TWO TAOIST TALES (Eureka Classics) Special Edition Two-disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (23/09/2024)
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| RRP Eureka Entertainment to release TWO TAOIST TALES (TAOISM DRUNKARD and THE YOUNG TAOISM FIGHTER), a couple of crazy kung-fu extravaganzas from the first family of Hong Kong martial arts, the Yuen Clan. Presented in their worldwide debuts on Blu-ray from a brand new 2K restorations. Available from 23 September 2024 as part of the Eureka Classics range, the first print run of 2000 copies only will exclusively feature a limited edition O-card slipcase, and a collector's booklet. In the wake of Encounter of the Spooky Kind, the Hong Kong film industry launched headlong into a prolific genre cycle that drew upon Taoist folklore. Popular throughout the 1980s and into the next decade, these films combined elements of horror, fantasy, comedy, and martial arts as they pit their protagonists against hopping vampires, vengeful ghosts, and evil sorcerers. Here, Eureka Classics is proud to present two of the most mind-bending tales of Taoist magic ever committed to film: Taoism Drunkard and The Young Taoism Fighter! Directed by and starring Yuen Cheung-yan (The Miracle Fighters), Taoism Drunkard follows a man with a love for wine who accidentally damages a sacred statue. To atone for this blunder, he is asked by an enraged Taoist priest (Hsiao Hou-tao) to find a virginal boy (Yuen Yat-chor) to aid in defending his temple from a demonic sorcerer (Yuen Shun-yi). Then, in The Young Taoism Fighter (directed by Police Story's Chen Chi-hwa), a practitioner of Taoist kung fu (Yuen Yat-chor) manages to separate his soul from his body before teaming up with a vengeful young woman (Hilda Liu Hao-yi) to take on a sinister sorcerer (Kwan Chung) and the evil leader of a rival kung fu school (Yen Shi-kwan). Filled with imagery both fantastical and thrilling - not least Taoism Drunkard's banana monster - and featuring some of the most jaw-droppingly inventive fight sequences in the history of martial arts cinema, Taoism Drunkard and The Young Taoism Fighter are cult classics from the celebrated Yuen Clan that need to be seen to be believed. Both films are presented on Blu-ray for the first time ever from brand new 2K restorations.Limited edition O-card slipcase (First print run of 2000 copies only) featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling | Both films presented in 1080p HD from brand new 2K restorations | Original Cantonese audio and optional English dub tracks (original mono presentations) | Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release | Brand new audio commentaries on both films by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) | Brand new audio commentaries on both films by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema | Brand new interview with director and actor Yuen Cheung-yan | Brand new interview with critic Andrew Heskins (easternKicks) | Trailers | PLUS: A limited edition collector's booklet (First print run of 2000 copies only) featuring new writing on the film by Southeast Asian horror expert Dr. Katarzyna Ancuta, and Spooky Encounters author Daniel O'Brien | * All extras subject to change
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Grand Master Of Shaolin Kung Fu | DVD | (08/07/2002)
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| RRP Bodhidharma created the Shaolin Temple where Chinese Kung Fu originated. This is a dramtic retelling of his struggles the secret style he invented and how he became the Grand Master of Shaolin Kung Fu...
