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Review Dragon DVD / The Final Duel [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Tai
  • Alexander Lou; Alice Tseng; Yi-min Li
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review The Final Duel [1986] / Dragon DVD:


Review Manga Entertainment / Choke [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Rickson Gracie
  • Robert Raphael Goodman
Release date: 1997-05-12
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Larry Perel
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.00

Review Choke [1995] / Manga Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Only The Strong [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Dacascos
  • Sheldon Lettich
  • Geoffrey Lewis
  • Paco Christian Prieto
  • Todd Susman
  • Stacey Travis
Release date: 1999-02-08
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Luis Esteban
Price: £5.99

Review Only The Strong [1994] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Carrie Chambers
  • Ronald L. Marchini
  • Alan Roberts
  • Michael E. Bristow
  • Michael M. Foley
  • D.W. Landingham
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Denny Grayson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.67

Review Karate Cop / Entertainment Today Ltd.:


Review Made in Hong Kong / Jackie Chan - Project A [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Jackie Chan
  • Jackie Chan
  • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
  • Biao Yuen
  • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
  • Mars
  • Dick Wei
Release date: 1999-03-29
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Raymond Chow
Price: £13.99

Review Jackie Chan - Project A [1985] / Made in Hong Kong:

For people who've discovered Jackie Chan through his American hit Rush Hour and want to learn what his Hong Kong movies are like, Project A is an excellent place to start. Chan plays a sailor in 19th-century Hong Kong; pirates have been terrorizing the seas for months and all efforts to combat them have been sabotaged by the corrupt chief of police and a criminal gang, who are in cahoots with the pirates. But the plot is hardly the point-a Jackie Chan movie is about astonishingly acrobatic action sequences and breathtaking stunts, and Project A has plenty. Of particular interest is a bicycle chase that is more suspenseful than any car chase you've ever seen. Chan is joined by Sammo Hung (star of the US TV series Martial Law) as a shifty con man who comes through when the chips are down. Project A also features Yuen Biao, a frequent co-star in Chan's movies, who's yet another astounding martial artist. But what separates Jackie Chan movies from other kung fu flicks is his sense of humour; every fight scene is punctuated by something-a clever use of a prop or sudden reversal of your expectations-that will make you bark with laughter. Sometimes it's just so exquisitely choreographed that the entire movie seems to float on a cloud of giddy delight. Jackie Chan is often compared to the classic silent comedians for his grace and timing-he lives up to it. -Bret Fetzer.

Review The Water Margin / The Water Margin - A Dutiful Son And The Love Of A Brother / Escape Is Not Freedom
Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £13.17

Review The Water Margin - A Dutiful Son And The Love Of A Brother / Escape Is Not Freedom / The Water Margin:


Review Beckmann Visual Publishing / Ju Jitsu - Traditional Japanese Unarmed Combat - Techniques Of Ju Jitsu
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Shortt
Release date: 2003-07-19
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £15.20

Review Ju Jitsu - Traditional Japanese Unarmed Combat - Techniques Of Ju Jitsu / Beckmann Visual Publishing:


Review Video Gems (Defunct) / Lady Dragon [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Bella Esperance
  • Hengky Tornando
  • Robert Ginty
  • Cynthia Rothrock
  • Richard Norton
  • David Worth
Release date: 1993-08-09
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Clifford Mohr
Price: £10.99

Review Lady Dragon [1992] / Video Gems (Defunct):


Review Entertainment in Video / Operation Condor - Armour Of God 2
Actors & Directors
  • Aldo Sambrell
  • Shôko Ikeda
  • Eva Cobo
  • Jackie Chan
  • Jackie Chan
  • Carol 'Do Do' Cheng
Release date: 1993-03-30
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Edward Tang
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.98

Review Operation Condor - Armour Of God 2 / Entertainment in Video:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Angel Enforcers
Actors & Directors
  • Godfrey Ho
  • Pan Pan Yeung
  • Pauline Wong
  • Dick Wei
  • Phillip Ko
  • Wu Fong Lung
Release date: 1996-02-12
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Yale Leung
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.00

Review Angel Enforcers / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Beckmann Visual Publishing / Chi Kung For Health And Vitality
Release date: 1999-12-27
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99

Review Chi Kung For Health And Vitality / Beckmann Visual Publishing:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Dragon Lord [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Kang-Yeh Cheng
  • Wai-Man Chan
  • Fung Feng
  • Jackie Chan
  • Paul Chang
  • Jackie Chan
Release date: 1998-03-02
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Edward Tang
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99

