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Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In the parched desert landscape of northwest China, peasant Meili Zhang founds a school, determined to give her students a chance at a better life. When Yu Xia, a cultured volunteer teacher from Beijing arrives to help her out, these two women from strikingly different backgrounds discover that they share the same goal: to help a generation of disadvantaged children overcome a legacy of poverty and lost opportunities with the most precious and valuable...
3) Detention
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
We're in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror, with martial law in full force on the island. In this time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception to this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about banned books and...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; similarly, an unexpected bond between them starts to blossom. As seasons pass, their dedication to each other grows stronger, but...
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The story of two lonely people who discover in each other the intimacy they have lost in their marriages.
10) Vanguard
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The head of a covert security company and his team try to protect a businessman and his family who are targeted by a mercenary organization after an arms deal.
11) Hero: Ying xiong
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
With supernatural skill and no fear a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on...
13) Lust, caution
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set against the backdrop of a transforming country, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When a female student confronts her rapist and accidentally kills him, her mother helps her bury the dead man, and her father comes up with a complicated alibi based on his encyclopedic knowledge of crime films. The deceased young man happens to have an ambitious politician for a father and a morally corrupt police chief for a mother, and with personal stakes in this crime, the victim's family begins a deadly game to catch their son's killer.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
[Original and 3D version].
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A new gang has taken over the Dragon Inn three years after it was left in ruins, using it as their base for uncovering a nearby treasure. But secrets lie within its walls, as a pregnant palace concubine and a swordswoman take refuge from a determined royal eunuch tracking their every move. As an explosive mix of warriors, fugitives, and assassins converge in the desert for a deadly showdown, only one man can protect the women--the mysterious Zhao....
16) The road home
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
19) Ip Man
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A semi-biographical account of the life of martial arts master Yip Man.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The story of martial-arts master Ip Man who trained Bruce Lee. The year is 1936, a time of political upheaval in which the invasion of Japanese forces to the north endanger the country's current stability. Longtime Wing Chun master Gong Baosen witness Ip Man's fight and instantly recognizes a potential heir just as he contemplates retirement.
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