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21) Cosmopolis
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Kung-fu movie star refuses to sign with the syndicate, bringing him into deadly Kung-fu action. Bruce Lee's final film: he died halfway through filming, and the movie was finished with outtakes and a double. Begun in 1972, released in 1979, listed in various authorities as completed in 1977 or 1978.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories. The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis to for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at the going away party. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America as...
27) Kingdom of blood
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Emperor Huizong vanishes after an attempt on his life, the only warriors that can rescue him are the now-disbanded Divine Constabulary. But it is their former member, Emotionless, that has the emperor. Can her former lover, Coldblood, convince her to free Huizong, rejoin the team, and battle a deadly conspiracy? Explosive hand-to-hand battles, supernatural visions, and the dazzling spectacles of ancient China bring to life this thrilling, epic...
28) Stowaway
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After befriending American Tommy Randall in Shanghai, tiny Chinese orphan Ching-Ching falls asleep in Tommy's car, which soon becomes cargo on a ship bound for San Francisco. Along the way, Ching-Ching plays matchmaker to Tommy and Susan Parker, who eventually marry and adopt her. But when the couple's clashing personalities lead them to divorce court, the one-time orphan must again work her magic to try to keep her new family together.
29) The farewell
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
30) Enter the dragon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A master martial artist is sent by British intelligence to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whose martial arts academy also serves as a front for opium-smuggling and prostitution rings.
31) Rush hour 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detectives Carter and Lee team up to fight some more bad guys. This time the action takes place in Hong Kong and Detective Carter is the one that is in an unknown world.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; similarly, an unexpected bond between them starts to blossom. As seasons pass, their dedication to each other grows stronger, but...
36) Abominable
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Abominable takes audiences on an epic 2,000-mile adventure from the streets of Shanghai to the breathtaking Himalayan snowscapes. When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him "Everest" and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one-step ahead...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A war drama. When the Boxers lay siege to the International Compound in Peking in 1900, five hundred men led by an American marine officer and a British envoy survive fifty-five days of fighting before they receive help.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Tibetan opera combined with a touch of western rock music guides you through the amazing landscapes of Tibet while the opera singer Yiga crosses the mountains. Yiga wants to sing, she doesn't want to undergo the cultural make over forced on her and the other people of Tibet.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While protecting his friend from a school bully, sixteen-year-old Wei Bu pushes the bully down a staircase. He later learns that the bully is hospitalized, gravely injured. Wei's neighbor, 60-year-old Wang Jin, decides to join him as does Huang Ling, Wei's classmate. Together, they decide their only hope is to flee town. They board a bus to Manchuria, where it is a rumored that a circus elephant is said to be sitting still, seeming oblivious to pain...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (288 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"[T]he epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power-hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao seeks permission from the Han Dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush the two troublesome warlords who stand in his way, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao's brutal, fast-approaching army, the warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign-unrivaled...
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