Eric Tsang plays Big Gangster Dragon the aging Hong Kong triad boss who still controls the gang's massive money pool despite his nearing retirement. After rumours of an inside plot to assassinate him he assembles a secret army to protect himself.
IT'S VAMPIRE VS. VAMPIRE IN THIS BLOODTHIRSTY KUNG FU ACTION EPIC!Vampire hunter Ar leads a simple life, slaying the un-dead whilst simultaneously spending time with a family of non-lethal vegetarian vampires. That is until the mysterious and ruthless vampire Mung comes to town, causing all kinds of carnage and feasting on fellow vampires whilst stealing their power.With the bodies piling up and her vampire friends under threat, Ar has no choice but to face Mung, fang to fang. But as Mung becomes more and more powerful, Ar will have to make the ultimate sacrifice if she is ultimately to triumph - become one of her very own most revered adversaries - the un-dead!
Stephen Chow's follow-up to SHAOLIN SOCCER ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley. Chow who wrote, produced, and directed doesn't step in as the star here for quite a while, letting the comic duties fly in a myriad of directions: a landlady in curlers (Yuen Qiu) has a yell that can flatten buildings; people get kicked across courtyards and through walls; musician assassins whip ghost sabres from lyre strings, and a mental patient in pink flip-flops named 'the Beast' (Leung Siu Lung) catches bullets in his fingers. Buoyed by SOCCER's box office success, HUSTLE uses bigger production values and a dizzying amount of CGI-enhanced martial arts (imagine Bruce Lee vs. Bugs Bunny in THE MATRIX). It's full of references to other films and filmmakers, revering spaghetti westerns and '70s Shaw brothers movies a la Tarantino's KILL BILL (fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping worked on both films). It also pays sly homage to the works of Wong Kar Wai, D.W. Griffith, Sam Raimi, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, and Akira Kurosawa. Raymond Wong's inspired score matches each cinematic reference with the appropriate cue as the camera circles and swoops around the sprawling sets. This is a real treat, more than a great action film or comedy, it's a great film period, and one that set box office records in the East.
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Contains Fulltime Killer and Breaking News Cannes favourite Johnnie To (Election 1 & 2 Exiled) puts new twists on classic genres in these modern takes on the Hitman and Hostage genres. Fulltime Killer Johnny To (Heroic Trio The Barefoot Kid) directs this thriller which stars Andy Lau as Tok a mysterious and flamboyant hitman who challenges the reigning top assassin known as O for supremacy. Tok's string of high-profile and somewhat careless hits have not only made him the talk of the underworld but also attracted the attention of Interpol Inspector Lee who longs to put away both O and his challenger. Breaking News From the director of Fulltime Killer comes one of the most explosive and unrelenting action films to ever come out of Asia. After a televised bank robbery is dangerously mismanaged by the Hong Kong police five bank robbers escape leaving a bloodbath behind them. Taking refuge in a labyrinthine housing complex the criminals are quickly surrounded. In order to regain credibility ambitious Commissioner Rebecca Fong attempts to manipulate the media to her own advantage. But the robbers are also able to draw on the power of the media... High octane and visually stunning Johnnie To's Breaking News is a fascinating look at the power of today's media.
Having grown up together in an orphanage run by the benevolent Father Martin six friends - a Hong Kong film director (Alfred Cheung) a psychologist (Miriam Yeung) an electronics expert (Francis Ng) a surgeon (Ken Wong) a lawyer (Christine Ng) and a self-defence instructor (Almen Wong) - have vowed to get together once a year to use their professional skills for the good of others. When they unexpectedly receive the shocking news that their mentor has been killed while on a relief
Golden Ninja Warrior: The Golden Ninjas decide to return their valuable golden statue to China for an important ceremony. However their long-time enemies the Red Ninjas intend to steal the statue and send their best Ninja heroine to draw out the Golden Ninja leader Max.
