Member Linn1 Posted March 7, 2007 Member Share Posted March 7, 2007 I have postponed buying Rebellious Reign on Vengeance DVD simply because Rarescope may release it in the original language and the correct aspect ratio. Considering Fortune Star owns the rights to this film, I don't think they will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ivy Ling Po Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Is it in Fortune Star's release schedule Linn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lei Kung Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Fresh out of the mailbox, I just got Elimination Pursuit and Love and Sword. Yeah, I see the dub on LaS is off, but the subs are fine (on both, but burned in). My 15 days of impatience has ended. Damn the mail is slow! Yesterday the mailman started putting mail in the boxes in my cluster then threw it in reverse, out of sight behind a dumpster as I stood watching, almost like he was trying to hide from me. He then emerged with a small package, only to bring it to my neighbor, and proceeded to speed away before I could talk to him. On EP it says "from the team who brought you 'Clutch of Power'. Is this another Roc Tien movie of the same sort, and if so is it available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ironfistedmonk2003 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Vengeance released Clutch of Power mate, its an OK film with a big cast Chen Sing, Beardy, Yen Shi Kwan, Philip Ko, Meng Fei, Doris Lung and the Champ Wang. No Tien Peng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 That is one hell of a cast. Does Yen Shi Kwan have any good action? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lei Kung Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Morgoth, I may be dead tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 No hard drugs, I am telling you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lei Kung Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Yeah, I'll probably just sit down with a pint of wiskey and a dubie. Man, I cannot wait to watch this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 It is quite an experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Love and sword was very good, and is defintely helped otu by a great ending. the final fight that lasted like 10 minutes was AWESOME!!!!! You can tell that the crew for this movie put some serious time into this fight. I would guess it took a few days to shoot for thi one scene. The action is very good all around. Ivy Ling Po-the kid is annoying at times, but he is not in it very much. By the last freeze frame shot of the movie, I was glad he was in it. My review should be posted within a few days. It is going to be hard not to give anythign away writing a review for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ironfistedmonk2003 Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 I thought the kid was quite good and not in the slightest bit annoying, I agree about the end fight, it raised the film up a notch with some sweet swordplay. Regards Yen Shi Kwan in Clutch of Power, my memory is a bit sketchy (I say that about most films I have seen, a few months after seeing them I really struggle to remember details!) but I think he has a small good guy role, he gets to have a bit of a tear up but he is not one of the main characters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 YEah, I was probably a bit harsh. He is just a bit annoying, but I did like his character. The movie though, man that was great. I had to watch it again last night. 8/10, though I am stuck between an 8 and 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I forgot to talk about the 2 audio tracks. The English track is completely wasted as said before. The MAndarin is fine but you can hear the loop. The good music blocks it out most of the time and the sound is not much of a problem, except during the scenes that are supposed to be totally silent. I am easy to please so I had no problem, but it would have been nice to watch the movie with the English dub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ivy Ling Po Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Waiting to read your review at Amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Ok, I will put it up now. But do me a favor and leave a comment and tell me what you think of it. It would maek me feel a little better because some POS keeps giving all my reviews negative votes and I have to keep deleting them and resubmitting them so they don't all say 0/4. But, ever since this person has been stalking me, my reviewer rank has skyrocketed:D And nobody else gets to comment on my reviews! They are all bad, I know:p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lei Kung Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Just watched this tonight. I don't have much more to add that hasn't already been said. I didn't mind the kid's part; wasn't really annoying or anything. By the way, while watching this I was wondering if Tien Peng does the acrobatics in this, or I suppose, in any of his movies. Was he doubled? He doesn't really appear to be all that limber. This crossed my mind during the end fight with Chin, where he does some flips and stuff. I thought the ending was great. Definitely was not expecting it. Great film all around, quite a bit more coherent than Elimination Pursiut, not sure if I'd say I liked it better though. Typical Tien Peng awesomness... *spoiler editted out* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Linn1 Posted March 16, 2007 Member Share Posted March 16, 2007 as if it never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I didn't see nothin There is one part in the movie i really love. Roc Tien goes into the teahouse where the witch of light and darkness seems to be staying and the waiter asks him if he would like fried human liver or snakehead. Roc Tien just looks at him like WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted