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• Shaolin Wheel of Life - The Masters Edition | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shaolin Wheel of Life is the critically acclaimed Kung-Fu extravaganza that has thrilled and astonished audiences all over the world. The Masters Edition not only contains the amazing original show but is packed with truly exceptional additional footage. We travel to the wilds of China to the actual Shaolin Temple where the Grand Masters perform spectacular new feats of breathtaking Kung-Fu. This special edition also includes previously unreleased footage from the original show whi

• Zhou Yu's Train | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Her love is torn between a doctor and a poet a man and a memory... A young painter named Zhou Yu (Gong Li) falls headlong in love with a painfully shy poet Chen Ching (Tony Leung). Twice a week she takes the train to his town to be with him even though he's bewildered by her near-obsessive passion. On the train a wise-cracking veterinarian (Sun Hong-Lei) pursues Zhou Yu but she initially resists his emotional directness...

• Jackie Chan Adventures - Search For The Talisman | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £17.04   |  Saving you £-1.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jackie Chan's Adventures is the exciting new animated series from world-famous action hero Jackie Chan. You've never seen Jackie like this! Archeologist Jackie Chan's eleven-year-old niece Jade proves action runs in the family when she arrives from Hong Kong to live with Jackie and his wise old uncle in San Francisco. Meanwhile Jackie has found an ancient Chinese talisman and now he's got government agents and gangsters chasing after him. Soon Jackie and Jade learn the secret p

• Together With You | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £5.44   |  Saving you £4.55 (83.64%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a 13-year-old violin prodigy moves with his father to Beijing, he realizes how he truly feels about music and comes to understand the strength of his father's love.

• Platform | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £17.87   |  Saving you £2.12 (11.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jia Zhang Ke's ambitious film follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history from 1979 to 1989. In the small town of Fenyang in the remote western province of Shanxi the teenage members of a state theatre troupe stage propoganda plays in praise of Mao. But as the country opens up to the free market and implements wide-ranging reform their lives are irrevocably changed as the world around them is transformed by the music fashions and other cul

• 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

• Bloodsport 2 | DVD | (15/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Jackie Chan Adventures - The Entire Season 1 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jackie Chan's Adventures is the exciting new animated series from world-famous action hero Jackie Chan. You've never seen Jackie like this! Episode titles: The Dark Hand The Power Within The Mask of El Toro Fuerte Enter...The Viper Project A for Astral Shell Game Bullies Tough Break The Rock The Dog and Piggy Show The Jade Monkey The Tiger and the Pussycat Day of the Dragon.

• The Intruder | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A mysterious loner tries to buy a new heart on the black market in this French drama.

• Epoch | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £12.41   |  Saving you £-2.42 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Across the planet sudden increases in earthquake activity is causing massive damage and worldwide panic. Mason Rand (David Keith) a young nuclear weapons expert is recruited by the President's science advisor to investigate some additional strange activity over the giant Himalayan mountains. With the Earth's life support system in the balance Rand and his team fly to Bhutan to join a top secret U.S. task force. What they discover will change man's view of history forever...

• The Road Home | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The latest film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, The Road Home (1999) is a story of past and present. In black and white we see a young businessman return to a rural village where his father has died. His mother wants a traditional funeral, which involves carrying the coffin several miles in the depths of winter. Then, in flashback and brilliant colour, we are told the story of his parents' courtship. His father had come as the local schoolteacher and had fallen in love with his mother, a local girl. Political complications ensue and they are separated for two years, but at last reunited. This apparently simply tale is told with great insight and dazzlingly beautiful camerawork, in a style which echoes the Italian neo-realist films of the 1940s. Perhaps it doesn't have the complexity of the director's earlier film, Raise the Red Lantern (1991), which starred the luminous Gong Li, but The Road Home has her match in Zhang Ziyi, who also starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). On the DVD: The quality of the sound and picture (in 2.35:1 ratio) are excellent. There are no additional features except for subtitles in English and 15 other languages. --Ed Buscombe

• Triangle (Tie Saam Gok) | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bringing together three of Hong Kong's greatest directors Ringo Lam Johnny To Hark Tsui Triangle tells the story of three friends who decide to end their money problems by digging up a forgotten safe of treasure. With each director taking a third of the film to make his own it makes for a lively action-thriller but holds together remarkably well.

