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 ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PaSummary: 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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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAGSummary: 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 HANSummary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISLSummary: "In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOUZub, Jim
Summary: Nick Fury and Agent Coulson lead the search for Captain America after he disappeared in 1943, but a frustrating meeting with the World Security Council could put an end to their search.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVEZub, Jim
Summary: Nick Fury is slowly learning things are about to get much worse when news breaks out that Iron Man is losing control and to top it all off, the Avenger is being poisoned and could die at any moment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVESummary: Wonderwoman, Thief Catcher, and Invisible Girl team up to battle the baby stealing Demon-Lord of the Underworld.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HERZub, Jim
Summary: Nick Fury, Black Widow, Agent Coulson, and War Machine work together to bring Iron Man down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVEZub, Jim
Summary: While investigating a mysterious suit of armor that's attacking agents in the desert, Hawkeye witnesses a battle between the armor and the electrifying owner of the mysterious hammer found in a nearby crater.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVEZub, Jim
Summary: Nick Fury asks the World Security Council for help in hopes of assembling a special team to combat large threats in their changing world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVEZub, Jim
Summary: Hawkeye helps Agent Coulson investigate a mysterious hammer and its extraterrestrial owner, while Black Widow takes a trip to a university to check on a certain green doctor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVEZub, Jim
Summary: Nick Fury has a cold meeting with General Ross to discuss a security breach, Black Widow discovers the Hulk isn't the only green giant wreaking havoc in the city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVESummary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007