Shaolin Mantis Blu-ray
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Posted November 26, 2021 06:53 PM by Webmaster
88 Films has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Liu Chia-Liang's Shaolin Mantis (1978), starring David Chiang, Cecilia Wong, and Wilson Tong. The release will be available for purchase on March 22. (Previously, the release was set to arrive on the market on December 7).
Description: A rare collaboration between legendary Shaw Brothers director Liu Chia-Liang and equally legendary Shaw leading man David Chiang, Shaolin Mantis has Chiang playing a young noble forced by the Ching government to infiltrate a family suspected of being Ming loyalists, and if he doesn't get the evidence they want, his entire family will be killed. Things become further complicated when the scholar falls in love with the family's granddaughter.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: MARCH 21.
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The label has revealed new street dates for two previously announced releases: The Flag of Iron (1980) and Legendary Weapons of China (1982). Previously, both titles were supposed to arrive on the market on October 26.
Legendary Weapons of China
Description: When the former member of a failing magical kung fu order threatens to destroy the remaining group's reputation through his loud mouth insults and defamatory behaviour, an elite band of killers is dispatched to silence him forever.
Though perhaps the golden age of martial cinema had been and gone, this late entry wuxia style film from The Shaw Brothers house of dreams was still able to pack a powerful punch. Written, directed and starring Chia-Liang Liu (The Spiritual Boxer, Spiritual Boxer II), this gloriously fast-paced drama which entertainingly mixes swordplay with hand to hand combat in a fabulously furious rollicking adventure weaves its own special kind of magic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 7.
The Flag of Iron
Description: Another cult classic from the Shaw Brothers Studio, The Flag of Iron is a quintessential Hong Kong tale of rivals, betrayal and family feuds. When the master of the Iron Flag clan is killed by a mysterious assassin known only as Spearman, it sets off an explosive chain of events which pits two brothers against each other in an action-packed adventure of fist flying fury.
Directed by Chan Cheh (The One-Armed Swordsman, Five Venoms), this kinetic and highly influential Kung Fu picture, mixes traditional storytelling with more modern presentation techniques, layering acrobatics, the use exotic weaponry and quick as lightening fight sequences to produce a sure fire entertaining hit, which no serious collector of martial arts movies can be without.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 7.
Description: A rare collaboration between legendary Shaw Brothers director Liu Chia-Liang and equally legendary Shaw leading man David Chiang, Shaolin Mantis has Chiang playing a young noble forced by the Ching government to infiltrate a family suspected of being Ming loyalists, and if he doesn't get the evidence they want, his entire family will be killed. Things become further complicated when the scholar falls in love with the family's granddaughter.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary with Asian cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
- Audio commentary with Asian cinema experts Frank Djeng
- Complicated Families - David West on Shaolin Mantis
- Uncle Tien Chung - An Interview with John Cheung
- Trailers:
- US Trailer (The Deadly Mantis)
- Hong Kong Trailer
- Audio:
- Lossless English Mono 2.0
- Lossless Mandarin Mono
- Newly-translated English Subtitles
- New artwork from R.P. "Kung Fu Bob" O'Brien & Original Hong Kong poster artwork
UK STREET DATE: MARCH 21.
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The label has revealed new street dates for two previously announced releases: The Flag of Iron (1980) and Legendary Weapons of China (1982). Previously, both titles were supposed to arrive on the market on October 26.
Legendary Weapons of China
Description: When the former member of a failing magical kung fu order threatens to destroy the remaining group's reputation through his loud mouth insults and defamatory behaviour, an elite band of killers is dispatched to silence him forever.
Though perhaps the golden age of martial cinema had been and gone, this late entry wuxia style film from The Shaw Brothers house of dreams was still able to pack a powerful punch. Written, directed and starring Chia-Liang Liu (The Spiritual Boxer, Spiritual Boxer II), this gloriously fast-paced drama which entertainingly mixes swordplay with hand to hand combat in a fabulously furious rollicking adventure weaves its own special kind of magic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- RESTORED IN THE ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO OF 2.39:1
- Audio:
- English LPCM Mono
- Mandarin LPCM Mono 2.0
- Newly translated English subtitles
- Audio Commentary by Mike LEeder and Arne Venema
- Eighteen Weapons - David West on Legendary Weapons of China
- Reversible sleeve with brand-new artwork from R.P. "Kung Fu Bob" O'Brien & Original Hong Kong poster artwork
- Slipcase with brand-new artwork from R.P. "Kung Fu Bob" O'Brien
- Double-Sided A3 Foldout Poster
- Extensive Booklet Notes "A Strange Call to Arms - Revisiting the Odd Landscape of Chia-Liang Liu's Early 80s Martial Arts Flick, The Legendary Weapons of China (1982)" by Andrew Graves
- REGION A/B "LOCKED"
UK STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 7.
The Flag of Iron
Description: Another cult classic from the Shaw Brothers Studio, The Flag of Iron is a quintessential Hong Kong tale of rivals, betrayal and family feuds. When the master of the Iron Flag clan is killed by a mysterious assassin known only as Spearman, it sets off an explosive chain of events which pits two brothers against each other in an action-packed adventure of fist flying fury.
Directed by Chan Cheh (The One-Armed Swordsman, Five Venoms), this kinetic and highly influential Kung Fu picture, mixes traditional storytelling with more modern presentation techniques, layering acrobatics, the use exotic weaponry and quick as lightening fight sequences to produce a sure fire entertaining hit, which no serious collector of martial arts movies can be without.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- RESTORED IN THE ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO OF 2.39:1
- Audio:
- English LPCM Mono
- Mandarin LPCM Mono 2.0
- Newly translated English subtitles
- Slipcase with brand-new artwork from R.P. "Kung Fu Bob" O'Brien
- Double-Sided A3 Foldout Poster
- Extensive Booklet Notes "Red and Black Attack Unfurling the Fury of Cheh Chang's Gloriously Inventive Martial Arts Masterwork, The Flag of Iron (1980)" by Andrew Graves
- REGION A/B "LOCKED"
UK STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 7.
