Asian Cinema Thread
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jake scully
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It wasn’t the R1 dvd but a Hong Kong one - over a minute was cut out for sexual violence or something - 88films uncut good
Arrow's Asian Cinema release for September 2021 is revealed.
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (Blu-ray)
Release Date: 20th September 2021
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (Blu-ray)
Release Date: 20th September 2021
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new commentary by film historian David Kalat
- This Charming Woman, a newly filmed interview with manga and folklore scholar Zack Davisson
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring new and original artwork by Mike Lee
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors booklet featuring new writing by Raffael Coronelli.
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ARROW SALE HAS RETURNED
New additions include a few re-issues! Battles Without Honor and Humanity box set, which I believe is expected to be packaged similarly to Female Prisoner Scorpion & Tsukamoto collections i.e. using the thin Blu-ray cases, The Kinji Fukasaku Collection with Street Mobster, Cops Vs Thugs and Doberman Cop, New Battles without Honor and Humanity and Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism as a regular Blu-ray collection.
Titles on offer:
| Film | Arrow Store | Amazon UK |
|---|---|---|
| Akio Jissoji - The Buddhist Trilogy (Standard Edition) | £25 | £19.99 |
| Audition | £8 | £7.99 |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Standard Edition Box Set) | £30 | -- |
| Before We Vanish | £8 | -- |
| Black Test Car + The Black Report | £10 | -- |
| Blade of the Immortal | £8 | -- |
| The Bloodthirsty Trilogy | £10 | -- |
| Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji | £8 | -- |
| Burst City | £10 | -- |
| Cops vs Thugs | £8 | -- |
| Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! | £8 | -- |
| Family Values: Three Films by Hirokazu Kore-eda (Standard Edition) | £25 | £18.99 |
| Female Prisoner Scorpion (Standard Edition Box Set) | £25 | £24.99 |
| Gamera: The Heisei Era (Standard Edition Box Set) | £30 | £29.99 |
| Gamera: The Heisei Era Trilogy (Limited Edition Steelbook) | £30 | £29.99 |
| Gamera: The Showa Era (Standard Edition Box Set) | £30 | £29.99 |
| Graveyards of Honor (Standard Edition Box Set) | £20 | -- |
| The Happiness of the Katakuris | £8 | -- |
| Hiroshima | £8 | £7.99 |
| Horrors of Malformed Men | £8 | -- |
| The Human Condition Trilogy (Standard Edition) | £15 | -- |
| Inferno of Torture | £8 | -- |
| The Invisible Man Appears The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly | £10 | -- |
| JSA: Joint Security Area | £10 | -- |
| Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism (Standard Edition) | £25 | -- |
| The Kinji Fukasaku Collection: Cops vs Thugs Doberman Cop Street Mobster | £30 | -- |
| The Mad Fox | £8 | £7.99 |
| Massacre Gun | £8 | £7.99 |
| Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | £8 | £7.99 |
| New Battles without Honor and Humanity (Standard Edition) | £25 | -- |
| Oldboy [4K Ultra HD] | £18 | -- |
| Oldboy [Blu-ray] | £8 | -- |
| One Missed Call Trilogy | £15 | £14.99 |
| Orgies of Edo | £8 | £7.99 |
| Pulse | £8 | -- |
| Ring | £8 | £7.99 |
| The Ring Collection (Standard Edition Box Set) | £25 | -- |
| Seijun Suzuki's The Taisho Trilogy (Standard Edition) | £25 | £21.46 |
| Shogun's Joy of Torture | £10 | -- |
| Sister Street Fighter | £10 | £9.99 |
| Stray Cat Rock (Standard Edition) | £25 | £20.98 |
| Street Mobster | £8 | -- |
| Terra Formars | £8 | -- |
| The Third Murder | £8 | £6.59 |
| Three Films By Jia Zhang-ke (Standard Edition) | £25 | £22.99 |
| The Vengeance Trilogy (Standard Edition Box Set) | £25 | -- |
| The Villainess | £8 | £7.99 |
| Versus | £10 | -- |
| Warning From Space | £10 | -- |
| Wolf Guy | £8 | £7.25 |
| Yakuza Law | £8 | -- |
| Zombie For Sale | £8 | -- |
(Disclaimer: Amazon links are affiliated. If the price listed mentions "--", then it's basically cheaper on Arrow's store)
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Arrow & 88 Films had been teasing some Shaw Brothers related news, and today Arrow has revealed their box set.
