Red Trousers - The Life Of The Hong Kong Stuntmen | DVD | (19/03/2007)
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| RRP Part action film part documentary 'Red Trousers' explores the lives and careers of some of the world's most undervalued professionals: the stunt men and women that contribute so much to Hong Kong cinema. Director Robin Shou a familiar face from 'Mortal Kombat' explores the ups and downs of this risky business; while much stunt work around the world (particularly in Hollywood) is created via special effects and computer animation Hong Kong action films rely on the bravery and skills of actual people. Stunt men and women working in Hong Kong films may perform purer much more dangerous stunts than their American counterparts but they are sometimes treated more or less as props and all-too-often given little or no medical attention... Difficult situations life-threatening work and gruelling training (even during childhood) are just some of the darker aspects of stunt work that Shou is keen to highlight. While the perks of such a career are seemingly nonexistent the men and women here find great joy in knowing that some of the greatest moments in films would not exist without their artistic contributions. Winner of the Outstanding Achievement In Filmmaking Award at the 2003 Newport Beach Film Festival 'Red Trousers' features an illustrious list of contributors. In addition to the incomparable Sammo Hung Lau Kar-Leung (director of 'Drunken Monkey' and the Shaw Bros classic 'Spiritual Boxer') Asian cinema expert Mike Leeder (contemporary of Bey Logan) and stuntman Jude Poyer (stunt co-ordinator on Category III movies with Wong Jing & Clarence Ford) all make appearances.
My Kung Fu 12 Kicks | DVD | (01/05/2006)
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| RRP This Jackie Chan-style action-comedy stars Shaw Brothers veteran Bruce Leung as a lowly pickpocket compelled to learn a secret new form of kung fu in order to avenge the murder of his girlfriend. Placing the star's incredible acrobatic fighting skills to the fore My Kung Fu 12 Kicks is regarded as one of the best films of Leung's career.
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20:30:40 | DVD | (11/04/2005)
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| RRP A romantic drama about the universal complexity of modern relationships and follows three women aged 20 (Lee); 30 (Liu); and 40 (Chang) at different stages of life and love. Set in Taipei Taiwan against the background of minor earthquakes that the city is experiencing the women's love lives are as unpredictable and turbulent as the tremors they endure. Xiao Jie (Lee) innocent and impressionable escapes her overbearing parents for the first time to leave home and follow her dream o
Ten Tigers Of Shaolin | DVD | (19/01/2004)
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| RRP Kung Fu stars Bruce Liang and Jason Pai Piao lead a group of highly skilled fighters known as the Ten Tigers - real life heroes who roamed China during the last century.
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Flying Dagger | DVD | (26/06/2000)
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| RRP The Han brothers are bounty hunters who track down criminals to make a lot of money. Unfortunately they keep getting beaten to the prize by the Two Witches - a female duo...
Shaolin Kingboxer | DVD | (03/11/2003)
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| RRP 'Iron Monkey' star Chen Kwan Tai teams up with the 'Prodigal Boxer' Meng Fei to bring justice to a ruthless gang of martial arts experts led by Lau Ka Wing and Leung Gar Yan. With flawless direction from Karl 'Mad Mission' Mak and action chreography from the Lau brothers this is a must have kung fu classic.
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Three Extremes | DVD | (28/01/2013)
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| RRP Beginning with the forty minute version of Dumplings that includes newly shot footage as well as that taken from the feature length release director Fruit Chan explores society's obsession with youth and the lengths to which people will go to prolong it. The second segment is cut-directed by the irrepressible Park Chan-wook the story of a film extra with a grudge who forces a good-natured director to prove that deep down he has a nasty streak. The collection concludes with Box a ritualistic tale of a female novelist who is haunted by a childhood trauma directed by the cult legend Miike Takashi. Narrated almost without words amongst a series of eerie locations the film has all the hallmarks of its director.
