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[bryant]

Pleasingly, Columbia just released the Once Upon A Time In China series on a two-DVD set for a mere twenty-five bucks or so. Each movie is on one side of a DVD, so there’s no quality compromise. Alas, they left out the commentary from their previous edition of Once Upon A Time In China I, but one can’t have everything and it was just a commentary from a Hong Kong film expert rather than anyone connected with the production.

The picture quality is great, blowing away my memories of the scratchy print I saw in the Towne lo these many years ago. And it’s three of Jet Li’s best flicks for $25. I can’t think of any reason other than having the single movie editions why a Hong Kong action movie fan wouldn’t want these.

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[artbroken.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, I really want these! OUATTIC 2 is one of my alltime fave pics.

Crossing my fingers for an Aussie release...

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Didn't Jet Li do a fourth Wong Fei Hung movie "Once Upon a Time in China and America" or something? I'm too lazy to dig through my bookcase and find my HK cinema index...

I've got UOATIC 1-3 a few years ago on DVD, released by Media Asia I think (again too lazy to get off my ass and go look). I haven't watched them in awhile but remember it being a good encoding with tons of subtitles. Had like Thai and Korean and fun stuff. I remember the translation being pretty good too.

This series is very good, but I'm more partial to 'Tai Chi Master' (released on DVD here by, oh, New Line or something as 'Twin Warriors'). Awesome movie.

Jet Li has got to stop being in hip hop gansta movies with DMX and start doing big epics with Tsui Hark again. All his american flicks have been really really bad sadly.

[bryant]

Yep. Actually the sixth OUaTiC movie, but he wasn't around for numbers four and five.

My fave HK Jet Li movie is still My Father The Hero. Anita Mui, yowza.