Fast Sword (DVD)
$9.51
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Fast Sword (DVD)
This classic kung fu film features crack action choreographer and martial arts star Sammo Hung.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Interactive Features:Right to the Fight - Scene Selection Interactive MenuText/Photo Galleries: Film Gallery
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Kamikaze Taxi (DVD)
$19.84
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Kamikaze Taxi (DVD)
Corrupt public officials and the mob are in cahoots in this stylish and ultra violent crime picture that reveals complexity under the placid surface of Japanese society. Tatsuo (Kazuya Takahashi) is a wayward orphan working as an underling in the yakuza. When a perverse Senator tortures Tatsuo's girlfriend, she raises hell and is then killed off by the mob for making trouble. An enraged and grief-stricken Tatsuo convinces some of his colleagues to exact revenge on Domon by organizing the theft of $2 million from the Senator's manse. Only Tatsuo escapes unharmed, but now he's got a bounty on his head and a bunch of thugs close behind. Now on the lamb, he hires a Peruvian-born cabdriver (Koji Yakusho) who, since returning to Japan, has found himself a complete social outcast. During the course of the journey, they forge an alliance in an effort to overcome their enemies.Former journalist Masato Harada (who has appeared as an actor in THE LAST SAMURAI) seems to bring the social commentary for which he is known and directed a script that is full of sharp criticism of Japanese society. He hits on political corruption, hatred of foreigners, abhorrent wartime behavior, and many other subjects that have been hidden and relatively unexplored in cinema.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Audio: Stereo - Japanese, English Subtitles - English - OptionalAdditional Release Material: Deleted Scenes Trailers - 1. Original theatrical trailer
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Drive-In Double Features 2: One Down Two To Go/Brotherhood Of Death (DVD)
$8.66
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Drive-In Double Features 2: One Down Two To Go/Brotherhood Of Death (DVD)
Two actioners are packaged together on DRIVE IN DOUBLE FEATURE: ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO and BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH. Four of the greatest stars of the 1970s blaxploitation cycle--Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, and Richard Roundtree--team up for the first time to take down the corrupt organizers of a martial arts tournament. Williamson himself directs this attempt at re-invigorating the blaxploitation combination of action and crime drama. BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH features former football star Mike Thomas as a black Vietnam vet who returns home to see America still wracked by racial intolerance. Gathering his former war buddies, he decides to take revenge on a group of murderous racists. Both ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO and BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH feature funky soundtracks and the anti-authority indignation viewers expect from the blaxploitation genre.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Fred Williamson - Star, Perry Martin - ModeratorText/Photo Gallery: Biographies - 1. Fred Williamson - Star
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Red Shadow (DVD)
$19.84
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Red Shadow (DVD)
Three ninjas, Red Shadow, Blue Shadow and Aska work their way through feudal Japan, often engaging in some highly dangerous missions. They work under the watchful eye of the masterful White Shadow, who trains them, and teaches them to overcome their weaknesses. The society they live in offers plenty of challenges for the fearless warriors, but their insecurities could provide their ultimate downfall if they don't learn how to have confidence in their abilities. Fast paced Anime, RED SHADOW offers some incredible action, animation, and a great soundtrack.DVD Features:Region (unknown)2-Disc SetFullframe - 1.33Audio: Stereo - Japanese, EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary Trailers - 1. Japanese trailers
2. Japanese TV spotsText/Photo Galleries: Stills Galleries Biographies
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Iron and Silk (DVD)
$9.69
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Iron and Silk (DVD)
Fascinated with martial arts and the Chinese culture, Mark takes a job teaching English at a small college in mainland China. Instead of finding the serene, spiritual place he imagined, he finds a bustling city full of political turmoil and a distrust for foreigners.
