![Review Xenon / Shaolin & Wu Tang 2: Wu Tang Invasion (Ws Sub) [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512aJPKTFkL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rongguang Yu
- Siu Ming Tsui
- Hsu Hsiang Dong
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £5.17
Review Shaolin & Wu Tang 2: Wu Tang Invasion (Ws Sub) [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Xenon:
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Actors & Directors
- Lee Lam Lam
- Meng Fei
- Suma Wah Lung
- Pa Hung
- Chai Yang Min
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £3.61
Review Kung Fu - Punch of Death [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Diamond Entertainment Corp.:
![Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Monkey Fist Floating Snake [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QZHQ1PZTL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Mu Chuan Chen
- Ling Wei Chen
- Hsi Chang
- Mar Lo
- Han Chiang
- Cheng Chiang
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £19.99
Review Monkey Fist Floating Snake [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:
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Actors & Directors
- Kate Hodge
- Brandon Lee
- Powers Boothe
- Dwight H. Little
- Nick Mancuso
- Raymond J. Barry
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: John Fasano
Price: £3.46
Review Rapid Fire [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:Rapid Fire was the penultimate film starring Brandon Lee before his untimely death on the set of The Crow. It's a standard martial arts thriller in which Lee plays Jake Lo, a young arts student who witnesses a gangland execution and is unwittingly drawn into a pitched standoff between the mafia, a Chinese drug syndicate and Ryan, a downbeat but resolute Chicago cop (Powers Boothe) determined to nail his prey. With a plot that careens through every genre cliché, Lee's smouldering looks and showy fighting skills carry the film. The martial arts sequences (which Lee co-choreographed) are nicely staged, but given the unusual settings-the penultimate fight takes place in a Chinese laundry-could have been even more inventive. The workmanlike direction by Dwight H Little (Marked for Death, Free Willy 2) fails to inject much into the material. In particular, traumatised by seeing his Special Agent father die in the Tiananmen Square massacre, Jake Lo's attraction to both a corrupt FBI agent and Ryan as surrogate father figures could have been given more resonance given the loss of Brandon Lee's own father at an early age. With hundreds of bloodless deaths, cringe-worthy dialogue and a dated power rock soundtrack, Rapid Fire looks and feels like a TV film. And on that level, at least, it's entertaining. On the DVD: The main feature is presented in letterboxed widescreen. Sound and picture quality are very good. [+]Subtitles are provided for ten languages (Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norweigian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish) and in English for the hard of hearing. Extra features are limited to chapter selection and a theatrical trailer. -Chris Campion.
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Release date: 2005-04-05
Run time: 644 min.
Price: £1.18
Review The Many Fists of Bruce [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Great American Western 34:
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Actors & Directors
- Robert Wall
- Bruce Lee
- Jon T. Benn
- Nora Miao
- Chuck Norris
- Bruce Lee
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £12.99
Review The Way Of The Dragon - Thirtieth Anniversary Tribute [1972] / Contender Entertainment Group:
Release date: 2004-09-14
Price: £4.62
Review The Dragon Master/Chinese Kung Fu Against Godfather (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Videoasia:
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Actors & Directors
- Steve Oedekerk
- Fei Lung
- Lin Yan
- Ling Ling Tse
- Leo Lee
- Steve Oedekerk
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Tom Koranda
Price: £3.59
Review Kung Pow! Enter the Fist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:A shamelessly low-brow parody, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a scrambling of footage from the 1975 Hong Kong martial arts epic Tiger & Crane Fist with new material shot by director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls) in which he doubles for original star Jimmy Wang Yu. Following the style set by Woody Allen in What's Up Tiger Lily?, Oedekerk also dubs all the voices, rendering the basic revenge story even more formulaic and ridiculous. The villain turns out to be working for flying saucers manned by French aliens (!) and the Chosen One hero has an odd habit of using animals as weapons (gopher nunchakas, squirrel padding) and, in the stand-out scene, doing a full-on Matrix/Crouching Tiger battle with an extremely agile killer cow. A lot of the film is just dumb, but it still manages to beat laughs out of you with its relentless goofiness. Though it might seem an ego trip for Oedekerk, he is actually a likeable leading man, pulling funny faces and deliberately dubbing even his own voice badly. On the DVD: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist on disc includes an animated draft of the kung fu cow scene, with special effects elements shown pre-mixing. There are also several deleted sequences and a director's cut of one extended fight scene. -Kim Newman.
Release date: 2007-02-13
Run time: 817 min.
Price: £8.80
Review King of the Cage: Combat Collection - 5 Event Set (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Artist Not Provided:
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Actors & Directors
- Esther Kwan
- Ray Lui
- Daniel Li
- Cheng Pei-Pei
- Vincent Zhao
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £6.24
Review Book and Sword [2002] / Tai Seng:
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Actors & Directors
- Richard Moore
- Jeff Cooper
- David Carradine
- Christopher Lee
- Roddy McDowall
- Eli Wallach
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Stirling Silliphant
RRP: £10.99
Price: £35.99
Review The Silent Flute [1978] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:
![Review MGM / Double Impact [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S7XPGXZML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Andy Armstrong
- Alicia Stevenson
- Geoffrey Lewis
- Sheldon Lettich
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Paul Aylett
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Steve Meerson
Price: £5.85
Review Double Impact [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:
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Actors & Directors
- Kevin Seymour
- Toshihiko Seki
- Kôichi Yamadera
- Takeshi Aono
- Daisuke Gôri
- Emi Shinohara
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Masaka Fukuyo
Price: £8.25
Review Ninja Scroll [1986] (NTSC) / Manga Video:A peak achievement of Japanese anime, Ninja Scroll is a propulsive mix of samurai action-adventure and supernatural fantasy from writer-director Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Supernatural Best City). This is defiantly animation for grown-ups, complete with fountains of blood, plenty of naked flesh and (in both the subtitled and dubbed versions) some decidedly strong language. (Students of Japanese language could pick up some useful expressions. ) The plot sounds like a 16th-century variation on The X-Files: an entire village has been wiped out by a mysterious plague and an antigovernment conspiracy of invulnerable demons seems to be responsible. A wandering ninja, Jubei, and his female counterpart, Kagero, team up to defeat the plotters. Jubei is a classic reluctant hero, agreeing to participate in the mission only after being fed a slow-acting poison; the antidote will be supplied after he cooperates. And Kagero, a looker whose embrace is lethal, is a femme fatale with a difference that seems distinctively Japanese: sexual contact itself is poisonous, especially for a warrior with a pure soul. -David Chute.
Release date: 2005-06-14
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £19.30
Review Winning Competition Karate Vol 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Yukiyoshi Marutani:
Release date: 2005-06-07
Run time: 70 min.
Price: £35.29
Review Japan Karate Association Shotokan Kata Series Vol 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tsunami Productions:
Release date: 2003-11-04
Price: £2.06
Review Iron Fist Adventure/Thundering Ninja (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Videoasia:
Release date: 2006-01-31
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.07
Review Shadow Boxer / Firefly Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Jirô Chiba
- Yutaka Kohira
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Bin Amatsu
- Yasuaki Kurata
- Yataka Kodaira
- Sonny Chiba
- Etsuko Shihomi
Run time: 179 min.
Creator: Tatsuhiko Kamoi
Price: £4.91
Review Welcome to the Grindhouse: Dragon Princess/Karate Warriors (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:
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Actors & Directors
- Dicky Cheung
- Ka-Yan Leung
- Jing Wong
- Woo-ping Yuen
- Pak-cheung Chan
- Sharla Cheung
- Jet Li
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Charles Heung
Price: £14.45
Review Last Hero in China [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Cav Distribution:In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises his role as Wong Fei-Hong, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor and a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighbouring house is a brothel. Though Wong's students are delighted and the earnest brothel master only wants to study with him, Wong feels he has lost face. But this becomes the least of his troubles: soon he's fighting a corrupt police chief, a temple of slave-trading monks, and a deafness-causing medicine sold to children-and that's just in the first hour. Last Hero in China is a grand melodrama, featuring exaggerated heroes and villains, goofy humour and hyperbolic kung fu action. The plot takes some hard-to-follow turns, but the action is so non-stop it hardly matters. The lion vs. centipede dance/fight has to be seen to be believed, to say nothing of the priest with a floating lotus chariot and a flying claw. Jet Li is in fine form, Gordon Liu (as the venal top cop) is maniacal and despicable, and the lovely Cheung Man plays an expert martial artist looking for her kidnapped sister. The character of Wong Fei-Hong also appears in the Once Upon a Time in China series (where he was first played by Li) and in Jackie Chan's Drunken Master movies. [+]-Bret Fetzer In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises the role of Wong Fei-hung, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor and a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighbouring house is a brothel. Though Wong's students are delighted and the earnest brothel master only wants to study with him, Wong feels he has lost face. But this becomes the least of his troubles: soon he's fighting a corrupt police chief, a temple of slave-trading monks and a deafness-causing medicine sold to children-and that's just in the first hour. Last Hero in China is a grand melodrama, featuring exaggerated heroes and villains, goofy humour and hyperbolic kung fu action. The plot takes some hard-to-follow turns, but the action is so non-stop it hardly matters. The lion vs centipede dance/fight has to be seen to be believed, to say nothing of the priest with a floating lotus chariot and a flying claw. Jet Li is in fine form, Gordon Liu (as the venal top cop) is maniacal and despicable, and the lovely Cheung Man plays an expert martial artist looking for her kidnapped sister. The character of Wong Fei-hung also appears in the Once Upon a Time in China series (where he was first played by Li) and in Jackie Chan's Drunken Master movies. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.
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Actors & Directors
- Joey Wang
- Lau Ching-Wan
- Chan Wui Ngai
- Elvis Tsui
- Tony Leung Kar-Fai
- Lau Shun
- Chung Yee-fung
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £6.12
Review Water Margin: The True Colors of Heroes [1993] / Tai Seng:
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