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• Rich And Famous | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (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.

• Tragic Hero | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It is six years after the dramatic and violent events of Rich And Famous. Kwok (Andy Lau) the former right-hand man of Triad boss Chai (Chow Yun Fat) has retired and left Hong Kong in order to settle down and raise a family. Chai himself is now a successful businessman with a wife and son. Meanwhile Kwok's double-crossing stepbrother Yung (Alex Mann) has been released from prison after serving time for his assassination attempt on Chai and his bride on their wedding day. Still driven by jealousy and hatred Yung has built up his own criminal empire and is determined to exact his revenge on Chai.

• The Three Swordsmen | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A pair of champion swordsmen (Andy Lau and Brigitte Lin) are preparing for a martial arts competition when they are framed for the murder of the Empress meaning the two warriors must fight to clear their names while a third tracks them down. Yet again Brigitte Lin displays her tremendous confidence in the Kung Fu genre this time with Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs) by her side.

• Born Invincible | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Classic Kung Fu fare from the Hong Kong school directed by the old master himself, Joseph Kuo, Born Invincible has only been available in an extremely crackly print for years. Fortunately this version has been cleaned up, though lovers of Oriental kitsch will be glad to hear that the risible, excruciating dubbing remains intact. The plot revolves around the evil Ching Ying (Carter Wong), who has trained since the age of three in the near-impossible art of Tai Chi Kung Fu. His body has become tantamount to a single, deadly muscle, the 108 pressure points of human vulnerability reduced to just one--his sole weakness. His training has also left him with whitened hair and a voice that, dubbed, is a little too close to Harry Enfield's Grayson character from the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches in high excitement. Having killed two elders of the Lei Ping school in martial combat over an old score, it falls to the students of that establishment to avenge their masters, through three rigorous years of training. The awesome, though often-comical fight scenes (which in no way resemble Tai Chi) dominate the movie, involving as they do protracted acrobatic manoeuvres, few of which seem to involve actual contact with the human body. Still, lovers of The Matrix might care to revisit this, in order to check out how those moves were first committed to celluloid when editing was less of a fine art. --David Stubbs