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Review Kickfighting Films / Master Mas Oyama's - 10th Dan Karate - Vol. 1
Actors & Directors
  • Mas Oyama
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £13.99

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Guardian Angel [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Lydie Denier
  • Dan McVicar
  • Cynthia Rothrock
  • Marshall Teague
  • Ken McLeod
  • Richard W. Munchkin
Release date: 1995-08-14
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99

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Review Croft Studios / Break Through To Black Belt 2
Actors & Directors
  • Clive Harrison
  • Leigh Childs
Release date: 1996-06-24
Price: £12.99

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Review Kickfighting Films / Oyama's Knockdown Karate - Vol. 1
Actors & Directors
  • Mas Oyama
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Beckmann Visual Publishing / Essentials Of Karate - Featuring Chris Thompson
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Thompson
Release date: 2003-07-19
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.99

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Review Moonstone Pictures / Ninja Fist Of Fire
Actors & Directors
  • Tian-lin Wang
  • Yim Yung Chor
Release date: 1994-07-25
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Snake In The Eagle's Shadow [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Siu Tien Yuen
  • Woo-ping Yuen
  • Jackie Chan
  • Dean Shek
  • Jang Lee Hwang
  • Roy Horan
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.54

Review Snake In The Eagle's Shadow [1978] / Contender Entertainment Group:

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow is the film that marks the beginnings of Jackie Chan as a Hong Kong action star. Set in early 20th century China, it is a traditional kung fu action picture invigorated by Chan's good humour and charm. The heart of the film is Jackie's surprisingly emotional relationship with the elderly Yuen Siu Tien, whom the star rescues and befriends. In return, the old man trains Chan in the art of Snake's Fist kung fu, which he later combines with the Cat's Claw to develop the technique of the title. The action, directed by Yuen Woo Ping, includes Chan in an exciting battle with a sword-wielding preacher and a striking showdown with arch-villain Hwang Jang Lee. The sequences in which Chan learns new fighting techniques are both inventive and humorous, with the charismatic Yuen Siu Tien (a veteran Chinese film star and father of the director) offering a sober version of the character he would play in Chan's follow-up Drunken Master (1978), and in Magnificent Butcher (1979). The film features a regular ensemble cast of classic Hong Kong kung fu film actors, and regardless of its obviously low budget mixes violence, comedy and emotion into an enduringly popular success. On the DVD: The image is variable, with some shots displaying considerable grain and print damage while the colours are weak throughout. Worse, the original 2. 35:1 film has been reformated to 1. [+]
77:1 widescreen TV ratio. While this has been done with some care it inevitably damages the compositions and loses information in the dynamic fight scenes. The sound is functional mono. Soundtrack options are the original Mandarin with English subtitles, or an English dub. Extras include the original English language theatrical trailer, Hong Kong Legends' own trailer, plus promos for further releases and a photo gallery. There is a detailed text biography and filmography of Jackie Chan, and a text interview with producer Ng See Yuen. There is also a text biography of Hwang Jang Lee linked to a kicking showcase which is another short fight scene. Most of these features are identical to those on the Drunken Master DVD. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Ring Of Steel [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Chapin (II)
  • David Speaker
  • Henry Brown
  • James Lew
  • David Frost (II)
  • Deron McBee
Release date: 1996-02-12
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.99

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Ninja And The Warriors Of Fire / Ninja In The Killing Fields [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Houston
  • Bruce Lambert
  • Peter Davis
  • Glen Carson
  • York Lam
  • Louis Roth
  • Stuart Sheen
Release date: 1994-07-11
Run time: 175 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Moonstone Pictures / 36 Chambers Of Shaolin - The Final Confrontation [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Chin Yuen-San
  • Au Yeung Chun
  • Wong Yat So
Release date: 1994-05-23
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.99

