Summary: A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CATSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Harunos are a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family. Eight-year-old Sachiko is bothered by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her. Her older brother, Hajime, privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. Mom struggles to come out of retirement as an animator and Dad is a professional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASSummary: An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then they dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Homevision 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONISummary: When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOJSummary: 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 Family DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE 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 PrSummary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IKISummary: When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD SPICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPI RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SpSummary: In the year 12,090 AD, the Earth has fallen into the clutches of vampires. Humans are enslaved by a corrupted feudal system, prey to the whims of vampire aristocrats. Vampire Hunter D is the only being who dares to challenge the authority of the immortal vampires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Urban Vision Entertainment 2000