"Actor: Li Bin"

• The Meg | Blu Ray | (10/12/2018) from £11.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sci-Fi Action Thriller. In the film, a deep-sea submersible-part of an international undersea observation program-has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific...with its crew trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew-and the ocean itself-from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below...bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Inspired by the bestselling novel SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship.

• Hero | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £4.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (268.65%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Director Zhang Yimou brings the sumptuous visual style of his previous films (Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad) to the high-kicking kung fu genre. A nameless warrior (Jet Li, Romeo Must Die, Once Upon a Time in China) arrives at an emperor's palace with three weapons, each belonging to a famous assassin who had sworn to kill the emperor. As the nameless man spins out his story--and the emperor presents his own interpretation of what might really have happened--each episode is drenched in red, blue, white or another dominant color. Hero combines sweeping cinematography and superb performances from the cream of the Hong Kong cinema (Maggie Cheung, Irma Vep, Comrades: Almost a Love Story; Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, In the Mood for Love, Hard Boiled; and Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). The result is stunning, a dazzling action movie with an emotional richness that deepens with every step. --Bret Fetzer

• 1911 Revolution | Blu Ray | (19/03/2012) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Celebrate the landmark 100th movie of Jackie Chan’s outstanding career in film and re-live the violent and heartbreaking events of The Xinhai Revolution: a bloody uprising that brought the despotic Qing Dynasty crashing to its knees, ending nearly 3,000 years of feudal oppression. Action legend, Jackie Chan, commands the screen as Huang Xing: the fearless resistance leader and military genius, who opposed a 20,000-strong Imperial Army during the 1908 Guang Xi Uprising with only 200 men! Now, as military commander to legendary revolutionary leader, Sun Yat-sen, he will lead an impoverished and vastly outnumbered rebel army against the Emperor’s elite Royal Forces in a battle that will change the course of history! Experience iconic filmmaking on an epic scale with this “physically imposing vision (Variety)” from The King of Action Cinema. Special Features: DTS HD MA English 5.1 DTS HD MA Mandarin 5.1 Dolby Digital Mandarin 2.0 English Subtitles Audio Commentary Cine Asia World Exclusive Featurette Trailer Gallery Behind The Scenes Gallery Interview Gallery Hong Kong Press Conference

• Horimiya - The Complete Season | DVD | (27/02/2023) from £16.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Having opposite personalities yet sharing odd similarities, Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura quickly become friends and often spend time together in Hori's home. As they both emerge from their shells, they share with each other a side of themselves concealed from the outside world.

• Happy Times | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (52.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Zhao is an aging bachelor who hasn't been lucky in love. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams Zhao leads her to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his means. Zhao's best friend Li hatches the idea to raise the money by refurbishing an abandoned bus which they will rent out by the hour the 'Happy Times Hotel' to young couples starved for privacy. Unfortunately this plan goes awry because Zhao is too old fashioned to allow the couples to leave t

• Red Sorghum | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two parts family melodrama one part Chinese nationalist history. An unseen narrarator weaves the tale of his grandmother a poor rural Chinese girl sold into marriage to a leprous winemaker. After her husband's death the grandmother transforms the winery into a idyllic community of productive laborers only to have her progress thwarted by the invading Japanese.

• 1911 Revolution | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £5.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (69.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Celebrate the landmark 100th movie of Jackie Chan’s outstanding career in film and re-live the violent and heartbreaking events of The Xinhai Revolution: a bloody uprising that brought the despotic Qing Dynasty crashing to its knees, ending nearly 3,000 years of feudal oppression. Action legend, Jackie Chan, commands the screen as Huang Xing: the fearless resistance leader and military genius, who opposed a 20,000-strong Imperial Army during the 1908 Guang Xi Uprising with only 200 men! Now, as military commander to legendary revolutionary leader, Sun Yat-sen, he will lead an impoverished and vastly outnumbered rebel army against the Emperor’s elite Royal Forces in a battle that will change the course of history! Experience iconic filmmaking on an epic scale with this “physically imposing vision (Variety)” from The King of Action Cinema. Special Features: Dolby Digital English 5.1 Dolby Digital Mandarin 2.0 & 5.1 English Subtitles Audio Commentary Cine Asia World Exclusive Featurette Trailer Gallery Behind The Scenes Gallery Interview Gallery Hong Kong Press Conference

