Fast and furious martial arts action in which the evil Abbot White teams up with Japanese ninjas to destroy the Shaolin Temple!
This box set features a collection of titles from the master of modern-day action choreography Yuen Woo-Ping. Iron Monkey - Platinum Edition: One of the most visually spectacular films ever produced by a Hong Kong studio this is a traditional epic style movie boasting fight choreography by Yuen Woo Ping action director of ""The Matrix"" ""Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"" and ""Kill Bill vol 1"" and soon-to-be Hollywood star Donnie Yen. This film is credited by fans and critics a
Masterful Hong Kong action director John Woo (The Killer Face/Off) turns in this exciting and pyrotechnic tale of warring gangsters and shifting loyalties. Chow Yun-Fat (The Replacement Killers) plays a take-no-prisoners cop on the trail of the Triad the Hong Kong Mafia when his partner is killed during a gun battle. His guilt propels him into an all-out war against the gang including an up-and-coming soldier in the mob (Tony Leung) who turns out to be an undercover cop. The two men must come to terms with their allegiance to the force and their loyalty to each other as they try to take down the gangsters. A stunning feast of hyperbolic action sequences (including a climactic sequence in an entire hospital taken hostage) Hard Boiled is a rare treat for fans of the action genre with sequences as thrilling and intense as any ever committed to film.
There are some things worse than death. From Director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus Godzilla Final Wars Aragami Deul Down To Hell The Messenger And Azumi). Based on the popular manga by Tsutomu Takahashi (Sky High). Alive combines the tension of Vincenzo Natali's Cube and Kitamura's own Versus. For the brutal vengeance murder of his girlfriend's rapists Tenshu is sentenced to die in the electric chair. Resigned to his fate and unmoved by his actions he survives the lethal high voltage punishment. He is then given the choice to burn again or take part in a vicious experiment pitting him against another prisoner and a mysterious alien life force. Here is where the true punishment begins. Featuring moving performances by Hideo Sakaki Ryo Koyuki Erika Oda Jun Kunimura Bengal Tetta Sugimoto and Tak Sakaguchi.
Director Atsushi Muroga's female-action-hero movie series 'Gun Crazy' tweaks the standard spaghetti-western formula by transposing the action to Japan and centering each of the shootout adventures on a different female gunslinger. In the first movie of the series 'A Woman From Nowhere' Japanese supermodel Ryoko Yonekura stars as the gun-toting heroine Saki who travels the countryside on her motorcycle seeking vengeance on a violent crime syndicate led by the ruthless Tojo (Shingo Tsurumi). The police won't arrest him and the military won't go near him but Saki knows you don't send a man to do a woman's job!
A box set containing some of the best horror and fantasy films ever produced in Japan! Portrait Of Hell Created by premier Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa (creator of Roshomon) 'Portrait of Hell' is a mesmerising look into humans creating hell on earth in their own unique ways. Must be seen to be believed! Illusion Of Blood From Shiro Toyoda director of the nightmarish 'Portrait Of Hell' comes a chilling story of love betrayal and vengeance. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as the selfish samurai Iyemon who after the loss of his lord has been left impoverished. He become outraged that his father-in-law intends to sell his two daughter's into prostitution. It is not love but respectability that Iyemon desires... Tokyo The Last Megalopolis When Masakado was executed for crimes against humanity over a thousand years ago his malevolent spirit refused to die with him merely becoming dormant and waiting for the chance to rise again. To disturb it is to awaken a terrible vengeance on the city of Tokyo. The demonic psychic Kato attempts to revive the slumbering evil and use its energy to plunge the city into a hell on Earth. It is up to a lone spiritual warrior Keiko a descendant of Masakado to stop the maniacal Kato before the spirit is released and the ancient curse is unleashed upon the world. Princess From The Moon Toshiro Mifune stars in this enchanting film based on the traditional Japanese fairytale 'Kaguya' as the male half of a country couple who find a baby girl in the bamboo and raise her as their own until the truth is revealed when she is taken back...
A corrupt Ming guard frames an unsuspecting man for murder without realising the terrible price that the man's martial arts retribution will be...
