A BETTER TOMORROW II – Shout! Review: John Woo’s Fully-Loaded Sequel Maxes Out With Guns Blazing!
Starring Ti Lung, Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, and Dean Shek
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A BETTER TOMORROW – Shout! Review: One Of Hong Kong Cinema’s Finest, Made By One Of Hong Kong Cinema’s Finest
Starring Ti Lung, Chow Yun Fat, and Leslie Cheung
Streaming Sleepers: In MERCENARIES FROM HONG KONG, Wong Jing’s Fresh 80s Action Classic
Mercenaries From Hong Kong was previously reviewed for the twenty-sixth edition of Fantasia Festival. The film is currently available to stream via Arrow Player. Undoubtedly, one of the most well-received aspects of being an avid Arrow Video collector nowadays means being exposed to rounds of cult classic titles long-adorned by certain niches. Specifically, we’re talking those of the Hong Kong cinema kind and folks especially fond of Arrow’s Shawscope 2K restorations of late, including and not limited to Wong Jing’s third directorial outing in his career with Ti Lung starrer, Mercenaries From Hong Kong. Ti Lung plays Lok Li, a hired killer working in Hong Kong already wanted for murdering the son of a crimeboss. Before he can escape to Thailand until the heat blows over, Lok gets enveloped into even more trouble at the behest of Ho Ying (Candice Yu), a wealthy tycoon’s daughter who claims she is being […]
Fantasia XXVI Review: A Look At Wong Jing’s 1982 Action Adventure, MERCENARIES FROM HONG KONG
Undoubtedly, one of the most well-received aspects of being an avid Arrow Video collector nowadays means being exposured to rounds of cult classic titles long-adorned by certain niches. Specifically, we’re talking those of the Hong Kong cinema kind and folks especially fond of Arrow’s Shawscope 2K restorations of late, including and not limited to Wong Jing’s third directorial outing in his career with Ti Lung starrer, Mercenaries From Hong Kong. Ti Lung plays Lok Li, a hired killer working in Hong Kong already wanted for murdering the son of a crimeboss. Before he can escape to Thailand until the heat blows over, Lok gets enveloped into even more trouble at the behest of Ho Ying (Candice Yu), a wealthy tycoon’s daughter who claims she is being blackmailed by the assassin who allegedly murdered her father and stole a highly confidential audiotape. Assembling a team of six to retrieve the tape […]