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Showdown [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Ken McLeod
  • Billy Blanks
  • Kenn Scott
  • Linda Dona
  • Christine Taylor
  • Robert Radler
Release date: 1995-08-14
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review One on One Video / Fearless Tiger [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Hulme
  • Monika Schnarre
  • Jalal Merhi
  • Bolo Yeung
Release date: 1995-04-24
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review Kickfighting Films / Oyama's Knockdown Karate - Vol. 2
Actors & Directors
  • Mas Oyama
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Death Match
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Coppoletta
  • Martin Kove
  • Ian Jacklin
  • Nicholas Hill
  • Michele Krasnoo
  • Renee Griffin
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.94

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Bruce Lee - The Man - The Myth / Bruce Lee - Fights Back From The Grave - Double Dragon
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Bronson
  • Bruce K.L. Lea
  • Steve Mack
  • Bruce Li
  • Ng See-Yuen
  • Duoo Yong Lee
  • Deborah Chaplin
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.94

Review Bruce Lee - The Man - The Myth / Bruce Lee - Fights Back From The Grave - Double Dragon / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Made in Hong Kong / Five Venoms [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Cheh Chang
  • Chien Sun
  • Sheng Chiang
  • Pai Wei
  • Philip Kwok
  • Feng Lu
Release date: 1994-10-24
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £13.99

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Review Kickfighting Films / Ju Jitsu - Art Of Self Defence
Release date: 1997-04-21
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £13.99

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / No Surrender [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Ted Jan Roberts
  • Mako
  • Corey Feldman
  • Tom Georgeson
  • Bernard Hill
  • Peter Smith
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review Eureka Entertainment / Shogun's Samurai
Actors & Directors
  • Reiko Ohara
  • Hiroki Matsukata
  • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Sonny Chiba
  • Kinnosuke Nakamura
  • Teruhiko Saigo
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 130 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.19

Review Shogun's Samurai / Eureka Entertainment:

With Shogun Samurai, veteran Japanese director Fukasaku Kinji demonstrated that he could do more than the gritty social realist cop-and-gangster films for which he remains most famous. A deliberately stately historical drama, with a slightly ponderous narrator introducing some of its most powerful scenes, Shogun Samurai shows the succession crisis that followed the death of the second Tokugawa Shogun in the early 17th-century. The Imperial court fans the flames in an attempt to restore the Emperor's power; a young dancer tries to preserve the young prince she loves; a warrior clan take steps to return to their homeland; and the fencing master Yagyu will expend honour and lives, including those of his own children, to ensure that his school is patronised by the new Shogun. The film alternates powerful scenes of intrigue and stagy monomaniac rants by Yagyu with finely choreographed scenes of battle and duel; it has a powerful and tragic sense of the fragile sadness of things and the futility of all ambitions; Sonny Chiba is unusually impressive as Yagyu's most honourable son, the one-eyed Jubel. On the DVD: Shogun Samurai on disc has minimal additional features: a short prose profile of Fukasaku Kinji and some promotional clips. Picture is anamorphic 16:9. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Firepower [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Pepin
  • Vanessa Hampton
  • George Murdock
  • Richard Rabago
  • Nils Allen Stewart
  • Alisha Das
Release date: 1995-10-09
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £10.99

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Master Mas Oyama's - 10th Dan Karate - Vol. 1, Guardian Angel [1994], Break Through To Black Belt 2, Oyama's Knockdown Karate - Vol. 1, Essentials Of Karate - Featuring Chris Thompson, Ninja Fist Of Fire, Snake In The Eagle's Shadow [1978], Ring Of Steel [1994], Ninja And The Warriors Of Fire / Ninja In The Killing Fields [1973], 36 Chambers Of Shaolin - The Final Confrontation [1978], Showdown [1993], Fearless Tiger [1994], Oyama's Knockdown Karate - Vol. 2, Death Match, Bruce Lee - The Man - The Myth / Bruce Lee - Fights Back From The Grave - Double Dragon, Five Venoms [1978], Ju Jitsu - Art Of Self Defence, No Surrender [1994], Shogun's Samurai, Firepower [1993]

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