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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 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...
2) Legendary
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Travis Preston assembles his team for an expedition to a remote region in China's hinterland, where a wild animal that the locals believe to be a primeval monster they call the 'Shocate' is said to roam free. Travis's nemesis Jim Harker, a merciless trophy hunter, has already set up camp. A race against time ensues, and Travis and his team will have to pool all their resources if they want to capture this legendary creature alive.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A handyman/martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting.
After Dre Parker moves with his mother from Detroit to China, he is bullied until his building's janitor, a martial arts master, agrees to teach him to defend himself.
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 4
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2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.
Set in the early 1600's during the Ching dynasty in China, seven warriors break the law when they use martial arts to protect a village beseiged by government henchmen.
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920's China, women had few options. So following the death of her father, Songlian, a beautiful nineteen-year-old college student agrees to marry a wealthy nobleman. She is to be wife number four at his estate, where daily life revolves around an ancient family custom: the master raises a red lantern outside the house of the wife with whom he desires to spend the night. On the surface, there is harmony between the wives, but trapped inside their...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 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...
9) Coming home
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years as a political prisoner in a labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution, Lu returns to his devoted wife Feng, only to discover she has amnesia and is unable to recognize him.
10) The Farewell
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 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,...
12) The Sand Pebbles
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2 videodiscs (183,196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
13) Jinpa
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white scenes ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Tibetan
Description
On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver, who has accidentally run over a sheep, chances upon a young man, who is hitching a ride. The truck driver notices that the hitch hiker has a silver dagger attached to his belt. He comes to understand that this man is out to kill someone, who wronged him earlier in life. But the driver doesn't know that their short time together has changed everything and that their...
14) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
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1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the British government is discovered smuggling precious Chinese artifacts out of the country, folklore hero Wong Fei Hong uses his uniquely outlandish style of martial arts ... Drunken Boxing ... to fight the conspirators and salvage the valuables before it's too late! And the more Hong drinks, the more agile he becomes -- able to fend off numerous attacks with unbelievable moves! With Chinese treasures and family pride on the line, Hong steps...
16) The golden child
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Murphy goes to the rescue of a child with mystical powers who has been abducted by an evil cult.
17) Kung fu panda
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2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clumsy Po the panda dreams of becoming a kung fu master when he is invited to study with legendary fighters under the leadership of Master Shifu.
Series
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and explorer extrodinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple, in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest challenges yet, the intrepid tomb raider pursues Lo, in order to get her hands back on Pandora's...
19) Back to 1942
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1 videodisc (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In one of the darkest times in Chinese history, a devastating famine during the war ravaged parts of the country. This human tragedy that killed millions must never be forgotten. Includes bonus features.
Language
English
Description
Alex O'Connell sets out to find the tomb of the evil Emperor Han. When he finds it Alex is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, and the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. This time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy that has awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service....
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