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• The Last Emperor | Blu Ray | (19/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winner of nine Oscars including Best Director and Best Picture Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor following Pu Yi the last of the Emperor's of China from his birth in 1908 through his childhood in the fortress-like Forbidden City and his later misguided collaboration with the Japanese in World War II THE LAST EMPEROR tells the history of modern China through the eyes of the man brought up to believe that he was the country's divine ruler. One of the biggest and most ambitious films of the era filmed almost entirely on location in China in 1986 Bertolucci and his producer Jeremy Thomas were the first Western film-makers to be allowed to make a film about modern China.

• 24 City | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chengdu, nowadays. The state-owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY".

• Fist From Shaolin | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This epic movie depicts the struggle and battles of those who sought to destroy the Monks' temples. A cast of real Shaolin Monks and Wu Shu fighters demonstrating skills not matched by others. Star of 'Mystery of Chess boxing' and '7 Grandmasters' Lee Yi Min starred and produced this action packed classic.

• 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

• Infernal Affairs 3 | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £12.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (4.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ming (Andy Lau) and Tan (Tony Leung) lead parallel lives: Ming is a Triad mole in the police department; Yan is a police stooge in mob boss Sam′s (Eric Tsang) Triad Gang. Both men have a desire to put their false lives behind them and to take their rightful place in a society that eludes them One night during a police raid to bring down Sam's Empire the two men′s paths finally cross. Both the police and the mob soon realise that there is a mole amongst them and a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues. In this race again time nobody is safe and the lives of everyone involved becomes threatened. In the meantime Superintendant Wong (Anthony Wong) does his best to keep Yan′s secret safe but how long can the men′s hidden lives remain undiscovered

• 2000 AD | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £8.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (123.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  2000 AD reunites Aaron Kwok and Andrew Lin from the ferociously pyrotechnic Black Sheep Affair (1998) for a slick but muddled Hong Kong/Singapore co-production conspiracy thriller about computer espionage. Kwok and Lin make fine adversaries, and have one excellent martial arts battle on a vertigo-inducing rooftop. Otherwise the action involves powerfully staged Heat-style gun play rather than martial arts, one set-piece car chase/shoot-out being strongly influenced by the Riviera pursuit in Ronin (1997). Beginning as a serious thriller, Kwok's nerdish computer games designer transforms into an invulnerable action hero, and any sense of plausibility is sacrificed for regulation mayhem. Cluttered with more characters than it knows what to do with, 2000 AD combines aspects of The Net (1995) and Entrapment (1999) into a largely nonsensical plot. Lin's villain is given vital information which later he is completely ignorant of. We never find out exactly what he is planning, or who he is really working for, and in one mystifying sequence he crashes the Singapore stock exchange, yet the event has absolutely no effect on anything. Though the cast is engaging and the direction polished the finale is an anti-climax, symptomatic of a highly entertaining movie which promises more than it delivers. On the DVD: The 1.77:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is clean and generally free from grain; the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is as powerful as any heard on a Hong Kong movie, although listen though headphones and a fair degree of background hiss is clearly audible in the quiet scenes. The film can be viewed with the original Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles, or dubbed into English. Either way, a surprisingly large amount of the original dialogue is in English. There is a 19-minute "making of" documentary, though this is bland made-for-television promotional fare. Much better is the 14-minute interview with director Gordon Chan and a 17-minute interview with Andrew Lin who reveals how once shooting had begun his originally heroic part was re-written to make him the villain, thus explaining why the plot makes so little sense. Best of all is the commentary by Chan and Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan, which is packed with information about the movie, Hong Kong cinema and filmmaking in general. By itself it makes the DVD a worthwhile purchase. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Postman Fights Back | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the Republican Era in China the country became divided by warlords and there was constant bloodshed. Needing able-bodied men to join their factions warlords paid a hefty price. However the one man that they all wanted could not be bought. This action-packed film stars action legend Chow Yun-Fat and is directed by acclaimed helmer Ronny Yu. Fight choreography is by Yuen Chun-yeung action director of 'Charlies Angels'.

