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Next Monday quite possibly the best martial arts/kung fu film ever finally makes its way on to DVD in UK! (more…)

Kim Jee-woon’s fun-packed The Good, The Bad, The Weird – starring Song Kang-Ho, Lee Byung-Hun, Jung Woo-Sung and Uhm Ji-won – will be released in UK cinema’s on 6 February 2009.

You can read our review here »

Infamous Shaw Brothers Kung fu flick King Boxer (aka Five Fingers Of Death) is finaly being released in the UK on DVD. This edition will have the bonus features from the US Dragon Dynasty release, incuding a commentary from Quentin Tarantino and plenty of additional interviews with filmmakers and martail art movie experts.

King Boxer will be released by Momentum Pictures on 23 March 2009 (postponed from 23 February).

From prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, director of extreme cinema cult classics such as Audition and Ichi The Killer, comes Sukiyaki Western Django, a deranged exercise in movie genre splicing that not only redefines the spaghetti (or, in Japanese terms, ‘macaroni’) western in Miike’s own inimitable style but also stars Quentin Tarantino (returning the favour for Miike’s cameo appearance in Hostel).

Five years after their award winning performances in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, co-stars David Carradine and Daryl Hannah are reunited in the action-packed, period martial arts adventure White Crane Chronicles, released on DVD (£19.99) by Brightspark Productions on 29th December 2008.

Tsui Hark’s follow-up to the classic Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain is a spell blinding feast for the eyes. The special effects are equal anything Hollywood has to offer, but sadly it’s also just as hollow… (more…)

Sergio Leone meets The Wacky Races in Kim Jee-woon’s Asian Western – it’s a real blast!… (more…)

Some six years after it was originally released this Korean classic has finally been made available in the UK – but has it been worth the wait?… (more…)

Takeshi Miike’s first English language film is a stylish Spaghetti Western homage with a thickly accented Japanese cast and a cameo by Quentin Tarantino – well really, what did you expect…? (more…)

Takeshi Miike’s first English language film, the Spaghetti Western inspired Sukiyaki Western Django, is released on DVD today by Contender Home Entertainment. The cast includes Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya and Masanobu Ando with a cameo appearence by Quentin Tarantino.

You can read our review here »

Gordon Liu (Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2) stars in a kung fu classic that is so much more than your average revenge movie… (more…)

Icon Films, the distribution company for Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, have announced the UK release dates as 6 February 2009. An old-fashioned adventure yarn the way Indiana Jones movies used to be, this Sergio Leone homage is fantastic big screen entertainment! You can read our review here »

Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with Jee-woon and lead Lee Byung-hun, coming soon…!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s Chow Yun-fat gives one of the finest performances of his career in his third and best collaboration with director Ringo Lam. But action fans expecting the high octane experience of Full Contact beware… (more…)