"Actor: Wah Yuen"

• Kung Fu Hustle | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £21.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (40.60%)   |  RRP £36.99

  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.

• Once Upon A Chinese Hero | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Wu Tang Clan are proud to host another chapter in the Once Upon a Time in China series. This chapter stars two of the original cast members from part one Hong Kong superstar Yuen Biao reprises his role as Blubfoot 7. This time he defends the people of Canton with his superb kicking skills against the mighty Chess King Yen Shih Kwan and the Eagle Claw Master Yuen Hwa. Another exciting action packed episode in the popular Wong Fei Hung Saga.

• Hero | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This gripping martial arts thriller shows how dangerous times make heroes of desperate men. After a severe drought Ma Wing Jing and Tai Cheung leave Shantung for Shanghai and are forced to work as coolies. Ma earns the hatred of a crime boss when she saves the life of his rival.

• Martial Arts - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One Down Two To Go: (Dir. Fred Williamson 1982) During a high-stakes east-west karate tournament coach Chuck suspects the match is rigged against him. When looking around the other team's locker room gets him shot he calls in Cal and J his partners from California. After exercising a little persuasion and a lot of brute force they discover who's behind it all. Now the only problem is getting back the money Chuck is owed. Undefeatable: (Dir. Godfrey Hall 1993) Ou