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Warriors Of Heaven And Earth | DVD | (13/12/2004)
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| RRP Anybody hungering for a good old-fashioned Western needs to check out Warriors of Heaven and Earth, which--although it's set in 7th-century China--has all the valor and spectacle of a John Ford picture. It also has a goofy supernatural streak, for the chopsocky crowd. The opening 10 minutes or so offer an alarmingly convoluted plot, but it swiftly settles down. What's going on is that a long-exiled Japanese hit man (Kiichi Nakai), hired to kill a renegade Chinese warrior (Jiang Wen), temporarily teams up with his quarry in order to escort a camel caravan along the Spice Road. Of course, they are menaced by a brutal warlord, and beautiful Zhao Wei (So Close) is mixed in there too. Director He Ping (Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker) captures some magnificent vistas in the Gobi Desert, but more importantly he sketches the codes or honor and behavior essential to any such tale. --Robert Horton
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The World | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012)
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| RRP The fourth feature by internationally acclaimed auteur Jia Zhangke was also his breakout success, an epic with a canvas as vast, and intimate, as its title suggests: a state-of-the-modern-world address, and a look at the insular world of a troupe of Chinese stage-performers dreaming of freedom… Zhao Tao, Jia’s muse, is one of these troupers. For Tao and the larger ensemble of pageant performers at Beijing’s real-life World Park (a sprawling hyper-pastiche of global landmarks — “famous sites from five continents”), love is respite from work, work is respite from love, and the line that extends from the past to the future loses all definition beyond the present. A testament to the wisdom of this young filmmaker who arrived in the late 1990s with Xiao Wu and, in 2000, Platform (regarded by many to be the greatest film of the 2000s), Shijie / The World provides an image of globalisation as a paradox: at once a phenomenon rooted in social control, and a network that allows connection across individual people and populations. Special Dual Format Edition: 1080p Blu-Ray transfer English subtitles Tony Rayns on The World: New and exclusive video introduction to the film Made in China: A 65 minute documentary on the making of The World The World according to Jia Zhangke: A 24 minute interview 40 page booklet
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Shaolin vs Lama | DVD | (25/07/2005)
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| RRP Originally made in 1983, Shaolin vs Lama is an example of the kung fu movie at its most cultish. The story is largely unimportant but concerns Yu Ting and his search for a kung fu master, a search that leads him into conflict with the Flying Eagle gang and their leader, Golden Wheel Lama. This is as far as it goes plotwise, not that that really matters. The focus of the film is, of course, the fight sequences and breathtaking they are too, though the whole film is given unmistakable aura of campness by its comical English dubbing. Still, it would be churlish to argue with the glowing recommendation of the Wu Tang Clan's Rza (a man who knows his kung fu stuff) of Shaolin vs Lama as one of the giants of the genre. On the DVD: filmed in a rather basic manner, Shaolin vs Lama is a colourful visual experience but not one that particularly shines on DVD. The 2.0 Dolby Digital sound gives the fight sequences an added bite but, as is so often the case, the potential of the format is frustratingly underused. There is no attempt to provide any sort of background to the film or the kung fu genre in general, instead leaving us with scene selection and the original theatrical trailer. --Phil Udell
Golden Dragon Silver Snake | DVD | (03/07/2006)
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| RRP Kung Fu star Dragon Lee appears as 'Golden Dragon' who teams up with 'Silver Snake' to take revenge on the men responsible for his brother's murder...
Shaolin Drunk Master | DVD | (21/06/2004)
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| RRP Hsiungs father was commander of a borderline fortress a position which arose jealousy from a malicious court officer who by forging an Emporers order dispatches a squad of four guards to kill all of the commanders family. Hsiung survives the attack and plans revenge while hiding at the Shaolin monastery. Here he learns the skills of the Shaolin Priests and the secret of SHAOLIN DRUNK FIGHTING.
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Street Angels - Sexy And Dangerous | DVD | (24/04/2000)
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| RRP Category III sex kitten Chingamy Yau returns to set the screen ablaze in Street Angels. Paired with Simon Yam her original co-star from the groundbreaking erotic thriller Naked Killer as the sado-masochistic Triad psycho-sleaze supermo Yau brings her own distinctive brand of erotic sizzle to the brutal streets of downtown Hong Kong. Denigrated and exiled to the backroom bars and karaoke lounges of Kowloon's infamous Portland Street after being sidelined by mob boss boyfriend Walkie Tung Yen rises like a phoenix to energise the local club circuit into a playground of sensual fire and untamed passion. An uneasy alliance with druglord KIng and fevered romance with a debonair playboy Man guarantees a fragile existence right on the edge of danger. When the shadowy figure of Walkie emerges from self-imposed exile in Amsterdam to reclaim past glories Tung Yen is suddenly thrust into a desperate battle for survival as Walkie sadistically carves his authority into the underbelly of the local gang scene in a brutal struggle for overall supermacy and determines to re-possess her whatever the cost....
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The Hot, The Cool And The Vicious | DVD | (20/11/2000)
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| RRP An all-action martial arts movie which focusses on an undercover agent's fight against corruption in Hong Kong. Flash Legs Tan stars in this dark spaghetti western style kung fu flick that has become a cult classic.
Triangle (Tie Saam Gok) | DVD | (20/10/2008)
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| RRP Bringing together three of Hong Kong's greatest directors Ringo Lam Johnny To Hark Tsui Triangle tells the story of three friends who decide to end their money problems by digging up a forgotten safe of treasure. With each director taking a third of the film to make his own it makes for a lively action-thriller but holds together remarkably well.
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Shaolin Vs Lama | DVD | (02/02/2004)
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| RRP In search of a master, a kung fu obsessive named Ting rescues a young Shaolin monk from a group of local gangsters and decides to use the opportunity to his advantage, persuading the monk to sneak him into the Shaolin temple. Thrown out soon afterward, he engenders the hatred of the Golden Wheel Lama, leader of the notorious Flying Eagle Gang, by rescuing a girl from its thugs/members. Now that he's in the sights of the once peaceable monk gone bad, Ting's only chance for survival is to unloc...
