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Summary: A security guard and a trash collector become involved in a web of dark secrets when they discover videos which document the corrupt activities of a wealthy factory owner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRESummary: In this madcap and lighthearted comedic romp, introverted optometrist Weichung begins to question his marriage with his wife Feng, upon learning of her desire to have another baby. At his sister's engagement party, Weichung bumps into an old friend, Stephen, a wedding photographer who, though also married, is living the high life of a younger, single gay man. When Stephen teases Weichung for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WILSummary: Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, chronicling middle-aged father, NJ's tenuous flirtation with an old flame and precocious young son Yang-Yang's attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2006
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YISummary: Detective Maiku Hama navigates the Yokohama underworld with super cool threads and two-fisted street smarts. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he's in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant on the threshold of Yokohama's gutter, Hama's client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOSSummary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSummary: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a run-down movie theater and discovers that some of its patrons may actually be ghostly residents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: It follows three characters unknowingly sharing a supposedly empty Taipei apartment. The beautiful realtor May Lin brings her lover Ah-jung to a vacant unit she has on the market, unaware that it is secretly being occupied by the suicidal funeral salesman Hsiao-kang. The three cross paths in a series of precisely staged, tragicomic erotic encounters, but despite their physical proximity, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIVSummary: Changing the course of rivers has changed the course of history. Award-winning author/illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay goes to extremes to bring you an unprecedented look at the power of dams. From the banks of the Nile to the top of the Hoover Dam, you'll meet the courageous and ambitious builders, relive the deadly disasters, and discover the little-known personal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBS Boston Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARPon, Cindy
Summary: Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PONGaiman, Neil
Summary: Offers a fascinating look at the celebrated comic book series written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman. This annotated edition is a page-by-page, panel-by-panel journey through every installment of The Sandman, issues 1-20. Includes commentary, references, and hidden meaning presented side-by-side with the original comic book pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Gaiman, Neil
Summary: "An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAIGaiman, Neil
Summary: Enter the Dreaming again as the blockbuster audio adaptation of "the greatest epic in the history of comic books" continues. James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in this sequel to the #1 New York Times audio bestseller. Journey into a world of myths, imagination, and terror based on the best-selling DC comic books and graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman (returning as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GAISummary: There is another world that waits for all of us when we close our eyes and sleep, a place called the Dreaming, where the Sandman, Master of Dreams, gives shape to all of our deepest fears and fantasies. But when Dream is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for a century, his absence sets off a series of events that will change both the dreaming and waking worlds forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023