Shawscope Volume 1 (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
Release Date: 6th December 2021
SRP: £149.99, Arrow Price: £110.00
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
Shawscope Volume 1 (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
Release Date: 6th December 2021
SRP: £149.99, Arrow Price: £110.00
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of:
- King Boxer
- The Boxer from Shantung
- Five Shaolin Masters
- Shaolin Temple
- Mighty Peking Man
- Challenge of the Masters
- Executioners from Shaolin
- Chinatown Kid
- The Five Venoms
- Crippled Avengers
- Heroes of the East
- Dirty Ho
- Brand new 2K restorations by Arrow Films from the original camera negatives of:
- King Boxer
- The Boxer from Shantung
- Challenge of the Masters
- The Five Venoms
- Crippled Avengers
- Dirty Ho
- Brand new 2K master of the longer international cut of Chinatown Kid from original film elements
- Original uncompressed Mandarin, Cantonese (where applicable) and English mono audio
- Newly translated English subtitles for each film
- Hours of bonus features including brand new commentaries and critic appreciations on selected films, new and archive interviews with cast and crew, alternate credit sequences, trailer and image galleries for each film and more to be announced!
- 60 page book featuring new writing by David Desser, Simon Abrams and Terrence J. Brady, with cast and crew info for each film plus trivia and soundtrack info
- New artwork for each film by artists including Matthew Griffin, Chris Malbon, Jacob Phillips, Ilan Sheady, Tony Stella, Darren Wheeling and Jolyon Yates
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Jon O Fun
Combat Butler
Looks like a beast! I want it but I have no idea where I'd put it. Especially with Vol 2 and more coming next yearArrow & 88 Films had been teasing some Shaw Brothers related news, and today Arrow has revealed their box set.
Shawscope Volume 1 (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
Release Date: 6th December 2021
SRP: £149.99, Arrow Price: £110.00
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
Arrow has also confirmed there will be a second volume and more coming in 2022.
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of:
- King Boxer
- The Boxer from Shantung
- Five Shaolin Masters
- Shaolin Temple
- Mighty Peking Man
- Challenge of the Masters
- Executioners from Shaolin
- Chinatown Kid
- The Five Venoms
- Crippled Avengers
- Heroes of the East
- Dirty Ho
- Brand new 2K restorations by Arrow Films from the original camera negatives of:
- King Boxer
- The Boxer from Shantung
- Challenge of the Masters
- The Five Venoms
- Crippled Avengers
- Dirty Ho
- Brand new 2K master of the longer international cut of Chinatown Kid from original film elements
- Original uncompressed Mandarin, Cantonese (where applicable) and English mono audio
- Newly translated English subtitles for each film
- Hours of bonus features including brand new commentaries and critic appreciations on selected films, new and archive interviews with cast and crew, alternate credit sequences, trailer and image galleries for each film and more to be announced!
- 60 page book featuring new writing by David Desser, Simon Abrams and Terrence J. Brady, with cast and crew info for each film plus trivia and soundtrack info
- New artwork for each film by artists including Matthew Griffin, Chris Malbon, Jacob Phillips, Ilan Sheady, Tony Stella, Darren Wheeling and Jolyon Yates
Be interesting to see 88's offerings now as that's gonna be hard to beat! (I suspect an collection similar to what they're doing with Cat 3 in rigid cases).
Also surprised at no 36 Chambers announcement unless there's more come.
They look great. Can't wait to own more Category III films for the collection. Shame both were pushed back to the end of September.
Jon O Fun
Combat Butler
Yeah but if it makes them better and it's less stress for 88films then I'm fine with that. I guess something must have happened internally with almost everything getting pushed.
Jon O Fun
Combat Butler
On a Shaw Brothers side note The Five Venoms will be leaving Netflix on July 22nd.
It's a surprisingly good HD transfer so looking forward to see what Arrow have done with it.
Edit: as will The 36th Chamber of Shaolin & Flying Guillotine 2.
Disciples of the 36th Chamber & Return to the 36th Chamber seem to be safe for now though.
