Summary: A female agent, attacked and left for dead, trains with a kung fu master and uses her new skills to complete some unfinished and deadly business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: Ricky takes revenge on the drug-pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend. Sentenced to a prison term, Ricky is confronted by a host of evil characters, including a sadistic warden, his assistant, and The Gang of Four, a group of powerful fighters who control fellow inmates through terror and threat of death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyo Shock 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RIKSummary: Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRASummary: "The Heroic Trio and its sequel, Executioners, follow a new kind of justice league: a team of blade-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung fu-fighting heroines who join forces to battle evildoers in a dystopian, noirish city"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HERSummary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. 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 even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: The adrenaline-filled odyssey of five legendary kungfu monks in search of the American dream. The men in this movie are not only accomplished Zen masters but famous kungfu stars with huge followings. It also has footage and history of the Shaolin Temple in Henan province, & chronicles the creation of Zen and kungfu by a wandering monk named Bodhidharma 1500 years ago. Today the temple is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHASummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVSummary: Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PAWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWSummary: A fugitive noblewoman finds refuge in a remote village with a young painter, his mother, and Buddhist monks, but is soon discovered by a swordsman sent to find her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: During the Ming Dynasty, a Buddhis abbot charged with protecting the sacred scroll of Tripitaka prepares to name his successor. An aristocrat and a general arrive at his secluded mountaintop monastery promising to help in his search but are scheming to secure the scroll for themselves. As they set about recommending corrupt successors, rival bands of martial artists lie in wait to steal the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAISummary: After giving up Wing Chun, Cheung Tin Chi ran into trouble with the local triad and had his home burnt to the ground. He took shelter on Bar Street and found solace from the neighbors. But when he discovered the triad was peddling drugs on Bar Street, Tin Chi took it upon himself to intervene. When the drug lord sought revenge and killed Tin Chi's friends, he decided to take on the drug lord in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019