| Description |
4 videodisc (583 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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monaural rdacpc |
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HDTV rda |
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video file rdaft |
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Blu-ray |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
The Criterion Collection |
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Criterion collection.
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| Note |
Title from container. |
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Films originally released 1978-1985. |
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Special features: 2k digital restoration ; new audio commentaries for the Fearless hyena and The young master featuring Hong Kong cinema expert and producer Frank Djeng; Interview with author Grady Hendrix about actor-director Jackie Chan ; Archival interviews with Chan, actor-director Sammo Hung, actors Michiko Nishiwaki and Hwang In-shik, and more ; promo reel for The young master and deleted scenes from the film ; Interview from with Hong kong cinema critic Paul Fonoroff about producer-director Lo Wei ; NG shots from The young master and My lucky stars ; trailers. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: Half a loaf of kung fu (96 min.) -- Spiritual kung fu (98 min.) -- Disc 2: Fearless hyena (98 min.) -- Fearless hyena II (94 min.) -- Disc 3: Young master (104 min.) -- Disc 4: My lucky stars (96 min.) |
| Credits |
Editor, Vincent Leung Wing-Chan ; Cinematographers, Chris Chen Ching-Kui, Chen Jung-Shu ; music, Frankie Chan. |
| Cast |
Half a loaf of kung fu: Jackie Chan, Chun-Erh Lung, Cheng-Lan Chin. |
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Spiritual kung fu: Jackie Chan, Chih-Ping Chiang, Hsiu-yi Fang. |
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The fearless hyena: Jackie Chan, James Tien, Dean Shek |
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Fearless hyena II: Jackie Chan, James Tien, Dean Shek |
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The young master: Jackie Chan, Pai Wei, Biao Yuen |
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My lucky stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Charlie Chin, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung |
| Summary |
Originally tapped as a potential successor to Bruce Lee, Hong Kong martial-arts phenom Jackie Chan soon established his own unique screen persona, blending goofball slapstick and bone-crunching kung fu into intricate feats of supercharged athleticism. Tracing his rise from breakout star to full-fledged auteur, these six unabashedly silly, unstoppably entertaining early-career highlights find Chan refining the lovably mischievous image that would make him a global icon, while also assuming greater creative control over his projects, first as his own martial-arts choreographer, and later as a writer-director who set a thrilling new standard for daredevil action comedy. |
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Half a loaf of kung fu (1978): A young man poses as "the Whip King" and collects the reward for a bandit he has seen killed by a famous bounty hunter. He must now learn Kung Fu if he is to live up to this new persona and conquer the enemies he has inherited. |
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Spiritual kung fu (1978): A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts. |
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The fearless hyena (1979): "A young man whose sickly grandfather has taught him a secret form of Kung Fu, starts to make a living off of his unique fighting style, only to attract the attention of his grandfather's mortal enemy." |
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Fearless hyena II (1983): "A pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood. Two members of the brotherhood and their two male children being chased by Heaven, Earth, and miscellaneous bad guys. The two members get away separately with their children. Twenty years later, we see the two boys have grown up to be very different. Chan Lung hunts frogs and snakes and keeps them in his pants. The other is a lazy man who uses windmill-driven levers to deliver things to and from bedside, even a chamberpot and breakfast. Eventually, their respective paternal figures are killed, and they are forced to fight Heaven and Earth." |
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The young master (1980): A talented martial arts student goes after his expelled brother, who get into bad company. |
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My lucky stars (1985): "Muscles, cop from Hong Kong, is in Japan chasing a bad HK cop. His cop partner gets taken by the ninja gang. Muscles gets his 5 old no-good friends from the orphanage to help find the bad cop. Lots of comedy and kung-fu fighting follows." |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| System Details |
Blu-ray, all regions, wide screen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); Monaural; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
Cantonese or English dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Kung fu -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Martial arts -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Deception -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Students -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Enemies -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Brothers -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Police -- Drama -- Juvenile fiction.
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Chinese language materials.
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| Genre |
Chinese language materials.
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Foreign films, Chinese.
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Action and adventure films.
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Martial arts films.
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Comedy films.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Chen, Chi-Hwa, film director.
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Cheng, Long, 1954- actor, director.
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Lung, Chun-Erh, actor.
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Chin, Cheng-Lan, actor.
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Luo, Wei, 1918-1996, director.
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Chiang, Chih-Ping, actor.
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Fang, Hsiu-yi, actor.
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Shek, Dean, actor.
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Tien, James, 1942- actor.
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Wei, Bai, actor.
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Yuan, Biao, actor.
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Hae-Ryong, Lee, actor.
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Hung, Samo, 1952- actor, director.
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Qin, Xianglin, actor.
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Fung, Shui-Fan, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515289115 |
| Music No. |
CC3499BD-1 The Criterion Collection |
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