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The Last Hero in China | DVD | (29/08/2002)
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| RRP In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises his role as Wong Fei-Hong, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor and a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighbouring house is a brothel. Though Wong's students are delighted and the earnest brothel master only wants to study with him, Wong feels he has lost face. But this becomes the least of his troubles: soon he's fighting a corrupt police chief, a temple of slave-trading monks, and a deafness-causing medicine sold to children--and that's just in the first hour. Last Hero in China is a grand melodrama, featuring exaggerated heroes and villains, goofy humour and hyperbolic kung fu action. The plot takes some hard-to-follow turns, but the action is so non-stop it hardly matters. The lion vs. centipede dance/fight has to be seen to be believed, to say nothing of the priest with a floating lotus chariot and a flying claw. Jet Li is in fine form, Gordon Liu (as the venal top cop) is maniacal and despicable, and the lovely Cheung Man plays an expert martial artist looking for her kidnapped sister. The character of Wong Fei-Hong also appears in the Once Upon a Time in China series (where he was first played by Li) and in Jackie Chan's Drunken Master movies. --Bret Fetzer
Cult Action Extravaganza | DVD | (21/04/2003)
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| RRP The Cult Action Extravaganza three-disc set offers three very different movies that have nothing in common bar residency in Siren's film archive. They are: The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) and Get Christie Love! (1974). The Most Dangerous Game is a classic, one of the first talkies to get pictures moving after five very static years following the birth of sound. The plot finds resourceful hero Joel McCrea and heroine Fay Wray being hunted on the island of the insane Zaroff (Leslie Banks). One of the grandfathers of the summer blockbuster, the film's setup has been reworked many times since, notably in John Woo's Hard Target (1993). By modern standards it's technically primitive, though still gripping stuff, complete with the jungle set built as a test run for King Kong (1933) and graced by Max Steiner's prototype of all Hollywood action scores. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is another landmark or rather watermark. The third-ever CinemaScope production, this was a prestige release with Technicolor location filming at Key West, Florida of never-before-achieved underwater cinematography and four-channel stereo recording of a superlative Bernard Herrmann score. Even a still-impressive underwater battle with an octopus pre-dates the more famous giant squid of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The humans aren't bad either, with a young Robert Wagner making a charismatic if ethnically unconvincing Greek lead as sponge fisherman Tony and Terry Moore playing Juliet to his Romeo with real vivacity. Starring Theresa Graves, Get Christie Love! is a tame TV movie imitation of early 1970s female blaxploitation films such Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Running a standard TVM 73 minutes and with a low budget and content sanitised to US network standards, this is lightweight stuff about an undercover cop determined to smash a drugs ring. Nevertheless the movie was popular enough to spawn a short-lived TV show and is significant for being the first time a black woman took the title role in any American network production. Tarantino completists may be interested, as before he paid homage to Christie Love in the dialogue of Reservoir Dogs (1991). On the DVD: Cult Action Extravaganza presents the films in their original aspect ratio and sound format; The Most Dangerous Game and Get Christie Love! are 4:3, mono. The former is faded b/w with reasonably sturdy sound, though the transfer suffers from compression artefacting. No one would expect great quality from a 1974 TV movie, but Get Christie Love! suffers from both a poor print and a mediocre DVD transfer. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is presented in the extra wide 2.55:1 of early CinemaScope and though sadly not anamorphic both the seascapes and underwater cinematography are still impressive. The four-channel stereo sound is revelatory, clear, detailed and years ahead of what we have come to expect early 1950s films to sound like. --Gary S Dalkin
Attack Of The Joyful Goddess | DVD | (22/05/2006)
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| RRP A show-stopping supernatural Kung Fu chiller! In a foolish attempt to please corrupt officials a mendacious theatre manager conspires to kill the outspoken leading man. However when a replacement actor arrives the remaining members of the troupe begin to die under violent and increasingly strange circumstances. Can Kung Fu conquer the occult?
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Kung Fu Hustle | DVD | (24/10/2005)
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| RRP A small time thief, Sing, aspires to be part of the ruthless gang in this martial arts comedy.
Daggers 8 | DVD | (20/09/2004)
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| RRP Jackie Chan's real life brother Meng Yuan Man stars as a well-to-do young student who defies his grandfather and embarks on a quest to seek out the best Kung Fu teachers in the land. However someone else is seeking out these teachers a deadly killer armed with eight daggers.