An enchanting tale of love and heroism underpinned by Yuen Woo-ping's dazzling fight sequences Tai Chi Boxer tells the story of a young fighter inspired by the teachings of his heroic father to combat the violent excesses of an opium-smuggling ring and win the heart of the girl of his dreams. Tai Chi Boxer is an outstanding tribute to the innovative genius of Yuen Woo-ping combining striking imagery compelling characters and amazing fight sequences.
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.
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
Heaven and the Suicide King is a powerful and edgy thriller set against a backdrop of a sinister wife swapping syndicate amidst the glamour and glitz of Hollywood. Tommy and his actress wife 'Heaven' relocate to Los Angeles each with their own dreams of prosperity. While Tommy struggles with his new business venture Heaven's dream of becoming a successful actress is kick-started when she befriends a group of high powered film executives.
Chinese Heroes: At first they were blood brothers. In vengeance they were sworn enemies. Together they became heroes! Undiscovered Tomb: When the power of the Stone Warriors is coming back everyone will be crushed unless all unite! An expedition is embarked upon to uncover the tablets of Eternity which bear the promise of abnormally long lifespan. However with a prize as great as this many will fight and indeed kill for the treasure... Kingboxer: Two rival
Shaolin vs Manchu (Dir. Lee Chiu Hou): The Shaolin temple is in danger from the Manchu who want to destroy the Shaolin way of life. Hope is in the balance when Rocky the young Shaolin master's successor falls prey to the Manchu's evil plot. Now the Shaolin must use every trick in their Kung Fu training to preserve their Buddhist ways... Thunder Run (Dir. Tsui Park Lam): A film featuring some of the most daring and action packed examples of kung-fu fighting with spectacular acting and locations... Two friends arrested for drug smuggling while on leave from their jobs as police officers are put through hell in this prison camp. See their efforts to stay alive and keep their sanity in this depraved arena. Can their cop training keep them going or will they break in this cruel jungle prison camp?
Kill Bill (2004): Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! In part 1 of Quentin Tarantino's delirious revenge movie Uma Thurman plays 'The Bride', a woman seeking vengeance on those who massacred her wedding party... Inspired by countless Japanese swordplay actionfests (the classic Lady Snowblood among them), yakuza gangster thrillers (offering a cameo opportunity to genre icon Sonny Chiba) and Chinese martial arts movies (hence the knowing appearance of Jackie Chan contemporar...
Two rival martial art schools are at war with each other. A student called Qian must preserve the honour of the Yixing School when the Master disappears....
Released in 1992, Hard Boiled is John Woo's farewell to the kind of blood-spattered cinema of vengeance and redemption with which he had made his name as a director in Hong Kong during the late 1980s. The following year he was in Hollywood filming Hard Target with Jean-Claude Van Damme, and an era had effectively ended. This might explain the elegiac feel Woo brings to his study of two men haunted by the violent consequences of their actions. Chow Yun Fat generates tremendous sullen energy in his portrayal of Tequila, a plain-clothes cop who not only loses his partner in a shoot-out with a gang of underground gunrunners but also discovers that he's unwittingly killed a fellow officer working undercover. Playing opposite him is Tony Leung as the enigmatic Tony, a young police officer who has secretly managed to penetrate the world of illegal arms-dealing in the guise of a cold-blooded gangland assassin. With rival gangs fighting over the weapons trade and Tequila gunning for Tony, unaware of his true identity, Hard Boiled has an unsurprisingly high body count, particularly when the various factions converge on a private hospital, reducing it by the movie's end to a smoking war zone, its corridors strewn with corpses. John Woo's ability to exploit the comic-book profundities of the genre, endowing his set-piece action sequences with a uniquely emotional edge, comes through in the controlled use of slow motion, cut-away details and brooding freeze-frame studies of the central characters. The image of Chow Yun Fat cradling an abandoned baby against his chest while he blasts his way out of the hospital's maternity unit has an enduring sharpness to it. However, a sense of ending runs throughout the movie, as if Woo were acknowledging that, having done everything he could with the format, the time had come for him to move on. And perhaps it had. --Ken Hollings
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