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• The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  International action legend Jet Li stars in this action-packed martial arts epic. Three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was left in ruins, a new gang takes over, using it as their base to uncover a hidden treasure. But secrets lie within its walls, as a pregnant palace courtesan and a swordswoman take refuge from a determined royal who is determined to hunt them down. As an explosive mix of warriors, fugitives and assassins converge in the desert for a deadly showdown, only one man can protect the women - the mysterious Zhao (Jet Li) With eye-dropping special effected and stunning battle sequences, this martial arts masterpiece delivers knock-out action that has to be seen to be believed.

• The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate | Blu Ray | (29/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  International action legend Jet Li stars in this action-packed martial arts epic. Three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was left in ruins, a new gang takes over, using it as their base to uncover a hidden treasure. But secrets lie within its walls, as a pregnant palace courtesan and a swordswoman take refuge from a determined royal who is determined to hunt them down. As an explosive mix of warriors, fugitives and assassins converge in the desert for a deadly showdown, only one man can protect the women - the mysterious Zhao (Jet Li) With eye-dropping special effected and stunning battle sequences, this martial arts masterpiece delivers knock-out action that has to be seen to be believed.

• Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £2.46 (12.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the 1970's Cultural Revolution two bourgeois young men from the city are sent to a remote culturally barren mountain village for re-education in Maoist principles. Discovering a hidden cache of books by western writers including Balzac the pair transmit their love of art and literature to the knowledge-hungry local seamstress (Xun Zhou) with whom they promptly both fall in love... Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film 'Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstr

• Little Big Soldier | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £4.09   |  Saving you £13.90 (77.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An old soldier kidnaps a young general of an enemy state and takes him on a long journey to collect the reward.

• The Emperor And The Assassin | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £11.45   |  Saving you £11.53 (136.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the 20th Century BC, THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASIN tells the story of Ying Zheng, a power-hungry heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Qin

• True Legend | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £3.45   |  Saving you £14.30 (846.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow. All his life Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of creating a unique kind of martial arts that will pass on to generations; and his beloved wife. Su has a happy family and his wife is the joy of his life. But owing to a turn of fate and Su's own stubbornness he loses his wife and his family is destroyed. After losing his wife Su cannot live with himself and collapses totally. He is drunk all the time and becomes a crazy beggar in everyone's eyes. Everyday his young son ties him with a piece of rope and leads him through the streets greeted by people's curious and disdainful gazes. But all this time during his spiritual exile his dream for the highest peak in martial arts is still alive. In his madness Su continues his practice to perfect his skills and fists.

• Cloud Atlas | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Six stories spanning centuries. One soul. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry lead an all-star cast in interwoven tales as time shifts between past, present and future. As characters reunite from one life to the next, their actions generate consequences: A killer evolves into a hero. An act of kindness inspires a revolution. Cloud Atlas combines science fiction, drama, mystery, action and romance into a film that's utterly, wonderfully epic(Solvej Schou, EW.com). SPECIAL FEATURES A Film Like No Other: See how three visionary directors came together, divided their tasks and created a cohesive masterpiece Everything Is Connected: The cast and filmmakers delve deeper into the connections that tie the story together Spaceships, Slaves & Sextets: Unravel the mysteries, themes and subtext of Cloud Atlas with the cast, filmmakers, author and producers The Bold Science Fiction of Cloud Atlas: Explore the film's cutting-edge future with tales of cloning and extraplanetary exploration And More!

• Painted Skin | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £5.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (63.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Combining momentous battle scenes with stunning combat choreography and a stirring story of the fight for freedom, Painted Skin is a searingly powerful martial arts epic already being hailed as a modern classic.In the turbulent days between the Qin and Han Dynasties a dark, tyrannical presence rules the land, sea and air of a once beautiful realm. As the evil forces press further into the lives of the people it falls to an ex-general (Donnie Yen - Ip Man, Hero, Blade II) to reclaim the mantle of battle and begin a bloodthirsty war that will decide the fate of the world. Facing the mightiest foe ever to have walked the earth he must test his strength, courage and honour in one of the greatest battles ever fought by man.

