Masked Avengers – Blu Ray Review
88 Films in the UK have delighted Shaw Brothers fans by releasing a series of films onto Blu Ray and DVD and many of them are classic Kung Fu movies from the famous studio. Masked Avengers is one of the so-called Venoms later efforts in which masked killers are wreaking havoc and instilling terror with […]
Drunken Master – UK Blu Ray Review
Jackie Chan’s early mega-hit Drunken Master has had a number of releases on DVD and Blu ray over the years and a lot of them have been problematic in many ways. The great news is that this new release from Eureka in the UK on the Masters of Cinema label is from a new 4K […]
Lone Wolf and Cub Blu Ray Box Set – Review
The words classic cult films are used a lot these days and many films do not deserve such an accolade but these superb set of Japanese action classic certainly do. The Six-Film Lone Wolf and Cub Series is Based on the Internationally Best-Selling Japanese Manga Comics and stars Tomisaburo Wakayama as the shogun’s executioner, Itto […]
Call of Heroes – Review
Cine Asia are back and are ready to start releasing Asian movies again and they have started with a good one, Benny Chan’s Call of Heroes. In 1914, after the collapse of China’s Qing dynasty, Yang Kenan (Lau Ching Wan) is appointed as guardian to defend the rural village of Pucheng. After Yang arrests the […]
Bruce Lee Master Colllection – Blu Ray Review
Bruce Lee’s movies have had many releases on DVD and onto Blu ray but his four Hong Kong films have recently had new 4k transfers and these are what are in this new box set The Bruce Lee Master Collection from Mediumrare in the UK. I won’t review the films themselves, 99.9% of anybody visiting […]
Challenge of the Masters – Review
Lau Kar Leung has always been one of my favourite directors and now most of his films are available on DVD / Blu ray we have decided to review some of his best. Challenge of the Masters was made in 1976 and was the director’s second film, the first being Spiritual Boxer. This one had […]
The Water Margin (TV Series) – Blu Ray Review
In the mid-1970’s it was a frustrating experience being a young martial arts movie fan in the UK. Most films were rated X so you had to be over 18 to see them and there was very little on TV apart from the Kung Fu TV series. Then the BBC started showing this classic Japanese […]
Dragon Inn (1967) – Blu Ray Review
King Hu is one of the few directors from Asia that are loved by critics and fans alike but his films have been treated very poorly on home video formats over the years. A new 4K restoration of Dragon Inn was done by L’Imagine Ritrovata and the results are seen on this new Blu ray […]
King of Beggars – Review
Stephen Chow took a long time to break through in the West, his comedy films were amazingly popular in Hong Kong for many years but it was not until Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle that his fame spread to the rest of the world. King of Beggars was made in 1992 and is a […]
Swordsman (1990) – Blu Ray Review
The WuXia genre has always been popular in Hong Kong and it had a resurgence in 1990 with the release of The Swordsman starring Sam Hui, Jacky Cheung and Cecilia Yip. The Swordsman is based on the classic novel by legendary martial arts writer Jin Yong and is a classic tale of Good versus Evil, […]