lost and frightened kitten find its mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Kanamori, Miyako.
Summary: Explains how to transform worn-out gloves, mittens, and socks into a menagerie of whimsical creations, in a guide that presents thirteen projects that include monkeys, elephants, piglets, bunnies, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Home 2007
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Summary: "While Mitsumi adjusts to big city life, her cheerful and forthright personality brings joy to her classmates. Now that she's getting the hang of high school, her circle expands even further."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SKISummary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANOkawa, Hisako.
Summary: An irresistible Japanese craft book full of photos, illustrations, and 20 crochet patterns to make adorably understated long-legged stuffed animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.434 OKAMadokoro, Hisako
Summary: Buster the puppy ignores his mother's instructions and goes outside for an adventure in the rain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Madokoro 1991Matsuno, Masako.
Summary: A little Japanese girl tries to hide the fact that she has cracked her new red clogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Purple House Press 1960
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MATOgita, Hisako.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.8 OGITakahashi, Masako
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000