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• A Bittersweet Life | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £7.24   |  Saving you £12.75 (176.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A right-hand man wants revenge upon his boss, his henchmen... and anybody else who gets in the way!

• Kid From Kwangtung | Blu Ray | (28/10/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio, here's something a bit funnier than their usual fare: after an evil martial arts master (played by the very great Hwang Jang-li (Snake in the Eagle's Shadow) kills their own teacher, Wong Yu (The Shadow Boxing) and Chiang Kam (The Young Master) realise that they're next. But can the squabbling duo put their differences aside long enough to defeat him?With spirited slapstick, supernatural silliness and some jaw-dropping fights that really have to be seen to be believed, Kid From Kwangtang is gravity-defying treat from the glory days of Hong Kong cinema. 88 Films are proud to unleash this classic kung fu comedy on Blu-ray.

• The Good, The Bad, The Weird Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ONE MAP. THREE VILLAINS. WINNER TAKES ALL. Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western The Good, the Bad, the Weird. Wrangling three of Korea's biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains. In the 1930s, three gun-toting Koreans converge on a train with different objectives but after an explosive altercation they leave it with the same goal: track down a map leading to an unfathomable treasure. The ˜Good' is bounty hunter Park Do-won (Jung Woo-sung, 12.12: The Day), who is chasing down the ˜Bad', the ruthless bandit Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun, A Bittersweet Life), rumoured to be the notorious ˜Finger Cutter'. Meanwhile, wily thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho, Parasite), the ˜Weird', is on the hunt for anything he can get his hands on. Backs are stabbed, fingers are cut, and many bullets fly as this dangerous trio blast their way through the desert in search of untold riches. This glorious resurrection of the Manchurian Western was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea. From a stunning newly restored 4K master, experience this spicy slice of wild west mayhem as you've never seen it before. 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS - Brand new 4K master, approved by director Kim Jee-woon - DTS-HD MA 7.1 on both cuts of the film - Optional English subtitles - Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh - 40-page perfect bound collector's book featuring new writing by Darcy Paquet, Kyu Hyun Kim, Cho Jae-whee, and Ariel Schudson - Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh - Three postcard-sized artcards - Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh DISC ONE FEATURE PRESENTATIONS (BLU-RAY™) - High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation - Includes both the International and Korean versions of the film presented via seamless branching - Brand new audio commentary by film critic James Marsh and film critic and producer Pierce Conran - Archival audio commentary by director Kim Jee-woon and actors Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung (International version) - Archival audio commentary by director Kim Jee-woon, cinematographer Lee mogae, lighting director Oh Seung-chul, and art director Cho Hwa-sung (Korean Version) - A new introduction to the film by Kim Jee-woon DISC TWO BONUS FEATURES (BLU-RAY™) - Corralling chaos in the desert, a new interview with director Kim Jee-woon - Dusty dust-ups and sweaty saddles, a new interview with martial arts coordinator Jung Doo-hong - Archival making of films and featurettes - Trailer gallery - Image gallery

• R-Point | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £7.99 (114.14%)   |  RRP £14.99

  1972, R-Point: what happened there? Find out in this chilling Korean spookfest!

• Stray Dogs | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The latest film by visionary director Tsai Ming-liang (Goodbye Dragon Inn) links together a series of sumptuously composed, tableau-like scenes, often without words. Stray Dogs tells the deeply affecting story of a father and his two young sons barely surviving on the margins of Taipei society. Can they fix their broken family? Extras: Journey to the West + interview with Tsai Ming-Liang

• Three...Extremes | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £13.93   |  Saving you £1.06 (7.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A collection of three horror shorts from three of Asia's most revered directors: Fruit Chan Takashi Miike and Park Chan-Wook. This anthology offers three inventively chilling tales from three masters of Asian terror. Takashi Miike's Box presents us with a troubled writer haunted by the memory of her sisters death. Park Chan-wook's Cut delights in more revenge with a film extra deciding to torture a director and his wife. And the final terror tale is Fruit Chan's bite-size version of Dumplings.

• Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £17.72   |  Saving you £2.27 (12.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ground-breaking 'Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain' is undoubtedly one of the most famous and influential films to emerge from Hong Kong - the inspiration for John Carpenter's 'Big Trouble In Little China' and heavily borrowed by director Ang Lee to re-create the style for his epic 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'. Featuring breath-taking art design striking cinematography and stunning locations in the Sichun Mountains Zu Warriors revolutionised the Hong Kong special-effect

• Parasite (B&W & 4K) Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (23/11/2020) from £19.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Includes Black and White Version of Parasite The Kim family are close. All four live in a tiny basement flat and all four are unemployed. But when the son, Ki-woo, is recommended by his friend to take a well-paid tutoring job, hopes of a regular income blossom on the horizon. There's only one small issue he's not a qualified teacher and has to fake it. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads to the extravagant Park family home for an interview and after securing the job discovers they also need an art tutor for their son, something he thinks his sister could pretend to do if they don't know she's his sister. Soon the whole family has infiltrated the Park home but as their deception unravels events begin to get increasingly out of hand in ways you simply cannot imagine.

