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A Hero Never Dies Violent and stylish Hong Kong noir about a raging battle between two rival gangs, featuring plot twists, melodrama, and gore. From the director of THE HEROIC TRIO…    more      Above the Law (Writing Wrongs) Sparks fly when a Hong Kong lawyer (Biao) and an American cop (kung fu diva Rothrock) join forces to clean up the streets. Serious martial arts action. Special Features: Alternate Scenes - Ending Audio Commentary - Bey Logan - Cinema Expert Interviews - The Vigilante - Yuan Biao Action Overload - Cynthia Rothrock Featurette - "From…    more      As Tears Go By A somber, atmospheric, almost brooding film set in the frenetic and garish Mongkok district in Hong Kong, AS TEARS GO BY is art house auteur and romantic Wong Kar-Wai's first feature film. It sets the tone of films to come, exemplary of the director's existential preoccupations and obsession with time, chance, and missed connection. At…    more      Beyond Hypothermia Sister Mei (Jacqueline Wu Chien-Lien, EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN), the most skilled assassin in Hong Kong, is also desperately lonely. Her secretive lifestyle makes romantic entanglements very dangerous. The only person she has regular contact with is her boss, an aunt who rescued her from a poverty-stricken childhood in Cambodia. When she strikes…    more      Blind Shaft With a suspenseful plotline that keeps viewers glued to the screen awaiting each new development in this harsh tale of miners and murder in northern China, BLIND SHAFT depicts desperate men who will do anything for money. Controversial in its commentary on China's social problems, with characters poisoned by greed and infidelity having…    more      Breaking News Johnny To (MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS) directs this crime thriller, which begins in explosive fashion as a televised bank robbery is dangerously mismanaged by the police. The criminals escape and leave a bloodbath behind them, and the police decide to use the media to broadcast their attempted capture of the gang. But when the robbers also…    more