• Tokyo Raiders | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tokyo Raiders stars Tony Leung (well known from such Hong Kong action movies as Hard-Boiled and Bullet in the Head) along with pop stars Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen. When Macy (Chen) gets jilted at the altar in Las Vegas, she returns to Hong Kong to find her fiancé has disappeared--but in his apartment she finds Yung (Cheng), an interior decorator with surprising kung fu skills. Together they go to Japan, where they meet up with Lin (Leung), a private detective with an entourage of kung fu babes and stories that don't quite add up. From there, the plot gets more and more incomprehensible. It has something to do with counterfeit yen and a twisty series of double-crosses, but Tokyo Raiders is really about hip clothes and martial arts razzle-dazzle, all framed by the worst dubbed dialogue you've ever heard--sort of a Hong Kong version of The Mod Squad. Leung has demonstrated his acting chops in films like Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love, but he can't make this silliness sound sensible. Still, the actors are sexy, the fight scenes are splashy (if a little confusing), and the movie never wastes too much time getting from one action sequence to the next. A chase that starts out on a motorised skateboard and ends up on a trailer truck hauling new cars is particularly entertaining. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Iron Monkey Strikes Back | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Iron Monkey superstar Chen Kwan Tai plays Cool Head the enforcer with the Monkey Fist who has to sort out assassins who plan to overthrow the government. Aided by the lovely but deadly Judy Lee Cool Head takes out the assassins one by one. Watch out for Chen Sing the Tiger Claw master as he tears up opponents with incredible ease. Only the Monkey Fist stands a chance of slaying this tiger. English Language Version.

• Black Belt Jones 2 | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jim Kelly is back as Black Belt Jones ex-CIA and lethal. 'The North Star' is a priceless diamond. Its theft from an American courier leads Lucas - Black Belt Jones - into a seedy world of strippers and hookers. Fists fly as he smashes his way through the heart of a den of thieves.

• 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.

• Shaolin Red Master | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Su (Chi Kuan-Chun) learns the deadly secret of the Shaolin fighting techniques in order to avenge the senseless murder of his father...

• The Hot, The Cool And The Vicious | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £11.97   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An all-action martial arts movie which focusses on an undercover agent's fight against corruption in Hong Kong. Flash Legs Tan stars in this dark spaghetti western style kung fu flick that has become a cult 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.

• Rebellious Reign | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £6.96   |  Saving you £-0.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  During the Ching dynasty Ming Kang Yau a kung fu expert allies himself with the 4th Prince in a struggle for the rite of succession as the Emperor is dying...

• The Magnificent | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-3.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As revolutionaries bent on restoring the Manchu dynasty's rule in 1911 China prepare to attack three skilled fighters must unite to preserve the new Republic...

• Master Of Death | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £6.15   |  Saving you £-0.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of a collection of films recently discovered in the Hong kong film archives and now available for the first time in the UK. A young man is set on avenging the savage killing of his father and the rape and murder of his mother. His passion for revenge drives him to the best martial arts teachers in the province to learn the skills he will need to succeed. This brutal story builds up to an incredible climax where gruesome Kung Fu beatings are inflicted...and our hero takes his dues

• Iron Monkey / Thai Chi Boxer / Wing Chun | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This box set features a collection of titles from the master of modern-day action choreography Yuen Woo-Ping. Iron Monkey - Platinum Edition: One of the most visually spectacular films ever produced by a Hong Kong studio this is a traditional epic style movie boasting fight choreography by Yuen Woo Ping action director of ""The Matrix"" ""Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"" and ""Kill Bill vol 1"" and soon-to-be Hollywood star Donnie Yen. This film is credited by fans and critics a

• They Wait | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a family return to Shanghai for a family funeral their son begins to have visions of ghosts and then falls ill. With medical science offering no hope a mysterious pharmacist offers help and the family are in a race against a time to prevent their son being lost forever.

• Old Skool 2 - Snake Deadly Act / Shaolin Red Master | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Snake Deadly Act Follow the young and impetuous Kwok Chung as he gets into scrape after scrape before being forced to learn the ancient art of Snake Fist Fighting. Betrayed by his father and used by his master Chung is determined to gain revenge and will stop at nothing to prove he is the ultimate fighting machine. Shaolin Red Master Shaolin kid Chi Kwan Chun learns the deadliest Shaolin fighting techniques in order to seek out his father's murderer and depose the ruthless Tibetan Red Lama. Packed with intrigue and stylish visuals.