• True Legend | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow. All his life Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of creating a unique kind of martial arts that will pass on to generations; and his beloved wife. Su has a happy family and his wife is the joy of his life. But owing to a turn of fate and Su's own stubbornness he loses his wife and his family is destroyed. After losing his wife Su cannot live with himself and collapses totally. He is drunk all the time and becomes a crazy beggar in everyone's eyes. Everyday his young son ties him with a piece of rope and leads him through the streets greeted by people's curious and disdainful gazes. But all this time during his spiritual exile his dream for the highest peak in martial arts is still alive. In his madness Su continues his practice to perfect his skills and fists.

• Suzhou River | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A film from China directed by Lou Ye, Suzhou River is a story of doomed romantic love very different from the social realism of many contemporary Chinese films. Set in modern Shanghai, it's about Mardar, a motorcycle courier who gets involved with Moudan, the daughter of a businessman. When she learns he's implicated in a scheme to kidnap her, she jumps off a bridge into the river. Devastated, Mardar refuses to believe Moudan has drowned and eventually thinks he's found her, now performing a mermaid act in a sleazy bar. But the narrator of the story tells him she's Meimei, another woman. Which of them is right? The story has strong echoes of the Hitchcock classic Vertigo, in which James Stewart searches for his lost love. Stylishly shot, teasingly told, this is an intriguing film with a melancholy ending, though Zhou Xun, who plays both female parts, doesn't quite have the charisma of Vertigo's Kim Novak. --Ed Buscombe

• Beijing Bicycle | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beijing Bicycle kicks off like an updated Chinese reworking of the 1948 Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves: a worker, dependent on his bike for his job, has it stolen and doggedly sets out to get it back. But pretty soon Wang Xiaoshuai's film mutates into something more elemental: a battle of wills between peasant lad Guei, original owner of the bike, and Jian, a surly urban schoolkid who claims to have bought it second-hand. For both the bike is status: for Guei it secures him his job as a courier, while for Jian it lets him keep up with his peers and chat up the girl he fancies. Each sees himself as the rightful owner and neither will give way, so the bike swaps hands back and forth, stolen and re-stolen, as the duel waxes increasingly personal. There's a diverting subplot about a beautiful, stylishly dressed girl glimpsed by Guei who turns out be something other than she seems, but essentially the battle over the bike is the meat of the film. The fascination of Beijing Bicycle--perhaps especially for non-Chinese viewers--is its portrait of present-day Beijing as a buzzing, high-pressure, neo-capitalist boomtown, impersonal and seemingly as lawless as any Wild West frontier burg. At no point, in all the thefts and counter-thefts and mounting violence, does anyone think to call the police--everyone is left to fight his own battles. Wang, one can't help suspecting, is slipping in a hint of social criticism in this vision of an uncaring society where possessions are all that matter. On the DVD: Beijing Bicycle on disc has the original theatrical trailer (the French version, oddly enough), filmographies for the director and four of his lead actors, notes on the film by Nick Bradshaw and trailers for other Metro Tartan foreign-language DVD releases. The transfer's in the full anamorphic widescreen of the original, with good Dolby Digital sound. --Philip Kemp

• Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate | DVD | (22/12/2014) from £5.30   |  Saving you £8.95 (221.53%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martial arts epic directed by Hark Tsui. Three years after the the Dragon Inn was burned to the ground, leaving the innkeeper missing, a new bunch of marauders have moved in. But they have ulterior motives. It seems that buried beneath the Inn is a lost city that can only be uncovered in a storm which happens every 60 years. But as they wait for the storm to hit, a woman and her protector come seeking protection from assassins who are out to take her unborn child.

• Painted Skin | Blu Ray | (11/06/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99