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Shaw Brothers movies - Help Out A Lazy Person

Old 10-18-03, 06:29 PM
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Shaw Brothers movies - Help Out A Lazy Person

Yeah so I saw KILL BILL and loved it. I'm a moderate kung-fu fan, but by no means have I seen everything and it's hard to tell what's good or bad without renting/buying things at random. I used to have a friend who would tape stuff for me all the time and I got turned on to a lot of kung fu movies that way, but I haven't had a connection like that for a long time. After watching KILL BILL it made me want to experience that stuff again. I might have missed out some movies that I should be "in the know" on.

That KILL BILL/DVDTalk deal of the Shaw Brothers 5-DVD set sounds pretty good, but are these movies the "right" versions to buy? i.e. are they widescreen/subtitled? Are they any good??

Any other recommendations from the Shaw Brothers or similar violent kung-fu movies, I mean the real MUST HAVE DVDs that are widescreen/subtitled. I already own Master Of The Flying Guillotine, Lone Wolf and Cub (1 & 2) and The Streetfighter, they've been some faves since childhood and already have on DVD.

Oh and I'm looking for only Region 1.

Thanks in advance.
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If you're only looking for region 1, then you shouldn't post this in the International Forum.

The best Shaw Bros discs are being released by Celestial in region 3. These are the only releases that are consistently letterboxed and subtitled and taken from original vault materials.
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Originally posted by SpinnerX
If you're only looking for region 1, then you shouldn't post this in the International Forum.
My bad, I figured it just meant international movies on DVD in general. I'm also up for Region 0, of course.

MODS : please move thread accordingly?
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I guess, it's oK here, a lot of KungFU heads hang out here, but IMHO it's a good start and a nice price, they're vhs qualities most of them, but for nostalgic reasons, I dig the dubbed editions of SB classics also.

Chang Cheh and Gordon Liu, two piece killer combo!!!
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Are these HKFLIX cheapies widescreen? I asked this in another thread & was ignored
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Originally posted by JJE-187
Are these HKFLIX cheapies widescreen? I asked this in another thread & was ignored
Maybe it's a taboo topic.
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Some are and some aren't.
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I own a lot of Asian films but no Shaw Brothers. So, regardless of region, which ones are considered the best? Say, give me your top 5. []
Old 10-19-03, 05:29 PM
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These are some of the recent R3 releases that are very good that I have seen:

Come Drink With Me
Water Margin
36th Chamber of Shaolin
Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Return to the 36th Chamber
Magic Blade
The Delinquent
Shaolin Temple

About 10-20 new ones are being released each month. Many of the classics have yet to be released.
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Originally posted by eXcentris
I own a lot of Asian films but no Shaw Brothers. So, regardless of region, which ones are considered the best? Say, give me your top 5. []
It's hard to say, because there's simply so many undiscovered gems out there in the Shaw Brother's library. Celestial is ultimately planning on releasing about 650 out of a THOUSAND of these films on DVD.

The ones that are "known" tend to be the ones that came to the grindhouses back in the day for one reason or another - and those have almost all been available only in dubs for many years, and dubs make it impossible to truly judge a film.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin is a great place to start - that's an awesome movie. I've also really liked the Magic Blade and the Killer Clans.

But the fact is - we don't really know what's out there yet. People have only been exposed to the tip of the iceberg(and a dubbed tip at that) when it comes to the Shaw Brothers.
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Holy smokes, one thousand! Now I can see how my question can appear silly. The only one I'm familiar with is 36th Chamber of Shaolin so I guess I'll start with that. I'll do some research on the web to ge better acquainted with what the Shaw Brothers library has to offer. Thanks for the info guys.
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These sites may help w/ some of your choices:
http://www.shawstudios.com/
http://tombofdvd.com/linnscave2.htm
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Here are some of my favorites...in no particular order:

Shaolin Master Killer
Chinese Super Ninjas
The Five Deadly Venoms
Return of the Five Deadly Venoms
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Gotta love the Gordon Liu classic, 'Dirty Ho' just for the name alone.

Instead of buying them in 5 disc sets, here are some cheap ones on their own:
http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/qtype.a.../qx/titles.htm

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