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Shaw Brothers Presents: The Basher Box

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Number of Discs
3

Release Date
23/10/2023

Studio
Arrow Video

format
Blu-ray / Box Set (Restored)

Duration
351

Certificate UK
15

Description

At the dawn of the 1970s, a new kind of hard-hitting action film swept the Asian film industry: the kung fu movie, often known to Western audiences as 'bashers' for their emphasis on hand-to-hand combat. Shaw Brothers was one of the greatest producers of these eye-popping action spectaculars, revolutionizing the genre through the back-breaking work of top-shelf talent on both sides of the camera as well as unbeatable widescreen production value, much of it shot at 'Movietown', their huge, privately-owned studio on the outskirts of Hong Kong. This triple bill of redemption and revenge kicks off in 1972 with Korean director Chung Chang-wha's King Boxer, the film that established kung fu cinema as an international box office powerhouse when it hit Stateside cinemas under the title Five Fingers of Death. From there we see Chang Cheh, arguably Shaw's most prolific director, helm the blood-soaked brutality of The Boxer from Shantung and Chinatown Kid, the latter set on the streets of San Francisco.

Producer: Run Run Shaw
Actor: Lo Mang
Writer: Kuang Ni
Director: Chung Chang-wha
Music: Yung-Yu Chen
Actor: Chen Kuan-Tai
Director: Chang Cheh
Writer: Chang Cheh
Actor: Shirley Yu
Actor: Alexander Fu Sheng
Actor: Lo Lieh
Actor: Wang Ping
Actor: Chao Hsiung
Producer: Runme Shaw
Cinematographer: Mu-To Kung
Actor: David Chiang
Cinematographer: Yung-Lung Wang
Writer: Chiang Yang
Actor: Wang Chin-Feng
Actor: Cheng Kang-Yeh
Cinematographer: Ting-Bang Yuan
Actor: Jenny Tseng
Actor: Chiang Nan
Actor: Ching Li
Actor: Tien Feng
Actor: Philip Kwok

Main Format
Blu-ray

Keyword Index
Shaw Brothers Presents: The Basher Box|Lo Lieh

Alternative Title
King Boxer/The Boxer from Shantung/Chinatown Kid

Colour
Colour

Region
Region B

Subtitles
Subtitled & Dubbed

Extras 1
High Definition extras tbc

Extras 2
Language(s):Mandarin,Cantonese,English, HardofHearingSubtitles:English, Subtitles:English, InteractiveMenu, Screenratio1:2.35, Mono

Extras 3
BonusFootage, Commentary:'KingBoxer':DavidDesser(editor);'ChinatownKid'internationalversion:TerrenceJ.Brady(author);SelectscenecommentarybySusanShaw, Documentaries:'CinemaHongKong:KungFu'(2003);'ElegantTrails:FuSheng'(2005), ImageGallery, Interviews:ChungChang-wha(director);WangPing(actor);ChoYoung-jung(Koreancinemaexpert/author);ChenKuan-tai(actor);JohnWoo(assistantdirector);DavidChiang(actor);ConversationbetweenChenKuan-taiandKuFeng, 'KingBoxer':AppreciationbyTonyRayns(critic/historian);Alternateopeningcredits;'ChinatownKid':115minuteinternationalversionand90minutealternateversionincluded, Trailers

Catalogue Number
FCD2464

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