• Amelia | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £21.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (15.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The multi-award-winning dance film Amelia (2002) directed and choreographed by Edouard Lock and performed by the acclaimed dance company La La La Human Steps explores the use of point technique using extended intertwining solos complex partnering sequences and extreme speed to generate powerful performances with unexpected moments of tender emotion and serenity.Lock uses intricate choreography for both camera and dancers creating amazing and constantly shifting points of view. Trademark performances brilliant and relentless combined with the delicate sensual lighting of AndreTurpin and the minimalist environment of a giant wooden box with rounded forms that seems to have no exit create a disturbingly exquisite and moving experience.The original score written by David Lang for violin cello piano and voice combines evocative minimalism with lyrics from five of Lou Reed's most famous works created in the 60s for the Velvet Underground.

• Mortal Conquest | DVD | (03/04/2000) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Deep in the mind of Steven Colin the secret of an ancient martial arts power lays dormant. In a former life Colin wielded the forceful sword of Alexander The Great. With it's strength and his superior fighting skill he massacred an army of warriors led by the vicious Parmenion (Hong). Now in the year 2003 his enemies are back and are determined to seek the man who would be king in their attempt to destroy him for all eternity. With new-found force Colin must step forth once again into a 2000 year-old battle and finally settle the score.

• Peacock King | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Hell Virgin Ashura is the key to King of Hell's revival: he summonts Ashura to break open the Hell Hole located in modern Tokyo but Socerer Ku and high priest Chi Hung send their disciples Peacock King (Yuen Biao) and Lucky Fruit to stop the impending apocalypse... Peacock King is a little seen but impressive supernatural Kung Fu film with the dynamically athletic Yuen Biao holding sway as the martial arts master!

• Big Trouble In Little China (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Like I told my last wife I said ""Honey I never drive faster than I can see and besides... it's all in the reflexes."" Directed by master film-maker John Carpenter this edge-of-your seat adventure stars Kurt Russell as Jack Burton a tough talking wisecracking truck driver whose hum-drum life on the road takes a sudden supernatural tailspin when his best friend's fiance is kidnapped. Speeding to the rescue Jack finds himself deep beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. It's a

• Crime Lords | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Williams a veteran cop has always refused to polish the right people's boots. Now pushing forty he's still on the lowest rung of the police department. When Williams and his partner are assigned what appears to be a routine investigation they stumble on to a huge international car smuggling ring.

• Ghost Rock | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A band of merciless outlaws led by the ruthless 'Black' Jack Pickett (Gary Busey - 'Lethal Weapon' - 'Under Siege') has been blazing a trail of murder and destruction through the frontier towns of Arizona.In an attempt to bring justice to the lawless West U.S. Ranger Moses Logan (Jeff Fahey - 'The Lawnmower Man' - 'Wyatt Earp) relentlessly pursues Pickett to the small town of Ghost Rock.This peaceful town has been taken over by Pickett and his gang. Out-manned and out-gunned Logan joins forces with the famed bounty hunter John Slaughter (Michael Worth - 'US Seals' - 'Fists Of Iron') and a mysterious female gunfighter (Jenya Lano - 'Blade') to unleash war on Pickett in the streets of Ghost Rock.

• JU DOU | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The title character a peasant sold as a concubine to a cruel old man is played by the beautiful Gong Li one of the great actresses of our time who followed this brilliant work with spectacular performances in The Story of Qiu Ju (1991) Raise the Red Lantern (1992) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). Li Wei plays her master the childless owner of a dye mill in the agrarian China of the 1920s. Li Wei's fine performance combines craftiness with iniquity. The third character in the tragic triangle is Jin-shan's nephew Yang Tianqing a modest man who does most of the work in the dye mill. Ju Dou falls in love with Tianqing almost by default and it is their ill-fated love that leads to tragedy.

• Ghost Rock | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1882 20 years after a forgotten massacre took place the only living witness to the crime John Slaughter returns to the town where it happened. Now finding the town run by the man behind the terrible act Slaughter teams up with the mysterious gunslinger Savannah Starr to try and rid the west of one of its' great evils...