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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.
Author
Series
Blood Ninja trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In sixteenth-century Japan, Taro, a vampire like all ninja warriors, tries to protect his mother and defeat the power-hungry Lord Oda, who he believed was dead.
Author
Series
Blood Ninja trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In sixteenth-century Japan, Taro enlists his friends to help vanquish a dragon in hopes of winning a reward that would allow him to marry Hana, but he also faces surprisingly difficult obstacles as Kenji Kira raises the dead against him and his own flesh and blood betrays him.
Author
Publisher
Vault Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"16th century Japan. The fates of warlords ebb and flow like tides of blood, none more than the Aragami Clan who follow their lord clad in the 'Red Devil' mask into every battle. But when Lord Aragami succumbs to illness, his daughter, the fierce Ketsuko, hatches a plot to save her people, no matter the cost. Years later, as Ketsuko wanders the heaving battlefields of her ruined homeland, she discovers a chance to avenge the terrible wrong done to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
In Washington/Peru: We Ain't Winning!, producer David Feingold and director Shari Robertson investigate the situation in Peru in the early 1990s - a case that, according to one U.S. congressman, "defies all description and solution." Internal conflict rages between the government and Shining Path communist guerillas, while the United States military attempts to eradicate coca production in the countryside.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Comics
Pub. Date
[1998]-
Language
English
Description
Kagome is a modern Japanese high school girl. She has always been the sort who never really believed in myths and legends, until one day when a hideous, otherworldly creature pulls her out of her own world and into Japan's ancient past! There she discovers more than a few of those dusty old legends are true, and her destiny is linked to one legendary creature in particular -- a doglike half-demon called Inu-Yasha!
9) Kumonosujō
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
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