In an ancient world where monsters rule the land while humans keep to their own kingdom, a baby monster, Wuba, is born to a human father and monster queen. When mortals and creatures alike set out to capture the newborn, Wuba's adventure begins. The cute baby monster Huba is the child of a human man and a monster queen, threatened by both monster-hating humans and monsters attempting to capture the new-born in an ancient world based on medieval China.
In July 2007 the famous Stravinski Auditorium at Montreux was witness to a gathering of the Wu-Tang Clan. With the exception of the sadly deceased Ol' Dirty Bastard the whole Clan was present: RZA GZA Method Man Inspectah Deck Raekwon The Chef U-God Ghostface Killah and Masta Killa. Also joining the party were some of their extended family members: Cappadonna Streetlife and DJ Mathematics. This rare gathering of the full clan took Montreux by storm and got the whole audience on their feet and jumping with a set featuring all their best known hits and classics plus a number of solo tracks including a clutch of Ol' Dirty Bastard hits. Tracklist: 1. Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing To F'Wit 2. Da Mystery Of Chess Boxin' 3. Duel Of The Iron Mic 4. Fish 5. Grid Iron Rap 6. Bring The Pain 7. It's Yourz 8. Liquid Swords 9. Ice Cream 10. Uzi 11. One Blood Under W 12. Do U Really (Thang Thang) 13. What The Blood Clot 14. Careful (Click Click) 15. Protect Ya Neck 16. Bring Da Ruckus 17. Tearz 18. C.R.E.A.M. 19. Method Man 20. Reunited 21. For Heaven's Sake 22. Wu Tang 7th Chamber 23. Shadowboxin' 24. Shimmy Shimmy Ya 25. Brooklyn Zoo 26. Got Your Money 27. Cherchez La Ghost 28. La Rhumba / Black Widow Part 2 29. Da Rockwilder 30. Triumph 31. Impossible 32. Gravel Pit
Terrorist Soong Chow's son Todd sustains a serious head injury but wakes from his coma to find he's been given a new life... Produced by action movie legend Jackie Chan this is one of the most acclaimed films in Hong Kong movie making history and winner of 10 awards at the year 2000 Hong Kong Critics Awards & Golden Horse Film Festival!
An exquisitely constructed romantic drama 'Springtime In A Small Town' is the first film by Tian Zhuangzhuang since the controversial 'The Blue Kite' in 1993. Set in a bomb-scarred Chinese town in the aftermath of World War II the film tells the story of the passionless marriage of the ailing Liyan and his beautiful wife Yuwen. Their lives are disturbed by the arrival of Liyan's old school friend Zhichen a cultivated doctor from Shanghai who was also the teenage love of Yuwen. De
After a series of tragic life events, Li (Daniel Wu) is burnt out. With seemingly no options left he decides to end it all. But he can't even do that right. Enter Chuck Kevin Spacey), Li's wise-talking American neighbour who takes Li under his wing.
2000 AD reunites Aaron Kwok and Andrew Lin from the ferociously pyrotechnic Black Sheep Affair (1998) for a slick but muddled Hong Kong/Singapore co-production conspiracy thriller about computer espionage. Kwok and Lin make fine adversaries, and have one excellent martial arts battle on a vertigo-inducing rooftop. Otherwise the action involves powerfully staged Heat-style gun play rather than martial arts, one set-piece car chase/shoot-out being strongly influenced by the Riviera pursuit in Ronin (1997). Beginning as a serious thriller, Kwok's nerdish computer games designer transforms into an invulnerable action hero, and any sense of plausibility is sacrificed for regulation mayhem. Cluttered with more characters than it knows what to do with, 2000 AD combines aspects of The Net (1995) and Entrapment (1999) into a largely nonsensical plot. Lin's villain is given vital information which later he is completely ignorant of. We never find out exactly what he is planning, or who he is really working for, and in one mystifying sequence he crashes the Singapore stock exchange, yet the event has absolutely no effect on anything. Though the cast is engaging and the direction polished the finale is an anti-climax, symptomatic of a highly entertaining movie which promises more than it delivers. On the DVD: The 1.77:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is clean and generally free from grain; the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is as powerful as any heard on a Hong Kong movie, although listen though headphones and a fair degree of background hiss is clearly audible in the quiet scenes. The film can be viewed with the original Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles, or dubbed into English. Either way, a surprisingly large amount of the original dialogue is in English. There is a 19-minute "making of" documentary, though this is bland made-for-television promotional fare. Much better is the 14-minute interview with director Gordon Chan and a 17-minute interview with Andrew Lin who reveals how once shooting had begun his originally heroic part was re-written to make him the villain, thus explaining why the plot makes so little sense. Best of all is the commentary by Chan and Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan, which is packed with information about the movie, Hong Kong cinema and filmmaking in general. By itself it makes the DVD a worthwhile purchase. --Gary S Dalkin
When a drug deal goes wrong, a simple kidnap turns to murder and a secret mission becomes a savage massacre, one of Hong Kong's most ruthless Triad gangs is on the verge of self-destruction.
