"Director: Joseph Kuo"

• Shaolin Brothers | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £8.06   |  Saving you £-2.07 (-34.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Having spent 10 years together as disciples in the Shaolin temple close friends Ling Yun-Chang and Ko Lung-Ta find themselves at odds when politics take a part in their lives. Born into a family of Manchurian nobles Ko is appointed South China Area Commander and invites Ling to join him serving the Manchu government. When Ling rejects the offer Ko begins to persecute his former friend and the anti-government activists who are working with him. As politics threaten to drive a final

• Old Skool Kung Fu - Shaolin Death Squad / Shaolin Brothers / Shaolin Kung Fu | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An absolute must for Old Skool chop-sockey fans. This frenetic and frenzied action set features amazing martial arts choreography and offers three classic kung-fu movies containing some of the most intense fight scenes the Jade screen has ever seen: Shaolin Kung Fu: In this classic 'Old Skool' tale of revenge a young rickshaw driver is bullied by his rivals but under oath to his mother he restrains from fighting back. However he is pushed to the limit when his sister is rap

• The World of Drunken Master | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two orphans Sam the Seed (Lee Yi Min) and Tai Pei (Jack Long) are caught stealing grapes from an orchard by wine blender Chang (Chan Hiu Lau). He puts the two lads to task in his distillery as compensation. In time boss Chang takes a shine to the two lads and teaches them drunken boxing. They soon become experts at the art and decide to test out their new skill on the unsuspecting town thugs. But the duo do not know that the the leader of the thugs is none other than Yeh Hu (Lung Fei) who happens to be the enemy of the boss Chang. Yeh Hu gathers up all his lackeys and storms the distillery. The rest is drunken history. This Joseph Kuo offering was one of the best Drunken Master cash-ins to come out of Taiwan. The film told in flashback by the two reminiscing old winos is packed to the gills with top notch fight work and some off the wall training sequences by Taiwan's dynamic duo Jack Long and Lee Yi Min. A must-see for any high impact viewer. Choreographed on the style of Drunken Master by Yuen Cheung Yan who later was responsible for the high kicking action in Charlie's Angels.

• The 18 Bronzemen | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  At the end of the Ching dynasty and during the time of the Manchurian Invasion a Ming general sends his son to Shaolin Temple to avoid being slaughtered. Eighteen years roll by and the boy now a fully-grown man and master of the Shaolin martial arts requests to leave the temple and help fight the Manchu invaders. To leave the sacred order he must first face a test of immense skill courage and daring. Along with his classmate Wan Tai Chun (Carter Wong) he must enter labyrinth of martial arts mayhem. Before them lie corridors of traps and huge bronze men some wielding clubs staffs and swords others dressed in huge armour plated suits which will destroy anything which crosses their path. Once through the dreaded chambers the Shaolin disciples will have the Shaolin crest of the dragon and tiger burnt into their forearms by lifting a huge bronze pot. Outside our heroes meet up with more patriots and fight against tyranny. Joseph Kuo hits the mark with this spellbinding big budget offering a great movie that spawned a sequel and several imitations.

• Born Invincible | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Classic Kung Fu fare from the Hong Kong school directed by the old master himself, Joseph Kuo, Born Invincible has only been available in an extremely crackly print for years. Fortunately this version has been cleaned up, though lovers of Oriental kitsch will be glad to hear that the risible, excruciating dubbing remains intact. The plot revolves around the evil Ching Ying (Carter Wong), who has trained since the age of three in the near-impossible art of Tai Chi Kung Fu. His body has become tantamount to a single, deadly muscle, the 108 pressure points of human vulnerability reduced to just one--his sole weakness. His training has also left him with whitened hair and a voice that, dubbed, is a little too close to Harry Enfield's Grayson character from the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches in high excitement. Having killed two elders of the Lei Ping school in martial combat over an old score, it falls to the students of that establishment to avenge their masters, through three rigorous years of training. The awesome, though often-comical fight scenes (which in no way resemble Tai Chi) dominate the movie, involving as they do protracted acrobatic manoeuvres, few of which seem to involve actual contact with the human body. Still, lovers of The Matrix might care to revisit this, in order to check out how those moves were first committed to celluloid when editing was less of a fine art. --David Stubbs

