As to the good aspects colours do look fine, though they still feature a boosted look similar to Return. The image may also come out looking a bit sharper, though it may only appear that way because artificial sharpening has almost certainly been applied. The image may look a bit crisper, but those finer details are barely present. Mr. Odessa on Don’t miss Goodie Emporium’s New Release update! RUN AND KILL is being released by Team Error 4444. It’s available for pre ord… We begin with kung fu master Lau Kar-leung#39;s instant classic The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, in which his adoptive brother Gordon Liu achieved overnight stardom as the young man who unexpectedly finds spiritual enlightenment on the path to vengeance; Lau and Liu followed the original with two comically inventive sequels, Return to the 36th Chamber and Disciples of the 36th Chamber, both included here. Already established as a genius at blending dazzling action with physical comedy, Lau himself plays the lead role in the hilarious Mad Monkey Kung Fu, coupled here with Lo Mar#39;s underrated Five Superfighters. Next, we once again meet Chang Cheh#39;s basher boy band the Venom Mob in no less than four of their best-loved team-ups: Invincible Shaolin, The Kid with the Golden Arm, Magnificent Ruffians and culminating in the all-star Ten Tigers of Kwangtung, co-starring Ti Lung and Fu Sheng.

DISC SEVEN – MERCENARIES FROM HONG KONG / THE BOXER'S OMEN • Brand new 2K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films • Uncompressed Cantonese and Mandarin original mono audio for both films plus English mono for Mercenaries from Hong Kong • Newly translated English subtitles for both films, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dub • Brand new commentary on The Boxer’s Omen by critic Travis Crawford • Newly filmed appreciation of filmmaker Kuei Chih-hung by film critic and historian Tony Rayns • Additional footage from Mandarin VHS version of The Boxer's Omen • Interview with Mercenaries from Hong Kong action director Tong Kai, filmed in 2009 • Hong Kong theatrical trailers for both films • Image galleries for both films Today’s Deal on Fire is for Shawscope Volume Two: Limited Edition (the first set was released last year), which will include 14 films (as opposed to 12, which was the count for the first set). As with the first set, Shawscope Volume Two will be an all region (UK/US/CA TITLE) release. Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studios, the final installment in the three-part documentary produced by Celestial Pictures in 2003 DISC SIX – MY YOUNG AUNTIE • Uncompressed Cantonese, Mandarin and English original mono audio • Newly translated English subtitles, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dub • Brand new select-scene commentary by film critic and historian Tony Rayns • Interview with star Kara Hui, filmed in 2003 • Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studios, the final instalment in the three-part documentary produced by Celestial Pictures in 2003 • Alternate standard-definition VHS version • Hong Kong theatrical trailer • Image gallery Arrow then includes a 2003 Celestial featurette entitled A Hero on Scaffolding, running 14-minutes. It ends up not being at all what I had expected. What I expected was a general featurette about the film and what I got was a featurette that is more about the various types of scaffolding in Hong Kong, though intercut with details about how it’s used in the film and information around Shaolin martial arts techniques. To my surprise it ends up being rather interesting.

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And we get three great Venoms films. The Kid with the Golden Arm is right up there with Five Deadly Venoms for the best of the Venom film. It was great to see Invincible Shaolin in the box set as well. I hadn't seen Magnificent Ruffins before, but that is a really good Venoms movie as well. I put it more in league of Crippled Avengers and well above House of Traps. The slipcover, disc book, and booklet for Volume Two are identical in form and size to Volume One, except deep red rather than blue. Look, I’ve gone on about how much I love this format. I use Billy bookcases to display my DVDs, which are pretty deep — in fact, just the right depth to slide these into my Arrow collection without breaking up the row of collector’s editions they sit beside. For fans who use custom shelves or shallower units, though, these look incredible sitting atop a shelf with other extra-sized sets. If you are as Shaw Brother's fan, this is almost more of critical must have than Volume 1 as it has The 36th Chamber of Shaolin.

Hero on the Scaffolding, an archive featurette produced by Celestial Pictures in 2003 • Alternate opening credits sequences for both films • Hong Kong theatrical trailers for both filmsA Hero on the Scaffolding (14:40, SD) – Liu, an unnamed martial arts trainer, and bamboo scaffold workers compare the film’s scaffold kung fu and the actual art of scaffolding in this 2003 Celestial Pictures featurette A caption reads: My Young Auntie. Mercenaries from Hong Kong. The Boxer's Omen. Martial Arts of Shaolin. The Bare-Footed Kid. Ska Martes on Hard Target | 4K UHD + Blu-ray (Kino Lorber) Love this movie. As lomg as its the longer international cut, this is the onl…

High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all fourteen films, including nine new 2K restorations by Arrow Films

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Hours of never-before-seen bonus features including several cast and crew interviews from the Frédéric Ambroisine Video Archive Cinema Hong Kong: Swordfighting, the second installment in a three-part documentary produced by Celestial Pictures in 2003 and featuring interviews with Liu, Lau Kar-leung, Cheng Pei-pei, John Woo, Sammo Hung, Kara Hui, David Chiang and others Newly translated English subtitles for both films, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dub That’s not to say there aren’t a number of wonderful films included. Saying that would be madness because Arrow’s crew of producers (led by James Flower) have a story to tell here about the Shaw Brothers, and it begins with what is arguably the studio’s most iconic film, Lar Kar-leung’s The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. It is notably one of the only films to get its own disc this time around, and the only one with a brand-new 4K resolution restoration (which is much deserved). Although I have my qualms with 36th Chamber as a film (and prefer Lau Kar-leung & Gordon Liu’s superior later film The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, also out from Arrow this year), it’s indisputably integral to the history of martial arts cinema and a cornerstone of the careers for everyone involved. Many of the films included in Volume Two were either directed by Lau Kar-leung or inspired by the pseudo-history approach to the Shaolin monks and their kung-fu rebellion against the Manchu government. So if you are a Shaw Brothers fan and especially if you enjoyed the first Box set, I would get this one immediately without hesitation.