Sun Dragon

Starring:Sun Dragon
Studio: Crash Cinema Media
Product Type: DVD

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A Cinematic Treasure!
Year of the Drinking Game
Did Mickey Rourke write the rest of the reviews here?
One of MY TOP 10 movies of all-time
Whatever Happened to John Lone?

Year of the Dragon
Starring: Mickey Rourke , John Lone , Ariane , Leonard Termo , and Raymond J. Barry
Director: Michael Cimino
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B0007VZ99E
Release Date: 2005-05-31

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Redemption for director Michael Cimino and burgeoning stardom for actor Mickey Rourke were on the agenda when Year of the Dragon was released in 1985, and even if those things didn't quite come to pass, the result was nevertheless an entertaining, at times even compelling film. Cimino, seven years removed from his Oscar triumph The Deer Hunter and five years past the debacle that was (and still is) Heaven's Gate, made a move back into the mainstream with this violent tale about New York's Chinatown, where gangs and heroin-dealing Chinese "triads" hold sway--at least until police captain Stanley White comes on the scene, fiercely determined to put the bad guys out of business. As portrayed by Rourke, White is arrogant, boorish, and bullheaded, a thoughtless jerk who puts anyone who cares about him in mortal danger, all of which we're supposed to forgive because he served in Vietnam and is so righteously intent on doing his job. Problem is, White is almost completely unlikable, rendering his relationships with his long-suffering wife (Caroline Kava) and his TV reporter girlfriend (a wooden Ariane) implausible in the extreme. Add to that a script (by Cimino and Oliver Stone) filled with stilted, macho dialogue and a level of facile racism and sexism that would be unacceptable by new millennium standards, and you've got a tough sell. Still, Cimino knows how to direct the action sequences, and he's able to sustain a good level of tension as the story builds toward its inevitable confrontation between White and young crime lord Joey Tai (John Lone, channeling Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part II). And the aftermath? Cimino made only four movies in the ensuing twenty years, none of them exactly blockbusters, while Rourke sank into a self-inflicted oblivion from which he has yet to recover. Not exactly the hoped-for outcome, but neither of them should be ashamed to have Year of the Dragon on his resume. --Sam Graham

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A Vietnam vet turned New York City cop vows to bring down a Chinatown crime lord.

Customer Reviews:

A Cinematic Treasure!.......2007-04-03

The sets of 'Chinatown' were constructed and photographed at Dino de Laurentiis' film studio in North Carolina. I know because I saw them while visiting the set. The real Chinatown has streets so narrow you could not possibly film on them. However, that's where the 'pretend' ends and the gritty reality of life on Canal Street begins.

While this movie was made over 20 years ago, it not only holds up over time, it gets better with age. It's like the best Dim Sum you ever had. You want it again and again. I am delighted it is now out on DVD. I just wish they would re-release 'Year Of The Dragon' in theaters so a new generation of filmgoers could see the genius involved.

John Lone, as always, is quiet elegance. A wonderful actor with one of the best faces in the business. Mickey Rourke was Mickey Rourke. The guy we fell in love with. Not the Mickey Rourke of today who has had so much plastic surgery we can't recognize him anymore. He is brash, crass, electric. A real spitfire of an actor. Ariane, poor soul, was badly miscast. The material was way over her head.

You see small parts in the film played by actors who were just getting started in the business. Eddie Jones, the great character actor who played my daughter's grandfather in a Harry Kondolian play in NYC, is the tough Cop on horseback in the first part of the film. He is still around playing great roles. John Lone and Ariane have long since left the screen. I really miss Lone. A wonderful actor.

The film is not a small film. It's big in grandure and in scope. Lone travels to Thailand, Hong Kong. This film sneaks up on you when you least expect it and makes you think. The writing is superb. Cinematography incredible. Music, acting, you name it. The very best film has to offer.

As someone who photographed Chinatown for many years here in NYC, it is very special to me. I love this film. I just wish millions of people could see it now in DVD and be as thrilled by it.

Year of the Drinking Game.......2006-10-14

Okay, line up as many shot glasses as you can find, play the movie, and you drink:
-every time Mickey Rourke's character says something racist
-every time Mickey Rourke's character mentions spare ribs
-every time Ariane has a gratuitous nude scene
Even if all you've got is lite beer, you'll be hammered by the time Capt. Stanley White gets his transfer orders in the third act.

