Girls Unbutton
by Taylor Wong
from Universe Laser & Video Co., LTD.
Black Vengeance: Black Fist/The Black Six/Black Gestapo/Black Cobra II
from Bci / Eclipse
4 movies on 2 double-sided discs! "Black Fist" (1976 94 min.) - To make a little extra money a Los Angeles street fighter goes to work for some local gangsters but after a few deals go south he ends up having to battle his way out. "The Black Six" (1974 85 min.) - A black high school student is beaten to death when he is caught dating a white girl. The boy's brother a member of a black biker gang comes to town to avenge the death. "Black Gestapo" (1975 89 min.) - When a nurse working at the Army hospital gets assaulted the "People's Army" decides to regulate but the group becomes a bit mad with power and another black leader has to do some regulating of his own! "Black Cobra II" (1988 95 min.) - A tough Chicago cop (Fred Williamson) and an Interpol inspector team up in the Philippines to catch a notorious terrorist who holds 350 school children hostage. System Requirements:Starring Carl Eller Charles Robinson Fred Williamson Gene Washington Lem Barney Mean Joe Greene Mercury Morris Richard Lawson Rod Perry Willie Lanier Directed by Lee Frost Matt Cimber Richard Kaye Stelvio Massi Running time: 363 minutes Copyright BCI Eclipse 2003Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: URBAN/URBAN Rating: R UPC: 787364450398 Manufacturer No: 44503-9
Spiritual Love
by David Lai
from Tai Seng
A supernatural love story from Hong Kong, with heavy Splash overtones. Chow Yun-fat mugs happily as a lovable screwup, a collector for a loan shark, whose cranky girlfriend happens to be a ghost. The mixture of romance, comedy, and slapstick horror is pure Hong Kong--especially when the ghost girl's dead husband erupts from Hell to get her back, taking the form of a purple, flying, disembodied head. Meanwhile, Chow's Cantonese opera-singing mannish cousin (Cherie Cheung, from Peking Opera Blues) pines for him secretly and mines the legendary content of ancient librettos for charms to be used against the sexy spirit. In the best episode, Chow performs some funny, mincing imitations of classic Chinese opera routines. --David Chute
Rich and Famous
by Taylor Wong
from Tai Seng
Chow Yun-fat in his smooth, controlled Better Tomorrow mode as a charismatic gang lord. It's a derivative mob chronicle, enjoyable but flat-footed to the point of incoherence (most of the visual and character transitions are bungled). Basically it's about two young brothers who get into crime in the '50s, after the super-cool "nice" gang boss, Chai (Chow), shields them from a nasty older gangster with a shaved head. Eventually one of the brothers, Yung (Alex Man Chi-lung), betrays Chai, strangles a lovable fat Thai drug smuggler, and goes into business for himself. The second, good brother emigrates to Malaysia to open a seafood restaurant. The movie makes no sense morally: Chow's character is a drug smuggler, but he's romanticized because he rewards loyalty and loves puppies. The tangled undergrowth of brother-love, father-love, boss-love, and he-manly loyalty--almost none of it thought through or sorted out--would be far too rich an emotional stew for most American films. The sequel, Tragic Hero, is actually a better movie. --David Chute
Tragic Hero
by Taylor Wong
from Tai Seng
There's some extravagant bloody gunplay, but not much else of interest, in this superior 1987 sequel to Rich & Famous. The new film picks up the story of intramural Chinese Mafia conflict six years later. Fortunately, Chow Yun-fat's character, Chai, comes to the fore in part 2, giving the star a chance to replay his suffering-nobility number from John Woo's A Better Tomorrow. After returning from his self-imposed retirement from gang life, he is stripped of all his worldly goods in agonizingly slow stages, so that he can exact total revenge in a flamboyant Scarface-style siege on the bad guy's fortress headquarters. The underlying theme of "masoch-ismo" that runs through the Chinese gunplay films has rarely been as lavishly indulged. Everybody survives a staggering number of bullet hits in this movie--especially Chow, who must get shot 30 times during the climactic battle sequence alone, yet remains standing. Only Woo's A Better Tomorrow II uses up more blood squibs per foot of celluloid. --David Chute
Triads: The Inside Story
by Taylor Wong
from Tai Seng
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