Ninja Terminator: All-action martial arts tale of three Ninjas competing for a statue of the Golden Ninja Warrior which embodies the divine power of the Ninja Empire. Spectacular fight scenes and swordplay. Ninja Dragon: Set in Great Shanghai two rival gangs the Furious Fox and the Black Eagle are fighting to establish domination in the territory. Only one force can stop the never-ending killings: the Ninja Dragon!
Five great martial arts films in one amazing value box set! Revenge Of The Drunken Master Accidentally discovering the operations of the Blood Ninja gangsters a mischievous young man masters the skills of the Drunk Fist and proceeds to fight against them. But the gangsters join forces vowing to kill him before the young master destroys them all. Secret Ninja Roaring Tiger Tiger So heads a Ninja gang who have kidnapped a millionaire's daughter. Dragon Kong is called upon to make a treacherous journey to save her. It is to be the most dangerous mission of his life... Blood Of Dragon Peril During the Japanese invasion of Manchuria the Master of Manchuria's most renowned school is murdered; one of his sons swears to gain revenge on the murderers. His other son Lui surrendered and joined the army. When the attacks against the Japanese army begin Lui is ordered to find and kill the vengeful 'masked man' unaware of his identity... The Leopard Fist Ninja A kung-fu expert sets out to beat a 'fierce group of American hoodlums'. Fearless Tiger After his brother dies of a drug overdose Lyle heads to Hong Kong and becomes a Kung Fu expert. Using his newfound martial arts skills Lyle seeks revenge on the Chinese gang that supplied the deadly drug.
This DVD contains a set of simple stretching exercises incorporating Tai Chi principles. Designed to help minimize the risk of deep vein thrombosis fatigue and improve flexability from long flights or rides it can be used by practically anyone.
Fong Sai-yuk is a mischievous youth who incurs the wrath of two brothers after killing their top student by accident. While Fong is away the brothers break into his home beat his mother and kill his father in retaliation. Fong vows to get revenge but after two humiliating defeats agrees to remain in hiding while he trains with his mother's guidance. He eventually challenges the brothers to a public match.
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Revenge Of The Drunken Master: Accidentally discovering the operations of the Blood Ninja gangsters a mischievous young man masters the skills of the Drunk Fist and proceeds to fight against them. But the gangsters join forces vowing to kill him before the young master destroys them all. Secret Ninja Roaring Tiger: Tiger So heads a Ninja gang who have kidnapped a millionaire's daughter. Dragon Kong is called upon to make a treacherous journey to save her. It is to be the most dangerous mission of his life.
Released in 1992, Hard Boiled is John Woo's farewell to the kind of blood-spattered cinema of vengeance and redemption with which he had made his name as a director in Hong Kong during the late 1980s. The following year he was in Hollywood filming Hard Target with Jean-Claude Van Damme, and an era had effectively ended. This might explain the elegiac feel Woo brings to his study of two men haunted by the violent consequences of their actions. Chow Yun Fat generates tremendous sullen energy in his portrayal of Tequila, a plain-clothes cop who not only loses his partner in a shoot-out with a gang of underground gunrunners but also discovers that he's unwittingly killed a fellow officer working undercover. Playing opposite him is Tony Leung as the enigmatic Tony, a young police officer who has secretly managed to penetrate the world of illegal arms-dealing in the guise of a cold-blooded gangland assassin. With rival gangs fighting over the weapons trade and Tequila gunning for Tony, unaware of his true identity, Hard Boiled has an unsurprisingly high body count, particularly when the various factions converge on a private hospital, reducing it by the movie's end to a smoking war zone, its corridors strewn with corpses. John Woo's ability to exploit the comic-book profundities of the genre, endowing his set-piece action sequences with a uniquely emotional edge, comes through in the controlled use of slow motion, cut-away details and brooding freeze-frame studies of the central characters. The image of Chow Yun Fat cradling an abandoned baby against his chest while he blasts his way out of the hospital's maternity unit has an enduring sharpness to it. However, a sense of ending runs throughout the movie, as if Woo were acknowledging that, having done everything he could with the format, the time had come for him to move on. And perhaps it had. --Ken Hollings
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