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Still, I think Volume One has more to offer the new fan than Volume Two, which feels very much like the second course in a curriculum. If you enjoyed Volume One (and have looked into Arrow’s other standalone Shaw releases this year), Vol. Two offers more of the same, with a few exciting additions. If you’re looking to explore these classic pictures for the first time, though, make sure to start at the top. A Hero on the Scaffolding (14:40, SD) – Liu, an unnamed martial arts trainer, and bamboo scaffold workers compare the film’s scaffold kung fu and the actual art of scaffolding in this 2003 Celestial Pictures featurette Omen isn’t as outright pornographic as Ghost or the films that would follow. Instead, it plays out as a horror version of a martial arts training film, a video-nasty 36th Chamber of sorts. As someone squeamish about regurgitation, I almost had to turn it off. Gaylord Picht on Hard Target | 4K UHD + Blu-ray (Kino Lorber) That's fantastic news! I'm thrilled to hear that the 116 min test screening v…
Both The Return to 36th Chamber and The Disciples of 36th Chamber then include alternate opening credits for the Hong Kong version of the film. These are basically the same as how the presentations on this disc open, but it appears Celestial redid them digitally for their restoration, so Arrow is presenting the unaltered credits. Return also includes the alternate English title sequence, which has been sourced from a video tape. Each film then includes their respective Hong Kong trailers and digital trailers (to advertise Celestial’s earlier restorations I believe) along with galleries featuring production photos, lobby cards, posters, and home video art. Disciples doesn’t offer any other exclusive features. Two CDs of music from the De Wolfe Music library as heard in several of the films, exclusive to this collection DISC EIGHT – MARTIAL ARTS OF SHAOLIN / THE BARE-FOOTED KID • Uncompressed Cantonese, Mandarin and English original mono audio for both films • Newly translated English subtitles, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dubs • Brand new commentary on Martial Arts of Shaolin by Jonathan Clements • Brand new commentary on The Bare-Footed Kid by Frank Djeng of the NY Asian Film Festival • Newly filmed appreciations of both films by film critic and historian Tony Rayns • Interview with Martial Arts of Shaolin screenwriter Sze Yeung-ping, filmed in 2004 • Alternate standard-definition version of Martial Arts of Shaolin • Hong Kong and Japanese theatrical trailers for Martial Arts of Shaolin, plus trailers for the preceding Shaolin Temple films starring Jet Li • Hong Kong theatrical trailer and UK VHS promo for The Bare-Footed Kid • Image galleries for both films Cinema Hong Kong: Swordfighting, the second installment in a three-part documentary produced by Celestial Pictures in 2003 and featuring interviews with Liu, Lau Kar-leung, Cheng Pei-pei, John Woo, Sammo Hung, Kara Hui, David Chiang and others Hong Kong and Japanese theatrical trailers for Martial Arts of Shaolin, plus trailers for the preceding Shaolin Temple films starring Jet LiThe slipcover, disc book, and booklet for Volume Two are identical in form and size to Volume One, except deep red rather than blue. Look, I’ve gone on about how much I love this format. I use Billy bookcases to display my DVDs, which are pretty deep — in fact, just the right depth to slide these into my Arrow collection without breaking up the row of collector’s editions they sit beside. For fans who use custom shelves or shallower units, though, these look incredible sitting atop a shelf with other extra-sized sets. Tiger Style: The Musical Impact of Martial Arts Cinema, a newly filmed overview of Shaw Brothers’ influence on hip-hop and other music genres, featuring music historian Lovely Jon
Ska Martes on Hard Target | 4K UHD + Blu-ray (Kino Lorber) Love this movie. As lomg as its the longer international cut, this is the onl… Arrow then includes a 2003 Celestial featurette entitled A Hero on Scaffolding, running 14-minutes. It ends up not being at all what I had expected. What I expected was a general featurette about the film and what I got was a featurette that is more about the various types of scaffolding in Hong Kong, though intercut with details about how it’s used in the film and information around Shaolin martial arts techniques. To my surprise it ends up being rather interesting. New artwork by Mike Lee-Graham, Chris Malbon, Kagan McLeod, Colin Murdoch, “Kung Fu” Bob O’Brien, Lucas Peverill, Ilan Sheady, Tony Stella, Darren Wheeling and Jolyon YatesRivers and Lakes, a brand new video essay on Shaw Brothers’ depiction of Chinese myth and history, written and narrated by Jonathan Clements, author of A Brief History of China
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