• Mystery Of Chess Boxing | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A true cult martial arts film immortalised by the Hip-Hop group The Wu-Tang Clan and in particular 'Ghostface Killa'; one of their main members. A young student (Lee Yi Min) is out for revenge against the murderer of his father; Ghostface Killer. Before he is ready to face his nemesis he must first develop as a fighter and learn from a humble chess-master. The only way he'll be able to face this challenge is by perfecting the 'five elements' style of his deadly foe!

• Enter The Game Of Death | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dynamic kung fu star Bruce Lee stars in this splendid re-make of Bruce Lee's 'Game Of Death' complete with Nunchaku master Snake Fist master plus and extra four levels to the Pagoda.

• Dragon's Claws | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  1000 ways to kill a man and he knows them all. Jimmy Liu is the son of master Lung Tzu leader of the famed Dragon Boxing sect. Lung Tzu is challenged and killed by Ling Fung (Hwang Jang Lee) an outcast master of the Dragon Claw system. Jimmy and his mother go into hiding and plan their revenge. After training diligently in the secret techniques of Dragon Boxing Jimmy challenges Ling Fung to a showdown that is truly in the Jackie Chan tradition. Directed by legendary director/producer Joseph Kuo this film was adapted from a script originally written for Jackie Chan.

• Ninja Kids | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ninja Samurai of Ninjutsu are often employed as assassins and spies. They dedicate their lives entirely to their master and lead an impersonal bloody way of life. Amoung the groups of Ninja's I Ho is the most cruel and famous gang. The gang leader Yutakawa is an intelligent and ambitious daimyos. He brought up and trained three Chinese children to become the invincible 'Peach Flower Ninja's'!

• Return Of The 18 Bronzemen | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £14.95   |  Saving you £-8.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Original cast from the '18 Bronzemen' return for this spectacular sequel. Carter Wong stars as the ruthless young prince who uses fear and intimidation to rule his kingdom and gain power. But when he is forced to learn the ancient art of Shaolin Kung Fu in a bid to protect his kingdom from the threat of rebellion he faces the biggest challenge of his life... Before he can reclaim his throne tradition demands that he challenge and defeat the invincible 18 Bronzemen. can his

• 36 Deadly Styles | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Manic martial arts action from decorated Hong Kong director Joseph Kuo.

• Eagle's Claw / Seven Grand Masters | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A double bill of old skool martial arts movies! Eagles Claw: The best Eagles Clan film ever made with superb [erformances from Wang Tao and Chi Kuan Chun. When a rural school challenges the 'Eagles Claw' school the setting is ripe for top class 'old skool' action. Seven Grand Masters: Action director (Corey) Yuen Kwai who choreographed the excellent scenes in 'Romeo Must Die' with Jet Li works his magic in this 'Old Skool' classic. Jack Long takes on the Seven Grand Masters in one of the best traditional Kung Fu films of the 80's.

• The Unbeaten 28 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In THE UNBEATEN 28 young Tiger (Meng Fei) witnesses the brutal death of his father and is taken in by a Kung Fu Master (Jack Long) for training in the ancient disciplines of Shaolin and Wu-Tang in the hope of taking revenge. But the young Tiger must successfully overcome 'The 18 Obstacles' to uncover the secret manual that holds the key to the rebuilding of the powerful 'Wu-Tang Clan'; only then will he have the power to avenge the deaths of his father and the adoptive master to whom he owes his life.