Spy Game/U-571/Stalingrad Triple Pack | DVD | (24/10/2005)
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| RRP Stalingrad (Dir. Joseph Vilsmaier 1992) From the same production team as the critically acclaimed 'Das Boot' this film brings the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare to the screen - the legendary battle of Stalingrad. With German forces following Hitler's orders to neither retreat or surrender over 2 million Russians and Germans lost their lives in what came to be a turning point in the defeat of Germany in the Second World War. Pulling no punches in revealing the gritty reality of combat the viewer is put in the trenches with the young soldiers as they face the harsh elements and brutal fighting conditions. Considered in the company of such anti-war classics as 'Paths Of Glory' 'Platoon' and 'Apocalypse Now' 'Stalingrad' stands alone in its searing unforgettable imagery. U-571 (Dir. Jonathan Mostow 2000): A U. S.Navy captain and his crew are just beginning to enjoy 48 hours of leave when they receive word to immediately return to duty. On a top-secret assignment they must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat. Once on board they are to steal the Nazi's top-secret decoding device and sink the sub before the Germans catch on to what's really happening. Their mission is more dangerous and frightening than anything they could have ever imagined but one which has the power to turn the tide of battle. Filled with incredible explosions raging fires and speeding torpedoes this suspense-filled action-packed film sets a new standard for high-impact entertainment and features an impressive all-star cast. Spy Game (Dir. Tony Scott 2001): Superstar Brad Pitt teams with Academy Award-winner Robert Redford in this pulse-pounding action thrill ride. When a top-secret unauthorized mission goes awry CIA agent Tom Bishop (Pitt) is captured and sentenced to die. With just 24 hours to get him out alive Bishop's boss Nathan Muir (Redford) must battle enemies abroad and the system inside the CIA to save his protege in an adrenaline-fueled thriller that ABC Radio says 'sizzles with suspense!
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Sex And The Emperor | DVD | (23/04/2001)
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| RRP Trouble is brewing in the Imperial Court with the young heir to the throne caught in the middle of a power struggle between his dominant mother and the ambitious chief eunuch. Numerous concubines fulfill his every sexual wish however he finds pleasure in only one woman a servant girl called Guilian. Despite the attempts by his friend Little Li to protect the girl she is expelled from the palace and sold into prostitution. The love-struck Prince cannot forget his true love and searches the brothels throughout the land to find her with the inevitable outrageous and often mind blowing consequences.
Blood Of A Hero | DVD | (15/03/2004)
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| RRP The beautiful daughter of a village councillor is to take a husband. The news generates interest from suitors far and wide but not all have come to win her hand with love. She is kidnapped by the leader of a gang of robbers and pursued by a jilted lover...who has decided that if he can't have her nobody will. When to her rescue comes a handsome stranger intent on protecting her by the only way he knows how...the sword!
Golgo 13 | DVD | (19/09/2005)
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| RRP Sonny Chiba stars as the underworld's no.1 hitman Golgo 13 who is hired to kill a drugs kingpin in Hong Kong. Plans go awry when a competing assassin beats him to the punch and Golgo finds himself hunted by a legion of cold-blooded killers and a vigilant cop Detective Smith (Callan Leung) who will stop at nothing to get his man and bring down the crime syndicate... Chiba protege Etsuko Shihomi (Sister Streetfighter) co-stars as a feisty undercover cop who goes head to head wi
Memoirs of a Geisha/Hero Box Set | DVD | (02/10/2006)
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| RRP Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden's blockbuster bestseller Memoirs Of A Geisha has been brilliantly brought to the big screen by Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall. The film opens in a remote Japanese fishing village in 1929 where two sisters Chiyo and Satsu are sold by their troubled father to people who place Chiyo in a classy geisha house known as an okiya in Gion and Satsu in a much more vulgar and dangerous district. Chiyo becomes a maid to Hatsumomo a cold controlling and calculating geisha who is instantly jealous of Chiyo's unusual beautiful eyes and childish innocence. Chiyo is befriended by Pumpkin another maid at the okiya but the two are soon driven apart. Chiyo is shown compassion by the Chairman and another more successful geisha Mameha who takes her under her wing as her ""little sister "" furthering the battle between Chiyo now called Sayuri and Hatsumomo. As Sayuri is trained in the art of being a geisha learning how to walk talk dance and serve (up to a point) in order to please and honor her distinguished male clients World War II looms on the horizon threatening to upend Japan and its old ways. Hero: In pre-Imperial China feared warrior Nameless (Jet Li) is granted an audience with the ruler of the most powerful of the seven warring kingdoms (Chen Daoming). Posing as a minor official Nameless sets about his mission of revenge by relating the tale of how he defeated the three most fearsome of the ruler's adversaries. However nothing is as it seems and Nameless is placed in great personal peril as the king suggests a very different version of events which brought him to the palace... Filled with breathtaking wirework-enhanced martial arts sequences from action choreographer Ching Siu-Tung ('New Dragon Gate Inn' 'A Chinese Ghost Story') truly sumptuous cinematography from the legendary Christopher Doyle ('In The Mood For Love') and an expressive traditional score from Tan Dun ('Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon') Zhang Yimou's elegant epic features an intriguing 'Rashomon' style flashback structure that will keep the audience guessing until the very end. The most expensive movie ever made in China and a blockbuster upon its' theatrical release in the U.S. 