February 9, 2022 Member Share Posted February 9, 2022 (edited) Love and Sword (Taiwan, 1979: Yu Kan Ping) - aka The Samurai - This film is sort of special to me, as it was the second old school kung fu film I saw that didn't star Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan. A friend of mine in French 3-4, Bobbe Sysombath, let me borrow a VHS he had with a bunch of films on it. This was the second movie on the tape--the other two were Ninja vs. the Shaolin Guards and Ninja in the Deadly Trap. This one was probably the least memorable of the three, but I never forgot the title--The Samurai--so I decided to revisit it. It's an adaptation of the Ku Long novel, whose work was being adapted by Chor Yuen at the Shaw Brothers for much of the late 70s and early 80s. At the beginning of the film, the entire Meng family is slaughtered by a group of masked fighters...except for the blind daughter (Tang Pao-Yun, in one of her last roles before retiring). She's taken in by über swordsman Fang-Hsieh (Roc Tien), who makes it his business to ferret out and kill each and every fighter involved--they were all masked at the time. The leader of the Martial World puts a bounty on Fang-Hsieh's head because he's killing quite a few people. This draws the attention of Chien Yu (Tien Ho of The Silver Spear) and the Fragrant Killer (Wong Chung, of Beauty Escort and The Heroes), and other mercenaries with colorful names like "The Witch of Light and Darkness." Chien Yu initially helps Fang Hsieh off his would-be assassins, but only because he wants to kill him himself and become the best swordsman in the world. As the bodies pile up, it becomes clear that not everybody is who they seem to be. The action here is just okay. Some of the swordplay is decent, although some fights, like the one against the Deaf and Dumb Assassins, are played for laughs. The fight choreographer is Pan Kao-Yun, who assisted Han Ying-Chieh on A Touch of Zen. His best work was on the 1986 Mainland Chinese film Young Hero of Shaolin Part 2, which had some great wushu and epic fights.The story is interesting, although most viewers will figure out the twists before they actually happen. One of the "surprise" revelations falls flat because the character in question hadn't been onscreen much, so there's no way that the reveal could have influenced the rest of the story in any way. I'd like to have a clean transfer of the dub of this on DVD at some point. Anybody have an pointers? Edited February 9, 2022 by DrNgor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Super Ninja Posted February 16, 2022 Member Share Posted February 16, 2022 On 2/9/2022 at 7:18 PM, DrNgor said: Love and Sword (Taiwan, 1979: Yu Kan Ping) - aka The Samurai - This film is sort of special to me, as it was the second old school kung fu film I saw that didn't star Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan. A friend of mine in French 3-4, Bobbe Sysombath, let me borrow a VHS he had with a bunch of films on it. This was the second movie on the tape--the other two were Ninja vs. the Shaolin Guards and Ninja in the Deadly Trap. This one was probably the least memorable of the three, but I never forgot the title--The Samurai--so I decided to revisit it. It's an adaptation of the Ku Long novel, whose work was being adapted by Chor Yuen at the Shaw Brothers for much of the late 70s and early 80s. At the beginning of the film, the entire Meng family is slaughtered by a group of masked fighters...except for the blind daughter (Tang Pao-Yun, in one of her last roles before retiring). She's taken in by über swordsman Fang-Hsieh (Roc Tien), who makes it his business to ferret out and kill each and every fighter involved--they were all masked at the time. The leader of the Martial World puts a bounty on Fang-Hsieh's head because he's killing quite a few people. This draws the attention of Chien Yu (Tien Ho of The Silver Spear) and the Fragrant Killer (Wong Chung, of Beauty Escort and The Heroes), and other mercenaries with colorful names like "The Witch of Light and Darkness." Chien Yu initially helps Fang Hsieh off his would-be assassins, but only because he wants to kill him himself and become the best swordsman in the world. As the bodies pile up, it becomes clear that not everybody is who they seem to be. The action here is just okay. Some of the swordplay is decent, although some fights, like the one against the Deaf and Dumb Assassins, are played for laughs. The fight choreographer is Pan Kao-Yun, who assisted Han Ying-Chieh on A Touch of Zen. His best work was on the 1986 Mainland Chinese film Young Hero of Shaolin Part 2, which had some great wushu and epic fights.The story is interesting, although most viewers will figure out the twists before they actually happen. One of the "surprise" revelations falls flat because the character in question hadn't been onscreen much, so there's no way that the reveal could have influenced the rest of the story in any way. I'd like to have a clean transfer of the dub of this on DVD at some point. Anybody have an pointers? I have the Rarescope DVD but if I remember correctly it's subbed. Not aware of a better release, or a dubbed one for that matter. As for the movie, it's one of my favorite Taiwanese indies and one of the best if you ask me, I'm surprised you didn't like it more. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlexanderFu Posted February 17, 2022 Member Share Posted February 17, 2022 I think k the best Rarescope release, hands down is the double feature of 'Sword Named Revenge' and 'Dream Sword'. The 1st has a dub and it a great, crazy movie with great characters, the 2nd is no English dub, but east to read subs and a great movie with Chung Wah and Lung Fei. These, Love and Sword, The Lost Swordship and anything with these lead actors is must see! These Gu Long movies put me of Shaw's for the longest time!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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