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Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The story of two lonely people who discover in each other the intimacy they have lost in their marriages.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Two interwined romantic tales take place inside the Chʻung-chʻing high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: A policeman falls in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets involved with a female drug dealer.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 339
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of a year, from a wedding at the start to a funeral at its end.
Series
Shaw Brothers classic collection volume 11
Publisher
Dragon Dynasty
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A young man learns martial arts and how to use his body as well as other weapons to seek revenge on the group that killed his masters.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.
Series
Shaw Brothers classic collection volume 38
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The martial arts film that inspired generations of action films, rap music, and pop culture, The Five Venoms is the story of the last student of a dying martial arts master who is trying to fulfill his master's wish to find his five disciples and bring them together -- or bring them to justice. The student, not fully trained, embarks on a quest for these deadly and mysterious experts, each of whom has been trained in a different fighting style.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In Ghostbusters, the doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler suddenly find themselves downsized from the University's parapsychology department, they decide to go the entrepreneurial route, chasing down ghostly ghosts, unappetizing apparitions and the occasional insolent succubae. In Ghostbusters 2, the doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler regroup to nuke the spooks in this high-spirited comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York CIty...
Publisher
Zhong kai wen hua
Pub. Date
2003
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
After Jia Ju (Jackie Chan) successfully arrests drug lord Zhu Tao, he is forced to watch as the man's wily lawyer sets him free on a legal technicality. The vengeful Zhu Tao then sets out to frame Jia Ju with the murder of a fellow police officer. Jia Ju is forced to go outside the law to prove his innocence, and finally bring the criminal mastermind to justice.
Publisher
Distributor, Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A spirited tale of a mysterious and mythical Chinese legend. In a desperate and unjust land, where government corruption rules the day, only one men--known as the Iron Monkey--has the courage to challenge the system and fight back. Under the shadow of night, in the silence before dawn, he fights to give hope to the poor and the oppressed. Although no one knows his name or where he comes from, his heroism makes him a living legend to the people...and...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 41
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
An assassin with a code of honor agrees to do one last job before quitting for good. But, when his bosses double-cross him, he must take on the mob and the police.
20) Lust, caution
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, 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.
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