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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A movie that "packs a lot of laughs and action into a beautifully shot 105 minutes" (Variety), Chinese odyssey 2002 follows royal heirs Princess Wushuang (Asian pop diva and Chungking Express heroine Faye Wong) and future Emperor Zheng De (Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's Chen Chang) as they escape the Forbidden City to taste life among Ming Dynasty China's have-nots. Combining swordfights, slapstick, satire, songs, and genuine sentiment into a lightning-paced...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 103 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In his first film since the acclaimed and equally devastating Blind shaft, Director Li Yang turns from corruption of China's illegal mining to the even more horrifying illegal trade in women. Bax Xuemei is young college graduate who yearns for a life as budding urban capitalist but ends up drugged and sold as the "bride" of rural brute.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...
6) Black Mask
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tsui Chik librarian, and former member of a superhuman commando unit known as Squad 701, must leave his quiet life when his old unit terrorizes Hong Kong.
7) Hero
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
With supernatural skill and no fear, a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dre Parker finds himself in China after his mother's latest career move. He and classmate Mei Ying immediately fall for each other, but cultural differences make this friendship impossible. Even worse, his feelings make an enemy of class bully Cheng, who is quite adept at kung fu. Dre turns to maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a kung fu master, and learns that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm. However, Dre realizes...
10) Red corner
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Moore is an American attorney having talks in Bejing about founding the first satellite TV joint venture. Suddenly he is arrested, accused of murder and has to prove it was a frame-up together with his court-appointed attorney Shen Yuelin.
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 16
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Unable to defend himself and his family from a ruthless enemy, Kao hires two master swordsmen who want the money offered for wine and women. The swordsmen soon discover that Kao has an evil plan of his own and their friendship and trust are put to the test through multiple challenges.
13) The Karate kid
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dre Parker finds himself in China after his mother's latest career move. He and classmate Mei Ying immediately fall for each other, but cultural differences make this friendship impossible. Even worse, his feelings make an enemy of class bully, Cheng who is quite adept at kung fu. Dre turns to maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a kung fu master and learns that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm. However, Dre realizes...
14) The Great Wall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A European mercenary searching for black powder finds himself in China defending the Great Wall against alien monsters.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An expatriated American, undisputed ruler of Hong Kong's waterfront, a man with a checkered past and a shady present, helps a woman in the search for her photo-journalist husband who has recently disappeared in China.
16) Kundun
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.
17) Kung fu panda 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins in order to able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed....
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But...
19) The black rose
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 lobby cards in an envelope.
Language
English
Description
A Saxon youth is run out of England during the Crusades, and goes with his loyal retainer to adventures in China where they become intrigued in the court of Kubla Kahn.
20) The farewell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
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