"Actor: Ching Wan Lau"

• Mad Detective | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  2007's largest grossing film at the Hong Kong box office - the smash-hit Mad Detective - is one of the freshest and most satisfying films from that country in a decade. The traditional Hong Kong police film is turned on its head: the imaginative twist being our hero - Detective Bun (a role created for Lau Ching Wan) - who has the ability to 'see' people's inner personalities or hidden ghosts. Breaking new ground and establishing new cinematic rules, Johnnie To's latest giddily entertaining collaboration with Wai Ka Fai radically raises the level of storytelling in modern film. This ingenious realisation of a supernaturally gifted copper is fast-paced and furious, yet also complex and disturbingly funny.Detective Bun (Lau Ching Wan) was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer as a gift at his chief's farewell party. Branded as 'mad' and discharged from the force, he has lived in seclusion with his beloved wife May (Kelly Lin) ever since. Strangely, Bun has the ability to 'see' a person's inner personality, their subconscious desires, emotions, and mental state. When a missing police gun is linked to several heists and murders, hotshot Inspector Ho (Andy On) calls on the valuable skills of his former mentor Bun to help unlock the killer's identity. However, Bun's unorthodox methods point to a fellow detective and take a schizophrenic turn for the worse...

• Shockwave - Destruction Hong Kong | DVD | (07/06/2021) from £3.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, Poon Shing-Fung, a bomb disposal officer, got caught in the blast and thus lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, who was found in a coma at the spot of a terrorist bombing attack, of being involved in several bombing attacks in the past two years. Poon can hardly remember his past and even his own identity due to Post Traumatic Amnesia. He plans to escape to find out the truth. Meanwhile, knowing the terrorist organization's schemes of destroying Hong Kong landmarks, Poon, as the key person between the police and the terrorist organization, would possibly save or destroy lives of the innocent civilians in the city.

• Shockwave - Destruction Hong Kong | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £6.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, Poon Shing-Fung, a bomb disposal officer, got caught in the blast and thus lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, who was found in a coma at the spot of a terrorist bombing attack, of being involved in several bombing attacks in the past two years. Poon can hardly remember his past and even his own identity due to Post Traumatic Amnesia. He plans to escape to find out the truth. Meanwhile, knowing the terrorist organization's schemes of destroying Hong Kong landmarks, Poon, as the key person between the police and the terrorist organization, would possibly save or destroy lives of the innocent civilians in the city.

• Black Mask | DVD | (06/04/2002) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-3.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With John Woo having transformed himself into a blockbuster hack for hire, and Jackie Chan cracking jokes in no-brainer films like Rush Hour, it might be worth remembering how both got their kick-start in Hollywood: through the stripped-down mayhem of the Hong Kong action flick, of which Black Mask is very possibly the greatest example of recent times. Easy-going librarian (no, we're not making this up) Michael (Jet Li, now successfully carving out a career in the US himself in such films as Lethal Weapon 4) has a secret. Prior to securing his job among the dusty hardbacks, Michael was a "701", a genetically engineered superman created by the authorities to help fight crime. The trouble is, the rest of his old compadres have now gone mad, and are busy taking over the local crime and drug scenes. Cue, of course, some explosions, some gunplay and an awful lot of exquisitely choreographed fight scenes, which is where Li, notwithstanding the occasional crafty one-liner, does what he does: cracking heads like some kind of intensely hard ballerina. As he pirouettes effortlessly atop a series of girders on a downtown building site, it's hard not to feel a quiet sense of awe--even among viewers for whom an ability to render one's enemies unconscious with one's feet isn't the first thing we look for in a movie star. Brutal, minimalist and expertly made, Black Mask is a masterpiece of the genre. --Danny Leigh

• Full Alert | DVD | (17/07/2000) from £8.42   |  Saving you £11.57 (57.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Ringo Lam helms this standout action psycho-thriller. Perfectionist workaholic Inspector Pao finds himself up against Mak a seasoned criminal intending to use his explosives skills to pull off a billion heist. Now Pao must use his own resources to stop Mak and prevent heavy civilian casualties. With heartstopping car chases on the streets of Hong Kong and brilliant performances by the two leads Full Alert is an intelligent high velocity action movie considered by many as Lam's finest work.

• Return To A Better Tomorrow | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This modern blockbuster skillfully reinterprets everything that made Heroic bloodshed classics like The Killer and A Better Tomorrow so successful with a compelling plot great characters a charismatic hero and above all breathtaking ballistic action. Hong Kong's latest superstar Ekin Cheng plays Tong Chun an impressively ruthless Triad boss who commands the respect of all his men. His friend Wei (Ben Lam) is jealous of his status and secretly sets him up... Ekin Cheng's cool gun-toting style is superbly pitted against Ben Lam's amazing kung fu prowess Chingamy Yau looks sexy as ever and screen villain Ngai Shing chills as the murderous hitman Dutch. But the real star of this excellent movie is Director Wong Jing who squeezes in enough brilliantly choreographed action to blow your mind! A great new twist to a classic genre.

• Running Out Of Time 2 | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sang (Lau Ching-Wan) a newly appointed superintendent is challenged to a game of ransom by international criminal Ken (Ekin Cheng). Ken is a wanted criminal for destroying famous works of art and whose crimes are mostly targeted at multi-national insurance companies. The game revolves around Sang's relentless pursuit of Ken and the delivery of a 10 million-dollar ransom by the company's senior executive Teresa (Kelly Lin)... Director Johnnie To follows up his own 'Running Out Of Time' with another typically energetic and stylish thriller replete with slickly-staged capers gravity-defying stunts and more plot twists than you can count!

• Colour Of The Truth | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Huang Jiang and Qi Xi are both very capable crime investigators. However Huang has his heart and soul attached to truth and justice while Qi Xi works as an informer for the triads and works as an accomplice of the crime lord Mang Chao... Hong Kong superstars aplenty (Jordan Chan Anthony Wong Gillian Chung of 'Twins' fame) populate this slick cop thriller in the vein of 'Infernal Affairs' and 'Cop On A Mission'.