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starschwar
2 hours ago, bickle14 said:

By the time it becomes available... Fists will probably be out of stock with them. At least that's been my luck... Then you'll place an order...and Oh... there it is back in stock.  I try to consolidate to ship all to US, but sometimes things go out of stock if I wait too long. Another one of the frustrations of trying to order directly with them. I wish they made things easier.

Yeah, good point.  I don't want to miss out on Fist of Legend, I've been wanting that for so long.  Screw it, I'll figure out something else to pair with Island later on.

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AslanBey
6 minutes ago, saltysam said:

Strange that's there no English dub option on Fist Of Legend

I noticed this just now. Thats a big minus for me. A deluxe edition should have dub versions. I try it every time but I just cant watch movies with subtitles. It was a must have for me but now I have to think twice.

Thats really strange. Maybe an error on the website?

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Killer Meteor

It's likely because the HK rights holder, who I assume the disc is licensed from, doesn't have rights to the Dimension dub.

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Omni Dragon

Before the 2000 Miramax dub there was an earlier English dub recorded around 1995 in Hong Kong though, with Pierre Tremblay, John Culkin and Simon Broad.

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24 minutes ago, bickle14 said:

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Chemical Lemon
57 minutes ago, bickle14 said:

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Hope these are multi region releases of stuff not released in either UK/US and not just the UK side of what Shout Factory released last year. 

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Yihetuan

I have to say the packaging for An Autumn's Tale looks pretty nice but Immortal Story is kinda meh.

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Drunken Monk

Sex & Zen deluxe release. I couldn't be happier. Thought a box-set with the other films would have been nice.

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Yggdrasil
On 4/25/2024 at 12:58 PM, AslanBey said:

I noticed this just now. Thats a big minus for me. A deluxe edition should have dub versions. I try it every time but I just cant watch movies with subtitles. It was a must have for me but now I have to think twice.

Thats really strange. Maybe an error on the website?

I couldn't watch Asian films with subs on to begin with, but then realised I can look at the subs and the action at the same time. I've learned to read quickly even though I'm dyslexic.

Bear in mind there's no talking when there's fighting, and that's what we usually go for.

There are some exceptions though. Zu warriors from the magic mountain has just got waAy too much dialogue for me to read and watch the action, so I've missed out a lot on that film. There's some others, but can't remember them.

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Yihetuan
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39 minutes ago, DiP said:

An Autumn's Tale is a welcoming addition in 88's Asia Catalogue! Hopefully, they can start getting rights to more non-action/crime Hong Kong titles. Like comedies.

We can only hope. Granted licensing 'non-action' titles may not generate the same amount of buzz & sales but I imagine they are cheaper to license to begin with, so there's that trade off.

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Knetan

But it's also such an approachable, gentle, lovely film. Not dramatically difficult to get into, nothing fancy or arty about it so hoping people will watch An Autumn's Tale for just that. A scruffy looking Chow Yun-fat, but kind, utterfly charming and one of my favourite scenes is just him listening to Cherie Chung sing on the phone. 

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Niklaus Vogel

Surprised no special features had been listed for all three titles at all.

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On 5/3/2024 at 7:07 PM, Yihetuan said:

We can only hope. Granted licensing 'non-action' titles may not generate the same amount of buzz & sales but I imagine they are cheaper to license to begin with, so there's that trade off.

True. But I believe it depends on mere titles as certain genre movies of Hong Kong cinema could generate moderate amount of buzz and sales. On the subject of HK comedies, I think Michael Hui (Brothers) movies could be a good start.

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lilmanjs

They have announced this today with pre-orders soon. Very unexpected! 

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saltysam
2 minutes ago, lilmanjs said:

They have announced this today with pre-orders soon. Very unexpected! 

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That was announced a couple of months ago.

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Yggdrasil
23 minutes ago, lilmanjs said:

They have announced this today with pre-orders soon. Very unexpected! 

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I'm not going to double dip. I'm fine with the past release.

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lilmanjs
1 hour ago, saltysam said:

That was announced a couple of months ago.

Well I meant more that it's actually ready for checking. They love to be silent on delays and such with other Chan titles.

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bickle14
On 4/6/2024 at 4:06 PM, bickle14 said:

Green has a Facebook group where he posted more teases of the work. Definitely Bodyguard From Beijing.  Unless he’s using that same color palette on two covers…

Now that Green has shared this publically...

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13 minutes ago, bickle14 said:

Now that Green has shared this publically...

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I really dig this one and the climatic fight is top-notch!

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34 minutes ago, bickle14 said:

Now that Green has shared this publically...

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A first timer for The Bodyguard From Beijing in 4K then!

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BigDruDogg

I was just notified by a store that I pre-ordered Fist of Legend 4k with, that it was delayed 2 weeks from May 27 to June 10th

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