Summary: A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alien occupied feudal Japan is strange by any normal standards, but at Gintoki's Odd Jobs agency, the freelancers have learned to expect the weirdest of the weird when it comes to assignments. When a company specializes in doing the oddest of odd jobs, the odds are that that oddness is bound to rub off. But the really bad part about the job is that it pays so little for the near-terminal risk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentai Filmworks 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GINSummary: "In an empire ruled by fear, the people's only hope is the ulitmate weapon: Zatoichi--a blind, nomadic samurai whose sword has made him a hero and whose courage has made him a legend! Determined to help the desperate residents of a village, Zatoichi seeks justice through revenge"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLISummary: Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you're a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that's been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term 'Odd Jobs' means REALLY ODD jobs. But when some more than slightly suspicious secrets from the shadows of Gintoki Sakata's somewhat shady former samurai past and a new pair of odd jobs collide, the action is bound to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentai Filmworks 2012
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GINSummary: "Life isn't easy in feudal Japan, especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Sure, the new health care is great, but the sword ban has left a lot of samurai scrounging for a living! Enter Gintoki Sakata, an out-of-work samurai who will take just about any job so long as the money's right. Unfortunately for Gintoki and his friends, the bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile yakuza,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentai Filmworks 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GINBlair, Gavin J.
Summary: "The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting the nation after a prolonged period of brutal war and bloodshed. Though famed for their loyalty, honor, and chivalry, they could also be treacherous, bloodthirsty, and merciless. This book tells the story of their rise and eventual demise through carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022