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Review Mike Bencic / Pride Fighting Championships: Bushido, Vol. 2 - Team Japan vs. Team Chute Box [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-11-15
Price: £5.70

Review Pride Fighting Championships: Bushido, Vol. 2 - Team Japan vs. Team Chute Box [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Mike Bencic:


Review Soulblade / Death List
Actors & Directors
  • Bey Logan
  • Alex Clark
  • Ara Paiaya
  • John Cheung
  • Raquel Paiaya
  • Ara Paiaya
Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.65

Review Death List / Soulblade:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Dragon From Russia [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Maggie Cheung
  • Nina Li Chi
  • Yuen Tak
  • Clarence Ford
  • Sam Hui
Release date: 2006-10-30
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Dragon From Russia [1990] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Extreme Chick Fights / Extreme Chickfights - Armed & Dangerous [2007]
Release date: 2007-09-24
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.84

Review Extreme Chickfights - Armed & Dangerous [2007] / Extreme Chick Fights:


Actors & Directors
  • Kamel Chouaref
Release date: 2004-11-17
Run time: 40 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.99

Review French Boxing Savate: My Champion Techniques / I-Prod:


Review Hollywood DVD Ltd / Golden Ninja Warrior / Ninja Squad [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Morna Lee
  • Queenie Yang
  • Richard Harrison
  • Donald Owen
  • Dave Wheeler
  • Joseph Lai
  • Godfrey Ho
Release date: 2002-10-14
Run time: 167 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.01

Review Golden Ninja Warrior / Ninja Squad [1986] / Hollywood DVD Ltd:


Review Columbia TriStar / Contract Killer [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Yam
  • Wei Tung
  • Keiji Sato
  • Gigi Leung
  • Eric Tsang
  • Jet Li
Release date: 2002-07-30
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Vincent Kok
Price: £6.03

Review Contract Killer [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Eric the would-be assassin is such a nice, caring fellow that Hitman has an immediate credibility problem: how could Eric (oriental superstar Jet Li in his follow-up to Lethal Weapon 4) ever believe he could be a cold-blooded murderer? The script tries to get around this by emphasising his poverty, and once he meets conman Norman (Hong Kong comedy star Eric Tsang), the film manages to blend amiable humour with amoral characters and polished action into an entertaining whole. A yakusa crime lord has been murdered by the Angel of Death, a professional hitman who only kills those he believes deserve to die. Getting well out of their depth in the hunt for the assassin, Li and Tsang make an appealing double act, while Gigi Leung is charming as Norman's lawyer daughter. With a moderately involved plot and an emphasis on character, action is limited to five well-staged set-pieces which are stylishly conceived, exciting and don't outstay their welcome. The finale even has a joke at the expense of Die Hard's running across broken glass, while the ending sets up the inevitable sequel. A long way from Li's magnificent Once Upon A Time in China (1991), Hitman is efficient, highly watchable Hong Kong entertainment. -Gary S Dalkin.

Actors & Directors
  • Nikki Berwick
Release date: 2004-11-18
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.99

Review Maximum Stretching / I-Prod:


Review Quantum Leap / Absolute Fighting Championship 1
Actors & Directors
  • Ricardo 'The Monster' Moraes
  • Adilson Lima
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 162 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.99

Review Absolute Fighting Championship 1 / Quantum Leap:


Review I-Prod / Muscle Performance
Actors & Directors
  • Franck Ropers
  • Takemi Takayasu
Release date: 2005-11-08
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £21.99

Review Muscle Performance / I-Prod:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Angels / Angels 2
Actors & Directors
  • Moon Lee
  • Theresa Woo
  • Elaine Lui
  • Karinna Andrews
  • Nathan Chan
  • Hideki Saijo
Release date: 1998-06-22
Run time: 169 min.
Price: £14.99

Review Angels / Angels 2 / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Showbox Home Entertainment / Crazy Guy With Super Kung Fu (DVD) [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Chin Hai Chen
  • Lung Huang
  • Li-pao Au
  • Fu Hung Cheng
  • Ting Chao
  • Ching Cheng
Release date: 2004-03-15
Creator: Chui Kuei Huang
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.96

Review Crazy Guy With Super Kung Fu (DVD) [1979] / Showbox Home Entertainment:


Review Tai Seng Entertainment / Wind and Cloud: The Storm Riders [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ekin Cheng
  • Raymond Lee
  • Yiu-Cheung Lai
  • Sonny Chiba
  • Takeshi Kaneshiro
  • Shui Chung Yuet
  • Aaron Kwok
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Wing-Shing Ma
Price: £8.24

Review Wind and Cloud: The Storm Riders [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tai Seng Entertainment:

