Summary: After the shocking kidnapping of a little girl in Thailand, a mercenary with a murky past as a government black ops agent is forced to re-emerge from the shadows when he learns the incident is closely connected to him. With the help of expat Yui, he flies to Thailand and begins tracking the girl's whereabouts, moving ever closer to the notorious child trafficking ring responsible for her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DELSummary: "Haemoo depicts the harrowing events that unfold in the fog-covered seas for a fishing crew engaged in human smuggling. Award-winning actor Kim Yoon Seok stars as the struggling captain who turns to human smuggling in order to keep his fishing boat financially afloat. While transporting ethnic Koreans from China across the Yellow Sea, however, things go terribly wrong, and desperation spirals...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEASummary: A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECSummary: 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 ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Parasite 2020Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PaSummary: Set in 19th century Korea, this version also tells the tale of treachery, lust and sacrifice. Elegant, courtly and sexually voracious young Lord Jo-won's public life of idle nobility masks a not-so-private life of unending sexual conquest. Challenged by his equally debauched cousin Lady Cho to seduce a teenaged virgin threatens Cho's household kingdom. Jo-won accepts on condition that Cho...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNTMin, Cat
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: A rash of brutal murders sweeps a quiet rural village where a mysterious stranger just appeared. When the investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he consults a shaman for answers, unknowingly escalating the situation into something far more dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAISummary: In a remote monastery high up in the mountains, an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he must lead his disciples away from their past ties to the outside world and its rapidly changing values, and point them toward their quest for enlightenment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bae Yong-kyun Productions [production company 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHYLiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUSummary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN OKJSummary: 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: Bong is a highly respected hardline cop with a long history of success on dangerous cases. However, his past unexpectedly comes back to haunt him when a sting operation is attacked by a mysterious group of criminals led by Ngo, his former protégé, a talented former officer who had once respected and admired Bong. However, a terrible mistake three years prior landed him in prison, quickly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2021
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAGSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Summary: The legend of the invincible fleet begins! Set five years before the epic battle depicted in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Hansan: Rising Dragon is based on the true historical naval engagement, Battle of Hansan Island. In July 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his Korean naval fleet face off against invading Japanese naval warships. Falling into crisis, the admiral must use his secret weapon to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HANJin, Park Hye
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC JINDeng, Ming-Dao.
Summary: For the first time in one volume—an extraordinary spiritual odyssey of the making of the Taoist master Kwan Saihung. Born into a wealthy family in a remote province of China, Kwan defies his parents' wishes and enters into the rigorous and mysterious discipline of Taoist practice. Renamed "Little Butterfly" by his Taoist masters, he survives the upheaval of the Japanese occupation, and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KWAN, SAIHUNG DENDeng, Ming-Dao
Summary: When I was a boy, I didn't get specific lessons on how to live. I got stories. If I asked why I had to believe some concept, a person like my grandmother might reply with something like, "This is the true because of what happened to the Yellow Emperor," and then the story would follow. What intrigues me is that this habit hasn't changed even after China's revolution, rapid modernization,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. 2018