Summary: Inspired by the story of a real-life hero, Huo Yuanjia. When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation of a renowned martial arts champion and his family, his difficult path to redemption will bring him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters in the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEA

Summary: 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 SEV

Summary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC

Summary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEE

Summary: Street fighter : Terry is hired by the Yakuza to kidnap an heiress to billions. When his employers balk at paying his fee, he offers himself to the heiress as protection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum 1995

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAR

Summary: Rocky, Colt, and Tum Tum are older, more advanced and back for non-stop Ninja action in three full-length movies: Kick Back, High Noon at Mega Mountain, and Knuckle Up. These three Ninja brothers battle evil at every turn. 1. Three Ninjas Kick Back - Following their grandfather to Japan, the three underage ninjas find themselves in the middle of martial arts mayhem. Pursued by a bumbling trio...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THR

Summary: When a quintet of nasty ninjas, hell-bent on world domination, nearly massacres an entire clan, its lone survivor must take the path of revenge. He meets up with an old master well-versed in the ways of the ninja. Now armed with secret knowledge and newfound friends, he must battle the awesome power of the Five Element Ninjas (gold, wood, fire, water, earth).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Celestial Pictures 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FIV

Summary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASH

Summary: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang, she slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi's gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies. A bizarre blend of the female Yakuza film...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI

Summary: A merry mashup of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan, who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE POL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POL

Summary: The Rogue Ninja Mukade is about to be caught by Naruto's team when he summons forth the power of the Ley Line an ancient underground channel of chakra. Naruto gets caught up in the chakra and is sent back in time to the city of Loran, known for its thousand towers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2013

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NAR

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 RAI

Summary: Upon the empire's fall to invading conquistadors, the sixteenth-century Incas quickly concealed a sacred manual containing the secrets behind their deadly fighting technique. But after centuries of careful safeguarding, the manual is again at risk of falling into the wrong hands, leaving its rightful guardian to battle the world's greatest assassins to protect the ancient secrets within.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FIS

Summary: As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny, Hing, and Jim were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring, and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PAP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAP

Summary: Summoned to a mysterious island, three martial arts warriors engage in the ultimate battle of good against evil--the supernatural tournament of Mortal Kombat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1997

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOR

Summary: 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 ASS

Summary: A one armed boxer (who happens to be a martial arts expert) is targeted by the blind master of the flying guillotine who wants revenge for the death of two disciples. Includes twelve minutes of film not seen in the original release version.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAS

Summary: A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father₂s murder and her mother₂s rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LAD