Did Mickey Rourke write the rest of the reviews here?.......2006-07-25

What's the difference between this movie and a Schwarzenneger movie? Answer: A Schwarzenneger movie has better dialogues, a better plot, and better acting.
How could the guy who made Deer Hunter come up with this dud? More intriguing still, how can anybody say anything nice about this colossal disappointment.

One of MY TOP 10 movies of all-time.......2005-11-04

SERIUOSLY. this film is that good. a film in its time(1985), truly that was misunderstood. look at by critcs as too racist and violent, but really wasnt. basically, yotd portrayed how life was and is in NY Chinatown(underworld). mickey rourke(Captain White) was 'my idol' after seeing yotd for the 1st time back in 86-87(only 13), a great performance as the straight ahead, no-nonsense, ex-Vietnam vet, but loving to the ladies, NYPD Captain in Chinatown. as Cap, he vows to bring order back to Chinatown. Great performances everywhere. breathe-taking settings through-out movie, especially the scene between Rourke and Arianne(reporter having affair w/ rourke) overlooking Manhattan(priceless). I also pre-order the yotd DVD in July, not knowing the DVD format was just release in May. SWEET! also, as far as picture quality, yotd is one of the finer quality DVDs on market. (play it on your laptop..WOW)

Whatever Happened to John Lone?.......2005-06-06

"Year of the Dragon" though consistently engaging is a highly uneven film. While it purports to be about the Chinese underworld I don't think I knew any more on the topic than before I watched this film. I attribute this to the script by director Michael Cimino and Oliver Stone which has more than it's share of bloated rhetoric. Mickey Rourke, not helped by the silver dye job, does the best he can with the dialogue he's forced to spew as Stanley White, returning Vietnam vet turned police captain who has a personal vendetta in cleaning up Chinatown that remains vague to me. Arianne, who plays the TV reporter whom Rourke beds, has to be one of the worst actresses this side of "Showgirls". The film is elevated by the performance of John Lone as Joey Tai, ruthlessly ambitious crimelord. Lone is so coolly suave that you wish that more of the film had dedicated itself to his character instead of Rourke's. I do admire Cimino as a director, however. He's from the old school of seventies filmmakers whose most flawed work is as interesting as more successfully commercial product. As a screenwriter that's another story.

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Sun Dragon
Starring: Billy Chong , Carl Scott , Louis Neglia , and Leung Siu Chung
Director: Wa Yat Wang
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Release Date: 2004-05-11

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Great Trash
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An Offer Jackie Couldn't Refuse, But Maybe You Should
What a piece of %$#@! Has almost NO Jackie Chan.
UH!!!

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Starring: Jackie Chan , Brigitte Lin , Yu Wang , Yueh Sun , and Tao Da Way
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ASIN: B0002CHIKQ
Release Date: 2004-06-29

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Jackie Chan makes a brief guest appearance in this surreally goofy action comedy, a high-spirited shambles from 1982 that hovers awkwardly somewhere between Monty Python and The Three Stooges. When all else fails, cult director Chu Yen-ping (Island of Fire) resorts to exploding cigars, guys making funny faces, men dressed in women's clothing, even a ghost or two. The nominal star, '70s kung fu veteran Wang Yu (The One-Armed Swordsman), is an Allied agent assembling a troupe of commandos for a mission behind enemy lines during World War II. (Although the landscape is obviously Asian, there are Hogan's Heroes-style Nazis scampering through the jungle.) Every member of this movie's mismatched clown-squad seems to hail from a different planet, including one inexplicable fellow who looks like an Elvis impersonator in a kilt. Most of the exhilarating action is handled by the glorious Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, from Peking Opera Blues and The Bride with White Hair, who kicks heads and looks smashing in a red-and-black-leather jumpsuit. --David Chute

Description

Three tales of Kung-Fu heroes!

DRAGON LEE VS. THE FIVE BROTHERS: Dragon Lee joins a band of rebels who seek to overthrow the evil Ching government.

CHINESE HERCULES: After Lee Hsi (Fang Yeh) accidentally kills someone in a fight, he retreats to a small village that is entirely dependent on the traffic that comes into their pier controlled by Boss Chan.

BRUCE LEE FIGHTS BACK FROM THE GRAVE: Wong Han arrives in LA at the request of his friend Go Hok Hung, but when he arrives at the aparment building, he finds that Hung is dead.

