Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: A restless, streetwise 21-year-old has had trouble gaining the trust of others all his life. Now he is forced to deal with the reality of impending fatherhood. Needing quick cash, he joins a bodyguard company. He makes friends with a once disillusioned mercenary determined to begin life in a new way, since he is also about to become a father. However, their companionship is brief and they both...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMSummary: When Beijing journalist Ga Yu arrives in a remote Tibetan village, he immediately finds himself embedded in a relentless manhunt across the barren waste lands of Kekexili. Acting without the Chinese government's approval, this ragtag group of impoverished vigilantes has sworn to capture of kill the poachers responsible for decimating the sacred antelope of Kekexili.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: The dying master of the powerful Poison Clan dispatches his last pupil on a crucial mission: to seek out a former colleague and warn him that the fortune he amassed from clan activities is under threat from five former pupils. Each an expert in his own lethal combat style, The Centipede, The Snake, The Scorpion, The Lizard, and the Toad comprise a truly invincible force.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Exclusively distributed by Steeplechase Entertainment 1998