"Director: Jeffrey Lau"

• Wong Kar-Wai - Jet Tone Collection | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £29.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (1.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Triple bill of films produced by Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai. 'The Eagle Shooting Heroes' (1993) is an action comedy directed by Jeffrey Lau parodying the 'wuxia' genre of kung-fu films with a sprawling plot replete with big fight scenes ultra-complex love stories and goofy musical numbers. Major Hong Kong stars including Tony Leung Maggie Cheung Brigitte Lin Leslie Cheung and Jacky Cheung step up to the plate of self-parody with gusto in this crazy tale of treason treachery magic and martial arts. 'First Love - Litter On the Breeze' (1997) is a postmodern romance directed by Eric Kot which tells two interwining stories on the subject of first love interspersed with commentary by the director about how and why the film was made. In the first narrative strand Takeshi Kaneshiro stars as an emotionally damaged rubbish collector who befriends and falls in love with a teenage sleepwalker (Lee Wai-Wai). In the second a married grocer (Eric Kot) bumps into his first love (Karen Mok) a decade after jilting her at the altar an encounter that wreaks havoc on his domestic life. Christopher Doyle directs 'Away With Words' (1999) a drama about Asano (Tadanobu Asano) a man with mnemonic memory; for him words have tangible shapes tastes smells and colours and can never be forgotten once he has heard them. Travelling to Hong Kong he meets flamboyant bar owner Kevin (Kevin Sherlock) a man whose colourful past has been lost in a drink-fuddled haze and who cannot even remember the Cantonese name of the street where he lives. As the relationship between these two very different men unfolds it becomes clear that words only seem to stand in the way of their future together. Set Comprises: The Eagle Shooting Heroes First Love: Litter On The Breeze Away With Words

• Treasure Hunt | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chang Ching (Chow Yun-Fat) is a CIA operative who is commanded to return to his native China and ""recover"" a Chinese national treasure for the US Government. The treasure turns out to be Mei a young girl with paranormal powers who is the center of politicial intrigue and greed hidden in the famed Shaolin Temple from those who would seek to exploit her. When Chang Ching falls in love with the innocent young woman he is called upon to make sacrifices fight monsters and perform brave deeds to win the hand of his lady-love. As it happens the sacrifices are of his arrogance and selfishness the monsters are corrupt men and his brave deeds include leaving behind his entire former life as a CIA operative and enduring a long separation from his beloved and waiting for her return even if it lasts a lifetime...