Adrenalin Charged | DVD | (18/10/2004)
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| RRP Butterfly & Sword: Donnie Yen and Michelle Yeoh - Enough said! You only need mention the names of these two superstars in relation to a Hong Kong movie and you know you're dealing with a quality production. Such is the adrenaline-charged swordplay fantasy Butterfly & Sword (18) - a hugely impressive showcase for the dazzling skills of both - which also stars Hard Boiled's Tony Leung. Directed by Chin Siu-Tung (who choreographed Jet Li in Swordsman II) this breathtaking spectacle explodes into action from the very first scene and continues at a mind-blowing pace until the stunning climax. During the ride viewers are treated to jaw-dropping locations awesome fight choreography and surreal violence with all the key performers in top form throughout. Butterfly & Sword is full of the stylish sweeping action which later would make Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Michelle Yeoh again) such a huge worldwide hit. Characters routinely spin upside down through the air use soccer balls as deadly weapons run up walls with ease and in one particularly memorable sequence use each other as human bows and arrows - sending Tony Leung flying straight through the bad guys like a hot knife through butter! Such a sumptuous visual experience as this tends not worry too much about plotting and this is no exception. The story is sufficiently convoluted as to be unfathomable so we'll just say this: Michelle Yeoh is a loyal defender of her King's empire under siege from an army of revolutionaries. That'll do! This is Hong Kong cinema at its most exuberant: an action adventure which bombards the viewer with amazing images and gorgeous cinematography but isn't afraid of delivering some startling scenes of violence and gore to boot. The Blade: Legendary Hong Kong Director Tsui Hark blends violent action and stunning swordplay in his remake of the Shaw Brothers classic One-Armed Swordsman. The Blade is a sweeping epic which highlights the incredible fighting talent of Chiu Cheuk Hong Kong's latest action start. When a master sword-maker adopts the son of a murdered friend (Chiu Cheuk) the boy learns the master's craft well. As a young man he learns about his fathers death at the hand of a mysterious tattooed killer (Xiong-Xin-Xin). He takes fathers broken blade and sets out to seek vengeance. The daughter Ling follows but is caught in a bloody ambush. When he tries to rescue her his arm is hacked off in the battle and he is believed dead by all except Ling and his friend who set out in search of him. But he is saved by a hermit girl who nurses him back to health where he finds an old kung fu manual and practices with the broken blade to perfect the art of one armed swordfighting. In a breathtaking finale unlike anything you have seen before our hero sets off once again to find the tattooed assassin a quest that leads to an explosive and spectacular showdown. What Price Survival: 'What Price Survival' is the stunning reworking of the Shaw Brothers classic 'The One Armed Swordsman'...... An eye for an eye... An arm for an arm...
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Big Boss Of Shanghai | DVD | (16/02/2004)
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| RRP 'Iron Monkey' star Chen Kuan-Tai stars in and directs this action masterpiece. Chen and his brother travel to Shanghai in search of fame and fortune only to find the streets paved with greed blood and betrayal!
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Shaolin Chastity Kung Fu | DVD | (02/09/2002)
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| RRP The leader of a group of bandits known as the Nine Devils has been captured by the authorities and is to be moved from the city to the prison through Sunset Valley. The bandits plan to ambush the convoy to release their leader known as The Golden Tiger. The Nine Devils attack a village slaughtering all the adults leaving the children to flee into the hills hotly pursued by the evil bandits who are ambushed and killed by two Shaolin Monks. One of the monks say he has fought The Golde
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New Fist Of Fury | DVD | (19/05/2003)
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| RRP Jackie Chan pays tribute to the late great Bruce Lee in this follow up sequel to the 1972 blockbuster Fist Of Fury. Produced and directed by Lo Wei who masterminded the original Jackie chops and kicks his way through numerous assailants to bring justice to the oppressed Chinese.
Iron Fists | DVD | (21/02/2005)
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| RRP Chen (Kong Ban) returns home from abroad only to find that his brother has become a collaborator to the occupying Japanese Imperial Forces. He is responsible for funnelling mining resources out of their town and into weapons factories. His brothers treachery causes the town to shun Chen until they realise he is not like his evil brother. The Japanese controlled East Asia Company sends a Samurai (Kurata) and many assassins to kill Chens whole family and kidnap his fianc. Soon Chen finds himself uncovering a conspiracy and defending himself from hard thugs in street brawls that are nothing short of murderous. All this ends in a marathon fight fest in which Chen must fight his way through the enemy and even his own family members to save his girl and keep weapons out of Japanese hands.
Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story /The Twins Effect | DVD | (29/01/2007)
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| RRP The Twins Effect (Dir. Dante Lam 2003): A new age of darkness is dawning... With the help of a famous high-kicking Hong Kong bus driver two girls who just want to have fun confront the grave responsibility of safekeeping the world from vampire domination! The Duke one of the most dangerous of the undead is determined to bring a new age of darkness upon the earth as he hunts the Fifth Prince with a vial of blood and the ancient Vampire Bible. But ace vampire slayer Reeve will not rest until the fight is over and with the help of his innocent sister a feisty young beauty and an unlikely hero they wage the ultimate martial arts showdown! Cantopop music sensation Twins (Gillian Chung Charlene Choi) team up with a whole host of Hong Kong stars (including a special cameo appearance from Jackie Chan) for 'Vampire Effect' (aka Twins Effect) the wildest high-octane vampire adventure ever! Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (Dir. Rob Cohen 1993): Jason Scott Lee and Lauren Holly star in this unforgettable glimpse into the life love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training Lee realises his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long he is discovered by a Hollywood producer (Robert Wagner) and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one of the most charismatic action heroes in motion picture history. Hailed as ""an immeasurably entertaining movie"" by CBS-TV Dragon is ablaze with comedy touching romance and spectacular martial arts sequences.
The Young Hero Of Shaolin - Vol.1 | DVD | (09/07/2007)
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| RRP The Young Hero Of Shaolin tells the story of Fong Sai Yuk Mainland China's legendary hero. The movie begins with Fong Sai Yuk's start at the Shaolin Temple and culminates in his fight for justice at a crooked martial arts tournament as he fights his way through hundreds of monks in the famous and impressive 'Swastika Formation'.
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Kung Fu Hustle | DVD | (24/10/2005)
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| RRP Stephen Chow's follow-up to SHAOLIN SOCCER ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley. Chow who wrote, produced, and directed doesn't step in as the star here for quite a while, letting the comic duties fly in a myriad of directions: a landlady in curlers (Yuen Qiu) has a yell that can flatten buildings; people get kicked across courtyards and through walls; musician assassins whip ghost sabres from lyre strings, and a mental patient in pink flip-flops named 'the Beast' (Leung Siu Lung) catches bullets in his fingers. Buoyed by SOCCER's box office success, HUSTLE uses bigger production values and a dizzying amount of CGI-enhanced martial arts (imagine Bruce Lee vs. Bugs Bunny in THE MATRIX). It's full of references to other films and filmmakers, revering spaghetti westerns and '70s Shaw brothers movies a la Tarantino's KILL BILL (fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping worked on both films). It also pays sly homage to the works of Wong Kar Wai, D.W. Griffith, Sam Raimi, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, and Akira Kurosawa. Raymond Wong's inspired score matches each cinematic reference with the appropriate cue as the camera circles and swoops around the sprawling sets. This is a real treat, more than a great action film or comedy, it's a great film period, and one that set box office records in the East.
Dragon The Master | DVD | (25/07/2005)
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| RRP The legend of Bruce Lee lives on in 'Dragon The Master'. Dragon Sek steps into the Master's shoes in this martial arts extravaganza as he takes on all corners to prove that Jeet Kune Do 'The Way of the Intercepting Fist' reigns supremem above all other fighting styles. The legend of the dragon lives on forever...
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The Smart Cavalier | DVD | (25/07/2005)
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| RRP After wandering and fighting their way accross China a group of superb Martial Artists come up against the tyrannical Manchu Warlord - 'The Emotional Fox'. Only with the help of the legendary 'Shaking Eagle' can the fighters stand up to the might of the Fox... Superb action choreography from start to finish one of Joseph Kuo's finest offerings.
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Death Duel Of Kung Fu | DVD | (04/09/2000)
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| RRP The stars of SECRET RIVALS reunite in this most action packed of films. Wong Tao and John Liu play a pair of Ming patriots who are trying to stop the Ching Army from crossing the Formosa Straits and attacking the remnants of the Ming troops residing in Formosa (Taiwan). Their plight is made more hazardous as news of their presence spreads to the capital. What follows is nearly an hour of superb fight choreography set against the beautiful backdrop of South Korea.
Once A Thief | DVD | (25/09/2006)
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| RRP They only stop to reload! A close-knit trio of dashing art thieves (Chow Yun-Fat Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung) undertake one last lucrative job before their planned retirement only to be torn apart when the heist goes awry as the result of a double-cross from their criminal mentor. Once reunited the team resolves to get revenge.
Hero Of The Time | DVD | (21/03/2005)
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| RRP Martial arts action. The Master of the Golden Armour style uses his ruthless technique to take control of a - only ""Flashy leg fighter"" and ""Basket Hated Avenger"" can stop him!
The Clutch Of Power | DVD | (29/08/2005)
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| RRP The year is 1267 a critical point during the Sung dynasty. A map showing the positions of the nationalist Chinese army against the invading Mongol hordes is the subject of intense investigations by partisans Mongol-funded traitors and Chang (Fei Meng) who needs the map to draw out the deadly assassin responsible for the murder of his parents...
A Hero's Tears | DVD | (13/06/2005)
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| RRP Chop-socky action of the highest order!
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