K'Wan

Ching Fong-tin, a former outlaw with a wild scheme to make amends with the citizens of his struggling hometown of Hon Sui: explosively derail a brand new luxury express train en route from Shanghai so that its super-rich passengers will have no choice but to spend money in the town. He's not the only one with eyes on the passengers' deep pockets, however; a gang of ruthless bank-robbing bandits are on the way, looking for a priceless map being guarded...

"A themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world who have converged on Minneapolis, collected and told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet"--

Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang Ta, a handsome college student living in Chinatown, complications,...

The film delicately details the journey of two students, Kenzo Hirose and Maria Claudia Kantuta, from the Bolivian cooking school and restaurant GUSTU, the groundbreaking cooking school and fine-dining restaurant founded by NOMA's Claus Meyer in La Paz, Bolivia.

A struggling American artist who's down on his luck and a beautiful Chinese prostitute who captures his heart. The scenery is as spectacular as the colorful and exotic streets of Hong Kong in this wonderfully warm story about the strength of true love.

The Once upon a time in China trilogy of films follows the life of Wong Fei-Hung, legendary martial arts hero and practitioner of traditional medicine. In the first, his fight is against foreign forces' plundering China. In the second, he faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence. In the third, he arrives in Peking just as the Empress announces a Lion Dance martial arts contest, facing...

One of the pinnacles of Hong Kong cinema's 1990s golden age, the Once Upon a Time in China series set a new standard for martial-arts spectacle and launched action star Jet Li to international fame. It brings to vivid life the colorful world of China in the late nineteenth century, an era of immense cultural and technological change, as Western imperialism clashed with tradition and public order was upended by the threats of foreign espionage and...

In a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turn out to be kung fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung fu battle. Only one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung fu master of all.

In 19th-century China, an evil monk awakens a nest of ghoulish vampires hell-bent on devouring human life. Now, a quartet of heroes, trained in a school of magic, use their unique powers to destroy the Vampire King and the lethal coven before its too late.