It's a surprisingly good HD transfer so looking forward to see what Arrow have done with it.
Edit: as will The 36th Chamber of Shaolin & Flying Guillotine 2.
Disciples of the 36th Chamber & Return to the 36th Chamber seem to be safe for now though.
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It's been a while since I made a round-up update, so here's the latest on the Asian Cinema schedule for this forum!
88 Films:
Arrow Video:
Eureka Entertainment:
Third Window Films:
88 Films:
| Date: | Name: | Director, Year, Language: | Format: |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 9th | Erotic Ghost Story | Nam Nai Choi 1990 - Cantonese | Blu-ray [Category III] |
| September 27th | Robotrix | Jamie Luk Kin-ming 1991 - Cantonese | LE Blu-ray [Category III] |
| September 27th | Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky | Nam Nai Choi 1991 - Cantonese | LE Blu-ray [Category III] |
| September 27th | The Chinese Boxer | Jimmy Wang 1970 - Cantonese/Mandarin | Blu-ray [Shaw Bros] |
| September 27th | Disciples of Shaolin | Chang Cheh 1975 - Cantonese/Mandarin | Blu-ray [Shaw Bros] |
| TBC | Armour of God | Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang 1986 - Cantonese | LE Blu-ray |
| TBC | The Flag of Iron | Chang Cheh 1980 - Cantonese/Mandarin | Blu-ray [Shaw Bros] |
| TBC | Half a Loaf of Kung Fu | Chen Chi-hwa 1978 - Cantonese | -- |
| TBC | Monkey Kung Fu | Mar Lo 1979 - Cantonese/Mandarin | Blu-ray [Shaw Bros] |
Arrow Video:
| Date: | Name: | Director, Year, Language: | Format: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Now Available | Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Battles Without Honor and Humanity Hiroshima Death Match Proxy War Police Tactics Final Episode | Kinji Fukasaku 1973-1974 - Japanese | Blu-ray |
| Now Available | Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism: Eros + Massacre Heroic Purgatory Coup d’état | Kiju Yoshida 1969-1973 - Japanese | Blu-ray |
| Now Available | The Kinji Fukasaku Collection: Street Mobster Cops Vs Thugs Doberman Cop | Kinji Fukasaku 1972-1977 - Japanese | Blu-ray |
| Now Available | New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity The Boss’s Head Last Days of the Boss | Kinji Fukasaku 1974-1976 - Japanese | Blu-ray |
| July 26th | The Daimajin Trilogy | Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Kenji Misumi, Kazuo Mori 1966 - Japanese | LE Blu-ray |
| August 16th | A Tale of Two Sisters | Kim Jee-woon 2003 - Korean | Blu-ray |
| August 23rd | Blind Beast | Yasuzo Masumura 1969 - Japanese | Blu-ray |
| September 20th | The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch | Noriaki Yuasa 1968 - Japanese | Blu-ray |
| December 6th | Shawscope Volume One: King Boxer The Boxer from Shantung Five Shaolin Masters Shaolin Temple Mighty Peking Man Challenge of the Masters Executioners from Shaolin Chinatown Kid The Five Venoms Crippled Avengers Heroes of the East Dirty Ho | Jeong Chang-hwa 1972 - Cantonese/Mandarin/English Chang Cheh 1972-1978 - Cantonese/Mandarin/English Ho Meng Hua 1977 - Cantonese/Mandarin/English Lau Kar-leung 1976-1979 - Cantonese/Mandarin/English | LE Blu-ray |
| TBC 2022 | The 36th Chamber of Shaolin | Lau Kar-leung 1978 - Cantonese/Mandarin | -- |
| TBC | Sailor Suit and Machine Gun | Shinji Sōmai 1981 - Japanese | -- |
| TBC 2022 | Shawscope Volume Two: (unspecified amount of films) | -- | LE Blu-ray |
| TBC | The Yokai Monsters Trilogy | Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1968-1969 - Japanese | -- |
Eureka Entertainment:
| Date: | Name: | Director, Year, Language: | Format: |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 19th | Wild Search | Ringo Lam 1989 - Cantonese | First Print Blu-ray |
| July 26th | The Millionaires’ Express | Sammo Hung 1986 - Cantonese | LE Blu-ray |
| September 20th | Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-tung 1983 - Cantonese | First Print Blu-ray |
Third Window Films:
| Date: | Name: | Director, Year, Language: | Format: |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBC | Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes | Junta Yamaguchi 2020 - Japanese | -- |
| TBC | Funky Forest: The First Contact & The Warped Forest | Hajime Ishimine, Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki 2005-2011 - Japanese | -- |
| TBC | Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! | Daihachi Yoshida 2007 - Japanese | -- |
| TBC | Toshiaki Toyoda: 2005-2020: Hanging Garden Monsters Club I'm Flash Wolf's Calling Day of Destruction | Toshiaki Toyoda 2005-2020 - Japanese | -- |
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Third Window Films has revealed a bunch of upcoming films that will be heading their way into the UK under their distribution. Some are known but others are new!
