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China full length DVD movies
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In feudal China, the King of Qin is waging a bloody campaign to conquer the entire land. He has been made a target of three dangerous assassins: spear-wielding Sky, and the lovers Broken Sword and Flying Snow. One day word comes that he has nothing left to fear; a prefect known only as Nameless has killed all three assassins. Nameless is called to the palace and asked to recount the tale of how he accomplished this amazing feat. After he tells his story, however, the King notices some flaws in it... |
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Li Mu Bai, a great warrior decides to turn in his sword, the Green Destiny to a treasured friend. When the sword is then stolen, it is up to him to retrieve it. At the same time he is trying to avenge his master's death by the evil Jade Fox. He is joined in his quest by Shu Lien, the un-conceded love of his life. During all of this, they are introduced to Jiao Long Yu, the mysterious and beautiful daughter of a well known family. She is the mysterious link to all these tales. But through all the many subplots, this is in essence, a love story. |
| Last Emperor, The
[1987,
China, UK, France, Italy]
from $1.99 |
| He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. |
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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959. |
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The story takes place in China in the 1940s and revolves around Sing (Stephen Chow), a young charming but clumsy hoodlum who aspires to join the legendary "Axe Gang." Meanwhile, the ruthless lord of the most feared gang, Brother Sum (Kwok-Kwan Chan), who wants to dominate everyone, starts terrorizing a slum small neighborhood called Pig Sty Alley. Nevertheless, an old but spry landlord (Wah Yuen), who rules the neighborhood, and his mean wife (Qiu Yuen) go on a warpath to defend their apartment complex and its residents from their villainous usurpers. |
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Kitty Fane is a frivolous young English woman who longs for romance and excitement, trapped in a loveless marriage to a staid Shanghai researcher. When her husband learns she has had an affair, he volunteers to fight a cholera epidemic in China's war-torn interior. Dr. Fane forces his wife to accompany him on the difficult and hazardous journey, endangering her life in the process. |
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In his Hollywood debut, Wong Kar-Wai tells a story of a suffering young woman named Elizabeth (Norah Jones) who sets out from New York City and leaves her friend Jeremy (Jude Law) behind. She travels across the States and gets a waitress job in small cafes during her journey. Befriending with casual people such as a gambler (Natalie Portman), a cop (David Strathairn) and his estranged wife (Rachel Weisz), each of whom is miserable in a different way, leads Elizabeth to an understanding of her own personality. |
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In the Nineth Century, the Tang Dinasty in China is weak and corrupt, and an army of rebels called "The House of the Flying Daggers"fights against the government military forces, and steals from the rich to give to the poor people. Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro), two captains of the government army, plot a scheme against the rebels using the blind dancer Mei (Zhang Ziyi) to approach their leaders, but their love for Mei leads them to a tragedy. |
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Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And of how, in doing so, he came to understand the true meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China. |
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Set in China, 10th Century, the gripping epic-scale historical drama follows the tragic collapse of the Later Tang dynasty. The imperial court wallows in sin: lust, infidelity, hatred, betrayal, incest, and conspiracy, to name a few. Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) has a liaison with Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the Emperor’s first marriage, who maintains a second secret relationship with Jiang Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter, and harbours a plan to elope with her. Meanwhile, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat), a man of humble origins and great ambition, doesn’t love his wife, whom he only married to succeed to the throne. He has a nefarious scheme to use a special poison to drive the Empress mad. Moreover, he senses a threat from Prince Jai (Jay Chou), his middle son, and Prince Yu (Qin Junjie), his youngest son, who he thinks may want to take the throne by force or guile. There comes the Chrysanthemum Festival during which the darkest family secrets are revealed. |
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A boy learns the meaning of work after a magic gourd grants him anything he wants. |
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Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people. |
| Diamond Dogs
[2007,
Canada, China]
from $1.99 |
| Meet Ronson: Adventurer, world traveler, always short of money, a man of a few words, a gun for hire. The solution to your problem. |
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"Diamond Dogs" is the story of a group of American fortune hunters, who come to China looking for a long-lost-treasure. During the Soviet crack-down on religion in the 1930's, a priceless Buddhist artifact, a Tangka was taken across the border to China and hidden in the mountains. The diamonds alone, decorating this huge gold-inlaid textile, are thought to be worth $50 million. The fortune hunters need a guide and protection on the trip, so they hire an American ex-pat, Ronson. He's ex-Army and living an existence in Inner-Mongolia of drinks, women and bare-knuckle fights. The group takes off into the Mongolian mountains on a trek that will change their lives forever. For not only is this Tangka wanted by ruthless Russian mercenaries, but it's also protected by something much more sinister. Something that even Ronson can't imagine... |
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In the 1930s a famous Los Angeles underworld hitman Scholar (Rhett Giles) and a band of trained assassins are hired by the exotic and beautiful Kay (Coco Su) to avenge her parents; death by the hands of her equally stunning twin sister. Traveling to Shanghai Scholar finds the twin sister Sue (Coco Su) has taken over the family fortunes and lifestyle. He finds himself falling for his target. Instead of killing her he chooses to save her from his fellow assassins (Veronica Bero Joey Covington Vasilios Elovalis) by taking them out one-by-one. Torn between his commitment to his paying client and his romantic feelings for her sister Scholar enters into a dangerous liaison with both unable to trust either one and unable to let them go... |
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