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Derek Yee’s follow up to One Night in Mongkok, Protégé, is released on DVD today by Liberation Entertainment. You can read out review here »
And there’s still a chance to enter our giveaway competition to win one of three copies – but hurry, there’s just a few more days to go! Enter here »
The new film by director Derek Yee (One Night In Mongkok) and starring Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Infernal Affairs) and Daniel Wu (One Night In Mongkok, Purple Storm) is released on DVD in the UK on 8 September by Liberation Entertainment.
Directed and co-written by Dante Lam (The Twins Effect) and starring Nicholas Tse (Dragon Tiger Gate; New Police Story; The Medallion) and Jingchu Zhang (Rush Hour 3; Seven Swords), the intense, hyper-kinetic crime thriller THE BEAST STALKER comes to DVD in January 2010 as a two-disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition that fans of hard-boiled action cinema will not want to miss.
Tse stars as Sergeant Tong, a tough and uncompromising Hong Kong detective willing to put everything on the line in the pursuit of the city’s most dangerous underworld kingpin, Cheung Yat-tung (Philip Keung). However, on the day he manages to apprehend his target a fateful car crash sparks a tragic chain of events that begins with Tong accidentally killing the eldest daughter of Ann Gao (Zhang), the public prosecutor in charge of handling the case against Cheung.
Just as Cheung is about to stand trial, Ann’s younger daughter is kidnapped by a relentless contract killer, Hung (Nick Cheung), a man also familiar with tragedy and who has been blackmailed into taking on the job by Cheung’s henchmen. Still devastated by recent events, Tong, against Ann’s wishes, determines to seek out Hung and rescue the young girl in an attempt to find some kind of redemption amidst the chaos of his shattered life.
A pulse-pounding thriller with plenty of emotional kick, THE BEAST STALKER is a gripping ride that features one of the most stunning cinematic car chases seen in recent years and an awesome – and ultimately significant – crash sequence delivering a final twist that will leave audiences breathless.
Special Features include: Behind The Scenes (The Car Chase; Scaling The Sign; The Street Chase; Little Actors); Making Of; Interview Gallery (Nicholas Tse; Jingchu Zhang; Nick Cheung; Dante Lam); extended/alternate scenes; trailer gallery; Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Cantonese and 5.1 English audio options; optional English subtitles.
Three undisputed masters of contemporary Hong Kong cinema – Tsui Hark (Seven Swords; Zu Warriors; Once Upon A Time In China), Ringo Lam (Full Contact; City On Fire) and Johnny To (Mad Detective; PTU) – join forces for the first time ever to apply their directorial skills ‘exquisite corpse’ style to Triangle, an “inventive, and darkly comic” (Mail on Sunday) crime thriller starring Louis Koo (Flashpoint), Simon Yam (SPL; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life), Honglei Sun (Mongol; Seven Swords), Lam Ka Tung (Mad Detective; Infernal Affairs) and Kelly Lin (Mad Detective; Zu Warriors).
