Shaw Bros/King Hu reissues!

[Chang Style Novice]

The definitely not fictitious Vulcan Video recently began acquiring the new reissues of old school Shaw Brothers classics, so I got my third ever taste of the genius of King Hu last night (and the first ever decently transferred taste.)

Come Drink With Me rocks. The fight scenes are fast, gory and brutal with very little of the over-the-top acrobatics that characterize the later Chang Cheh and Liu Chia Liang picturesaand the subtitles were all spelled correctly and shoved under the LETTERBOXED! frame. With the hideous pan-and-scan/dismal and dingy look of the older King Hu issues I've seen (Dragon Inn and One Armed Swordsman, in case you're interested) gone, I began to really appreciate his talent for filmmaking. The use of outdoor locations is a huge improvement over the papier-mache-boulder strewn sound stages I'm used to, and the guy knew his way around a tracking shot, although nothing particularly fancy happened. Besides that, all the classic elements that I love so much were there - a kungfu master disguised as a drunken beggar, exotic weapons, a battle fought under the pretense of everyday activity (serving food), family loyalty, revenge, cruel villains disguised as Buddhist monks, wacky nicknames, the whole lot. I can't wait for them to reissue Mad Monkey Kungfu looking as good as this.

[jun_erh]

I have most of the new shaw bros reissues on vcd.

Don't miss The Monkey Goes West Series

1. Monkey Goes West
2. Cave of Silken Web
3. Princess Iron Fan

[Oso]

any sources for these reissues???

TIA

[dezhen2001]

Mad Monkey rocks! so do the old classics like 5 Venoms and the like... ah - the good ole days :cool:

dawood

[Chang Style Novice]

Oso - the clerk said they didn't get the DVDs for region coding reasons, so I assume they were mail ordered from Taiwan or HK.

[jun_erh]

no. I get them in Chinatown Boston. they're eight dollars apiece


http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/qtype.all/keyword.350/qx/titles.htm

The region thing doesn't apply to vcd. Vcd's are cool, it's srt of like 16 bit as opposed to 32. packaging is very cool. I also liked

1. The Lizard
2. Legend of the Bat
3. The three smiles

and a master killer reissue is forthcoming.

[fuhok-kid]

Jun_erh, Where in Boston Chinatown? I've been looking for a store that sell kungfu flixs but can't seem to find any?

[Crimson Phoenix]

Don't miss "The Magic Blade"

BTW, these DVDs are from Celestial Pictures, a Singaporean company that bought back every SB movies rights...and they are doing an incredible job with putting the movies back in shape...some of their transfers look almost new, it's incredible :eek:

[Oso]

ahhh, but I now have the power of SAMPO !!!!!

[dezhen2001]

Oso: thats a dam scary avatar man! :eek:

dawood

[Oso]

is jus a wee little babe, looking at lunch on the torso:)

[dezhen2001]

lol - im sure i have seen an "edited" pic of that babe :D
quiet around here today for some reason?

dawood

[Oso]

it's just a crop of this pic.
I just thought the expression was priceless.
I couldn't get the whole caption in my title though.
We do need to lobby for larger avatar sizes though.
Maybe a graduated avatar size, say every 1000 posts you can get a bigger avatar size.

say, what is your's btw?

[dezhen2001]

its a crop of a certain persons hijab (scarf) saying as shes not here nowadays :)

nah the pic was a bit different - a big grin. Let me see if i can play and i will post my own version lol

dawood

[Oso]

ahhhh! I see. :)

[dezhen2001]

looks good though doesnt it? The blue is amazing :)
anyway heres kinda what i meant - i just did it quickly in photoshop :D

dawood

[Oso]

well, it's a little small to tell...and I think you are a bit biased;) :)

cool bit with the photoshop edit, careful or I'll sick my girlfriend on the image. remember this is her work

www.curious3d.com


and she's the one who rebuilt my website.

[dezhen2001]

lol - cool website :) i should really be studying - but for some reaosn im on KFO though nothing is happening :p

dawood

[Oso]

there is plenty happening...you're here, I'm here...I tried to post a thread to a questionable site and got a pm from KL.

my first spanking from KL:D it's all good though.

[dezhen2001]

exciting! kinda scary image conveyed there too! :eek: do you have any chat capability?

check your email btw :)

dawood

[Oso]

I just turned on icq and yahoo messenger.

I don't ever run them constantly but can chat with both.

which email??

[jun_erh]

Boston Chinatown is in Boston. It's not a store, it's Chinatown the part of town!!!

Also, I just got "Buddha's Palm" it's AWESOME. from 1982, sort of Zu (1st one) -ish