"Actor: Chow Yun Fat"

• Peace Hotel | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1930's China Ping (Chow Yun-Fat) known as the ""King Of Killers"" renounces his murderous way after his precious wife is caught up in a gun battle and loses her life. Heartbroken Ping puts away his six shooters and establishes the 'Peace Hotel' promising protection and safe passage to all the visitors under his roof. For a decade his golden rule holds firm. That is until the mysterious appearance of a beautiful young woman whose beauty and hidden agenda threatens to break his

• The Seventh Curse - Deluxe Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (04/07/2022) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Chow Yun-fat (Hard Bolied, The Killer, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) The Seventh Curse is a curious entry from Golden Harvest, the legendary production company which had previously bought us the stone cold Bruce Lee classics, Way of the Dragon, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon. When Dr Yuen (Chin Siu-ho) attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a Thailand jungle, he is damned with seven ˜Blood Curses'. Though he finds a temporary antidote this will only last a year and he must return to the jungle to find a permanent cure. The Seventh Curse is an adventurous story of lost tribes and deadly magic. Featuring strange locales, evil sorcerers and monsters, this bonkers thrill fest is a rollicking Asian oddity, a must for collectors of exotic Hong Kong cinema.

• John Woo | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ben Affleck teams up with John Woo for this explosive thriller about a top-notch engineer who wakes up from his latest top-secret job with no memory and the FBI on his tail.

• The Return Of The God Of Gamblers | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ko Chun (Chow Yun-Fat) is forced out of retirement when his rival brutally kills his pregnant wife. He promises to keep his identity secret for a year but is soon caught up in intrigue when he rescues the son of Taiwanese gang boss Hui. Pursued by police the fugitives find shelter with a brother and sister team of swindlers. Along with a kidnapped police chief this uneasy alliance makes it to Taiwan where Hui's beautiful daughter (Chinagmy Yau) sets up the most important challenge of the God of Gamblers life.

• City On Fire | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  An undercover cop sent to infiltrate a notorious crime ring Ko Chow (Chow Yun-Fat) must replace a fellow officer who was killed in a violent confrontation. But as he earns the trust of the syndicate he develops a tight friendship with one of the thieves. Then when a planned heist turns into a bloody shoot-out with police suspicions arise about who could be the informant.... Starring Chow Yun-Fat (who won a Hong Kong Film Award for his performance) this hard-hitting Special Coll

• Lindsey Buckingham Songs From the Small Machine Live In L.A. | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £19.05   |  Saving you £-2.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Filmed in high definition at an exclusive show at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills in April this year, Songs From The Small Machine captures Lindsey Buckingham showcasing tracks from his new studio album Seeds We Sow, songs from across his solo career and Fleetwood Mac classics. His distinctive guitar picking style and instantly recognisable voice are joined to his dynamic on stage presence to deliver a show that brings the audience to their feet and leaves them calling for more. Starting with five solo acoustic performances, Lindsey is then joined by his band to rock their way through the rest of the set before a final acoustic encore of Seeds We Sow brings a perfect evening to an end.

• A Better Tomorrow - Special Edition | DVD | (27/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Better Tomorrow is one of the most influential films in Hong Kong film history, a massive hit which launched the "Heroic Bloodshed" genre, made an instant superstar of Chow Yun Fat, set director John Woo on a path to Hollywood blockbusterdom, and spawned a series of hit sequels starting with the inevitable A Better Tomorrow II (1987). The story is a gangster archetype: Ho (Ti Lung) and best friend Mark (Chow Yun Fat) are counterfeiters, while Ho's younger brother Kit (Leslie Cheung), is a trainee law officer. When tragedy strikes Ho determines to go straight, and Kit seeks to bring them to justice. It's an age-old plot which leads to wholesale mayhem and a blood-soaked finale. Yet unlike many Hong Kong action movies, A Better Tomorrow packs the powerful emotional resonance of the best gangster flicks through coherent storytelling and believable characters struggling with impossible dilemmas. Rather than draw on crime movie imagery, Woo appropriates much of the visual style, not to mention individual set-pieces, ferociously intense gunplay, menacing electronic soundscapes and blue backlighting from James Cameron's then-recently released The Terminator (1984). That the result launched a filmmaking revolution testifies to John Woo's skill behind the camera, a talent which would reach full flower in The Killer (1989). On the DVD: A Better Tomorrow--Special Edition is anamorphically enhanced and transferred at 1.78:1, but the use of a slightly soft, washed-out print and regularly apparent compression artefacts makes for a mediocre picture. The sound is two-channel mono, which is often harsh and borders on distortion. The only choice on the first DVD is to watch the film in Cantonese, with optional English subtitles, or in a poor English dub. The second DVD has a new ten-minute featurette edited mainly from archive interviews with the stars and John Woo. There are further archive interviews; 18 minutes with Chow Yun Fat, 10 minutes with Woo and two minutes with Ti Lung. These are interesting, but are not all specific to the film. Also included is a short text transcription of an interview with Woo, biographies and filmographies, a gallery of assorted stills and two trailers. All this could easily have fitted on the first DVD and doesn't do justice to either the film or the idea of a special edition. --Gary S Dalkin

