Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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2001., Adult, Pioneer Entertainment USA Call No: DVD Fic Akira Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.
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(2006)., Adult, DreamWorks Call No: DVD Fic Flags Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The life stories of the men who raised the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
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-- Hauru no ugoku shiro2006, p2004., General, Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Howl's Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a contract, the terms of which Calcifer cannot reveal. They promise to help each other with their problems. Like Calcifer, Howl can also see through the Witch's spell, and he and Sophie fall in love. Sophie helps Howl confront his former teacher, and the Witch of the Waste.
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-- Umarete wa mita keredoc2008., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic I was born Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)).Summary Note: A portrait of the financial and psychological toils of a family, as two young boys come to understand their father's low status in society.
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2018., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Isle Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.
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[2004], c2003., Adult, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Last Sam Edition: Standard version, full screen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's honor to the ultimate test.
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[2008]., Adult, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Letters Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1945, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.
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c2003., Adult, distributed by] Universal Call No: DVD Fic LostInT Edition: [Widescreen version]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.
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(2006, p2005)., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Memoirs Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha, she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue.
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-- Dekigokoroc2008., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Passing Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)).Summary Note: Examines the close, but fraught, relationship between an illiterate brewery worker and his educated son.
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1998., Adult, Fox Lorber Home Video Call No: DVD SHK Fic Ran Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane.
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c2002, p1950., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Rashomon Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
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1999., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Sanjuro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 53.Summary Note: A samurai turns up in a town where nine young men are plotting to overthrow a corrupt regime. He takes charge of the group and attempts to formulate a plan to deceive the old bosses.
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-- Shichinin no samurai.2006., General, Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Seven S Edition: Special ed. , English subtitled version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 2.Summary Note: Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
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-- Hachigatsu jūgoya no chayac2006, c1956., General, Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Teahouse Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!.
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-- Kumonosu-jo.1957, c2003., Adult, Criterion Collection Call No: DVD SHK Fic Throne Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodisc) Volume: 190.Summary Note: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.