A collection of three horror shorts from three of Asia's most revered directors: Fruit Chan Takashi Miike and Park Chan-Wook. This anthology offers three inventively chilling tales from three masters of Asian terror. Takashi Miike's Box presents us with a troubled writer haunted by the memory of her sisters death. Park Chan-wook's Cut delights in more revenge with a film extra deciding to torture a director and his wife. And the final terror tale is Fruit Chan's bite-size version of Dumplings.
Three Extremes: This anthology offers three inventively chilling tales from three masters of Asian terror. Takashi Miike's Box presents us with a troubled writer haunted by the memory of her sisters death. Park Chan-wook's Cut delights in more revenge with a film extra deciding to torture a director and his wife. And the final terror tale is Fruit Chan's bite-size version of Dumplings. Three Extremes 2: Three Extremes took you to the edge; now Three Extremes II pushes you over with three more nightmarish tales of terror from Kim Jee-Woon Nonzee Nimiburr and Peter Ho-Sun Chan. Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory and wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her while her husband cannot remember why she left him...then discovers a mutilated body hidden in his car. The Wheel: Extravagant cursed puppets cause fires death physical pain and a little girl to be possessed. Going Home: A father in search of his missing son is abducted by a man who keeps his dead wife in his apartment under the impression she will wake up.
Hammer Horror! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular! Count Dracula journies to a remote Chinese village in the guise of a warlord to support six vampires who are dispirited after the loss of a seventh member of their cult. At the same time vampire hunter Prof. Van Helsing happens to be lecturing in the country and is persuaded by villagers to help them fight this curse of the ages... Possibly the only film to combine the traditions of a vampire story with Kung Fu!
A shamelessly low-brow parody, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a scrambling of footage from the 1975 Hong Kong martial arts epic Tiger & Crane Fist with new material shot by director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls) in which he doubles for original star Jimmy Wang Yu. Following the style set by Woody Allen in What's Up Tiger Lily?, Oedekerk also dubs all the voices, rendering the basic revenge story even more formulaic and ridiculous. The villain turns out to be working for flying saucers manned by French aliens (!) and the Chosen One hero has an odd habit of using animals as weapons (gopher nunchakas, squirrel padding) and, in the stand-out scene, doing a full-on Matrix/Crouching Tiger battle with an extremely agile killer cow. A lot of the film is just dumb, but it still manages to beat laughs out of you with its relentless goofiness. Though it might seem an ego trip for Oedekerk, he is actually a likeable leading man, pulling funny faces and deliberately dubbing even his own voice badly. On the DVD: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist on disc includes an animated draft of the kung fu cow scene, with special effects elements shown pre-mixing. There are also several deleted sequences and a director's cut of one extended fight scene. --Kim Newman
Fast and furious marial arts action. The undisputed king of kicks Casanova Wong stars in this kung fu flick watch in amazement as he takes on the acrobatic genius of Peter Chen in one of the best screen end fights of all time.
This martial arts spectacular showcases 20 year-old Erh Tung-sheng's (aka Derek Yee) supreme martial arts skillls. Even Variety noted: 'Erh's charismatic screen presence should take him to superstardom like his older brother David Chaing'. The prediction proved correct and his performance as ace swordsman Third Master is just what any director would want. He fights evil saves damsels in distress and duels rival swordsmen to the well death!
One of a collection of films recently discovered in the Hong Kong film archives and now available for the first time in the UK. One of the most popular stars in the martial arts world Dragon Lee performs in this epic account of an attempt to overthrow the Ching government. The fighting is fast furious and brutal as you would expect from this master of Kung Fu. Dragon Lee was considered by many to have taken over the crown worn by the true master Bruce Lee and in 'The Angry Dragon'
Beginning with the forty minute version of Dumplings that includes newly shot footage as well as that taken from the feature length release director Fruit Chan explores society's obsession with youth and the lengths to which people will go to prolong it. The second segment is cut-directed by the irrepressible Park Chan-wook the story of a film extra with a grudge who forces a good-natured director to prove that deep down he has a nasty streak. The collection concludes with Box a ritualistic tale of a female novelist who is haunted by a childhood trauma directed by the cult legend Miike Takashi. Narrated almost without words amongst a series of eerie locations the film has all the hallmarks of its director.
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?
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