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Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
While protecting his friend from a school bully, sixteen-year-old Wei Bu pushes the bully down a staircase. He later learns that the bully is hospitalized, gravely injured. Wei's neighbor, 60-year-old Wang Jin, decides to join him as does Huang Ling, Wei's classmate. Together, they decide their only hope is to flee town. They board a bus to Manchuria, where it is a rumored that a circus elephant is said to be sitting still, seeming oblivious to pain...
Publisher
Ming wei ying ye you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A talented young boy called Qin Feng fails the entrance examination for police school so that his grandmother sends him to Thailand with his cousin Tang Ren, who is known as "the best detective of Cinatown". Actually Tang Ren is an "obscene" man and becomes a mysterious murder suspect after a night of crazy drinking and tons of pretty ladies. Qin Feng and Tang Ren have to run for their lives. Then "Crazy Dog" detective Huang Landeng is in hot pursuit...
4) Writing Beijing: urban spaces and cultural imaginations in contemporary Chinese literature and films
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920's China, women had few options. So following the death of her father, Songlian, a beautiful nineteen-year-old college student agrees to marry a wealthy nobleman. She is to be wife number four at his estate, where daily life revolves around an ancient family custom: the master raises a red lantern outside the house of the wife with whom he desires to spend the night. On the surface, there is harmony between the wives, but trapped inside their...
Series
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
This tale spans 50 years--from 1925 to 1977--a story at once that of individuals and of the history of China. Two young orphan boys are in the Peking Opera's perfectionist training academy. Eventually, Dieyi is assigned the role of the concubine in the famous traditional opera of the film's title, while Xiaolou will play the king. They are locked into these roles onstage, while their personal relationship somehow survives the upheavals of World War...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1077
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
8) City hunter
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When private investigator Ryu Saeba is asked to track down a rich tycoon's runaway daughter, he ends up on a luxury cruise ship held hostage by a group of international terrorists.
Series
Publisher
Razor Digital Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920s China, a young woman is forced into marriage and is then abused by her elderly husband. Her suffering attracts the sympathy of her husband's younger, kinder nephew, and the two begin a secret affair that could lead to tragic consequences.
12) The mermaid
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Xuan's real estate project involved reclamation of the sea, threatening the livelihood of the residents who relied on the sea to make a living. Bearing family secrets, Shan was dispatched to stop Xuan. During their encounters, they fall in love with each other. Even though Xuan stopped the reclamation plan out of his love for Shan, Shan got injured in an accident and vanished into the sea.
13) Koma
Series
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"A psychological thriller tackling the urban myth of organ theft from a humane perspective."--Container.
14) Hong Kong 1941
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In Hong Kong on the brink of World War II, two friends both fall in love with a terminally ill woman.
Publisher
Unapix Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Between 1967 and 1976, nearly 8 million Chinese youths were "sent down" for specialized training to the remotest corners of the country. The young and beautiful Xiu Xiu dreamt of becoming a horse trainer in Tibet, far away from her busy city home. Her training begins in the isolated plains of Tibet but slowly Xiu Xiu discovers that she is unlikely to ever see her home again without a wealthy sponsor. Her world becomes a horrifying cage, where "patrons"...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Huang Fei-hung, the legendary Cantonese martial arts master and folk hero, gets involved with the White Lotus Sect, who believe their magic makes them invulnerable to weapons.
Tells the story of Wong Fei Hung, legendary Cantonese martial arts master and folk hero of turn of the century China.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The Empress has announced a Lion Dance martial arts contest. Wong Fei-Hung and his sidekick Chung arrive just in time. Along with his secret fiancee, Wong has to deal with a Russian diplomat and the brutal Club Foot, who has beaten up Wong's father.
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