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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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[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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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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-- 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.