Chameleon: A Hero Hever Dies and Accident Blu-ray Releases Detailed
HomeChameleon: A Hero Hever Dies and Accident Blu-ray Releases Detailed
Posted November 7, 2025 08:51 PM by Webmaster
Australian label Chameleon Films has detailed its next two upcoming Blu-ray releases: Johnnie To's A Hero Never Dies (1998) and Soi Cheang's Accident (2009). The two releases are expected to arrive on the market in early January 2026.
A Hero Never Dies
Description: The blood-splattered hero film ignited a golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s, full of outlandish action, mammoth body counts, and plots that might have been hewn out of granite. While Johnnie To came late to the genre, he gives us one of its most exuberant and unrestrained achievements. Jack (Leon Lai) and Chau (Lau Ching-wan) are rival bodyguards whose bosses are engaged in a bloody power struggle that has spilled out of Hong Kong and into Thailand. The two opposing gunmen butt heads, cars, and wine glasses, though they are mirror images, alike in the belief that their destiny stems not from the stars but from the barrel of a gun. Much blood and even more red wine will be spilled in extremes of violence and loyalty. You know the feeling. You have an automatic pistol in each hand, and you walk into a room full of people who need to be shot…
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: We typically celebrate Hong Kong cinema for its wild, unrestrained action, but the uniqueness of Johnnie To's Milkyway project is the way it increasingly searches for abstract qualities within the thriller. This reaches its apogee in Soi Cheang's Accident. Drawing comparison with Coppola's The Conversation, the story deals with an unconventional team of assassins led by Brain (Louis Koo) whose specialty is to stage-manage painstakingly complex hits so that they appear to be accidents. But a Brain will only get you so far, and as cracks open up in his oh-so-organized world, the hunter is forced into the position of the hunted, to question the extent to which events in the world are beyond his control, and to face the terrifying prospect that accidents might be more accidental than they seem. Foregrounding the gritty urban poetry that we expect from Milkyway, this film—full of remarkable compositions and compelling silences—pulls off the extraordinary combination of efficiently riveting thriller and profoundly unsettling meditation on questions of fate and randomness.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
A Hero Never Dies
Description: The blood-splattered hero film ignited a golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s, full of outlandish action, mammoth body counts, and plots that might have been hewn out of granite. While Johnnie To came late to the genre, he gives us one of its most exuberant and unrestrained achievements. Jack (Leon Lai) and Chau (Lau Ching-wan) are rival bodyguards whose bosses are engaged in a bloody power struggle that has spilled out of Hong Kong and into Thailand. The two opposing gunmen butt heads, cars, and wine glasses, though they are mirror images, alike in the belief that their destiny stems not from the stars but from the barrel of a gun. Much blood and even more red wine will be spilled in extremes of violence and loyalty. You know the feeling. You have an automatic pistol in each hand, and you walk into a room full of people who need to be shot…
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEWLY DIGITALLY RESTORED
- Audio:
- Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Mandarin LPCM 2.0
- Newly translated and improved optional English subtitles by Dylan Cheung
- NEW audio commentary by Hong Kong cinema expert Frank Djeng
- NEW interview with Co-Screenwriter Yau Nai-hoi and Action Choreographer & actor Yuen Bun (26 mins)
- NEW interview with Milkyway Image sound designer Martin Chappell (42 mins)
- NEW "Escaping Fate" - video essay on A Hero Never Dies by filmmaker Zach Closs (9 mins)
- Interview with actor Yoyo Mung Ka-wai (3 mins)
- Outtakes (5 mins)
- Photo gallery
- Trailer
- Collector's slipcase & booklet featuring a new essay by film writer & programmer Tim Youngs
Description: We typically celebrate Hong Kong cinema for its wild, unrestrained action, but the uniqueness of Johnnie To's Milkyway project is the way it increasingly searches for abstract qualities within the thriller. This reaches its apogee in Soi Cheang's Accident. Drawing comparison with Coppola's The Conversation, the story deals with an unconventional team of assassins led by Brain (Louis Koo) whose specialty is to stage-manage painstakingly complex hits so that they appear to be accidents. But a Brain will only get you so far, and as cracks open up in his oh-so-organized world, the hunter is forced into the position of the hunted, to question the extent to which events in the world are beyond his control, and to face the terrifying prospect that accidents might be more accidental than they seem. Foregrounding the gritty urban poetry that we expect from Milkyway, this film—full of remarkable compositions and compelling silences—pulls off the extraordinary combination of efficiently riveting thriller and profoundly unsettling meditation on questions of fate and randomness.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK by composer Xavier Jamaux on CD (40 mins)
- Audio:
- Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Cantonese LPCM 2.0
- Newly translated and improved optional English subtitles by Dylan Cheung
- NEW interview with Director Soi Cheang (29 mins)
- NEW audio commentary by film critic Adrian Martin
- NEW "Orchestrating Coincidence" - video essay on Accident by filmmaker Zach Closs (6 mins)
- The Making of Accident with newly translated English subtitles (13 mins)
- Photo gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- Collector's slipcase & booklet featuring a new essay by The Fanatical Dragon
- Reversible sleeve with newly created and original poster artwork
