"Actor: Chang Chen"

• Chinese Odyssey | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £9.82   |  Saving you £11.43 (133.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The young Emperor (Chang Chen) and his sister the princess (Faye Wong) find life behind palace walls too mundane always plotting their escape. Most of the time their mother the Empress Dowager and the palace guards foil their plans. Eventually only the princess manages to escape disguised as a man. Enter another set of siblings. Lung (Tony Leung) the village bully is an uncouth and rough man whose ambition in life is to just be a drifter. He has a younger sister Phoenix (Zhao

• Bruce Lee - The Man - The Myth | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bruce Lee's entire life was dedicated to the martial arts and he lived under the constant threat of challenges from those who wanted to defeat the master. Packed with the magnificent Kung-Fu action that brought him to fame this is Bruce Lee's story as and where it happened the story of a legend.

• The Iron Monkey | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £7.45   |  Saving you £-1.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young gambler going by the nickname of Iron Monkey seeks vengeance for the massacre of his family...

• Fantasy Mission Force | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the Japanese theatre of war during W.W.II the allies must strike back at the Japanese who have captured their top generals. A commando unit is assembled with the most notorious criminals fighters and soldiers and this dream team -- the fantasy mission force -- will crumble the Japanese force. Jackie Chan is among the recruits of this team.

• Monkey Kung Fu | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A showcase for the most rare and popular form of Kung Fu the Monkey style. The evil Snake Fist Master is searching for Ming Loyalists and only the amazing Monkey Fighters can stop him!

• Shaolin vs Lama | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Originally made in 1983, Shaolin vs Lama is an example of the kung fu movie at its most cultish. The story is largely unimportant but concerns Yu Ting and his search for a kung fu master, a search that leads him into conflict with the Flying Eagle gang and their leader, Golden Wheel Lama. This is as far as it goes plotwise, not that that really matters. The focus of the film is, of course, the fight sequences and breathtaking they are too, though the whole film is given unmistakable aura of campness by its comical English dubbing. Still, it would be churlish to argue with the glowing recommendation of the Wu Tang Clan's Rza (a man who knows his kung fu stuff) of Shaolin vs Lama as one of the giants of the genre. On the DVD: filmed in a rather basic manner, Shaolin vs Lama is a colourful visual experience but not one that particularly shines on DVD. The 2.0 Dolby Digital sound gives the fight sequences an added bite but, as is so often the case, the potential of the format is frustratingly underused. There is no attempt to provide any sort of background to the film or the kung fu genre in general, instead leaving us with scene selection and the original theatrical trailer. --Phil Udell

• Shaolin Invincible Sticks | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fists fly as fast as lightning in this revenge-fuelled martial arts flick.

• Method Man | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £16.25   |  Saving you £-10.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fast and furious marial arts action. The undisputed king of kicks Casanova Wong stars in this kung fu flick watch in amazement as he takes on the acrobatic genius of Peter Chen in one of the best screen end fights of all time.

• Happy Together | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cult director Wong Kar Wai's first film shot outside of Hong Kong is a spellbinding tribute to blind passion that features two of Asian cinema's biggest stars. Lai (Tony Leung) and Ho (Leslie Cheung) arrive in Argentina as lovers but while driving south in search of adventures something goes wrong and Ho leaves for Buenos Aries. Devastated Lai finds work in a tango bar but is consumed by thoughts of being happy together once more with Ho. A heady cocktail of sound and vision Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle marry the rythms of Buenos Aries and Frank Zappa's jazz to an astonishing array of images.

• Born Invincible | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Classic Kung Fu fare from the Hong Kong school directed by the old master himself, Joseph Kuo, Born Invincible has only been available in an extremely crackly print for years. Fortunately this version has been cleaned up, though lovers of Oriental kitsch will be glad to hear that the risible, excruciating dubbing remains intact. The plot revolves around the evil Ching Ying (Carter Wong), who has trained since the age of three in the near-impossible art of Tai Chi Kung Fu. His body has become tantamount to a single, deadly muscle, the 108 pressure points of human vulnerability reduced to just one--his sole weakness. His training has also left him with whitened hair and a voice that, dubbed, is a little too close to Harry Enfield's Grayson character from the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches in high excitement. Having killed two elders of the Lei Ping school in martial combat over an old score, it falls to the students of that establishment to avenge their masters, through three rigorous years of training. The awesome, though often-comical fight scenes (which in no way resemble Tai Chi) dominate the movie, involving as they do protracted acrobatic manoeuvres, few of which seem to involve actual contact with the human body. Still, lovers of The Matrix might care to revisit this, in order to check out how those moves were first committed to celluloid when editing was less of a fine art. --David Stubbs

