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Review Ultimate Fighting Championship / Ultimate Fighting Championship 85 - Bedlam
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 273 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.39

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Review Animeigo / Demon Spies [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-08-09
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £10.45

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Review Westlake Entertainment / Legend of Seven Monks [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rina Akiyama
  • Hitomi Hasebe
  • Sonny Chiba
  • Baudouin Euloge Adogony
  • Kenji Tanigaki
  • Yuria Haga
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Aoki Mao
Price: £8.06

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Review Ultimate Martial Arts Championships / Nunchaku
Release date: 2006-04-10
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.56

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Review Instant Vision Ltd / Shaolin Drunk Master
Release date: 2004-06-21
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.07

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Review Columbia TriStar / Rage and Honor [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Terence H. Winkless
  • Richard Norton
  • Terri Treas
  • Brian Thompson
  • Cynthia Rothrock
  • Catherine Bach
Release date: 2003-10-28
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Paul Colichman
Price: £6.03

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Enter The Ninja [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Franco Nero
  • Shô Kosugi
  • Susan George
  • Alex Courtney
  • Christopher George
  • Menahem Golan
Release date: 1994-05-16
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Mike Stone
Price: £6.99

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Review Showbox Home Entertainment / Two Wondrous Tigers
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Cheung
Release date: 2006-02-20
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.75

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Review Prism Leisure / The World Of Drunken Master [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Long
  • Simon Lee
  • Jeanie Chang
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.00

Review The World Of Drunken Master [2001] / Prism Leisure:

Made in 1979 The World of Drunken Master appeared at the same time as Drunken Master Part 2, and is an unofficial prequel to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master (1978). As the titular character, Siu Tien Yuen appeared in all three films, though here his role is reduced to a 10-minute cameo and the bulk of the film is a flashback to 30 years earlier. The story unfolds as Jack and Mark Long play a pair of petty thieves who team-up, learn kung fu and fall in love with the daughter (Jeanie Chang) of the owner of a local distillery. Naturally there is a gang of villains who want to close the business down and steal the land, so that the second half of the movie is one long series of fight scenes. Clearly made on a very low budget, the action is nevertheless inventively choreographed and well filmed. Siu Tien Yuen doesn't have much to do, though the framing device and the passage of time to when the old friends meet again lends a poignancy and sense of loss unusual in kung fu movies. The star would reprise the character at greater length in Magnificent Butcher (again, 1979), while Jackie Chan finally delivered his own Drunken Master II in 1994. The title on this print is actually Drunken Dragon. On the DVD: the original 2. 35:1 ratio film is presented here at standard TV 4:3, with often little evidence even of any panning and scanning so that the images look badly composed and lack important information throughout. [+]
The credits have been simply squashed to 4:3 so that everything looks tall and thin. Worse, the encoding is riddled with compression artefacts and the eye-aching out-of-focus, grainy, washed-out transfer shows clear evidence of originating with a poor quality video than the original film. There is no original soundtrack option, only a dreadful American dub. The sound is mediocre mono. Apart from various language subtitles the only extra is the original theatrical trailer. This is presented anamorphically enhanced, but the picture quality is still very poor and the image has been squashed from 2. 35:1 to 1. 77:1. The listed trailers for other MIA titles are missing from the disc, which astonishingly claims to be a "Special Edition". The cover blurb even manages to confuse the plot with that of an entirely different film, the same director's The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979). -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Xenon / Thundering Mantis (Chk Sen) (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fu-chien Chang
  • Yuet Sang Chin
  • Feng Cheng
  • Wing-Cho Yip
  • Li-pao Au
  • Ma Chiu-Ku
Release date: 2003-07-08
Creator: Hsin Yee Chang
Price: £10.87

Review Thundering Mantis (Chk Sen) (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Xenon:

