Summary: "After a yacht is damaged in a storm and stranded on a deserted island, the passengers ... take refuge in a fungus covered boat. While using ... mushrooms for sustenance, they find the ship's journal describing the mushrooms to be poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi transforming them into hideous fungal monsters."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MATSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRSummary: This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: "A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOContents: 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 BLINSummary: 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: In 1954, an enormous beast clawed its way out of the sea, destroying everything in its path--and changing movies forever. The arresting original Godzilla soon gave rise to an entire monster-movie genre (kaiju eiga), but the King of the Monsters continued to reign supreme: in fourteen fiercely entertaining sequels over the next two decades, Godzilla defended its throne against a host of other...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Yoshi.
Summary: A boy pursues and captures elusive butterflies but decides that it is more fun to carry home his memories than a trophy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC YOSSummary: In Japan, the philosophy that nothing last forever is symbolized by the brief bloom of the cherry blossom. Under the cherry blossoms, Tada meets a lost girl, Teresa. As it turns out, Teresa is staying at the hotel next to caf ǒwned by Tada's family and she and will be attending Tada's school. But, Teresa is secretly a princess who has come to Japan to experience a normal life before returning...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME TADYola
Contents: Barely alive -- Dancing away in tears -- Diamond studded shoes -- Be my friend -- Great divide -- Starlight -- If I had to do it all again -- Now you're here -- Whatever you want -- Break the bough -- Like a photograph -- Stand for myself.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOLYova.
Contents: Moondog -- You're The Mirror -- Rain -- Where There Is Smoke -- Togetherness -- Would I Change It? (If I Could) -- An Innocent Man -- Make It Better -- Haunted.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Quartertone Records 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOVYola
Summary: Yola's arresting vocals captivate with sincere tales of heartache and loves lost, forgotten, and broken. A traditional sonic tapestry of orchestral strings, fiddle, steel, and shimmering tremolo guitars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOLCody, Matthew
Summary: Zatanna and her professional magician father live in a house full of magic, puzzles, and storybook creatures, but when she stands up to a bully in school, she returns home to find her father's gone missing within their own home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A gently heartbreaking story about a man's dignifed resignation to life's shifting currents and society's modernization. Though widower Shuhei has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AUTDJ Yoda
Contents: London fields -- Thornton heath -- Rising brook -- Gospel oak -- Kingswood -- Abbey road -- roxbury -- Soweto -- Hither green -- Afrika -- Croxley green -- Eastville -- Boundary gardens
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DJDJ Yoda.
Contents: Chop Suey -- Charlie Sheen -- The interview -- Happy -- Pizza -- Big trouble in China -- Idiot -- Scream -- U no likey like that -- Barrier -- Rudies -- Sega rip -- Sound fx man
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Get Involved Recordings. 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DJSummary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMYoda, Hiroko.
Summary: Provides information and history on Japanese monsters, including the kappa, kitsune, and Onibaba.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 398.2 YODSummary: Funeral parade of roses is a headlong dive into the dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. Hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet, ignites a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNMachia, Yoshio.
Contents: Lotus, Pt. 1 (7:42) -- Lotus, Pt. 2 (6:36) -- Lotus, Pt. 3 (6:02) -- Texas vino (5:13) -- Bloom (6:50) -- Dew (6:36) -- Lotus solo (6:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Amorfon 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE MachiChhibber, Preeti
Summary: "Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and learn how to use the Force in this hilarious and stylized picture book narrated by everybody's favorite Jedi Master, Yoda!" --Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Lucasfilm Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHHSummary: A young warrior searching for a cure for a deadly curse becomes entangled in a battle between a clan of humans and the forest's animal gods.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrYoshii, Ryuichi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Periplus Editions 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5952 YOSYoshino, Satsuki
Summary: "Thirty-two-year-old Tohno Naruhiko has been scraping by as a manga creator for ten years, and when his latest series gets canceled, he finds himself at a crossroads. Tohno's always had his sights set on fantasy, but this time around, his editor's got another idea-a slice-of-life story set in a remote village not unlike the one where he was born and raised. Could a return to his roots be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020