Customer Reviews:

Great Trash.......2006-12-16

Pauline Kael once said that movies are so rarely art, that if you can't enjoy great trash, there is not much point for one to go to the movies. Well, this demented film is trash of the greatest order, a movie so bad it's wonderful. It stars Hong Kong luminaries Jackie Chan (in a small role, despite its prominent billing role) and Brigitte Lin, and unlike Ed Wood movies, this film is deliberately bad, but that doesn't make it any less entertaining.

GREAT! B-Movie Weirdness! Nazis, Japs, Amazons, and Kung-Fu!.......2006-07-04

One of the best B-movies, crazy kung-fu, WW2-ish, fantasy. Truly bizarre plot, nazis & japanese attack ;? canada? capture 4 generals - one from france, one from England, one from Africa, and one from america - Abraham Lincoln!, take them to Luxumboug! the army choses guy captain to form a team to rescue them. including the escape artist guy, the explosives guy, the old west Elvis impersonator guy, his psycho girlfriend, weird asian Scottish highlander guy, and his sidekick dressing in roman armor. Jackie Chan is a theif the team runs into and he helps - some. they are captured by Amazones, escape a haunted house, and finally have a show down with the 70's car chariot riding Nazis & Japs. Most everyone dies. Jackie revenges them. bizzare and sureal plot, quite a bit of good kung-fu action. lots of B-movie sets, and costumes. just great! taking it for what it is

An Offer Jackie Couldn't Refuse, But Maybe You Should.......2005-08-12

Bottom line: Jackie Chan owed Jimmy Wang Yu a favor, but apparently so do a lot of people. I wouldn't recommend this movie, but do recommend reading about how it came about in Jackie's autobiography "I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action".

What a piece of %$#@! Has almost NO Jackie Chan. .......2005-03-27

Last June I had an operation and I was on morphine for several days. This movie could have been a weird dreams I had. It certainly isn't entertaining, intelligent, functional, or anything. It makes no sense, has no humor, has very little action, has no point and goes downhill from worthless. A few minutes into the movie, it turns into something else and has no explanation how it got there.

It reminds me of some of the stories I have heard of movie albums that were required under a contract even though the singer/band was fed up with the company. They come up with the absolute worst album they could come up with. This movie could fit into that category. It is painful to watch even a few minutes.

For the person who put this in the same category as Naked Gun, I disagree.

UH!!!.......2004-06-18

Could someone tell me what this movie is about. No one that's what I though. There is magic in this movie the person that does Jackie's voice must have swalloed helium before he did Jackie's voice, Jackie is there for two seconds the quality sounds awful and so do the gun shots and the back cover is not even straight. so please DON'T REMIND ME OF THIS MOVIE AGAIN and for your sake DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Red Dragon of Shaolin / Legend of the Tiger

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Action abounds
Independent Classic
best wushu ever put in a movie....
Amazing kung fu flick
Good Movie

Red Dragon of Shaolin / Legend of the Tiger
Starring: Wei-Zhing Pan , Xiao-zhen Zhong , Gen-Fa Sun , Xui-Yi Xu , and Yan-Long Li
Director: Lung Siu
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Action abounds.......2007-05-07

A good, but not pretentious, movie. The action sequences are solid and do not attempt to be too flashy. This film and its sequel are worthwhile additions to one's DVD library.

Independent Classic.......2006-05-23

This is one of those "classics" that for some reason was overlooked. Everything about it has the look and feel of anything by Shaw Brothers or Golden Harvest except using more beautiful actual locations and real buildings. The fight choreography and cinematography are excellent and surprising since this was not made by any of the aforementioned studios. The actors are pretty much unknowns but are definately capable of performing realistic martial arts techniques without the nauseating wire tricks in today's films. The DVD video and audio quality are very good and thankfully in widescreen. And how important widescreen is in this film. The cast is huge with many extras in many scenes. Also, the Chinese countryside is beautifully filmed adding to the film's epic feel. It's just a kung fu movie, I know, but if care was taken in making films of this quality, maybe the world would've taken the genre more seriously and it wouldn't have degenerated into the sad state it is now.

best wushu ever put in a movie...........2004-09-14

If you like wushu, get this movie. its amazing. a true test of the knowledge of a martial arts film fan is how they rate this movie. If you like actors pretending to be martial artists, being yanked around on strings with 2 second cuts, this movie is NOT for you.

if you like a movie full of REAL talented wushu athletes from China, with LONG fight sequences (upwards of 20-30 seconds! believe it or not!) demonstrating high difficulty moves... this movie is for you.