'Hero' showcases the outstanding talents ofa multi-award winning cast including the pairing of Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung as star crossed lovers the coquettish Zhang Ziyi ('Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon') as a feisty apprentice venerated Chen Daoming lending gravitas as the Emperor-in-waiting and real-life martial arts masters Donnie Yen and Jet Li who co-designed perhaps the greatest duel ever committed to celluloid.
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Island Of Greed | DVD | (25/03/2002)
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| RRP Hong Kong screen Superstars Andy Lau and Tony Leung face-off on the opposite sides of the Law under the meticulous direction of Michael Mak who weaves a web of collusion and corruption that will leave you guessing until the awesome bullet-ridden climax. A gutsy police Detective (Andy Lau) leads the team of cops who probe into the widespread illegal dealings of criminal mastermind (Tony Leung) who plans to redeem himself by running for government office...
Fist Of Death | DVD | (22/03/2004)
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| RRP Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan never starred in a movie together. But if they had Fist Of Death shows what could have happened. Tong Lung plays Bruce in this movie and Jackie Chang takes on the role of Jackie Chan.
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Last Hero In China | DVD | (02/06/2000)
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| RRP In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises the role of Wong Fei-hung, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor and a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighbouring house is a brothel. Though Wong's students are delighted and the earnest brothel master only wants to study with him, Wong feels he has lost face. But this becomes the least of his troubles: soon he's fighting a corrupt police chief, a temple of slave-trading monks and a deafness-causing medicine sold to children--and that's just in the first hour. Last Hero in China is a grand melodrama, featuring exaggerated heroes and villains, goofy humour and hyperbolic kung fu action. The plot takes some hard-to-follow turns, but the action is so non-stop it hardly matters. The lion vs centipede dance/fight has to be seen to be believed, to say nothing of the priest with a floating lotus chariot and a flying claw. Jet Li is in fine form, Gordon Liu (as the venal top cop) is maniacal and despicable, and the lovely Cheung Man plays an expert martial artist looking for her kidnapped sister. The character of Wong Fei-hung also appears in the Once Upon a Time in China series (where he was first played by Li) and in Jackie Chan's Drunken Master movies. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
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The Last Hero in China | DVD | (29/08/2002)
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| RRP In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises his role as Wong Fei-Hong, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor and a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighbouring house is a brothel. Though Wong's students are delighted and the earnest brothel master only wants to study with him, Wong feels he has lost face. But this becomes the least of his troubles: soon he's fighting a corrupt police chief, a temple of slave-trading monks, and a deafness-causing medicine sold to children--and that's just in the first hour. Last Hero in China is a grand melodrama, featuring exaggerated heroes and villains, goofy humour and hyperbolic kung fu action. The plot takes some hard-to-follow turns, but the action is so non-stop it hardly matters. The lion vs. centipede dance/fight has to be seen to be believed, to say nothing of the priest with a floating lotus chariot and a flying claw. Jet Li is in fine form, Gordon Liu (as the venal top cop) is maniacal and despicable, and the lovely Cheung Man plays an expert martial artist looking for her kidnapped sister. The character of Wong Fei-Hong also appears in the Once Upon a Time in China series (where he was first played by Li) and in Jackie Chan's Drunken Master movies. --Bret Fetzer
Dragon Takeaway | DVD | (04/06/2007)
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| RRP A triple DVD box set brimming with marvellous martial arts movie action! Legend Of The Drunken Tiger: Cheong San is opposed to the Ching Dynasty and the film begins with him and his betrothed battling government officials in a war of attrition. Unfortunately for Cheong just as they force the officials to flee the occupation forces of Europe and the US turn up. Now a far greater challenge than before now stands in the way of freedom... (Dir. Robert Tai 1992) Martial Art
Fearless Dragons | DVD | (11/10/2004)
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| RRP Two bickering con-men are accused of masterminding a gold robbery and a bounty is promptly put on their heads. The pair resolve to uncover the true criminals and an investigation begins...