• The World Of Drunken Master | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Made in 1979 The World of Drunken Master appeared at the same time as Drunken Master Part 2, and is an unofficial prequel to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master (1978). As the titular character, Siu Tien Yuen appeared in all three films, though here his role is reduced to a 10-minute cameo and the bulk of the film is a flashback to 30 years earlier. The story unfolds as Jack and Mark Long play a pair of petty thieves who team-up, learn kung fu and fall in love with the daughter (Jeanie Chang) of the owner of a local distillery. Naturally there is a gang of villains who want to close the business down and steal the land, so that the second half of the movie is one long series of fight scenes. Clearly made on a very low budget, the action is nevertheless inventively choreographed and well filmed. Siu Tien Yuen doesn't have much to do, though the framing device and the passage of time to when the old friends meet again lends a poignancy and sense of loss unusual in kung fu movies. The star would reprise the character at greater length in Magnificent Butcher (again, 1979), while Jackie Chan finally delivered his own Drunken Master II in 1994. The title on this print is actually Drunken Dragon. On the DVD: the original 2.35:1 ratio film is presented here at standard TV 4:3, with often little evidence even of any panning and scanning so that the images look badly composed and lack important information throughout. The credits have been simply squashed to 4:3 so that everything looks tall and thin. Worse, the encoding is riddled with compression artefacts and the eye-aching out-of-focus, grainy, washed-out transfer shows clear evidence of originating with a poor quality video than the original film. There is no original soundtrack option, only a dreadful American dub. The sound is mediocre mono. Apart from various language subtitles the only extra is the original theatrical trailer. This is presented anamorphically enhanced, but the picture quality is still very poor and the image has been squashed from 2.35:1 to 1.77:1. The listed trailers for other MIA titles are missing from the disc, which astonishingly claims to be a "Special Edition". The cover blurb even manages to confuse the plot with that of an entirely different film, the same director's The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979). --Gary S Dalkin

• Shaolin Death Squad | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a Manchu conspiracy to overthrow the Ming dynasty is thwarted by a group of Shaolin disciples and patriots a fierce battle to defend the life of the King ensues with deadly results.

• Seven Grandmasters | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A cast of top ranking Kung-fu experts including the awesome Jack Long who challenges the six top masters to find out who will be number one. Action is choreographed by Yuen Kwai who was recently responsible for the jaw-dropping action in 'Romeo Must Die' and the box office smash 'The One' starring Jet Li.

• The 18 Bronzemen | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  At the end of the Ching dynasty and during the time of the Manchurian Invasion a Ming general sends his son to Shaolin Temple to avoid being slaughtered. Eighteen years roll by and the boy now a fully-grown man and master of the shaolin martial arts requests to leave the temple and help fight the Manchu invaders. To leave the sacred order he must first face a test of immense skill courage and daring. Along with his classmate Wan tai Chun (Carter Wong) he must enter a labyrinth of martial arts mayhem... Before them lie corridors of traps and huge bronze men some wielding clubs staffs and swords others dressed in huge armour plated suits which will destroy anything which crosses their path. Once through the dreaded chambers the Shaolin disciples will have the Shaolin crest of the dragon and tiger burnt into their forearms by lifting a huge bronze pot. Outside our heores meet up with more patriots and fight against tyranny. Joseph Kuo hits the mark with this spellbinding big budget offering a great movie which spawned a sequel and many imitations.

• Blazing Temple | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In an attempt to eliminate all possible nationalist factions the Ching Emperor orders the destruction of the Shaolin temple...

• The Old Master | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ageing kung fu expert Master Yu (Yu Jim Yuen) is invited to travel from Hong Kong to Los Angeles to save a local school from its rivals by taking on the headmasters of each of the other schools in a kung fu contest. Realising the school he has been working to save has been using him to make money from gambling Yu disowns the school and sets about teaching one of his students (Bill Louie) the secrets of his kung fu style. In doing so he incurs the wrath of a local Mob boss who has lo

• 8 Masters | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Martial Arts action! This film features some of the most daring and action-packed examples of Shaolin Kung Fu fighting, with spectacular acting and locations.; Shao Chi's only son has been brought up in a Shaolin Temple. When he leaves, after intensive training, he is pursued by his father's enemies, all masters of the eight schools of Kung Fu. Shao Chi resists all their attempts to goad him into fight... But when his mother is killed, the spirit of revenge arises: Shao Chi smashes his way to...