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Will you step into
My web? You will like it here.
No one ever leaves
There are some who believe that the honor of a samurai is reserved for men. But they are wrong.
A daughter of a samurai picks up her father's sword and becomes a legend. Each stroke of the sword is as precise as the stroke of a brush.
The haikus herein are spread across the eight-book epic saga Warrior Woman of the Samurai, but collected
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator...
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Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the U.S. government's unjust and unconstitutional policies-particularly the federal decision to draft imprisoned Nisei into the military without first restoring their lost citizenship...
86) Obon
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko's childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan's subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima's ruins. Official...
87) Demolition Girl
Publisher
Filmination
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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High school teen Cocoa (Aya Kitai) supports her gambling addict father and deadbeat brother with a part-time job selling sausages and secret work as a video fetish performer. Initially resigned to her small town life of limited possibilities and economic struggle, when the unexpected prospect of going to a Tokyo university is introduced, Cocoa suddenly sees a way out.
88) Sayounara
Publisher
Filmination
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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High school student Yuki’s peaceful life in a sleepy coastal town is rocked her when her best friend Aya commits suicide. As friends since junior high, this unexpected event plunges Yuki into self-doubt about her life and the people around her. Her classmates respond in different ways, with Yuki becoming the target of derision for some of them.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. They're both obsessed with the school's brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness, until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel - "LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD". Immersed in this story, Mizore and Nozomi begin to realize that there may be no such thing as...
90) Maborosi
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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After the sudden, self-inflicted death of her husband, a young mother (Makiko Esumi) remarries and moves to a remote village on the Sea of Japan with her infant son. She finds herself haunted by the many tragedies of her life, but time begins to heal her wounds as she rediscovers love, understanding, and a sense of peace. One of the finest pieces of Japanese cinema ever made with elegant camerawork, striking visuals and almost entirely natural lighting,...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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日本語
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When Alice transfers to a new middle school, she hears an urban legend about a student who disappeared the previous year and is suspected to have been killed by his fellow students. Even worse, Alice discovers that she lives next door to his former house, a supposedly haunted home now occupied by a reclusive classmate named Hana. Hana and Alice decide to investigate this “murder case” together, but soon find their lack of detective skills may...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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When four young orphans—Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura—first meet, their parents’ bodies are being turned into dust, like fine Parmesan atop a plate of spaghetti Bolognese, and yet none of them can shed a tear. They are like zombies; devoid of all emotion. With no family, no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward, the young teens decide that the first level of this new existence involves salvaging a gaming console, an old electric...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (138 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even more poor. The people, livestock and goods won't need his services much longer. His life also takes an abrupt turn another way. He meets a girl on a day when everything was supposed to go like any other day.
94) Complicity
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Cheng Liang is a young Chinese immigrant living illegally in Japan. Desperate for work, he feigns his identity in order to get a job in a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master (Tatsuya Fuji, In The Realm of the Senses), but always fearing to have his real identity disclosed at any moment.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (138 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
One day, Koichi Uehara, a fourth-grader living in the suburbs of Tokyo, picks up a fossil that looks like a large stone while on his way home from school. To his surprise, he has picked up a baby Kappa (a Japanese mythical water creature), who has been asleep underground for the past 300 years. Koichi names this baby creature “Coo” and brings him to live with his family, and soon the two are inseparable friends. However, trouble abounds as Coo...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
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Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. The 100th film by master director TAKASHI MIIKE.
97) True Mothers
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (140 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a baby. Years later, an unknown girl who claims to be the child's birth mother disrupts their lives. Satoko decides to confront Hikari directly.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The greatest athletes in the world today are neither the Olympic champions nor the stars of professional sports, but the "Marathon Monks" of Japan's sacred Mount Hiei. Over a seven year training period, these "running Buddha" figuratively circle the globe on foot.
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