• Empresses in the Palace | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Sun Li stars as Zhen Huan, a 17-year-old innocent introduced into the imperial court as the latest concubine of Emperor Yong Zheng (Chen Jianbin). Her dreams of a new life of love and prosperity are swiftly dashed as she enters a dog-eat-dog world of treachery and corruption. Her arrival sparks anger and resentment in Consort Hua (Jiang Xin), the highest-ranking concubine in the imperial harem and a powerful figure due to the authority of her brother, a prominent general. Zhen Huan must also do battle with the First Empress (Ada Choi), whose own elevated position in the court is under threat. Amidst all the bitter rivalries and deadly conspiracies, Zhen Huan must summon all her inner strength to protect herself even from those she once counted as friends. But can she rise to wealth and glory in the Forbidden City without being tainted by corruption? Shown in China as 76 45-minute episodes across two seasons, the English version is presented as six sumptuous episodes of 90 minutes, with the drama and intrigue played out among fascinating insights into court etiquette, fashions, poetry, performance, Chinese medicine and ageless human frailty and chicanery. Winner of Best Television Series, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Art Direction and Best Makeup and Costume Design awards at the 2013 China Television Director Committee Awards. Winner of the Magnolia Award for Best Directing for a Television Series at the Shanghai International TV Festival. Stars China's Queen of Televsion and winner of the 2014 Magnolia Award for Best Actress and Best Actress at the China TV Golden Eagle Awards, Sun Li. Sun Li was nominated for an International Emmy in 2013 for her role in the show. 39 million viewers in Japan after just one week of being broadcast

• Together With You | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £5.44   |  Saving you £4.55 (83.64%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a 13-year-old violin prodigy moves with his father to Beijing, he realizes how he truly feels about music and comes to understand the strength of his father's love.

• Beijing Bicycle | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beijing Bicycle kicks off like an updated Chinese reworking of the 1948 Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves: a worker, dependent on his bike for his job, has it stolen and doggedly sets out to get it back. But pretty soon Wang Xiaoshuai's film mutates into something more elemental: a battle of wills between peasant lad Guei, original owner of the bike, and Jian, a surly urban schoolkid who claims to have bought it second-hand. For both the bike is status: for Guei it secures him his job as a courier, while for Jian it lets him keep up with his peers and chat up the girl he fancies. Each sees himself as the rightful owner and neither will give way, so the bike swaps hands back and forth, stolen and re-stolen, as the duel waxes increasingly personal. There's a diverting subplot about a beautiful, stylishly dressed girl glimpsed by Guei who turns out be something other than she seems, but essentially the battle over the bike is the meat of the film. The fascination of Beijing Bicycle--perhaps especially for non-Chinese viewers--is its portrait of present-day Beijing as a buzzing, high-pressure, neo-capitalist boomtown, impersonal and seemingly as lawless as any Wild West frontier burg. At no point, in all the thefts and counter-thefts and mounting violence, does anyone think to call the police--everyone is left to fight his own battles. Wang, one can't help suspecting, is slipping in a hint of social criticism in this vision of an uncaring society where possessions are all that matter. On the DVD: Beijing Bicycle on disc has the original theatrical trailer (the French version, oddly enough), filmographies for the director and four of his lead actors, notes on the film by Nick Bradshaw and trailers for other Metro Tartan foreign-language DVD releases. The transfer's in the full anamorphic widescreen of the original, with good Dolby Digital sound. --Philip Kemp

• Mad Dog Morgan | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A young man finds no luck in the Australian gold rush and drifts into petty crime. His life changes when he gets twelve years in an infamous prison.

• Shanghai Dreams | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (65.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the 1960's encouraged by the government a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country in order to develop local industry. The film's main character is a 19 years old girl who lives in the Guizhou province where her parents have settled. That's where she has grown up where her friends are and where she first experiences love. But her father believes that their future lies in Shanghai. How can they all keep on living together when they don't share the same dreams?

• 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

• A World Without Thieves | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  They are the perfect Bonnie and Clyde: Bo (Andy Lau Infernal Affairs) a master pickpocket from Hong Kong and Li (Rene Liu) a femme fatale grafter from Taiwan. Partners in crime and passion the couple swindle their way across China until one day Li suddenly decides to call it quits both to her egregious lifestyle and to her entanglement with Bo. It is at this crossroad in their lives that they run into Fu Gen a humble peasant -- an encounter that will alter their fate forever''

• Resident Evil: Retribution | Blu Ray | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus is spreading across the globe, transforming ordinary people into legions of zombies. Headed for extinction, the human race has just one hope: Alice (Milla Jovovich). She's on a mission, fighting her way through cities and across continents, all inside Umbrella's prime research facility. Old friends become new enemies as she battles to escape and discovers that everything that she believes may not even be true.

• Forbidden Kingdom | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £4.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A 21st Century American teenager takes a spellbinding, dangerous journey into martial arts legend in the new action/adventure epic "The Forbidden Kingdom".

• Resident Evil: Retribution (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A