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Kung Fu Hustle | DVD | (24/10/2005)
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| RRP A small time thief, Sing, aspires to be part of the ruthless gang in this martial arts comedy.
Adrenalin Charged | DVD | (18/10/2004)
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| RRP Butterfly & Sword: Donnie Yen and Michelle Yeoh - Enough said! You only need mention the names of these two superstars in relation to a Hong Kong movie and you know you're dealing with a quality production. Such is the adrenaline-charged swordplay fantasy Butterfly & Sword (18) - a hugely impressive showcase for the dazzling skills of both - which also stars Hard Boiled's Tony Leung. Directed by Chin Siu-Tung (who choreographed Jet Li in Swordsman II) this breathtaking spectacle explodes into action from the very first scene and continues at a mind-blowing pace until the stunning climax. During the ride viewers are treated to jaw-dropping locations awesome fight choreography and surreal violence with all the key performers in top form throughout. Butterfly & Sword is full of the stylish sweeping action which later would make Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Michelle Yeoh again) such a huge worldwide hit. Characters routinely spin upside down through the air use soccer balls as deadly weapons run up walls with ease and in one particularly memorable sequence use each other as human bows and arrows - sending Tony Leung flying straight through the bad guys like a hot knife through butter! Such a sumptuous visual experience as this tends not worry too much about plotting and this is no exception. The story is sufficiently convoluted as to be unfathomable so we'll just say this: Michelle Yeoh is a loyal defender of her King's empire under siege from an army of revolutionaries. That'll do! This is Hong Kong cinema at its most exuberant: an action adventure which bombards the viewer with amazing images and gorgeous cinematography but isn't afraid of delivering some startling scenes of violence and gore to boot. The Blade: Legendary Hong Kong Director Tsui Hark blends violent action and stunning swordplay in his remake of the Shaw Brothers classic One-Armed Swordsman. The Blade is a sweeping epic which highlights the incredible fighting talent of Chiu Cheuk Hong Kong's latest action start. When a master sword-maker adopts the son of a murdered friend (Chiu Cheuk) the boy learns the master's craft well. As a young man he learns about his fathers death at the hand of a mysterious tattooed killer (Xiong-Xin-Xin). He takes fathers broken blade and sets out to seek vengeance. The daughter Ling follows but is caught in a bloody ambush. When he tries to rescue her his arm is hacked off in the battle and he is believed dead by all except Ling and his friend who set out in search of him. But he is saved by a hermit girl who nurses him back to health where he finds an old kung fu manual and practices with the broken blade to perfect the art of one armed swordfighting. In a breathtaking finale unlike anything you have seen before our hero sets off once again to find the tattooed assassin a quest that leads to an explosive and spectacular showdown. What Price Survival: 'What Price Survival' is the stunning reworking of the Shaw Brothers classic 'The One Armed Swordsman'...... An eye for an eye... An arm for an arm...
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