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A Hero Never Dies
$14.95 | 98 minutes
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&hellip…
Above the Law (Writing Wrongs)
$16.95 | 85 minutes
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&hellip…
Beyond Hypothermia
$7.95 | 90 minutes
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&hellip…
Breaking News
$16.95 | 90 minutes
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&hellip…
Casino Raiders II
$17.95 | 91 minutes
Triad thugs menace an honorable gambler in hopes of shutting down his organization and will stop at nothing to make him fold. Affable Cantopopster Lau returns in this bitter sequel to CASINO RAIDERS&hellip…
Chan Is Missing
$21.95 | 80 minutes
After working in Hong Kong television, Wayne Wang shot this low-budget 16mm black-and-white feature on the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown. CHAN IS MISSING follows the lives of two Chinese cabdrivers, Jo (Wood Moy), a middle-aged man, and Steve (Marc Hayashi), his young partner. Although both are American-born, there is a definite&hellip…
Days of Being Wild
$24.95 | 89 minutes
DAYS OF BEING WILD is the film that started it all for auteur art film director Wong Kar Wai, exhibiting many of the preoccupations and devices that would characterize his work throughout his career until the present time. The precise, almost melodic slowness of the pacing is reflective of the existential conundrum in which the characters&hellip…
Dim Sum - A Little Bit of Heart
$20.95 | 87 minutes
After the success of his low-budget CHAN IS MISSING, the story of a couple of Chinese cabdrivers and some missing money in Chinatown, Wayne Wang returned to the exploration of the melding of Chinese and American culture. In DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, he moves away from the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown and concentrates on&hellip…
Eighth Happiness
$17.95 | 88 minutes
Chow Yun-Fat gives one of his best comedic performances as a womanizer who pretends to be extremely effeminate to get the women he wants. As he splits his time between over a dozen different women, his younger brother falls head-over-heels in love with a girl he meets at the park. Meanwhile their older brother, a TV host, finds himself&hellip…
Electric Shadows
$24.95 | 95 minutes
ELECTRIC SHADOWS is a poignant, bittersweet drama about the relationship between a mute woman and a young delivery boy. After a violent incident brings them unexpectedly together, the two discover their shared love of movies, which helps each of them uncover the stories of their own pasts. The film, which is fantastical, sentimental&hellip…