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (ドロステのはてで僕ら)
2020 film directed by Junta Yamaguchi
Crazy Thunder Road (狂い咲きサンダーロード)
1980 film directed by Sōgo Ishii
Funky Forest: The First Contact & The Warped Forest (ナイスの森 THE FIRST CONTACT / あさっての森)
2005 & 2011 films directed by Hajime Ishimine, Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (腑抜けども、悲しみの愛を見せろ)
2007 film directed by Daihachi Yoshida
Hiruko the Goblin (妖怪ハンター ヒルコ)
1991 film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Nobuhiko Obayashi: Anti-War Trilogy Box
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (この空の花 長岡花火物語) [2012]
Seven Weeks (野のなななのか) [2014]
Hanagatami (花筐) [2017] - already available standalone
Toshiaki Toyoda: 2005-2020 Box
Hanging Garden (空中庭園) [2005]
Monsters Club (モンスターズクラブ) [2012]
I'm Flash (アイム・フラッシュ！) [2012]
Wolf's Calling (狼煙が呼ぶ) [2019]
Day of Destruction (破壊の日) [2020]
Zokki (ゾッキ)
2021 film directed by Yamada Takayuki, Takenaka Naoto, Saitoh Takumi
2020 film directed by Junta Yamaguchi
Crazy Thunder Road (狂い咲きサンダーロード)
1980 film directed by Sōgo Ishii
Funky Forest: The First Contact & The Warped Forest (ナイスの森 THE FIRST CONTACT / あさっての森)
2005 & 2011 films directed by Hajime Ishimine, Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (腑抜けども、悲しみの愛を見せろ)
2007 film directed by Daihachi Yoshida
Hiruko the Goblin (妖怪ハンター ヒルコ)
1991 film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Nobuhiko Obayashi: Anti-War Trilogy Box
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (この空の花 長岡花火物語) [2012]
Seven Weeks (野のなななのか) [2014]
Hanagatami (花筐) [2017] - already available standalone
Toshiaki Toyoda: 2005-2020 Box
Hanging Garden (空中庭園) [2005]
Monsters Club (モンスターズクラブ) [2012]
I'm Flash (アイム・フラッシュ！) [2012]
Wolf's Calling (狼煙が呼ぶ) [2019]
Day of Destruction (破壊の日) [2020]
Zokki (ゾッキ)
2021 film directed by Yamada Takayuki, Takenaka Naoto, Saitoh Takumi
Eureka Entertainment titles have been leaked as per usual. The new additions for Asian Cinema are:
CINEMATIC VENGEANCE! 7 Kung Fu Classics From Director Joseph Kuo (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
Release Date: 15th November 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
The 4 disc seven film box set contains seven films from Taiwanese director Joseph Kuo.
Full Alert (Blu-ray)
Release Date: 18th October 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
1997 Hong Kong film from director Ringo Lam (Wild Search, Maximum Risk, Replicant, In Hell).
Release Date: 15th November 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
The 4 disc seven film box set contains seven films from Taiwanese director Joseph Kuo.
Full Alert (Blu-ray)
Release Date: 18th October 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
1997 Hong Kong film from director Ringo Lam (Wild Search, Maximum Risk, Replicant, In Hell).
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Eureka Entertainment titles officially revealed.
CINEMATIC VENGEANCE! 8 Kung Fu Classics From Director Joseph Kuo
Release Date: 15th November 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
Limited Edition includes a hardbound case featuring newly commissioned artwork by Darren Wheeling, 60-page booklet featuring new writing on the films by James Oliver, illustrated with archival imagery and materials, and a set of 8 facsimile lobby cards.
