880-01 Rou dao long hu bang / Yin du ji gou you xian gong si lian he chu pin ; Zhongguo xing ; Yi bai nian dian ying you xian gong si ; Yin he ying xiang (Xianggang) you xian gong si zhi zuo ; bian ju, You Naihai, Ye Tiancheng, Ou Jian'er ; jian zhi Du Qifeng, Lin Bingkun ; dao yan Du Qifeng = Throw down / Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd., China Star Entertainment Group, One Hundred Years of Film ; Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd Production ; Johnnie To, director ; Yau Nai-Hoi, Yip Tin-Shing, Au Kin-Yee, scriptwriters.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm)
Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Cheung Siu Fai. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Wide screen (2.35:1) Poster with program notes on reverse side inserted in container. Special features: 4K digital restoration; Interview from 2004 with Johnnie To; new interviews with co-screenwriter Yau Nai-hoi, composer Peter Kam, and film scholars David Bordwell and Caroline Guo; ; short making-of documentary from 2004 featuring To and actors Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying and Tony Leung Ka-fai; trailer; new English subtitle translation; an essay by film critic Sean Gilman.
Summary:
"One of the most personal films by the prolific Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To is a thrilling love letter to both the cinema of Akira Kurosawa and the art and philosophy of judo. Amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong's nocturnal underworld, the fates of three wandering souls--a former judo champion (Louis Koo) now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner, a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a singer (Cherrie Ying) chasing dreams of stardom--collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption. Paying offbeat homage to Kurosawa's debut feature, Sanshiro Sugata, To scrambles wild comedy, flights of lyrical surrealism, and rousing martial-arts action into what is ultimately a disarmingly touching ode to the healing power of friendship"--Container.
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