• Rainy Dog | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.95   |  Saving you £10.03 (202.22%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Poetic hitman film noir from controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike. Yuuji is an outsider. As a Japanese mobster holed up in Taipei working as a hitman for a Triad boss he is far from his roots. Added to this complicated existence is the fact that his ex-wife has just dumped a young boy - probably their child - on his doorstep. A hazardous burden in this world of sly manouvers and quick-fire shoot-outs the boy is neglected and unloved. As Yuuji continues to do business as

• Dragon Lord | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £22.80   |  Saving you £-2.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Dragon (Jackie) and his buddy Cowboy get mixed up in a plot to swipe some valuable Chinese antiques and are forced to kick butt. However the real attraction here is a number of showstopping set pieces that involve Jackie and Cowboy playing some pretty demented versions of Badminton and Football all while trying to win the heart of a local beauty. Also known as 'Young Master In Love' and 'Dragon Strike'.

• Wu Tang Magic Kick | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Superstar John Liu stars in this kung fu classic where deceit and greed and non-stop leg to leg action are the order of the day.

• 36 Deadly Styles | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Manic martial arts action from decorated Hong Kong director Joseph Kuo.

• Shaolin Iron Claws | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A corrupt Shaolin assassin a master in Iron Claws is hired to threaten members of the Ching Dynasty into signing a secret letter for the restoration of the monarchy. When a police chief captures one of the assailants the plot is revealed and the Shaolin Iron Master must be destroyed...

• The Road Home | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The latest film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, The Road Home (1999) is a story of past and present. In black and white we see a young businessman return to a rural village where his father has died. His mother wants a traditional funeral, which involves carrying the coffin several miles in the depths of winter. Then, in flashback and brilliant colour, we are told the story of his parents' courtship. His father had come as the local schoolteacher and had fallen in love with his mother, a local girl. Political complications ensue and they are separated for two years, but at last reunited. This apparently simply tale is told with great insight and dazzlingly beautiful camerawork, in a style which echoes the Italian neo-realist films of the 1940s. Perhaps it doesn't have the complexity of the director's earlier film, Raise the Red Lantern (1991), which starred the luminous Gong Li, but The Road Home has her match in Zhang Ziyi, who also starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). On the DVD: The quality of the sound and picture (in 2.35:1 ratio) are excellent. There are no additional features except for subtitles in English and 15 other languages. --Ed Buscombe

• Jackie Chan Collection | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A collection of classic Jackie Chan movies. Titles Comprise: The Young Tiger Fire Dragon Eagle Shadow Fist Fantasy Mission Force

• Shaolin - Chamber Of Death | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jackie Chan stars as Little Mute who is the favourite of the Shaolin Masters as he struggles to learn the skills in the Shaolin Temple. Little Mute despairs on ever leaving the Shaolin Temple to seek the revenge of the man who killed his father as his only way out is to survive the ordeal of the Shaolin Chamber of Death. Many brave disciples have tried and failed. Can Little Mute succeed and avenge his father's death? Shaolin Chamber of Death also known as Shaolin Wooden Men was to be one of Jackie Chan's dream projects. Allowing the young ultra-talented Jackie to emblazon all his usual trademarks of acrobatics weaponry and a variety of animal styles plus the creativity of his use of incorporating the excellent but unusual battle against the 108 awesome automated wooden robots that stand between him and his freedom from the Shaolin temple. Another timeless classic.

• The Crane Fighter | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Old school martial arts from the Far East. The lovely but deadly Judy Lee stars as the Crane fighter who teams up with the debonair Kung fu kid Raymond Liu to overthrow the evil Manchu warlords who have taken over Canton. Superb action direction and direction from Raymond Liu a firm favourite with kung fu fans world wide.

• Wu Tang Vs Ninja | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fast and furious martial arts action in which the evil Abbot White teams up with Japanese ninjas to destroy the Shaolin Temple!