The Stormriders transplants Macbeth into a medieval China in director Andy Lau's reinvention of classical tragedy as CGI-laden blockbuster. Officially the source material is a best-selling Manga, and the flying heroes with magical powers and the wild camera angles do indeed have a real graphic-novel flair. As the warlord Sonny Chiba is a commanding presence, while Ekin Cheng as Wind and Aaron Kwok as Cloud are perfect contrasting comic-book warriors. Kristy Yeung is a suitably lovely heroine, while Shi Qi provides irritating comic relief. There is style to burn, with beautiful imagery bearing the influence of Ridley Scott and, in the "blur-motion" duel in a bamboo forest, Wong Kar-Wai; indeed, Lau has served as Kar-Wai's cinematographer. Spectacular yet laden with symbolism The Stormriders is a film to bridge the appeal of Ashes of Time (1994) and The Bride with White Hair (1993) with the Superman (1978) and Mummy (1999) movies. The fights and a romantic flying sequence pay homage to the former, the computer effects update the groundbreaking Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain (1983) with the technology of the latter. Sometimes overly ambitious or just plain bizarre The Stormriders is an emotionally charged darkly romantic adventure which outclasses any comic-book adaptation Hollywood has made in years. On the DVD: The first disc presents the 127-minute director's cut in its original 2. 35:1 ratio with Dolby Digital 5. [+]
1 sound. While the sound is clean, dynamic and makes great use of all the channels the picture is presented non-anamorphically, so that while well-focused, with strong colours and little sign of artefacting, it is not as solid or detailed as it could be. The main special features are two documentaries, a general "making-of" running 22 minutes, and a 20-minute "featurette" on the special effects. Both are promotional pieces made at the time of the film's release. The second disc features the US trailer and an object lesson in how to ruin a film, i. e. the "international" version ofThe Stormriders. Cut by 38 minutes, horribly panned and scanned and dubbed, this is a travesty that destroys all the beauty and atmosphere and renders the story incomprehensible. Why anyone would watch it when they have the complete film on the first disc is a mystery. The sound is again Dolby Digital 5. 1 and the 4:3 image is fair. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Golgo 13
Actors & Directors
  • Sonny Chiba
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.96

Review Golgo 13 / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Roger Piarulli
Release date: 2004-10-21
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.99

Review Taekwondo Poomse / I-Prod:


Review Quantum Leap / Absolute Fighting Championship 2
Actors & Directors
  • Joe 'The Ghetto Man' Charles
  • Cal Worsham
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.30

Review Absolute Fighting Championship 2 / Quantum Leap:


Review Synapse Films/Panik House Entertainment / The Quick-Draw Okatsu [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Yukie Kagawa
  • Tomisaburo Wakayama
  • Harumi Sone
  • Nobuo Nakagawa
  • Ko Nishimura
  • Kenji Imai
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Koichi Kawabe
Price: £9.15

Review The Quick-Draw Okatsu [1969] / Synapse Films/Panik House Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Black Eagle
Release date: 2004-03-16
Price: £3.70

Review Snake Strikes Back/Black Eagle's Blade (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Videoasia:


Review Dragon Dynasty / Robin-B-Hood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gao Yuanyuan
  • Yuen Biao
  • Jackie Chan
  • Teresa Carpio
  • Michael Hui
Release date: 2007-12-26
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Chan Fai Young
Price: £9.40

Review Robin-B-Hood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dragon Dynasty:


Review Animeigo / Incident at Blood Pass [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yûjirô Ishihara
  • Shintarô Katsu
  • Ruriko Asaoka
  • Hiroshi Inagaki
  • Toshirô Mifune
  • Kinnosuke Nakamura
Release date: 2005-03-08
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Kyu Fujiki
Price: £10.20

Review Incident at Blood Pass [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Animeigo:


Models & Brands:
Pride Fighting Championships: Bushido, Vol. 2 - Team Japan vs. Team Chute Box [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Death List, Dragon From Russia [1990], Extreme Chickfights - Armed & Dangerous [2007], French Boxing Savate: My Champion Techniques, Golden Ninja Warrior / Ninja Squad [1986], Contract Killer [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Maximum Stretching, Absolute Fighting Championship 1, Muscle Performance, Angels / Angels 2, Crazy Guy With Super Kung Fu (DVD) [1979], Wind and Cloud: The Storm Riders [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Golgo 13, Taekwondo Poomse, Absolute Fighting Championship 2, The Quick-Draw Okatsu [1969], Snake Strikes Back/Black Eagle's Blade (REGION 1) (NTSC), Robin-B-Hood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Incident at Blood Pass [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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