Review Dragon Lord [1982] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Eureka Entertainment / Shogun's Samurai
Actors & Directors
  • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Sonny Chiba
  • Hiroki Matsukata
  • Reiko Ohara
  • Teruhiko Saigo
  • Kinnosuke Nakamura
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Tatsuo Nogami
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 Contender Entertainment Group / Drunken Master [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Woo-ping Yuen
  • Jackie Chan
  • Ching Chiang
  • Ging Man Fung
  • Siu Tien Yuen
  • Jang Lee Hwang
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Hsiao Lung
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.93

Review Drunken Master [1978] / Contender Entertainment Group:

Drunken Master is a film that, following Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) (made with the same ensemble cast and director Yuen Woo Ping), consolidated Jackie Chan's position as the new Hong Kong kung fu action star of the late 1970s. Set in the late 19th century, Chan plays the great Chinese hero Wong Fei Hung as a loveable young rogue who is always getting into fights or embarrassing his family. Eventually his father decides the only way to make a man of Chan is to send him for training with an old drunken drifter played by Yuen Siu Tien. Just as they did in Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, the pair make a fine double-act, though this time there is much surreal entertainment to be had from the older man teaching the younger the fine art of drunken kung fu. Learning to fight like the Eight Drunken Gods before the final confrontation with Hwang Jang Lee causes Chan considerable problems, though Yuen Siu Tien simply fights better the more he drinks. Yuen Siu Tien would reprise the role in his final film, Magnificent Butcher (1979) yet with Chan he finds a perfect blend of slapstick comedy and creatively staged action which makes Drunken Master a genuine kung fu classic. On the DVD: The picture is generally strong though inevitably there is a fair amount of grain. Unfortunately the original 2. 35-1 film has been reformatted to 1. 77-1 widescreen TV ratio. [+]
This has been done more skilfully than usual but is still a misrepresentation of the original cinema release and does mar both the landscape photography and the fast moving action scenes. The sound is perfectly acceptable 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, a biography of Yuen Woo Ping and a text interview with producer Ng See Yuen. Also included is 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 Snake in the Eagle's Shadow DVD. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 4 Front Video / Double Impact [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoffrey Lewis
  • Sheldon Lettich
  • Andy Armstrong
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Paul Aylett
  • Alicia Stevenson
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Steve Meerson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.68

Review Double Impact [1992] / 4 Front Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Fist Of Fury 2 [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Li
  • Jimmy Shaw
  • Lo Leith
Release date: 1997-03-17
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.98

Review Fist Of Fury 2 [1980] / 4 Front Video:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Dragons Forever [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
  • Pauline Yeung
  • Deannie Yip
  • Corey Yuen
  • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
  • Biao Yuen
  • Jackie Chan
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Yiu Ming Leung
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.93

Review Dragons Forever [1988] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Warner Home Video / Hero And The Terror [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • William Tannen|Chuck Norris|Brynn Thayer|Steve James
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £21.32

Review Hero And The Terror [1988] / Warner Home Video:


Review Made in Hong Kong / Project A 2 [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Rosamund Kwan
  • Jackie Chan
  • Maggie Cheung
  • David Lam
  • Carina Lau
  • Jackie Chan
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Ting Yu
Price: £13.99

Review Project A 2 [1987] / Made in Hong Kong:


Actors & Directors
  • Sho Kosugi
  • Lucinda Dickey
  • Dale Ishimoto
  • David Chung
  • Jordan Bennett
  • Sam Firstenberg
Run time: 88 min.

Review Ninja III : The Domination (1984) / Guild Home Video V9303:

Martial Arts movie starring Lucinda Dickey (Breakdance) as Christie Ryder, a young woman possessed by the evil spirit of a recently killed Ninja warrior. Only one man , Yamada (Sho Kosugi, -Enter The Ninja, Black Eagle) can free her and stop the destruction she's being forced to carry out.

Models & Brands:
The Final Duel [1986], Choke [1995], Only The Strong [1994], Karate Cop, Jackie Chan - Project A [1985], The Water Margin - A Dutiful Son And The Love Of A Brother / Escape Is Not Freedom, Ju Jitsu - Traditional Japanese Unarmed Combat - Techniques Of Ju Jitsu, Lady Dragon [1992], Operation Condor - Armour Of God 2, Angel Enforcers, Chi Kung For Health And Vitality, Dragon Lord [1982], Shogun's Samurai, Drunken Master [1978], Double Impact [1992], Fist Of Fury 2 [1980], Dragons Forever [1988], Hero And The Terror [1988], Project A 2 [1987], Ninja III : The Domination (1984)

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