• How Stella Got Her Groove Back | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £6.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (113.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfilment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. --Tom Keogh

• JSA - Joint Security Area | Blu Ray | (18/01/2021) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before Oldboy, before The Handmaiden, visionary filmmaker Park Chan-wook helmed this gripping tale of deceit, misunderstanding and the senselessness of war. Gunfire breaks out in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, leaving two North Korean soldiers dead while a wounded South Korean soldier (Lee Byung-hun, The Good, the Bad, the Weird) flees to safety. With the tenuous peace between the two warring nations on a knife-edge, a neutral team of investigators, headed by Swiss Army Major Sophie Jean (Lee Young-ae, Lady Vengeance), is dispatched to question both sides to determine what really happened under cover of darkness out in no-man's land. The recipient of multiple accolades, including Best Film at South Korea's 2001 Grand Bell Awards, JSA Joint Security Area showcases Park's iconic style in an embryonic form, and demonstrates that humanity and common purpose can be found in the most unlikely places. Special Edition Contents: High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original lossless Korean DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks Optional English subtitles New audio commentary by writer and critic Simon Ward Archival audio commentary by writer/director Park Chan-wook Archival audio commentary by Park Chan-wook and cast Isolated music and effects track Newly recorded video interview with Asian cinema expert Jasper Sharp The JSA Story and Making the Film, two archival featurettes on the film's production About JSA, a series of archival introductions to the film by members of the cast Behind the scenes montage Opening ceremony footage Two music videos: Letter from a Private and Take the Power Back Theatrical trailer TV spot Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Kieran Fisher

• A Better Tomorrow | DVD | (29/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The John Woo gangster classic that started it all, a romantic, violent, swirlingly stylish melodrama about duelling brothers--with a mesmerizing lead performance by Hong Kong's favourite actor, Chow Yun-Fat. In repose, Chow's sleepy magnetism recalls the glory days of Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Takakura Ken; when he's stepping high, Chow has a unique, ebullient star presence, a man who embraces life so unselfconsciously that he becomes vulnerable to all kinds of suffering and heartache (he endures masochistic megadoses of violence here). The sequence in which Chow's Mark avenges his betrayed best friend---by blasting his way into, and then out of, a Chinese restaurant, twin .45s blazing---is a swashbuckling standout. Woo's film technique may have been more polished in later efforts, but A Better Tomorrow has a direct emotional power that is still unique. Kung fu star of the 1970s, Ti Lung is also terrific here as the 40ish established mobster, relied upon by all, who allows conflicting loyalties toward Mark and toward his younger brother, now a cop, to undermine the stability of his position. --David Chute, Amazon.com

• Rizzoli and Isles - Season 1 | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (49.95%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Tough and smart. Edgy and humourous. Rizzoli and Isles. Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander star as combative working-class Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and cool cerebral medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles in an exciting police procedural with a compelling point of view based on the best-selling novels by Tess Gerritsen. The two women have each other's backs as they investigate their city's grittiest and most puzzling homicides from the Back Bay to back alleys. The high-calibre supporting cast includes Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) as Jane's overprotective mum. Some best friends shop together some meet for Mojitos some join book clubs. Rizzoli and Isles bust crime.

• Daughter Of The Nile | Blu Ray | (29/05/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien (The Assassin, Three Times, Flight of the Red Balloon) followed up his highly acclaimed Coming of Age trilogy of films with Daughter of the Nile, a rich and poignant drama about a young woman struggling to support her family amidst the violent and neon-soaked milieu of 1980's Taipei. Lin (Lin Hsiao-yang) works as a waitress in a fried chicken restaurant, attends night school and pines after her brother's friend, local gigolo Ah-sang (Fan Yang). Increasingly constrained by the casual brutality of the world around her, Lin finds escape imagining herself as the titular Daughter of the Nile, a character from her favourite manga series. Based on the personal experiences of screenwriter, Chu T'ien-wen (Millennium Mambo; Goodbye South, Goodbye; City of Sadness) Daughter of the Nile is a profoundly moving observation of marginalised youth. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film from a new 4K restoration, available for the first time on Blu-ray and DVD in a new Dual-Format edition. DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL FEATURES: New 4K restoration Uncompressed PCM soundtrack on the Blu-ray Optional English subtitles A new interview with Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns Theatrical Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring new and archival writing