Invisible Target
Moon Warriors (1993): Beautifully shot by renowned cinematographer Arthur Wong 'Moon Warriors' is an emotive impassioned tale of a deposed Prince and his heroic quest to rescue his people from an empire soaked in the blood of tyranny. Showcasing some of the best dramatic swordplay sequences to emerge from three decades of action cinema 'Moon Warriors' also features an all-star cast including Andy Lau Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui. The Swordsman (1990): Resplendent ima
Sonny & Steven are two Chinese-American immigrants surviving in the impoverished despair of 1980s New York in the only way they know how as members of the notoriously violent street gang The Green Dragons. They quickly rise through the ranks tightening the gang’s grip on Chinatown and the surrounding neighbourhoods attracting the unwanted attention of rival gangs and Detective Bloom (Ray Liotta) of the NYPD all of whom are determined to shut them down by any means necessary. Tensions soon reach breaking point and bullets begin to fly in what would lead to one of the most violent street clashes that New York has ever seen.
Hong Kong chop socky action in another Godrey Ho inspired tale of revenge...
The mission is to crack the code; the challenge is to stay alive! In a post-apocalyptic world starving survivors eke out such a living as they can in a landscape scarce of opportunity. However one of the very few remaining humans to live in comfort despatches a crack squad of commandos to recover secret artefacts from a mysterious institution protected by hi-tech defences...
Jackie Chan makes a welcome return to Hong Kong cinema and to spectacular form in this action-packed crime thriller.
Donnie Yen returns in this semi-sequel to the martial arts masterpiece directed by Yuen Woo Ping director of the original 'Iron Monkey' and action director for 'The Matrix' and 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'. This time Donnie takes on the persona of the legendary Iron Monkey as he fights corrupt warlords in war-torn China. However when the Iron Monkey agrees to help revolutionaries in their battle against evil arms smugglers he finds himself face-to-face with the Snow Fox an
An escaped convict plans to exact revenge on the person he believes is responsible for his parent's death but discovers more than he's bargained for.
Bought to you by legendary martial arts stalwart Woo-Ping Yeun, the original Tiger Cage (1988) was an explosive, fast-paced Hong Kong feature replete with criminal gangs and a dedicated law enforcement team in a battle for the city. Just as a crack drug unit celebrates a successful operation one of their numbers is killed. This leads them on a mission to expose the killer and the underground operation and more importantly to discover who the mole in the team might be. Fun, furious and rammed with glorious fight choreography, Tiger Cage is the perfect late 80s Kung Fu spectacular. It was quickly followed by two sequels Tiger Cage 2 (1990) and Tiger Cage 3 (1991) also directed by Woo-Ping Yeun. This brand-new set brings all three movies together in a beautifully presented delux pressing. A must for cult martial arts fans everywhere.
"Protege" is a stimulating exploration of the complex relationships within the multilayered, international drug manufacturing and distribution syndicates of today.
Tsui Hark's triumphant return to making a film set in the present day, Time and Tide, is so fast-moving and kinetically stylised that at times the plot's coherence has to be taken on trust. Young barman Tyler (Nicholas Tse) gets a lesbian cop pregnant after a drunken one-night stand when she fell out with her lover. He feels an obligation to raise money to help her and takes a job in the third-rate bodyguard company of Uncle Li (Anthony Wong), showing a real flair for the job, but not for Li's over-organised system. Coincidentally, he befriends Jack (Wu Bai), husband of the daughter of Li's main client, but also a retired mercenary, whose former allies are in town and up to no good. The two friends find themselves intermittently co-operating and opposed as they pursue their separate agendas; the violence, the bodycount and the special effects all escalate continually. Highlights include some spectacular scenes of grappling down skyscrapers and Tyler's delivering the baby of his friend's wife while she shoots one of her husband's enemies over his shoulder--Tsui Hark's take on the post-John Woo thriller is entertainingly exaggerated and semi-parodic. On the DVD: The DVD has a choice of English, German and Cantonese dubbing and subtitles in 18 languages from Hindi to Icelandic, and comes with filmographies and theatrical trailers. The soundtrack, full of loud music and explosions, is presented in an abrasively loud Dolby Sound. The film is presented in widescreen letterbox in the film's original 2.35:1 aspect ratio; the digital format brings out its deliberately garish colours and use of shadows. --Roz Kaveney
A disgraced cop enters the world of the triads in this action-packed Japanese adventure.
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