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Hero

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 0788857037 :
  • Physical Description: videorecording (DVD)
    video recording (DVD)
    videodisc
    1 video disc (99 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inch disc.
  • Edition: Wide screen version.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, p2004, c2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:
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"Quentin Tarantino presents"--Container and disc.
Based on the novel by Li Feng.
Video disc release of 2002 motion picture.
Special features: "Inside the action : a conversation with Quentin Tarantino and Jet Li;" Hero defined; storyboards.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Story, Zhang Yimou, Li Feng, Wang Bin ; director of photography, Christopher Doyle ; action director, Tony Ching Siu-Tung ; editors, Zhai Ru, Angie Lam ; production designers, Huo Ting Xiao, Yi Zhen Zhou ; costume designer, Emi Wada ; music, Tan Dun ; violin solos and fiddling, Itzhak Perlman.
Participant or Performer Note: CAST : Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen ... [et al.].
System Details Note:
DVD, region 1, wide screen presentation (2.35:1), DTS 5.1 digital surround.
Language Note:
Chinese (Mandarin), English and French language soundtracks with English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Subject: Revenge -- Drama
Chinese language materials
Mandarin dialects
China -- History -- Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C -- Drama
Genre: Martial arts films.

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  • 5 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Creston Public Library.

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Summary: 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.

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