• A Better Tomorrow 2 | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-43.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Director John Woo and star Chow Yun-Fat return in the jaw-dropping heart-stopping sequel to the break-through gangster drama that changed action movies forever! This time the mayhem blasts its way from New York City to Hong Kong as renegade gangsters and hot shot cops take on the syndicate in a relentless showdown of honor loyalty and bullet-riddled revenge... Considered by many fans to be superior to the original A Better Tomorrow 2 is the award-winning action masterpiece whose final epic gun battle is one of the most awesome sequences of John Woo's entire career!

• Usher OMG Tour Live From London | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £3.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (300.86%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Track Listing: 1. Monstar 2. She Don’t Know 3. Yeah 4. U Remind Me 5. U Don’t Have To Call 6. You Make Me Wanna 7. Mars vs Venus 8. Nice & Slow 9. Love In This Club 10. Lil Freak 11. Hot Tottie 12. There Goes My Baby 13. Burn 14) Bad Girl 15. Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) 16. Caught Up 17. DJ Got Us Falling Love 18. More 19. OMG

• Rich And Famous | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Features John Woo's classic 'killer' team Chow Yun-Fat and Danny Lee tangled up in a web of mob intrigue and murder. Unable to pay off his enormous gambling debts and with the debt collectors closing in Yung turns to local triad boss Lee Ah-Chai for assistance. Chai agrees to settle Yung's debts on the condition that he his sister and his stepbrother Kwok come to work for him. Loyal and reliable Kwok soon works his way up the ladder to become Chai's right-hand man. Frustrated by his own failure and envious of his stepbrother's success Yung begins working for Chai's main gangland rival. As a violent gang war escalates Yung finds himself pitted in a bloody showdown against both his stepbrother and the man who saved his life.

• A Better Tomorrow | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The film which brought Hong Kong and international audiences to the stellar talent of John Woo (Hard Boiled Face/Off) and Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) A Better Tomorrow is an undeniable Hong Kong action classic spawning innumerous imitations in its wake. Chow is the slick killer Mark who along with his best friend Ho (Ti Lung) are living the high-life after a very successful counterfeiting scheme. But troubles begin when Ho's younger brother Kit (Leslie Cheung - Happy Together) a police officer in training discovers what his brother does for a living leading the three to a blazing finale which pushes their loyalties to the limit. Joining the talents of Chow and Woo A Better Tomorrow marks the first outing of a very successful pairing which went on to re-invent Hong Kong film.

• Shanghai | Blu Ray | (23/07/2012) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From director Mikael Hafstrom (1408) comes the epic espionage thriller Shanghai staring John Cusack (1408) and international superstars Gong Li (Miami Vice, Memoirs of a Geisha) and Ken Watanabe (Letters from Iwo Jima, The Last Samurai.) Nothing is what it seems in this Casablanca-style international thriller set in the ancient Chinese city a week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. secret agent Paul Soames (Cusack) has just arrived to investigate the murder of his best friend, only to become quickly immersed in a web of conspiracy and lies that beset the city. Shadowed by a Japanese intelligence officer, Tanaka (Watanabe), Soames' investigation quickly centers on a charismatic local gangster, Anthony Lanting and Lanting's beautiful wife, Anna (Li). Before long, Soames and Anna are involved in an affair that will put everything they have at stake. As national loyalties are traded fast-and-loose for those of the heart, Soames and Annamust race to solve the mystery and make it out of occupied China before the city's collapse.

• Placebo - We Come In Pieces | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £41.67   |  Saving you £-24.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This concert was filmed at London’s Brixton Academy in September 2010 at the culmination of the world tour in support of their “Battle For The Sun” album released the previous year. The tour had been an unqualified success with the band playing to over 2.5 million fans in all parts of the world. The concert film is a visual feast enhancing the live footage with skilful editing and selective digital effects to create a stunning film that really captures the essence of a Placebo live performance. Tracklist: 1) Nancy Boy 2) Ashtray Heart 3) Battle For The Sun 4) Soulmates 5) Kitty Litter 6) Every You Every Me 7) Special Needs 8) Breathe Underwater 9) The Never-Ending Why 10) Bright Lights 11) Meds 12) Teenage Angst 13) All Apologies 14) For What It’s Worth 15) Song To Say Goodbye 16) Bitter End 17) Mendelssohn 18) Trigger Happy Hands 19) Post Blue 20) Infra-Red 21) Taste In Men