The story is a bit rudimentary, the dragon boating scenes are a bit boring (unless you're a huge dragon boat fan maybe) but that is what the Fast Forward button is for... its worth it for the fight scenes alone.

Amazing kung fu flick.......2004-07-29

First off, I'd like to point out that I love acrobatic, wushu style of martial arts in movies. If you are the same way, you will absolutely love this movie.

Although the story is boring, it is far from annoying due to the fact that this movie obvously has a higher budget than most kung fu films of the time not starring Jackie Chan. It is a very easy film to watch, and the kung fu is spectacular.

Every person who performs martial arts in this movie is obvously very skilled at wushu, and the choreography is beautifully done.

BUY THIS MOVIE NOW!

Good Movie.......2000-11-14

i like the plot of this movie and the star actor along with a few of the other actors, all are very interesting, there are however a few boring moments in this film, so i couldnt give it a five.

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For sure a must have Film

7 Blows of the Dragon
Director: Chang Cheh
Manufacturer: Red Sun
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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Product Description

The Chang Cheh-directed "The Water Margin": the martial arts epic of epics. Based on the true legend of how 108 rebel heroes living in the mountain were able to repeatedly defeat invading Sung armies, the film starred just about anyone who was a name at Shaw Brothers at the time, like David Chiang, Chen Kwan-Tai, and Ti Lung. The primitive battles ultimately end in sharp, visually effective images of death and defeat. This is a must-see for any movie fan.

Customer Reviews:

For sure a must have Film.......2007-04-30

I have to admit this has to be one of my families favorite Shaw films. It has a wide cast of stars. As stated. The film is done in very good cinematography. The fighting scenes are not their best but they are very good. The story line is excellent. The plot is great this is an all around excellent Shaw film. If you get the version that doesn't skip or jump then its great. Part Two is a bit sad but a must see film as well thats 7 Blows of the Dragon 2.

All shaw fans get this film!

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Mediocre
One of the Dragon's best...

Red Sun Rising [Region 2]
Starring: Don 'The Dragon' Wilson , Terry Farrell , Mako , Michael Ironside , and Soon-Tek Oh
Director: Francis Megahy
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Mediocre.......1999-12-30

What a mediocre martial arts film. Don Wilson is a great marital artist, but his acting skills need serious work. In fact, most of the story was so lame, the films only saving grace was Terry Farrell. Not a great part for her either, but she did the best she could with the material and what she was given. Her performance was...ok. But in the end nothing could save this film from becoming a horrid direct to video B-movie release compared to superior action/martial arts movies.

One of the Dragon's best..........1999-12-16

Here Wilson prtrays a half-Japanese(ainako)cop at odds with the Yakuza ,himself, and American culture.Featuring a touch of the supernatural,other real life masters such as James Lew and a funny and excellent performance from Mako and also Michael Ironside this is a very satisfying martial arts thriller.

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A Cinematic Treasure!
Year of the Drinking Game
Did Mickey Rourke write the rest of the reviews here?
One of MY TOP 10 movies of all-time
Whatever Happened to John Lone?

Year of the Dragon [Region 2]
Starring: Mickey Rourke , John Lone , Ariane , Leonard Termo , and Raymond J. Barry
Director: Michael Cimino
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Customer Reviews:

A Cinematic Treasure!.......2007-04-03

Year of the Drinking Game.......2006-10-14

Did Mickey Rourke write the rest of the reviews here?.......2006-07-25

One of MY TOP 10 movies of all-time.......2005-11-04

Whatever Happened to John Lone?.......2005-06-06

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Return Of The Kung Fu Dragon
Director: Yu Chick-Lim
Manufacturer: Red Sun
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Martial Arts | Sports | Genres | DVD | Video
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Uncut

ASIN: B000FBNRVS

The Chinese Dragon + Mean Streets of Kung Fu

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The Chinese Dragon + Mean Streets of Kung Fu
Director: Yu Wei Wu , and Dao Yang
Manufacturer: East West Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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2 Feature Films
English Lanuage
Auto Play
Interactive Menu Option

ASIN: B000Q5LE40

Product Description

Two full length Martial Arts movies on one DVD. In the first movie, THE CHINESE DRAGON, a Chinese hitman goes on a rampage after he is double crossed by the mob, the triads and Yakuza. In the second movie, MEAN STREETS OF KUNG FU, a top Martial Arts student proves his skills and determination after being challenged by a local gangster.

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Yellow Dragon

Manufacturer: red sun
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B0007W0GD2

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