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That ATOZ restoration looks stunning.
According to the comments below (on the page Mark posted) Eureka/MOC will also be releasing ATOZ.
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saltysam wrote:A Touch Of Zen restored by Carlotta in France...surely a BD is in the offing. http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17069

They're just the distributor. It's been restored by L'Immagine Ritrovata same as Dragon Inn
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Didnt they restore A Better Tomorrow as well?
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Markgway wrote:
saltysam wrote:i confess to having never seen Touch Of Zen....but would pick it up. i really like Fate Of Lee Khan...
Have you seen Raining in the Mountain? That's arguably Hu's best.
nope,will try and catch it.
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grim_tales wrote:Didnt they restore A Better Tomorrow as well?
Yes they've been commissioned to restore a dozen or so classics. Afaik Dragon Inn is the first to get an HD home release
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Cool, hopefully theres a full list somewhere
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:o Dear God
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Return of the One-Armed Boxer
- http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00ZKAWD9Q?

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True HD, too
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=265009


How was Shout's One-Armed Boxer DVD? Was the audio fine? This info was probably at KFC, but...
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HungFist wrote:Return of the One-Armed Boxer
- http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00ZKAWD9Q?

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True HD, too
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=265009
can never got enough Wang Yu,i've got the old Crash Cinema dvd.this will only likely just have the english dub but i'll probably pick it up.

HungFist wrote:How was Shout's One-Armed Boxer DVD? Was the audio fine? This info was probably at KFC, but...
think it was ok.i'll check.
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HungFist wrote:...
How was Shout's One-Armed Boxer DVD? Was the audio fine? This info was probably at KFC, but...
The Mandarin was fine. There was no English dub. Here is partially what I wrote on KFC (I posted a medium length review here):
This is my favorite release of the Shout! set and the second time I have seen the film. There are two strong releases with this and Beach of the War Gods (funny enough I watched this right before seeing the battle-centric The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.) There is no English dub for this though the rest of the films have one. Not a negative for me since I'm just happy this is out and the Mandarin release sounded good to me.
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Maybe I'll buy it then. It's been ages since I saw it, and I never saw the other films in the set.
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The reason I like Wang Yu's Shaw output is because you don't need to be a fan to enjoy them.

The stuff he did for Harvest (including the indies) you really need to be a fan of his.
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I'm a Wang Yu fan :rock:
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Markgway wrote:The reason I like Wang Yu's Shaw output is because you don't need to be a fan to enjoy them.

The stuff he did for Harvest (including the indies) you really need to be a fan of his.
I generally agree with this and it certainly helps being a fan, but there are several titles I like from Golden Harvest (The One-Armed Boxer (1972: Jimmy Wang Yu)) and several I do not (The Tattooed Dragon (1973: Lo Wei), A Queen’s Ransom (1976: Ting Shan-hsi)).
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I am a Wang Yu fan, especially his One Armed Boxer films. His weakest output of his heyday are definitely the snooze fests Lo Wei made with him in Japan - I still can't work up the effort to see Queen's Ranson.
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Ivan Drago wrote:I still can't work up the effort to see Queen's Ranson.
You're lucky. I've seen it.

STONER is another stinker.
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Markgway wrote:
Ivan Drago wrote:I still can't work up the effort to see Queen's Ranson.
You're lucky. I've seen it.

STONER is another stinker.
How is Stoner related to Wang Yu?
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HungFist wrote: How is Stoner related to Wang Yu?
It's not. Just another example of the very worst Golden Harvest output in the mid-70s.
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I like Stoner for its cheesiness, but it's kind of alarming how shoddy it is considering it could have had a fair stab at the international market. Same for Slaughter in San Francisco.
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Ivan Drago wrote:... I still can't work up the effort to see Queen's Ranson.
I've also seen it. It is quite awful. I gave it the lowest rating I have given a non-Bruceploitation film in years. Re-reading my review (I also mentioned Stoner): "This movie makes Stoner seem competent."
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Ivan Drago wrote:I like Stoner for its cheesiness, but it's kind of alarming how shoddy it is considering it could have had a fair stab at the international market. Same for Slaughter in San Francisco.
Yellow-Faced Tiger another stinker.
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But again, it's one I quite enjoy. A Man Called Tiger and Seaman No.7 are the worst Lo Wei's I've seen - extremely slow and dull, and not goofy enough to offset that.
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Can't wait for Yellow Faced Tiger to come out here soon....love it :) Don Wong Tao's wildly out of control fighting style (he got better) is epically great
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I think Conan O'Brien used it on his show once.
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