Ten Tigers Of Shaolin | DVD | (19/01/2004)
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| RRP Kung Fu stars Bruce Liang and Jason Pai Piao lead a group of highly skilled fighters known as the Ten Tigers - real life heroes who roamed China during the last century.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / Warriors Of Heaven And Earth / Legend Of The Red Dragon | DVD | (03/10/2005)
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| RRP Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Dir. Ang Lee 2000): Amazing martial arts fighting sequences (choreographed by Yuen wo Ping - The Matrix) stunning special effects action adventure and romance have made Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon the most talked about movie of the year. Martial arts masters Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) and Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) battle against evil forces to recover their stolen sword the legendary Green Destiny. Warriors Of Heaven & Earth (Dir. Ping Lee 2003): China 700AD: the Tang Dynasty assumes far-reaching political influence culminating in battle against the Turks. Wen Zhu (Zhao Wei) the daughter of a top Chinese general spearheading the forces massed against the Turkish enemy is entrusted to the care of Lai Xi (Kiichi Nakai) the Japanese emissary and feared imperial bounty hunter who hunts down rebels in the Western Frontier who is ordered take her back to the capital city of Changan. Lai Xi longs for a return to his beloved Japanese homeland but his assignment is hijacked by the command to hunt down rebel Li (Jiang Wen) a lieutenant condemned to death for disobeying a direct order to murder innocent women and children in the name of war. However as dedicated to carrying out his duty as Lai Xi is when he tracks down Li he is surprised to find his foe transporting a sacred Buddhist relic across the Gobi desert to its rightful resting place. As Turkish forces mass to attack in an effort to steal the relic Lai Xi must question his loyalty to his superiors and his Buddhist faith... Likened to the multi-Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's No.1 U.S. box office hit Hero China's official entry for the Best Foreign language Academy award Warriors Of Heaven And Earth is epic entertainment! Legend Of The Red Dragon (Dir. Wong Jing 2001): The epic story of a man who challenged the limits of courage and fought for the heart of a nation. When his wife and entire village are brutally murdered by evil Manchu soldiers the master warrior Kwun (Jet Li) sets out on a mission of vengeance with the only survivor of the massacre - his son Ting. For seven years the two journey across ancient China on their quest for revenge always staying one step ahead of the deadly army. But Kwun is forced to face the past when they come across a wealthy benefactor with five young Shaolin masters in his charge who unbeknownst to Kwun have the detailed map to a priceless treasure trove tattooed on their backs. It is not long before Manchu officials find out about the maps and deadly soldiers came after the masters. Now in an ancient battle that will pit Kwun against one of the very soldiers who helped to kill his family he and Ting will unite with the young masters of Shaolin for a fight to the death. Get ready for an ancient martial arts battle with the world's most masterful warriors!
The Flash Legs | DVD | (22/05/2006)
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| RRP Three years ago a band of robbers took a treasure map and split it into 8 pieces; one for each member. Now a cop will stop at nothing to retrieve the pieces and claim the treasure as his own leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake...
Blood Of Dragon Peril | DVD | (04/03/2002)
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| RRP A Fighters Soul Explodes To Destroy The Masked Enemy... During the Japanese invasion of Manchuria the Master of Manchuria's most renowned school is murdered; one of his sons swears to gain revenge on the murderers. His other son Lui surrendered and joined the army. When the attacks against the Japanese army begin Lui is ordered to find and kill the vengeful 'masked man' unaware of his identity.
General Stone | DVD | (01/01/2008)
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| RRP Kung fu has many legends and myths including the 18 Bronze Men and the 108 Wooden Men of Shaolin. ""General Stone"" reveals a new legend the 13 Stone Warriors. Tan Tao Liang (Flash Legs) is the son of the famous General Stone who was killed in battle under mysterious circumstances. Tan is trained in hand and sword techniques but his schooling is lifted to another level when his father and the spirits of fallen heroes inhabit the stone forms of warriors who teach him skills long thought extinct. Now Tan has a new found power he goes in search of the truth and whose behind his father's death. Aiding Tan in his quest is Kung fu heroine Polly Shang Kwan who has some stone demons of her own together they are a force to be reckoned with. Action directed by the brilliant Hwang Kwo Chu the man who brought you Method man.
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Death Duel Of Kung Fu | DVD | (01/05/2006)
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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.
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