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Release Date: February 21, 2012
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
War of the Arrows [Blu-ray]
Format: Blu-ray
Release Date: February 21, 2012
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Monday, December 12, 2011
The Promise (WIP 2006)
Amazon Instant Video ~ Dong-Kun Jang
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Monday, December 5, 2011
The Promise
Amazon Instant Video ~ Dong-Kun Jang
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [UMD for PSP]
Yun-Fat Chow (Actor), Michelle Yeoh (Actor) | Format: UMD for PSP
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Warriors of Heaven & Earth [Blu-ray]
Wen Jiang (Actor), Kiichi Nakai (Actor), Ping He (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
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Friday, November 18, 2011
The Coast Guard [Blu-ray + DVD Combo]
Jang Dong-kun (Actor), Kim Ki-duk (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
Release Date: January 17, 2012
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Tokyo Story
Amazon Instant Video ~ Chishu Ryu
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Godzilla
Amazon Instant Video ~ Matthew Broderick
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Raise the Red Lantern [VHS]
Li Gong (Actor), Jingwu Ma (Actor), Yimou Zhang (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Founding of a Republic [Blu-ray]
Vivian Wu (Actor), Jackie Chan (Actor), Jianxin Huang (Director), Sanping Han (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
(7)Release Date: October 18, 2011
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
The Story Of Qiu Ju
Amazon Instant Video ~ Li Gong
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Drunken Master 2 [VHS]
Jackie Chan (Actor), Ho-Sung Pak (Actor), Jackie Chan (Director), Chia-Liang Liu (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Magnificent Seven [VHS]
Yul Brynner (Actor), Steve McQueen (Actor), John Sturges (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Spectacular gun battles, epic-sized heroes and an all-star cast that includes Academy Award(r) winners Yul Brynner* and James Coburn**, together with Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and Charles Bronson, make The Magnificent Seven a legend among westerns. Spawning three sequels and a successful television series, and featuring Elmer Bernstein's Oscar(r)-nominated*** score, thisstunning remake of The Seven Samurai is "a hard-pounding adventure" (Newsweek) and "an enduringly popular" (Leonard Maltin) cinematic classic. Merciless Calvera (Wallach) and his band of ruthless outlaws are terrorizing a poor Mexican village, and even the bravest lawmen can't stop them. Desperate, the locals hire Chris Adams (Brynner) and six other gunfighters to defend them. With time running out before Calvera's next raid, the heroic seven must prepare the villagers for battle and help them find the courage to take back their town or die trying!Akira Kurosawa's rousing Seven Samurai was a natural for an American remake--after all, the codes and conventions of ancient Japan and the Wild West (at least the mythical movie West) are not so very far apart. Thus The Magnificent Seven effortlessly turns samurai into cowboys (the same trick worked more than once: Kurosawa's Yojimbo became Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars). The beleaguered denizens of a Mexican village, weary of attacks by banditos, hire seven gunslingers to repel the invaders once and for all. The gunmen are cool and capable, with most of the actors playing them just on the cusp of '60s stardom: Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn. The man who brings these warriors together is Yul Brynner, the baddest bald man in the West. There's nothing especially stylish about the approach of veteran director John Sturges (The Great Escape), but the storytelling is clear and strong, and the charisma of the young guns fairly flies off the screen. If that isn't enough to awaken the 12-year-old kid inside anyone, the unforgettable Elmer Bernstein music will do it: bum-bum-ba-bum, bum-ba-bum-ba-bum.... Followed by three inferior sequels, Return of the Seven, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven Ride! --Robert Horton Read more
Friday, October 28, 2011
Outrage - The Way of the Yakuza (English Subtitled)
Amazon Instant Video ~ Takeshi Kitano
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Noozles - Blinky & Pinky's Excellent Adventure [VHS]
Keiko Toda (Actor), Masako Miura (Actor), Kenji Miyashita (Director), Mitsuru Tanabe (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Game of Death [VHS]
Bruce Lee (Actor), Gig Young (Actor), Bruce Lee (Director), Robert Clouse (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Bruce Lee died after shooting only a few scenes of his ambitious Game of Death, but that didn't stop greedy producers from finishing and releasing "Lee's last film," even if he's doubled for most of it. Lee planned an ambitious expression of his fighting philosophy, and his story culminates in the rigorous challenge of the "Game of Death," in which combatants take on successively greater and greater masters as they fight their way to the top of a tower. Only a few fight scenes were completed, and the released film is about a martial arts movie star who takes on a syndicate of drug dealers. Lee faces down the towering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in an impressive battle, one of the only surviving scenes from Lee's original shoot, while outtakes from his battle with Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon are used along with real-life footage from Lee's funeral. The rest of the film is a mishmash of car chases and clumsily edited fights, complete with awkward inserts of Lee's face. His double remains hidden behind a pair of dark glasses or a motorcycle helmet throughout, and he abruptly changes into a yellow jumpsuit for no reason other than to match Lee's costume in the final scene. --Sean Axmaker Read more