Based on a true story.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Screen - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - (unspecified)Interactive Features: Scene Access
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Kunoichi: Lady Ninja (DVD)
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Kunoichi: Lady Ninja (DVD)
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on the evil lord Akinari Katou and The 7 Spears, the band of soldiers he commands. Trained assassins and skilled in sorcery, these men took over the Aizu prefecture and took its most beautiful young women as concubines. When they left, they left behind seven daughters, who have now sought out the sword-master Jyubei Yagyuu to help them discover their own power so that they exact their own revenge.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection (DVD)
$28.47
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Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection (DVD)
Akira Kurosawa's stunning reconception of Shakespeare's MACBETH is a dark samurai drama, set in feudal Japan. As the film begins, two soldiers--Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki)--find themselves lost in a dense forest during a powerful thunderstorm. Seemingly unable to leave the woods, they encounter a ghostly old woman who predicts that Washizu will soon rise to power. At the goading of his ruthless wife, Asaji (Isuzu Yamada), Washizu embarks on a murderously ambitious path and quickly fulfills the prophecy. However, his ascension is cursed by his brutal actions and soon opposition arises to challenge his blood-stained rule.One of the finest Shakespeare adaptations to appear in any medium, Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD is covered in an entrancingly macabre web. The always-amazing Mifune gives one of his greatest performances as the haunted yet unrelenting Lord Washizu, while Yamada portrays the eeriest version of Lady Macbeth to ever grace the screen or stage. A master of reinterpretation, Kurosawa incorporates strong elements of Japanese Noh drama into the film, and the result adds to the somber and chilling mood. The film's highlight, however, is the tense and skillfully paced finale, which features Washizu literally up against the wall as he faces an army of vengeful archers.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Single Side - Dual LayerAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Michael Jeck - Japanese Film Scholar Alternate Subtitle Translations Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Galleries: Essay - 1. Kurosawa Piece by Stephen Prince - Film Scholar
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Kiss of the Dragon (DVD)
$9.87
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Kiss of the Dragon (DVD)
The writers of THE FIFTH ELEMENT, Luc Besson (who also directed the Bruce Willis film) and Robert Mark Kamen, have teamed up again to deliver Jet Li in the action thriller KISS OF THE DRAGON. Li stars as Liu Jiuan, a Chinese agent so dedicated to his job that he has no friends, no family, no dreams. He is sent to Paris to help the French police capture a Chinese gangster, but France's top cop, Jeanne-Pierre Richard (Tcheky Karyo), has set Liu up to take the fall for a brutal killing he himself carried out. On the run in a strange city, Liu keeps a low profile until he unwillingly becomes friends with an American hooker, Jessica (Bridget Fonda)--who just happens to hold the key to his innocence. But Richard is always one step ahead of them--he has Jessica's daughter. Li and Fonda make a great team; their relationship is at the core of the film, as neither character has ever been able to put his complete trust in another person before. The action scenes, directed by Corey Yuen, are fast and furious and very violent, featuring mesmerizing moves by Li, especially one involving a billiard ball. Chris Nahon, in his directorial debut, makes excellent use of the location, including numerous shots of famous Parisian landmarks as the bad cops try to machine-gun down Liu in the streets and sewers and on the Seine.
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The Dragon From Shaolin (DVD)
$6.63
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The Dragon From Shaolin (DVD)
Martial arts are the only means of survival as the Ching Government suppress the Shaolin monks.
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Kung Fu Theater Double Feature - Men on the Hour / Attack of the Venoms (DVD)
$9.53
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Kung Fu Theater Double Feature - Men on the Hour / Attack of the Venoms (DVD)
This volume of the KUNG FU THEATER collection presents a double feature of martial arts classics from the vaults of Hong Kong cinema: in MEN ON THE HOUR (1977), rival clans of fighters compete for the honor of carving their names into the Hero Tower; and in the Shaw Brothers-produced ATTACK OF THE VENOMS (1983), investigators must determine if members of the Chinese Opera are being murdered or falling prey to an ancient curse.
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Kubg Fu Theater Double Feature - Ninja Thunderbolt / Invincible Hero (DVD)
$9.53
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Kubg Fu Theater Double Feature - Ninja Thunderbolt / Invincible Hero (DVD)
This volume of the KUNG FU THEATER collection presents a double feature of martial arts classics from the vaults of Hong Kong cinema: in NINJA THUNDERBOLT (1985), a father-daughter crime duo team up with a masterful ninja to steal a valuable jade relic; and in INVINCIBLE HERO (1973), a martial arts student finds his skills tested by a thuggish local gangster.
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Come Drink With Me (DVD)
$11.36
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Come Drink With Me (DVD)
Cheng Pei-Pei stars as Golden Swallow in this influential 1966 martial-arts saga from pioneering director King Hu, one of the first to feature a woman fighter in the lead role. Set in 19th-century China (and featuring a very young Jackie Chan in a bit part), COME DRINK WITH ME has its heroine battling to rescue her brother from a band of kidnappers, in a role that helped pave the way for subsequent hits like Quentin Tarantino`s KILL BILL. This fun, adventurous movie also features the excellent Yueh Hua in the obligatory kung-fu-master-disguised-as-beggar role.
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