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A young and unworldly kung fu student is now the student of an evil teacher, the villainous Manchu Lord Tsoi. The young impressionable man soon learns that his choice has made him a villain to his own family and people.

This DVD 2-Pack combines Jackie Chan's 2003 action title, THE MEDALLION, with ART OF ACTION, a 2002 documentary, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, which examines the world of martial arts films. See individual titles for details.DVD Features:Region 1Keep Case2-Disc SetMEDALLION:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Alfred Cheung - Producer Trailer - 1. Theatrical Deleted ScenesART OF ACTION:Full ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Trailers (6)Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection

Stephen Chow`s follow-up to SHAOLIN SOCCER ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley. Chow--who wrote, produced, and directed--doesn`t step in as the star here for quite a while, letting the comic duties fly in a myriad of directions: a landlady in curlers (Yuen Qiu) has a yell that can flatten buildings; people get kicked across courtyards and through walls; musician assassins whip ghost sabers from lyre strings, and a mental patient in pink flip-flops named the Beast (Leung Siu Lung) catches bullets in his fingers. Buoyed by SOCCER`s box office success, HUSTLE uses bigger production values and a dizzying amount of CGI-enhanced martial arts (imagine Bruce Lee vs. Bugs Bunny in THE MATRIX). It`s full of references to other films and filmmakers, revering spaghetti westerns and `70s Shaw brothers movies a la Tarantino`s KILL BILL (fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping worked on both films). It also pays sly homage to the works of Wong Kar Wai, D.W. Griffith, Sam Raimi, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, and Akira Kurosawa. Raymond Wong`s inspired score matches each cinematic reference with the appropriate cue as the camera circles and swoops around the sprawling sets. This is a real treat, more than a great action film or comedy, it`s a great film period, and one that set box office records in the East.

Stephen Chow`s follow-up to SHAOLIN SOCCER ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley. Chow--who wrote, produced, and directed--doesn`t step in as the star here for quite a while, letting the comic duties fly in a myriad of directions: a landlady in curlers (Yuen Qiu) has a yell that can flatten buildings; people get kicked across courtyards and through walls; musician assassins whip ghost sabers from lyre strings, and a mental patient in pink flip-flops named the Beast (Leung Siu Lung) catches bullets in his fingers. Buoyed by SOCCER`s box office success, HUSTLE uses bigger production values and a dizzying amount of CGI-enhanced martial arts (imagine Bruce Lee vs. Bugs Bunny in THE MATRIX). It`s full of references to other films and filmmakers, revering spaghetti westerns and `70s Shaw brothers movies a la Tarantino`s KILL BILL (fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping worked on both films). It also pays sly homage to the works of Wong Kar Wai, D.W. Griffith, Sam Raimi, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, and Akira Kurosawa. Raymond Wong`s inspired score matches each cinematic reference with the appropriate cue as the camera circles and swoops around the sprawling sets. This is a real treat, more than a great action film or comedy, it`s a great film period, and one that set box office records in the East.

Yuen Woo Ping, choreographer for the fights in THE MATRIX and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, directs this 1993 period piece about a group of expert fighters who must band together when Southern China's High Officers begin smuggling opium and endangering the lives of the local villagers. Donnie Yen gives an acrobatic performance as the leader of the fighters who goes against the leaders of China in an attempt to restore peace to the common people.DVD Features:Region 0 (All Regions)Keep Case

Jackie Chan plays a shrewd cop who goes undercover with a team of mercenaries when a man he put away two years before commits a murder. The film features the great Sammo Hung as well as the terrific Tony Leung Ka Fai.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1.Phillip Ree - Martial Arts Expert Trailers - 1.Original Theatrical Trailer

KARATE: THE HAND OF DEATH is a very early kung-fu movie--the first to be released in America--with a big budget, Japanese locations and great fighting. A stolen coin retrieved from the body of a slain ex-Nazi falls into the hands of Matt Carver, who happens to be a black belt karate star. It's not long before Carver realizes how valuable the coin is when he is besieged by people trying to kill him, leading him to research the origins of the coin, with some surprising results. Action packed karate moves ensue with a bloody, and spectacular, finale.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33

An unorthodox coach and a trainer work together to teach a competition team of kickboxers that winning is not just a sometime thing and that a team is not a team if you don't care about one another.DVD FeaturesRegion (unknown)Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreeen - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English