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop [Blu-ray]
Sun Hunglei (Actor), Xiao Shenyang (Actor), Zhang Yimou (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
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It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end when a Chinese noodle shop owner plots to execute his unfaithful wife and her lover. But the lover has a lethal plan of his own in this violent tale of adultery and revenge based on the Coen Brother’s debut classic Blood Simple. By all rights, Zhang Yimou's remake of Joel and Ethan Coen's first feature shouldn't work, but it does--marvelously so. It's not that Blood Simple is a masterpiece, though it's very good, but that the two filmmaking entities would seem to have little in common. Zhang even moves the action to feudal China, where noodle shop owner Wang (Dahong Ni) browbeats his unnamed wife (Ni Yan, beautiful and feisty) and coworkers Zhao (Ye Cheng), Chen (Mao Mao), and Li (Xiao Shen-Yang, sweet and jittery). When traveling merchants drop by while Wang is away, his wife buys a pistol--in a sequence so over the top it threatens to derail the entire picture. Wang, meanwhile, pays patrol officer Zhang (Honglei Sun, in a tightly coiled performance) to spy on her and Li. After the officer confirms his suspicions about their affair, he offers more money for Zhang to take the couple out of his misery, but Wang doesn't count on the double-crosses that will ensue. Zhang intends to rob the man blind, except he doesn't know the combination to the safe, unlike waiter Zhao, who isn't as dumb as he looks (prominent teeth and a tiny topknot only reinforce the impression). Despite a tone that veers between slapstick and suspense, A Woman offers the stunning visuals that characterize most Zhang works, like House of Flying Daggers. The desert--which doubles as a graveyard--is gorgeous in its desolation, while the shop setting is ingenious in its construction. And the ending is truly transcendent. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Read more
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Forbidden Kingdom
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Dreams [VHS]
Akira Terao (Actor), Mitsuko Baishô (Actor), Akira Kurosawa (Director), Ishirô Honda (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Produced with assistance from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Dreams is an omnibus of eight short stories and parables that spell enchantment at every turn. The opening story, "Sun Under the Rain," emerges from director Akira Kurosawa's personal memories, as a child (whose house is modeled after Kurosawa's childhood home in Koishikawa) witnesses a fox's wedding ceremony in a magical forest. The Garden of Eden motif continues in "The Peach Orchard," while Lucas's ILM special effects group shines in the glorious "Crows" segment, in which an art admirer finds himself living within the paintings of Van Gogh (played with concentrated energy by Kurosawa enthusiast Martin Scorsese). In the idyllic closing fable, "The Village of the Watermills," a centenarian claims that "people nowadays have forgotten that they are also part of nature." The equally wise Kurosawa reinforces the old man's claim through these vivid but ultimately life-affirming tableaux. --Kevin Mulhall Read more
Friday, September 23, 2011
Once Upon a Time in China [VHS]
Jet Li (Actor), Biao Yuen (Actor), Hark Tsui (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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The first of a popular series (six in all) starring the charismatic and athletically adept Jet Li. Li plays legendary folk hero Wong Fei Hong, a late 19th century southern Chinese healer and kung fu master. The story begins with Western powers (American, British, and French) encroaching on the city of Canton. Wong is asked by the Black Flag army to safeguard the town by creating his own militia of kung fu experts. His assistants include the butcher "Porky" (Kent Cheng), a Chinese-American named Bucktooth So (Jacky Cheung), and his westernized "Auntie" Yee (Rosamund Kwan), a non-blood-related childhood friend for whom he holds a special affection. But the Westerners aren't the only problem in Canton. The Sha Ho gang terrorizes local businesses and has begun dealing with the Americans in exporting Chinese for slave labor and prostitution. A down-on-his-luck kung fu master named Iron Vest Yim (Yan Yee Kwan) has decided he needs to defeat Wong to open a school and Leung Fu (Jackie Chan contemporary Yuen Biao), a traveling opera troupe groupie, just keeps getting in the way. This epic martial-arts film showcases Li's amazing fighting and acrobatic skills and established Tsui Hark as a top-notch action film director. The final fight scene between Wong and Yim entails a dizzying orchestration of kicks and punches while teeter-tottering on ladders. The DVD features star bios, filmographies, trailers, and clips from early Wong Fei Hong films that starred veteran actor Kwan Tak Hing. --Shannon Gee Read more
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
To Live [VHS]
You Ge (Actor), Li Gong (Actor), Yimou Zhang (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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One of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political events, following the struggles of an impoverished husband and wife (Ge You, Gong Li) from their heyday in the 1940s to the hardships that accompanied the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. They raise two children amidst a Communist regime, surviving numerous setbacks and yet managing, somehow, to live. Both intimate and epic, Zhang's film encompasses the simplest and most profound realities of Chinese life during this controversial period, and for their honesty, Zhang and Gong Li faced a two-year ban on future collaborations. To Live is a testament to their art, transcending politics to celebrate the tenacity of ordinary people in the wake of turbulent history. --Jeff Shannon Read more
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