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Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
Publisher
Distributed by FUNimation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
日本語
Description
Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiance at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI.
44) Shaolin warrior
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Trying to escape a criminal past, one man attempts to join the ranks of the Shaolin Warriors, but he's denied. However, having impressed the king with his dedication, he is hired as a temple groundskeeper. Working on the temple grounds during the day and mastering kung fu at night, he prepares for a second chance at becoming a warrior. His test comes sooner than expected when the king's enemy declares war, leaving him alone to defend the temple.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on...
46) Hero: Ying xiong
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 804
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Conflict between the fourteen-year-old girlfriend of a gang member and the gang leader leads to tragic consequences.
48) Great Buddha+
Publisher
[Amazon.com, kydc]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Underlining the gap between have-nots' lives and elites' world by switching between black and white and color, The great Buddha+ vividly illustrates a corrupted village in rural southern Taiwan.
49) Fist of legend
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 31
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When Chen discovers that his beloved teacher and mentor has been murdered, he is determined to avenge his death and restore honor to the school.
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.
51) Special ID
Pub. Date
2014
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Detective Chen Zilong is an undercover cop deep inside China's most ruthless crime syndicate. The boss, Xiong, swears to find every traitor and make him or her pay with their lives. Agents are turning up dead, and Zilong's days are numbered. Desperate to protect his family and his life, Chen must risk everything to protect the Special Identity he never wanted before it's too late.
52) Lucky grandma
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma is eager to live life as an independent woman. When a local fortuneteller predicts a lucky day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck, attracting the attention of some local gangsters. Desperate, Grandma employs the services of a bodyguard from a rival gang and soon finds herself right in the...
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.
Publisher
National Arts
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Packed with Kung Fu combat and thick with drama, The Legend is Born follows Ip Man as he grows from a promising young pupil into an unstoppable force. When political corruption threatens his temple, his friends, and his honor, Ip Man single-handedly challenges a swarm of shinobi in an ultimate showdown.
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.
60) Mandarin Chinese
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A self-instructional course teaching essential conversational Mandarin Chinese.
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