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• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon -- Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £5.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (117.95%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is so many things: an historical epic on a grand scale, an Asian martial-arts flick with both great effects and fantastic fighting (choreographed by The Matrix's guru Yuen Wo Ping), a story of magic, revenge and power played with a posse of star-crossed lovers thrown in for good measure. Set during the Qing dynasty (the late 19th century), the film follows the fortunes of righteous warriors Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien (Asian superstars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh, respectively) whose love for one another has lain too long unspoken. When Li Mu Bai's legendary sword Green Destiny is stolen by wilful aristocrat's daughter Jen (exquisite newcomer Zhang Ziyi), who has been trained in the way of the gangster by Li Mu Bai's arch-rival Jade Fox, the warriors must fight to recover the mystical blade. The plot takes us all across China, from dens of iniquity and sumptuous palaces to the stark plains of the Western desert. Characters chase each other up walls and across roof and treetops to breathtaking effect, and Tan Dun's haunting, Oscar-winning East-West inflected score. Directed by Taiwanese-born Ang Lee and co-written by his longtime collaborator American James Schamus, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon joins the ranks of the team's slate of high-quality, genre-spanning literary adaptations. Although it superficially seems like a return to Ang's Asian roots, there's a clear throughline connecting this with their earlier, Western films given the thematic focus on propriety and family honour (Sense and Sensibility), repressed emotions (The Ice Storm) and divided loyalties in a time of war (Ride with the Devil). Nonetheless, a film this good needs no prior acquaintance with the director's oeuvre; it stands on its own. The only people who might be dismissive of it are jaded chop-socky fans who will probably feel bored with all the romance. Everyone else will love it. --Leslie Felperin On the DVD: As might be expected this superb anamorphic widescreen version of the original 2.35:1 theatrical ratio presents Peter Pau's spellbinding cinematography in its full glory; the same goes for the Dolby 5.1 audio track that showcases Tan Dun's haunting score. Annoyingly, however, the default language option is the dubbed English soundtrack, which means you have to select the original Mandarin version before playing. The extra features are good but not exceptional, with an obligatory "making-of" documentary and commentary from Ang Lee and James Schamus being the best options: the director and producer/cowriter chat amiably and in some detail about their martial arts version of Sense and Sensibility. But it's the breathtaking delight of the seeing the movie in such quality that really counts, and this disc does not disappoint. --Mark Walker

• Uniform | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £6.15   |  Saving you £13.84 (225.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The impressive directorial debut of Yinan Diao Uniform is a taut thriller that exposes the corrupting influence of poverty on a society beset by industrial decay and urban despair. With the local factory closed and his ailing father unemployed street tailor Xiao Jian finds himself unable to pay his family's bills. When a laundered police-officer's shirt remains uncollected he decides to play the role of cop with unexpected results. Extoting payments from drivers who break minor traffic laws attracting the attention of a young woman who works in a CD store and suddenly becoming visible to the world at large Xiao Jian also discovers the terrible cost of leading such a precarious double life. One of the defining 'underground' films of the Chinese Sixth Generation Uniform deftly balances social comment with an intimate character study of a man desperate enough to risk everything in order to escape the life he is trapped in.

• Killer Of Snake, Fox Of Shaolin | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Martial arts movie starring the charismatic Carter Wong. A film featuring some of the most daring and action-packed examples of Shaolin kung fu fighting with spectacular acting and locations...

• Fists Of Bruce Lee | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (88.99%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ho Chung Tao (acting as Bruce Lee) a policeman is hired to install a system in the mansion of Master Po Fu Mei. While working at the mansion Tao falls in love with Master Po's daughter. Chang I Chih an enemy of Master Po kidnaps the daughter in order to retrieve the name list from Master Po. Watch as Tao tries to rescue his newly found love in Fists Of Bruce Lee.

• My Blade My Life | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A fast and furious old skool martial arts movie! After her entire family is wiped out by swordsmen of various clans the young vagabond soon comes of age and sets out on her one-woman vengeance trail. One by one she kills all the swordsmen who dare challenge her trusted deadly blade. Her most feared and deadly foe is Peerless Swallow the top Swordsman in China. Will she finally meet her match or will fate cast a dark shadow?

• Snake And Crane Arts Of Shaolin | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Since bursting onto the martial arts film scene in 1973 Jackie Chan has become one of the world's most popular stars. His movies - in which he acts performs his own stunts for and often directs - have earned millions at the box office. In Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin he plays Hsu Yin Fung a young warrior falsely accused of killing the Shaolin Masters after they developed a new martial arts technique called Snake and Crane at Hua Mountain. After Hsu's fellow warriors ostracize him he tries to clear his name. To do this he receives aid from two women who are in love with him. After one of the brave ladies is killed and the other warriors realize that Hsu wasn't responsible for the murders they join him for a trip to the Shaolin Temple to find Master Tse Kung. And it's there that they find the real killer. In the film's thrilling climax Hsu having secretly mastered the deadly martial arts style of Snake and Crane faces the murderer one-on-one.

• Crippled Kung Fu Boxer | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kung Fu legend Cliff Lok stars as the son of a famous Kung Fu teacher whose school is attacked by the hunchback and his band of martial art experts. Cliff heads for the country to learn the Crippled Fist from his uncle and prepare him for the duel with the hunchback and his posse of fighters.....