Catalog Search Results
1) The thief
Author
Language
English
Description
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections. But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers...
2) Newcomer
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
Series
Criterion collection volume 811
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
日本語
Description
The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A.J. LeWinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America's complex defense machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, LeWinter contacts the KGB station chief and says he wants to defect. He tantalizes the Russians with U.S. military secrets he claims to possess, but is his defection genuine? Neither the Russians nor the Americans are sure, and LeWinter is swept up in a terrifying political chess match of deceit and...
8) Japan
Author
Series
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the geography, history, people, and customs of the island nation of Japan, which is only about as big as California but has a population of over 125 million people.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Using film footage and composition notes left by the late Ogawa Shinsuke, Chinese director Peng Xiaolian shot additional film and completed the work, which colorfully yet elegantly depicts the manufacturing process of the Kaminoyama red persimmon. The inhabitants of the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else,...
13) Tsubaki Sanjūrō
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
14) Spring snow
Author
Series
Hōjō no umi volume 1
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kiyoaki Matsugae's passionate and ill-fated love for the betrothed daughter of a Tokyo aristocrat brings him into disfavor at the Imperial Court.
Series
Criterion collection volume 226
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
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 dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
A woman and her daughter-in-law impersonate demons to lure and kill soldiers in samurai-era medieval Japan.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers coffee -- and the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Three sisters, Sachi, Yoshino and Chika, live together in the city of Kamakura, Japan. When their father, absent from the family home for the last fifteen years, dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their shy, teenage half sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings.
Author
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A Japanese novel about a married businessman who has an affair with the girl of his youth. Hajime's relationship with Shimamoto had always been chaste, now they both make up for it -- 25 years later. By the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
20) Tokyo
Author
Series
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes Japan's capital city including its subway system, its streets and buildings, its celebrations of ancient religious traditions, and its sports and theater.
Looking for an older book we don’t have?
Printed books not owned by Santa Fe Public Library that were released more than 6 months ago can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Limit: 3 per calendar month.
Looking for a newer item we don’t have?
Suggest the library purchase a new book, DVD, audiobook, or music CD through your account. Limit: 30 active requests at a time. Submit Purchase Suggestion