• Drunken Master | DVD | (17/04/2000) from £9.85   |  Saving you £13.13 (191.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drunken Master is a film that, following Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) (made with the same ensemble cast and director Yuen Woo Ping), consolidated Jackie Chan's position as the new Hong Kong kung fu action star of the late 1970s. Set in the late 19th century, Chan plays the great Chinese hero Wong Fei Hung as a loveable young rogue who is always getting into fights or embarrassing his family. Eventually his father decides the only way to make a man of Chan is to send him for training with an old drunken drifter played by Yuen Siu Tien. Just as they did in Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, the pair make a fine double-act, though this time there is much surreal entertainment to be had from the older man teaching the younger the fine art of drunken kung fu. Learning to fight like the Eight Drunken Gods before the final confrontation with Hwang Jang Lee causes Chan considerable problems, though Yuen Siu Tien simply fights better the more he drinks. Yuen Siu Tien would reprise the role in his final film, Magnificent Butcher (1979) yet with Chan he finds a perfect blend of slapstick comedy and creatively staged action which makes Drunken Master a genuine kung fu classic. On the DVD: The picture is generally strong though inevitably there is a fair amount of grain. Unfortunately the original 2.35-1 film has been reformatted to 1.77-1 widescreen TV ratio. This has been done more skilfully than usual but is still a misrepresentation of the original cinema release and does mar both the landscape photography and the fast moving action scenes. The sound is perfectly acceptable mono. Soundtrack options are the original Mandarin with English subtitles, or an English dub. Extras include the original English language theatrical trailer, Hong Kong Legends' own trailer, plus promos for further releases and a photo gallery. There is a detailed text biography and filmography of Jackie Chan, a biography of Yuen Woo Ping and a text interview with producer Ng See Yuen. Also included is a text biography of Hwang Jang Lee linked to a kicking showcase which is another short fight scene. Most of these features are identical to those on the Snake in the Eagle's Shadow DVD. --Gary S Dalkin

• China Gate (mprint Limited Edition Blu-Ray)I | Blu Ray | (08/04/2022) from £24.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1954, During The French Indochina War, An Eurasian Female Smuggler And A Group Of French Foreign Legion Mercenaries, Infiltrate The Enemy Territory In Order To Destroy An Arms Depot. An Early And Underrated Film From Maverick Director Samuel Fuller Starring Angie Dickinson In Her First Lead Role.New Audio Commentary By Film Historian Samm Deighan Peace Of Mind: A Personal Look At China Gate By Samantha Fuller And Christa Lang FullerNew Video Essay On The Career Of Angie Dickinson By Film Historian Kat EllingerTheatrical TrailerLimited Edition Slipcase On The First 2000 Copies With Unique Artwork.

• Broker - Special Edition | Blu Ray | (05/06/2023) from £13.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On a rainy night in Busan, So-young (Lee 'IU' Ji-eun) leaves her baby Woo-sung outside a 'baby box', a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. Instead, he's picked up by Sang-hyun (Parasite's Song Kang-ho) who runs an unofficial adoption brokerage and plans to find him a new home. So-young tracks down both Sang-hyun and his business partner Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) and decides to join their pursuit (alongside a seven-year-old stowaway from a nearby orphanage), but as they search for Woo-sung's new family, the unlikely group evolves into something of a family themselves - unaware they're being tailed by two detectives (Bae Doona, Lee Joo-young) who are determined to stop them. Heartwarming, funny and moving, BROKER is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters. Product Features Making of BROKER Behind the Scenes with Visual Commentary by Director Hirokazu Kore-eda Cast Featurette Interview with Director Hirokazu Kore-eda Interview with Doona Bae

• Broker | DVD | (05/06/2023) from £10.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Last Unicorn | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £8.43   |  Saving you £4.56 (54.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Weary of being alone in the vast forest unicorn Amalthea (Mia Farrow) begins to wonder if she's the last of her kind. Following a rumor she joins forces with feeblish wizard Schmendrick (Alan Arkin) and wayward barmaid Molly (Tammy Grimes) to look for the mystical Red Bull a creature known to hunt and imprison unicorns. In order to walk unnoticed among men Schmendrick magically transforms Amalthea into a beautiful woman. Together the three embark on a adventurous journey into the dark land of King Haggard the man rumored to control the Red Bull.

• Legendary - Tomb Of The Dragon | DVD | (18/05/2015) from £4.22   |  Saving you £10.03 (338.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cryptozoologist Dr Travis Preston (Scott Adkins) wants to establish if a prehistoric beast accused of killing oil construction workers is real or a myth. However at the same time ruthless competitor and trophy hunter Harker (Dolph Lundgren) wants to prove he is the best in the business and out-do Travis in any way he can. As Harker thrives on trophy killings and shoots to kill anything - and anyone - that gets in the way Travis finds himself in a race against time to preserve the rare but deadly creature. He is funded by a mysterious wealthy benefactor and finds himself escorted by their slightly overwhelmed lawyer. The rest of his team consists of two friends seasoned field workers Katie and Brandon and Jianyu a man who first gave him video proof of the creature. As the death toll mounts can Travis’ team battle against Harker and escape the jaws of death whilst saving the species from brutal extinction?

• Snake in the Eagles Shadow | Blu Ray | (03/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar.