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Nov 15, 2021 · Picture 8/10. Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China film series receives an all-new Blu-ray box set courtesy of The Criterion Collection. The first dual-layer disc in the six-disc box set presents the first film, Once Upon a Time in China, in its aspect ratio of about 2.39:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is noted to be sourced ...
Nov 16, 2021 · One of the pinnacles of Hong Kong cinema’s 1990s golden age, the Once Upon a Time in China series set a new standard for martial-arts spectacle and launched action star Jet Li to international fame. It brings to vivid life the colorful world of China in the late nineteenth century, an era of immense cultural and technological change, as ...
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Jul 7, 2008 · ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA III – Wong Fei-hung travels to Peking and is forced to enter a martial-arts contest in order to prevent an assassination attempt against a prominent Chinese diplomat who wants to showcase traditional Chinese martial-arts, and restore national pride. With action sequences choreographed by the legendary Yuen Woo-ping ...
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Aug 17, 2021 · Once Upon a Time in China III. Jet Li's third outing as the storied martial-arts hero Wong Fei-hung in the Once Upon a Time in China films is an exhilarating celebration of Chinese culture peppered with a dash of international espionage. This time around, Wong travels to Beijing, where he finds himself drawn into the intrigue surrounding an ...
Dec 7, 2020 · Starring Jet Li as the real life Cantonese folk hero, Wong Fei-hung, a physical embodiment of traditional Chinese values and moral incorruptibility, the Once Upon a Time in China series is a martial arts epic that charts China’s transition into the modern-world as it gradually abandons its old traditions and begins to accept the inevitable encroach of Western cultures.
Alternate stereo Cantonese soundtracks for Once Upon a Time in China and Once Upon a Time in China II, featuring the original theatrical sound effects, and monaural Cantonese soundtrack for Once Upon a Time in China III Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997) in a 2K digital transfer, featuring 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio and monaural Cantonese soundtracks, along with a stereo ...
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Sep 13, 2024 · Fri Sep 13, 2024 5:34 pm. I had heard about the Meyer news a while ago and that it apparently took a lot of negotiating and work to make it happen. Beyond excited this is happening. As for catalogs that need opening, the Golden Harvest titles by Warner Bros. needs to be dug into further (other than the big Jackie Chan films and the two Once ...
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33 Drunken Master 1978 Hong Kong YUEN Wo-Ping. 34 The Butterfly Murders 1979 Hong Kong TSUI Hark. 35 Ashes of Time 1994 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai. 36 Made in Hong Kong 1997 Hong Kong Fruit CHAN. 37 Sorrows of the Forbidden City 1948 China ZHU Shilin. 38 Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-t'ai 1963 Hong Kong LI Han-Hsiang.
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Aug 7, 2024 · Jet Li, needing a fake name, strikes the Wong Fei-Hung pose, Once Upon a Time in China music swelling, to declare himself Wong... Jing , the B-movie filmmaker. At another point, curling his mother’s hair, he explains he learned the English word “wonderful” from Josephine Siao, ie. the very actress playing opposite him.
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Dec 24, 2004 · Robert De Niro and James Woods star in Sergio Leone's award winning epic. The original director's version. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an aging Jewish gangster ...
