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• Nomad + My Heart is that Eternal Rose (Limited Editon) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2025) from £25.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An icon of the Hong Kong New Wave and mentor to Wong Kar-wai, Patrick Tam worked with icons including Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love), Leslie Cheung (Days of Being Wild), Kenny Bee (Armour of God) and others in these two inimitable classics. In Nomad two couples, equal parts rich and working class, bond and experience the frolics of youth. The arrival of a Red Army deserter brings violence and disruption prompting incredible plot twists and inspired set-pieces. My Heart is That Eternal Rose finds Tam in the more familiar Heroic Bloodshed genre. A young couple are torn apart by a botched Triad job that forces Rick to relocate to the Philippines and Lap to become a gangster's moll. Six years later they meet again but their reunion only reignites the danger that drove them apart. Stunningly shot by David Chung (Once Upon a Time in China) and Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express) both films are newly restored and made available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES4K restoration of the Nomad director's cut, 2K restoration of My Heart is That Eternal Rose, UK premieres on Blu-ray presented on two discsInterview with critic Tony Rayns on Nomad (2024)Interview with assistant director Stanley Kwan on Nomad (2024)Interview with Nomad producer Dennis Yu (2024)A visual essay on Patrick Tam and the Hong Kong New Wave by author David Desser (2024)Audio commentary on My Heart is That Eternal Rose by Frank Djeng (2024)Interview with producer John Sham (2019)Two episodes of C.I.D. directed by Tam (1976, 49 mins each)TrailerNewly improved English subtitle translations by Dylan CheungReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time TomorrowLimited edition booklet featuring an archival career-spanning interview with Patrick Tam by Arnaud Lanuque and a new essay by Kambole CampbellLimited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• HONG KONG 1941 (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (16/06/2025) from £33.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hong Kong 1941 | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £21.29   |  Saving you £-1.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hong Kong 1941 is a film from the former Crown Colony uniquely focusing on the Japanese occupation during the Second World War. Starring Chow Yun-Fat, shortly before A Better Tomorrow (1986) made him a superstar, this is a war drama far removed from the usual action fare expected from Hong Kong cinema. The English title deliberately evokes Spielberg's 1941, though the content anticipates the same director's Empire of the Sun, even to the extent that the hymn "Suo Gan" is used in both movies. The story of two friends in love with the same woman may call to mind Pearl Harbor, though this comparatively low-budget feature offers an infinitely more convincing account of the horrors of war than Michael Bay's glossy big-budget epic, with some of the most harrowing sequences since The Deer Hunter. The film does not shy away from the moral complexities of collaboration with the enemy, and likewise presents the main characters as fully three-dimensional. Chow Yun-Fat inevitably dominates (he won a Golden Horse award for his performance), yet Cecilia Yip Tong makes a strong impression as the heroine whose terminal illness does not result in the expected sentimental clichés. Alex Man is memorable as the third corner of the triangle, but what makes Hong Kong 1941 genuinely notable is its emotionally charged evocation of WWII from a rarely seen perspective. On the DVD: Hong Kong 1941 is presented in an anamorphically enhanced transfer at 1.77:1, cropping just a little of the original Hong Kong Critics Award-winning cinematography. The picture is excellent, with no blemishes, fine detail, rich colours and barely a hint of grain. The sound is offered in stereo in the original Cantonese, with optional English subtitles, or in a Dolby Digital 5.1 remix and dubbed into English. Both tracks have occasional distortion on the music. The original version preserves the performances much better, though some of the subtitles are wildly inaccurate--references to living in the 21st century and to Japanese jet planes--while the dubbed track offers better than average voice acting but with many of the cultural references Westernised. The multi-channel remix adds only discrete ambient effects and is barely noticeable. The main special features are an information-packed commentary by Hong Kong movie expert Bay Logan, and two interviews. Chow Yun-Fat speaks rather nervously in English for 12 minutes on a variety of topics, concentrating on his work with John Woo. The interview with Cecilia Yip Tong, specific to Hong Kong 1941, is in Cantonese with English subtitles, runs 27 minutes and is anamorphically enhanced with excellent image quality. Also included is a routine photo gallery, the original theatrical trailer and 12 Hong Kong Legends DVD trailers. --Gary S Dalkin

• Nomad | Unknown | (15/09/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A group of disenchanted youths, two couples equal parts rich and working class, bond and experience the frolics of youth. The arrival of a Red Army deserter brings violence and disruption, prompting incredible plot twists and inspired set-pieces. A defining work of the Hong Kong New Wave, Patrick Tam's (mentor to Wong Kar-wai) Nomad is a searing portrait of alienation set against the backdrop of a city on the cusp of political and cultural upheaval. Long unavailable, the film is now made available for the first time in the UK in a new 4K restoration approved by TamBLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES4K restoration of the Nomad director's cutInterview with critic Tony Rayns (2024)Interview with assistant director Stanley Kwan (2024)Interview with producer Dennis Yu (2024)TrailerNewly improved English subtitle translations by Dylan CheungSleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow

• Peace Hotel | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £8.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (88.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1930's China Ping (Chow Yun-Fat) known as the ""King Of Killers"" renounces his murderous way after his precious wife is caught up in a gun battle and loses her life. Heartbroken Ping puts away his six shooters and establishes the 'Peace Hotel' promising protection and safe passage to all the visitors under his roof. For a decade his golden rule holds firm. That is until the mysterious appearance of a beautiful young woman whose beauty and hidden agenda threatens to break his

• Avenging Fist | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £7.02   |  Saving you £12.97 (64.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The adventures of Nova a young fighter who is guardian of his family legacy an all-powerful martial arts style known only as 'The Avenging Fist'. When 'Combat 21' the leader of an underground movement known as 'The Red Dragons' discovers the existence of the style he will stop at nothing to learn its secrets and combine its strength with the all-conquering 'Power Glove' a technological fighting tool designed to unlock the unknown power of the human mind and body. When th