Bruce is a many splendoured thing - part 5: THE INTERVIEW!!

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TIGER CAGE trilogy on remastered DVD in June

Brilliant!! I've just learnt that Fortune Star/Joy Sales are going to release TIGER CAGE (Jacky Cheung, Simon Yam, Donnie Yen, 1988), TIGER CAGE 2 (Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen, Rosamund Kwan, Lo Lieh, 1990), and TIGER CAGE 3 (Michael Wong,1991) on DVD in June! And they're even going to be remastered editions!!! Awesome!! The only film in the series that I've got is #2 on a DVD from mainland China and, well, having that Chinese DVD is better that not having a DVD if you catch my drift.



But this is certainly great news. Now, if FS could please include the alternative ending for #2 that would be juuust spiffy!

About the alternative ending (from Asian Dvd Guide) [contains spoilers!]:

Tiger Cage 2
An alternate "censorship" ending was shot for certain restrictive markets so that it is now cop Cynthia Khan who delivers the fatal shot and not Rosamund Kwan - who in the original HK print bashes Robin Shou's gangster's head in - removing the notion of unacceptable vigilante justice. Additionally a coda was included on export prints. The now OOP WA DVD, as expected, features the Hong Kong take on this sequence.

According to the info at DDDHOUSE the DVDs will contain the Canto and Mandarin audio but not the English dubs. Personally I couldn't care less for the English track but I'm sure some of you out there would want it. A little while ago I stumbled over this rare Taiwan VCD of TIGER CAGE 3 which actually contains the English dubbed version. Acording to the seller it's very rare and it did indeed go for a very high price (I don't remember how much).



And finally, TIGER CAGE on VHS:

Bruce is a many splendoured thing - part 4: THE TRAILER!

Boo-hoo, I didn't get KILL THE BASTARDS... and there's a reason!

COS IT WENT FOR BLOODY 122.50 dollars!!! Fucking hell!!!

"Kill the Bastards" is most likely a title spawned by Miltos of Cinehound forum. The film's Turkish title is CAPKINIM HOVARDAYIM and it's directed by none other than Cetin Inanc! Yes, thee Cetin Inanc who also directed TURKISH STAR WARS, DEATH WARRIOR, TURKISH RAMBO, TURKISH ROCKY, TURKISH JAWS, and tons more.

Miltos had the Turkish VHS release of CAPKINIM HOVARDAYIM up for auction, I placed a fair amount on it but, uhh, after 12 bids it reached 122.50 bucks! Congrats to whoever won it. Sadly not me. :-(

(PS: whoever you are please send me a dvdr. xD.)

TURKISH STRAW DOGS (Kartal Yuvasi) - trailer

KARTAL YUVASI ( TURKISH STRAW DOGS ) Trailer

CIKO MySpace Video

This brutal film looks bloody awesome! (unless you don't like brutal films, obviously). And it's out on DVD-R (legit? Semi-legit? Boot?) from Ciko in Turkey. It's subtitled in English and when you order it you get both the original unsubbed Turkish VCD, a subbed DVD-R, and lobbycards. For the film on their eBay store go Go here. Edit: With most of the DVD-R's from Ciko you get a VCD along with the DVD-R but I've just been informed this isn't the case with this film. No VCD, only a subtitled DVD-R.

Bruce is a many splendoured thing - part 3

The book has arrived from the printers and is gonna go out as we speak. This is an actual picture of the boxes that the publisher-guy, John Overall, posted on "Kung Fu Cinema" forum earlier today! xD. The latest info I have is that everybody who pre-ordered and/or bought directly from John Overall is gonna get the colour version. And also, Amazon UK have finally lowered the price to the correct £20 (from 30). Now, who would've ever thunk we'd see a book on Bruce Lee clones!! Yay!

Afilli Delikanli (Turkey, 1976)

Amazing! I won Yilmaz Atadeniz' AFILLI DELIKANLI tonight on eBay! Yay! Spiffy! And I was the only bidder too! (maybe cos it's a Betamax but still!).

Yilmaz Atadeniz is the Turkish director who also did THE DEATHLESS DEVIL (aka Yilmayan seytan and on DVD from Mondo Macabro), SPY SMASHER (aka Casus Kiran, on DVD from Onar), KILING ISTANBUL'DA (also from Onar), and many more (Atadeniz is the guy in MM's docu who says "I wish we hadn't used a robot in DEATHLESS DEVIL that was so obviously a man in a robot suit", haha).

The Big Boss - original, rejected dub - part 2

The Big Boss - original, rejected dub

Usually I really have no interest in English dubs of old kung fu movies but all this talk about a rejected and basically lost dub of Bruce Lee's BIG BOSS is intriguing I must admit!


"Thoughout Ameria and Asia"???

Bruce is a many splendoured thing - part 2

Here's a couple screen grabs (or rather page grabs) from the upcoming Bruce Lee clone book! I just ordered and paid my copy tonight. Yay!

PS: And that's the actual finger of the author! LOL.





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Including postage to Europe it came to just under £24.