• The Replacement Killers | Blu Ray | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The director of Chow Yun-fat's first Hollywood outing, music video veteran Antoine Fuqua, seems to be trying to squeeze the charismatic Asian superstar into a conventional American action hero mould, and the results are dispiriting. Fuqua never lets this high-spirited actor smile, fetishising him as a gun-slinging clotheshorse in a series of garish, scenery smashing battle scenes. As a paid assassin whose former employers turn against him, Chow enlists the help of an illegal documents specialist played, with surprising grit, by Mira Sorvino, and then spends most of the time fending off squads of killers in mirror shades. The movie is art directed and photographed fit to kill (even the most routine incidents are eye-gougingly colourful) and edited to a hip-hop beat. It's garishly superficial. The frequent gunplay duels may keep action fans riveted, but they'll hate themselves in the morning. --David Chute

• Unleashed/Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon/Kung Fu Hustle | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £21.96   |  Saving you £-6.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Unleashed: Serve no master. Written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Louis Leterrier Unleashed features a fantastic performance from martial arts superstar Jet Li. On and beneath the mean streets of Glasgow fiery gangster Bart (Hoskins) is merciless with debtors would-be rivals and anyone else he takes a passing dislike to. Bart maintains his stranglehold through his unwitting enforcer Danny (Jet Li) who he has 'raised' since boyhood. Danny has been kept as a near-prisoner: trained to attack and if necessary kill. Danny knows little of life except the brutal existence that Bart has so cruelly fashioned for him. However when Danny has a chance encounter with the sightless piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman) he senses true kindness and compassion for the first time and experiences the transforming power of music. When a sudden gangland coup separates Danny from Bart and the gang Danny escapes the underworld. Taking refuge with Sam and his stepdaughter Victoria (Kerry Condon) Danny finds a family of sorts and a future... However the mob will not give up their prize asset so easily and Danny must soon call upon his skills once more to protect his family and bury his past. (Dir. Louis Leterrier 2005) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: 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. (Dir. Ang Lee 2000) Kung Fu Hustle: From walking disaster to Kung Fu master: it's a new comedy unlike anything you have seen before! In the 1940's Chinese province of Guangdong petty thief Sing (Stephen Chow) aspires to become a member of the notorious Axe gang the fiercest cruel and most widespread crime syndicate in the city. However Sing is just a street rascal (trying to ignore the fact that his heart is actually in the right place) and so he ventures into the run-down Pig Sty Alley to prove his worth. However in attempting to extort money from the hairdresser Sing unwittingly exposes the plump landlady her hen-pecked husband the camp tailor and rugged coolie as martial arts masters in hiding. Coming to the attention of the Axe gang who want to clear out the apartments Sing's actions have set off a relentless chain of events that brings the clans together in an explosive battle! Stephen Chow continues his unique comedy style that first came to the attention of the West in Shaolin Soccer mixing slapstick in the finest tradition of Buster Keaton; to marvellous martial arts choreographed by none other than Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix Kill Bill); to dance sequences with tuxedoed gangsters; to moments of genuine pathos concerning Sing's mysterious history involving a be

• Kung Pow - Enter The Fist/Bulletproof Monk/Kiss Of The Dragon | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bulletproof Monk (Dir. Paul Hunter 2003): 'Bulletproof Monk' begins in the 1940s as a Tibetan Buddhist monk charged with protecting an ancient scroll passes on his legacy to his pupil. As the student receives the power to safeguard the scroll his aging process is halted and he gives up his name only to be known as the Monk (Chow Yun-Fat). Suddenly the monastery is raided by Nazis led by the ruthless Strucker (Karl Roden). As they attempt to seize the relic the Monk is shot and falls off a cliff taking the scroll with him... However six decades later the Monk appears in America and crosses paths with Kar (Seann William Scott) a tough city kid with a talent for picking pockets. Together the unlikely duo must contend with the forces of the now-elderly Strucker still determined to possess the mystical scroll. As Strucker's granddaughter Nina (Victoria Smurfit) leads his thugs to track down Kar and the Monk the two heroes receive help from the mysterious Jade (Jaime King)... Kung Pow: Enter The Fist (Dir. Steve Oedekerk 2002): Writer/Director Steve Oedekerk kicks the karate film genre up a notch by inserting new scenes new dialogue and himself into an obscure Hong Kong chop-socky flick from the '70s. The result is ""ridiculously funny and must be seen to be believed!"" (Slant Magazine) In order to avenge his family's death a legendary warrior named ""The Chosen One"" (Oedekerk) wanders the countryside in search of the murderous Master Pain also known as Betty. Filled with fist-flying action incredible special effects and outrageous kung foolishness this martial arts mockery delivers knockout laughs from beginning to end! Kiss Of The Dragon (Dir. Chris Nohon 2001): China's top secret agent visits Paris on a pleasure trip only to encounter government espionage at the highest level...

