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Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A young woman is comes to a remote Chinese village to be a substitute teacher. Barely older than her students, the shy girl is charged with keeping the class intact for one month or she won't be paid. When one of her students disappears into the city to find work, the stubborn teacher is determined to follow the boy and bring him back to school. Once in the city, her simple peasant pleas fall on deaf ears, and only when the manager of the local television...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
It is the warlords era in China, a village located in rural area called Pucheng falls into dangerous situation when its government allocated all its military force to the front line. The cruel commandant Cao from the enemy troops arrives to the village and kills all the innocent, the guardians of Pucheng are now desperate to fight against Cao for justice and to protect their homeland.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, who was a small-time imposter. Bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Inspired by four shocking and true events, the film focuses on four characters who are driven to violent ends. An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading...
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
7) Kung fu yoga
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Jack (Jackie Chan), a world-renowned archaeology professor, and his team are on a grand quest to locate a lost ancient Indian treasure when they are ambushed by a team of mercenaries and left for dead. Using his vast knowledge of history and kung fu, Jack leads his team on a race around the world to beat the mercenaries to the treasure and save an ancient culture in this breakneck action-comedy that reunites Chan with acclaimed director Stanley Tong...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Leung (Simon Yam) is doing God's work. He's an Angel of Mercy. He's saving souls, delivering everlasting peace to the tomented. He's also a serial killer. Plice psychologist Cheung (Kenny Wong) is assigned to the case, and discovers Leung's hunting ground: an online web forum for people planning to kill themselves. Suicide is a sin, says Leung, so it's not murder - he's saving their eternal souls. And he's not done yet.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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,...
11) Lost in Thailand
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Two rival businessmen (Xu Zheng and Huang Bo) must track down their boss at a Buddhist temple to secure a patent on a revolutionary new fuel additive. Xu catches the first plane to Bangkok, where his plans are delayed by the happy-go-lucky Wang (Wang Baoqiang), an unexpected travel companion who will open his eyes to life's true priorities.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Series
Criterion collection volume 825
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A fugitive noblewoman seeks refuge in a remote, and allegedly haunted, village. The sanctuary she finds with a shy scholar and two aides in disguise is shattered when a nefarious swordsman uncovers her identity, pitting the four against legions of blade-wielding opponents.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Don Baker is a blind young man who is determined to make a life for himself despite his handicap. He becomes involved with his next-door neighbor Jill and their relationship is threatened by his mother's intrusions and by Jill's life-style.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a violent mutiny when he refused orders to kill female...
Publisher
Distributed by Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Master Ip wants to open a martial arts academy. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But when a Western-style boxer named 'Twister' comes to town to entertain the Brits, he insults Chinese martial arts in a horrifically violent way, and Ip is forced by honor to enter a brutal 'King of the...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in 198 A.D., when the Eastern Han Dynasty has collapsed into civil war, and the young Emperor is a puppet of prime minster and generalissimo Cao Cao, the film singles out two famous chapters from Guan's many heroic adventures: his hostage period in Cao Cao's camp in Baima City, and his dangerous mission to escort Qilan, concubine of his lord Liu Bei to safety.
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