Disc 1 cover the following:
Full Alert
Release Date: 18th October 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
Limited Edition includes an o-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju) and a collector's booklet featuring new writing by David West (NEO Magazine). These are limited to 2000 units.
The disc features a 1080p presentation from a High Definition transfer from the original film elements with original Cantonese audio with optional English subtitles, as well as a brand new feature length audio commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival), audio commentary by director Ringo Lam, and an original theatrical trailer.
Arrow's news will be revealed tomorrow and it's heavily referencing the Yokai Monsters collection that was semi-leaked earlier in the year.
CINEMATIC VENGEANCE! 8 Kung Fu Classics From Director Joseph Kuo
Release Date: 15th November 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
Limited Edition includes a hardbound case featuring newly commissioned artwork by Darren Wheeling, 60-page booklet featuring new writing on the films by James Oliver, illustrated with archival imagery and materials, and a set of 8 facsimile lobby cards.
Disc 1 cover the following:
- The 7 Grandmasters
- The 36 Deadly Styles
- The World of Drunken Master
- The Old Master
- Shaolin Kung Fu
- The Shaolin Kids
- 18 Bronzemen
- Return of the 18 Bronzemen
Full Alert
Release Date: 18th October 2021
Label: Eureka Classics
Limited Edition includes an o-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju) and a collector's booklet featuring new writing by David West (NEO Magazine). These are limited to 2000 units.
The disc features a 1080p presentation from a High Definition transfer from the original film elements with original Cantonese audio with optional English subtitles, as well as a brand new feature length audio commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival), audio commentary by director Ringo Lam, and an original theatrical trailer.
Arrow's news will be revealed tomorrow and it's heavily referencing the Yokai Monsters collection that was semi-leaked earlier in the year.
Arrow's Asian Cinema release for October 2021 is revealed.
Yokai Monsters Collection (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
Release Date: 18th October 2021
Collection includes:
Yoshiyuki Kuroda's Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters [妖怪百物語, 1968]
Yoshiyuki Kuroda's Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare [妖怪大戦争, 1968]
Kimiyoshi Yasuda & Yoshiyuki Kuroda's Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts [東海道お化け道中, 1969]
Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War [妖怪大戦争, 2005]
LIMITED EDITION BOXSET CONTENTS
Yokai Monsters Collection (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
Release Date: 18th October 2021
Collection includes:
Yoshiyuki Kuroda's Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters [妖怪百物語, 1968]
Yoshiyuki Kuroda's Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare [妖怪大戦争, 1968]
Kimiyoshi Yasuda & Yoshiyuki Kuroda's Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts [東海道お化け道中, 1969]
Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War [妖怪大戦争, 2005]
LIMITED EDITION BOXSET CONTENTS
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all four films
- Optional English subtitles on all four films
- Illustrated 60-page collectors’ book featuring new writing on the series by Stuart Galbraith IV, Raffael Coronelli and Jolyon Yates
- Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jolyon Yates
- Postcards featuring newly commissioned artwork for each film by Jolyon Yates
- Foldout ‘yokai guide’ poster illustrated by Jolyon Yates
- Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio
- Hiding in Plain Sight, a brand new documentary giving a primer on yokai for Western audiences, featuring interviews with experts Matt Alt, Zack Davisson, Kim Newman, Lynda E. Rucker and Hiroko Yoda
- Theatrical trailer
- US re-release trailer
- Image gallery
- Brand new 4K restoration of Spook Warfare by Kadokawa Pictures
- Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio for both films
- Theatrical trailers for both films - US re-release trailers for both films
- Image galleries for both films
- DTS-HD MA 5.1 original Japanese and dubbed English audio
- Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes
- Archive interviews with the cast and crew, including Takashi Miike
- Short Drama of Yokai, two shorts detailing the further adventures of the yokai
- Another Story of Kawataro, two shorts featuring the continuing story of the kappa character in the film
- World Yokai Conference, a publicity event where Miike speaks about the film
- Promotional Events, video of the press conference to announce the start and completion of filming, as well as the premiere in Tokyo
- Documentary on the film’s young star, Ryunosuki Kamiki, and his experience making the film
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery