Author Archives: David Rees


Shout Studio, which purchased the worldwide rights for the Golden Princess Library, has announced its first two physical media releases on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray: Peking Opera Blues and City On Fire. Shout announced, “It’s time for full-throttle action and Read more…


Shout Factory in the USA has announced the 4K UHD and Blu-Ray release of a special Jet Li Box Set as part of its new Hong Kong Classics sublabel. The titles in the box set are Fist of Legend, Tai Read more…


The latest Donnie Yen action film, The Prosecutor, will be released on 4K UHD, Blu-Ray and DVD by Well Go in the USA. A man falsely pleads guilty to drug trafficking after being framed. Despite the confession, the veteran policeman-turned-prosecutor Read more…


Made in the latter days of the mighty Shaw Brothers Studio, Lady Assassin is a fast-paced swordplay epic with an interesting plot.  The old reigning emperor is on death’s door, and his most ambitious and amoral son plots to cheat Read more…


Eureka in the UK is to release the classic swordplay film The Bells of Death onto Blu-Ray in a newly remastered version. The film stars Chang Yi, a simple woodcutter – that is, at least, until he gives directions to Read more…


Below is the trailer for a new ultra-violent Japanese action movie Demon City coming soon to Netflix. Directed by Seiji Tanaka, Demon City stars Toma Ikuta as Sakata, an ex-hitman framed for his family’s murder and left for dead. After Toma is Read more…


Shout! Studios has nabbed worldwide rights (excluding select Asian territories) to the coveted Golden Princess movie library, a large library of 156 Hong Kong cinema classics . These films, which dominated screens during Hong Kong’s cinematic golden age of the ’80s Read more…


88 Films will release the Jackie Chan martial arts movie Dragon Fist on a new remastered 4KUHD and Blu-ray. Made in 1978 this is one of the few very serious films he made during that time, having not perfected the Read more…


Fong Sai Yuk is a martial arts hero, similar to Wong Fei Hung and has been the subject of many films from the old Black and White days to the classic Shaw Brothers studio. Here Jet Li takes on the Read more…


Superkicker Hwang Jang Lee was a very popular actor in martial arts cinema in the 1970s and early 1980s. Now, 88 Films has released a new Blu-ray of Kid From Kwangtung, one of the few films he did for the Read more…