Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)
Cityonfire.com and Well Go USA are giving away 3 Blu-ray copies of Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon to three lucky Cityonfire visitors. To enter, simply add a comment to this post telling us what your favorite Tsui Hark film is, along with a brief explanation of why it’s your favorite. We will be selecting three winners at random. Be sure to include your email address in the appropriate field so we can contact you for your home address. Additionally, you must ‘Like Us‘ on cityonfire.com’s Facebook by clicking here.
The Blu-ray & DVD for Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon will be officially released on February 11, 2014. We will announce the 3 lucky winners on February 10th and ship out the prizes immediately.
CONTEST DISCLAIMER: You must enter by February 10th to qualify. Also, because Well Go USA holds the film’s U.S. rights, only U.S. residents may enter the contest. We sincerely apologize to our non-U.S. visitors. Contest is subject to change without notice.
WINNERS: Congratulations to Ben, Sheldon and Prodigal Son. You have all been notified via email.
Knock-off: Not a typo. This movie is so bad, it’s ridiculously good! It’s all over the place with green explosions, bad humor, an all-star “East meets West” cast, and a story that doesn’t make much sense, but who cares? Honestly, I think the title is definitely an inside joke. One of Van Damme’s best! “Knock-off”…. think about it.
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind: Read our review. What a gem! Forget Once Upon A Time in China? This is a story. http://www.cityonfire.com/dangerous-encounters-of-the-first-kind-1980-aka-dont-play-with-fire/
Time and Tide: Like Knock-off, it’s a film that’s all over the place, but you can’t keep your eyes off it. There are some seriously great action sequences in this one. Pure Hong Kong entertainment.
Seven Swords, because Donnie Yen and Charlie Yeung made that one a blast!
Once Upon A Time In China II
Because the fights are so damn awesome. How many films have followed in the footsteps of that series? It’s incredible!
I must admit, I haven’t seen many Tsui Hark films although a lot of them are on my must watch list but the ones I have seen here is what I like about them.
1. Twin Dragons – although cheesy it was a fun movie as many of Jackie’s movies are.
2. Double Team – WOW! talk about ruining my perception of awesome martial arts films, however when your 17 all martial arts films are the greatest.
3. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate Inn, Jet Li was awesome in this.
There can be only one- Peking Opera Blues!
As much as I like some of his other films (OUATIC 2, Time & Tide, etc.), this one just had the right combination of drama, action and comedy plus having smart storytelling without having to beat you on the head with it…
I’ve seen alot of Tsui Hark films but my favorite would be Once upon a time in China II, but I loved that whole series!
my favorite Tsui Hark film is ZU WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN. its an early 80s classic with Yuen biao and Sammo hung. lots of cool special effects.
My favorite Tsui Hark film is actually the first Detective Dee film Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
This film took me unaware. Thought it was a film that made you think just a bit. Great fight scences and nice production.
My Favorite Tsui Hark film is Once Upon A Time in China. With a great cast and wonderful choreography its one of his best.
THE BLADE – if I had to pick just one Tsui Hark film, I would have to go with this one. Still one of the most intense films I have ever seen. Great action, incredible camera-work, tight story.
Once Upon A Time in China – this is one of the very first Tsui Hark film that I saw. At that time I find myself a film hero in Wong Fei Hung. The film is so good and well directed that I ended watching all of OUATIC series.
Peking Opera Blues . . . one of the first of his movies that I watched and bought.
Seven Swords was an awesome movie. Loads of fights, action, and just a fun movie. Donnie Yen kicked some butt!
My favorite is probably Once Upon a a Time in China. I love the whole production. The cinematography, costumes, sets. Everything.
Well I haven’t seen them all, but…
Once a Upon a Time in China. Though the sequel is also excellent, I love the style of this first film. It’s got a little bit of everything to it, plenty of fast OTT action, likable characters, some politics, bad western actors, including a surprisingly not-evil Priest (but perhaps he’s related to the guy in Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow)…
Tsui Hark is a powerful and highly influential god-father like figure in the HK film industry as a producer and director. The film that I’d have to pick that impressed me most would be A Better Tomorrow where Tsui was a producer and directed by John Woo. Not only was the film a box office smash but made a superstar out of Chow Yun-Fat and catapulted John Woo to an A-lister that eventually brought him to Hollywood. It spawned two highly successful sequels and helped to sell millions of pairs of shades and tons of raincoats a la Chow Yun Fat in Hong Kong.
The Blade
An awesome remake/reimagining of The One-Armed Swordsman. Plus, I love any kung fu movie that has made up styles of fighting.