Actors & Directors
- Stanley Tong
- Rongguang Yu
- Athena Chu
- Emil Chau
- Michelle Yeoh
- Siu-Wong Fan
Release date: 1997-05-06 Run time: 109 min. Price: $39.99
Review Project S / Tai Seng Video Marketing:This popular and beloved film, produced by Tsui Hark and directed by Ching Siu Tung, is a standout in the Hong Kong supernatural-action genre and spawned many sequels and copycats. A Chinese Ghost Story stars Leslie Cheung as Ning Tsei-Shen, a timid and likable tax collector. Looking for a place to stay the night, he comes upon a spooky abandoned temple occupied by a tough Taoist swordsman (Ma Wu). Despite his warnings, Tsei-Shen stays anyway. Later he encounters a beautiful maiden (Joey Wang) who he quickly falls in love with. Unfortunately, she is a ghost who is being forced to trap men for an evil spirit who feeds on their souls. A Chinese Ghost Story has been widely praised for infusing the genre with humor, action, romance, and inventive special effects. Memorable images include an attacking mile-long tongue and a cloak opening to dozens of ghastly decapitated heads. The final battle in hell is said to have inspired scenes in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness. And the film has its share of homage: A group of crusty zombies are reminiscent of the skeletons in special-effects guru Ray Harryhausen's 7th Voyage of Sinbad-and they are eliminated by Tsei-Shen in comedic slapstick fashion, not unlike the style of Charlie Chaplin. [+]
Cheung and Wang are a likeable romantic pair, and Ma Wu creates a hilarious character who breaks out into song and a martial arts dance when drunk. The DVD transfer is topnotch, with the film's misty mood lighting and fluttering gowns appearing layered and crisp. It's a must-see for Hong Kong action film fans. -Shannon Gee Former Miss Malaysia and current butt-kicking Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh leaped to international attention costarring alongside Jackie Chan in Supercop. The film was actually the third installment of Chan's successful Police Story series, but that didn't stop cagey producers from turning out Supercop 2 as a solo vehicle for the lean, lithe Yeoh. She travels from mainland China to Hong Kong to "advise" local cops on a Chinese drug lord and discovers Rong Guang Yu (from Iron Monkey and Rock and Roll Cop), her former lover and now the leader of a militia-style gang in partnership with her quarry. Yeoh is in fine form, kicking off the picture with a thrilling close-quarters battle in a high-rise hotel, but the complicated plot of high tech crime, double crosses, and conflicted loyalties strangles the action and slows the film despite such action highlights as an impressive three-man raid on a well-armed criminal den. (Jackie Chan's jokey cameo as a cop in drag doesn't really help matters. ) The film finally regains its energy in an explosive free-for-all bank heist climax, in which the painful English dubbing becomes all but unnoticeable as bullets fly, bodies crunch, and balletic Michelle Yeoh moves like a dynamo. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Ray Robertson
- Esther Wing Ho Kwan
- Koon-Lan Law
- Otto Chan
- Simon Yam
- Bill Tung
Release date: 1998-06-19 Price: $39.99
Review The Final Judgement / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Kant Leung
- King-Tan Yuen
- Simon Lui
- Emotion Cheung
- Kar-Ying Law
- Elvis Tsui
Release date: 1999-07-15 Price: $79.95
Review Hang wan bei kap / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Suki Kwan
- Jing Wong
- Danise Chan
- Ben Ng
- Joe Tak-Chung Ma
- Tian-lin Wang
Release date: 1999-07-14 Price: $79.95
Review A True Mob Story / Tai Seng Video:
Release date: 1999-07-15 Price: $39.99
Review Dash Nsx2 / Tai Seng Video:
Release date: 2003-09-19 Run time: 48 min. Price: $19.95
Review Oil Garlic & Lemon on Bread / Sisu Home Ent.:
Actors & Directors
- Wai Lam
- Ray Lui
- Sibelle Hu
- Lung Chan
- Billy Chan
- Wai Shum
Release date: 1998-06-18 Price: $39.99
Review Crazy Spirit / Tai Seng Video:
Release date: 2002-12-03 Run time: 86 min. List Price: $24.95 Price: $57.99
Review Life & Art of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner / Kino Video:
Actors & Directors
- Martha Mijares
- Maricruz Olivier
Release date: 2002-07-30 Run time: 130 min. Price: $9.99
Review Quinceanera / Vci Video:
Release date: 2003-09-19 Run time: 52 min. Price: $19.95
Review Compromise / Sisu Home Ent.:
Release date: 1998-06-18 Price: $39.99
Review Yellow Rain / Tai Seng Video:
Release date: 2004-04-20 Run time: 102 min. Price: $14.95
Review Dias De Boda (Spanish) (Sub) / Venevision:An extravagantly planned ceremony that reveals the unexpected reality. An ambitious writer, who uses sex without barriers to advance professionally, becomes engaged with the daughter of a well established editor to further his career. His fiancée is the perfect bride to be awaiting the magical day that she has dreamt of all her life, only to find herself suddenly faced with her partner's dark secret for everyone to see.
Actors & Directors
- Wing-Cho Yip
- Kit Mok
- Lung Ti
- Mansook Ahmed
- Tung-Shing Yee
- Bowie Lam
Release date: 1998-06-19 Price: $39.99
Review People's Hero / Tai Seng Video:A terrific small-scale suspense thriller about a botched bank robbery and the hostage crisis that grows out of it. Two jittery kids (one a showy epileptic played by Hard Boiled's Tony Leung Chiu-wai) chicken out before they can finish knocking over a small branch bank; with their escape route cut off, they are forced to improvise. Ti Lung, from A Better Tomorrow, is a low-level mobster on the lam who tries to exploit the chaotic media circus that develops, first to extort a set of exit papers for himself, and then to bust his slatternly girlfriend out of the slammer. This is almost a one-set movie, skillfully orchestrated by director Yee Tung-sing: an exercise in synthetic tension. And the resemblance to Dog Day Afternoon is much too close for comfort. Ti Lung (a former kung fu superstar, here in his mid-40s) is a monumentally graceful actor. He doesn't flinch from the unsavory truth of his ruthless, stubborn, thin-skinned character, but he nevertheless makes us empathize with an aging bully's drive to get out from under. The hot-wired actor Tony Leung Kar-fai (the spineless husband in Lady in Black) plays a stressed-out cop bent on capturing the mobster. -David Chute.
Release date: 1998-06-19 Price: $39.99
Review Night Van / Tai Seng Video:
Release date: 2000-05-18 List Price: $29.95 Price: $49.95
Review The Other Cuba / Mirada:
Actors & Directors
- Ann Bridgewater
- Calvin Choi
- Charlie Cho
- Charine Chan
- Remus Choi
Release date: 1998-06-19 Price: $39.99
Review Trouble Couples / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Kwan Lee
- Feng Tien
- Ivy Ling Po
- Yan Yan Chen
- Ching Lee
Release date: 2001-11-20 Price: $39.99
Review Crimson Palm / Tai Seng Entertainment:
Release date: 1998-06-18 Price: $39.99
Review Combo Cops / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Ka-Kui Ho
- Jamie Luk
- Ming Yan Lung
- Kent Cheng
- Maggie Cheung
- Kin-Nam Cho
Release date: 1998-06-19 Price: $39.99
Review Beloved Son of God / Tai Seng Video:
Release date: 1998-06-18 Price: $39.99
Review Deep in the Night / Tai Seng Video:
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