Stars: Jet Li, Michelle Reis, Jospehine Siao, Chan Chun Yung, Sibelle Hu, Paul Chu, Peter Chan, Vincent Zhaob | Written by Jeff Lau | Directed by Corey Yuen
Review by Baron Fortnightly
As a long time Jet Li fan, and a huge fan of his Fong Sai-yuk series of films, I jumped at the chance to review this release from Cine Asia. First, let’s get the specs out of the way. The 126 minute, 1993 film is presented in 16:9 widescreen, with both a 2.0 Cantonese and 5.1 English soundtrack, and optional English subtitles. Special features consist of an audio commentary from Hong Kong cinema expert Bay Logan, and interviews with director and fight choreographer Corey Yuen, and writer Jeff Lau.
The video quality is not brilliant, but about what you’d expect due to the nature of the movie, its age and original country of origin. The version presented is the Dimension re-scored and re-edited version,...
Review by Baron Fortnightly
As a long time Jet Li fan, and a huge fan of his Fong Sai-yuk series of films, I jumped at the chance to review this release from Cine Asia. First, let’s get the specs out of the way. The 126 minute, 1993 film is presented in 16:9 widescreen, with both a 2.0 Cantonese and 5.1 English soundtrack, and optional English subtitles. Special features consist of an audio commentary from Hong Kong cinema expert Bay Logan, and interviews with director and fight choreographer Corey Yuen, and writer Jeff Lau.
The video quality is not brilliant, but about what you’d expect due to the nature of the movie, its age and original country of origin. The version presented is the Dimension re-scored and re-edited version,...
- 1/29/2017
- by Guest
- Nerdly
The Legend Of Fong Sai-yuk
Guest Review by Baron Fortnightly
Stars: Jet Li, Michelle Reis, Jospehine Siao, Chan Chun Yung, Sibelle Hu, Paul Chu, Peter Chan, Vincent Zhaob | Written by Jeff Lau | Directed by Corey Yuen
As a long time Jet Li fan, and a huge fan of his Fong Sai-yuk series of films, I jumped at the chance to review this latest release from Cine Asia. First, let’s get the specs out of the way. The 126 minute, 1993 film is presented in 16:9 widescreen, with both a 2.0 Cantonese and 5.1 English soundtrack, and optional English subtitles. Special features consist of an audio commentary from Hong Kong cinema expert Bay Logan, and interviews with director and fight choreographer Corey Yuen, and writer Jeff Lau.
The video quality is not brilliant, but about what you’d expect due to the nature of the movie, its age and original country of origin. The...
Guest Review by Baron Fortnightly
Stars: Jet Li, Michelle Reis, Jospehine Siao, Chan Chun Yung, Sibelle Hu, Paul Chu, Peter Chan, Vincent Zhaob | Written by Jeff Lau | Directed by Corey Yuen
As a long time Jet Li fan, and a huge fan of his Fong Sai-yuk series of films, I jumped at the chance to review this latest release from Cine Asia. First, let’s get the specs out of the way. The 126 minute, 1993 film is presented in 16:9 widescreen, with both a 2.0 Cantonese and 5.1 English soundtrack, and optional English subtitles. Special features consist of an audio commentary from Hong Kong cinema expert Bay Logan, and interviews with director and fight choreographer Corey Yuen, and writer Jeff Lau.
The video quality is not brilliant, but about what you’d expect due to the nature of the movie, its age and original country of origin. The...
- 9/13/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
A UK trailer has been released for martial arts epic The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk, released on DVD by Cine Asia next Monday, September 6. You can watch the trailer below.
It stars Jet Li, currently on the big screen in Sylvester Stallone's action-hero ensemble The Expendables.
The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk won Best Action Choreography Award at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Awards and the awards for Best Martial Arts Direction and Best Editing at Taiwan's prestigious Golden Horse Film Festival.
It is considered one of the most breathtaking and spectacular martial arts action movies of the 1990s.
Directed by Corey Yuen, the director of The Transporter and Doa: Dead Or Alive and action director of X-Men and Lethal Weapon 4, it also stars Michelle Reis (Bodyguards And Assassins), Chu Kong (Once A Thief) and veteran Chinese actress Josephine Siao (Hu Du Men).
The film is said to boast "some...
It stars Jet Li, currently on the big screen in Sylvester Stallone's action-hero ensemble The Expendables.
The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk won Best Action Choreography Award at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Awards and the awards for Best Martial Arts Direction and Best Editing at Taiwan's prestigious Golden Horse Film Festival.
It is considered one of the most breathtaking and spectacular martial arts action movies of the 1990s.
Directed by Corey Yuen, the director of The Transporter and Doa: Dead Or Alive and action director of X-Men and Lethal Weapon 4, it also stars Michelle Reis (Bodyguards And Assassins), Chu Kong (Once A Thief) and veteran Chinese actress Josephine Siao (Hu Du Men).
The film is said to boast "some...
- 9/1/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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