• Hard Boiled | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Masterful Hong Kong action director John Woo (The Killer Face/Off) turns in this exciting and pyrotechnic tale of warring gangsters and shifting loyalties. Chow Yun-Fat (The Replacement Killers) plays a take-no-prisoners cop on the trail of the Triad the Hong Kong Mafia when his partner is killed during a gun battle. His guilt propels him into an all-out war against the gang including an up-and-coming soldier in the mob (Tony Leung) who turns out to be an undercover cop. The two men must come to terms with their allegiance to the force and their loyalty to each other as they try to take down the gangsters. A stunning feast of hyperbolic action sequences (including a climactic sequence in an entire hospital taken hostage) Hard Boiled is a rare treat for fans of the action genre with sequences as thrilling and intense as any ever committed to film.

• Unleashed/Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon/Kung Fu Hustle | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Unleashed: Serve no master. Written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Louis Leterrier Unleashed features a fantastic performance from martial arts superstar Jet Li. On and beneath the mean streets of Glasgow fiery gangster Bart (Hoskins) is merciless with debtors would-be rivals and anyone else he takes a passing dislike to. Bart maintains his stranglehold through his unwitting enforcer Danny (Jet Li) who he has 'raised' since boyhood. Danny has been kept as a near-prisoner: trained to attack and if necessary kill. Danny knows little of life except the brutal existence that Bart has so cruelly fashioned for him. However when Danny has a chance encounter with the sightless piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman) he senses true kindness and compassion for the first time and experiences the transforming power of music. When a sudden gangland coup separates Danny from Bart and the gang Danny escapes the underworld. Taking refuge with Sam and his stepdaughter Victoria (Kerry Condon) Danny finds a family of sorts and a future... However the mob will not give up their prize asset so easily and Danny must soon call upon his skills once more to protect his family and bury his past. (Dir. Louis Leterrier 2005) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: 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. (Dir. Ang Lee 2000) Kung Fu Hustle: From walking disaster to Kung Fu master: it's a new comedy unlike anything you have seen before! In the 1940's Chinese province of Guangdong petty thief Sing (Stephen Chow) aspires to become a member of the notorious Axe gang the fiercest cruel and most widespread crime syndicate in the city. However Sing is just a street rascal (trying to ignore the fact that his heart is actually in the right place) and so he ventures into the run-down Pig Sty Alley to prove his worth. However in attempting to extort money from the hairdresser Sing unwittingly exposes the plump landlady her hen-pecked husband the camp tailor and rugged coolie as martial arts masters in hiding. Coming to the attention of the Axe gang who want to clear out the apartments Sing's actions have set off a relentless chain of events that brings the clans together in an explosive battle! Stephen Chow continues his unique comedy style that first came to the attention of the West in Shaolin Soccer mixing slapstick in the finest tradition of Buster Keaton; to marvellous martial arts choreographed by none other than Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix Kill Bill); to dance sequences with tuxedoed gangsters; to moments of genuine pathos concerning Sing's mysterious history involving a beautiful mute lollipop vendor... (Dir. Stephen Chow 2004)

• Bulletproof Monk / Kung Pow - Enter The Fist | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £14.25   |  Saving you £-1.26 (-9.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bulletproof Monk (Dir. Paul Hunter 2003): 'Bulletproof Monk' begins in the 1940s as a Tibetan Buddhist monk charged with protecting an ancient scroll passes on his legacy to his pupil. As the student receives the power to safeguard the scroll his aging process is halted and he gives up his name only to be known as the Monk (Chow Yun-Fat). Suddenly the monastery is raided by Nazis led by the ruthless Strucker (Karl Roden). As they attempt to seize the relic the Monk is

• Usher OMG Tour Live From London | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £16.61   |  Saving you £1.64 (10.68%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Track Listing:1. Monstar 2. She Don’t Know 3. Yeah 4. U Remind Me 5. U Don’t Have To Call 6. You Make Me Wanna 7. Mars vs Venus 8. Nice & Slow 9. Love In This Club 10. Lil Freak 11. Hot Tottie 12. There Goes My Baby 13. Burn 14. Bad Girl 15. Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) 16. Caught Up 17. DJ Got Us Falling Love 18. More 19. OMG