Seriously weird as only the best, completely-barking-mad kung fu flicks can be, The Thundering Mantis is the story of Ah Chi, a martial artist who hooks up with a kid sidekick. However, an old grudge resurfaces, with the result that the boy's uncle is murdered and the boy himself kidnapped. So far so Arnie-in-Commando, but it's at this point we're reminded that indigenous martial arts movies are something else again, as Ah Chi's rescue attempt goes disastrously wrong and the boy is tortured to death before his eyes. Apparently driven to insanity by this experience, Ah Chi goes berserk, breaking free and systematically trashing everything and everyone in sight. End of movie. Devotees will absolutely want this in their collections, but those who have yet to progress beyond the Jackie Chan/Jet Li school of Americanised martial arts films will need to leave their preconceptions at the door. There's a nice touch to the dubbed English soundtrack, where the voiceover artists seem to have taken it upon themselves to imitate various British character actors: listen out for Wilfred Brambell, Kenneth Connor and so on. On the DVD: The Thundering Mantis has no extras on the widescreen DVD other than a one-screen guide to other titles in the Kung Fu Connection series. -Roger Thomas.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Bulletproof Monk / Kung Pow - Enter The Fist [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Karel Roden
  • Seann William Scott
  • Chow Yun-Fat
  • Steve Oedekerk
  • James King
  • Paul Hunter
  • Steve Oedekerk
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 177 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.01

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Review Soulblade Distribution Ltd / Fist of Unicorn [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Unicorn Chan . Meng Chui . Chin Ti . Yasuaki Kurata . Whong In Sik . Mang Hoi . Lee Man Tai .Wei Ping Ao . Ji Han Jae . Lily Chen Ching . Jackie Chan . Mars . Tang Ti
  • Tong Dik
Release date: 2006-11-27
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £12.99

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Review Brazilian Jiu Jitsu / Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - Grappling
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £17.99

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Review Pride Fighting Championship / Pride - Hardcore Knockouts - Vol. 1
Release date: 2005-08-15
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.47

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Review Lionsgate / War [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Lone
  • Eric Keenleyside
  • Paul Jarrett
  • Phillip Atwell
  • Kane Kosugi
  • Jet Li
Release date: 2008-01-01
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Brian Tyler
Price: £8.39

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Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / 7 Lucky Ninja Kids [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eugene Thomas
Release date: 2002-01-01
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £36.57

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Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Sister Street Fighter/Sister Street Fighter II [Blu-ray] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Sanae Ôhori
  • Etsuko Shihomi
  • Sonny Chiba
  • Shigehiro Ozawa
  • Bin Amatsu
  • Emi Hayakawa
  • Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Release date: 2008-01-08
Run time: 171 min.
Creator: Norifumi Suzuki
Price: £10.20

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Review Summersdale Productions / Alfie Lewis: The Way of the Animal (The Freestyle Karate Concept) [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Alfie Lewis
Release date: 2007-01-01
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.50

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Review Liu Kwok Hing / Warriors Of The Water Margin
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.72

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Review Tokyo Shock / Lone Wolf and Cub: TV Series, Vol. 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tomisaburo Wakayama
  • Go Kato
  • Michitaro Mizushima
  • Kenji Misumi
  • Yuko Hamada
  • Isao Yamagata
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Kazuo Koike
Price: £10.95

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Models & Brands:
Ultimate Fighting Championship 85 - Bedlam, Demon Spies [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Legend of Seven Monks [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nunchaku, Shaolin Drunk Master, Rage and Honor [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Enter The Ninja [1981], Two Wondrous Tigers, The World Of Drunken Master [2001], Thundering Mantis (Chk Sen) (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bulletproof Monk / Kung Pow - Enter The Fist [2003], Fist of Unicorn [1972], Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - Grappling, Pride - Hardcore Knockouts - Vol. 1, War [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 7 Lucky Ninja Kids [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sister Street Fighter/Sister Street Fighter II [Blu-ray] [US Import], Alfie Lewis: The Way of the Animal (The Freestyle Karate Concept) [2007], Warriors Of The Water Margin, Lone Wolf and Cub: TV Series, Vol. 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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