An anonymous contributor sent me a few screenshots from Kam & Ronson’s Blu-ray Disc release of Once Upon A Time in China 2.
The bad news: Looks like K&R once again didn’t have or use proper source material and only delivers an upscaled transfer!
The “good” news: They didn’t try to “improve” this sad fact by using digital filters that make the image look like failed Photoshop experiment and Jet Li fans can save some money by letting this release rot on the shelves…

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Avid Asian Blu-ray Guide reader (and contributor) DCJuggler has posted two links to screenshots for Fortune Star and Kam & Ronson’s Blu-ray Disc release of Once Upon A Time In China that made me spray my morning coffee all over my keyboard. What the flying fuck happened here?!

Hey boys and girls at Fortune Star, if some douche bag trainee tells you that he can transform bad source material to Blu-ray Disc worthy material by using some DNR and photoshop painting effects magic…please, just don’t listen to him!

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Fortune Star and distributor Kam & Ronson just keep on pushing their short notice policy when it comes to their Blu-ray Disc releases of already announced titles.
That’s why DDDHouse has just listed the English subtitled Blu-ray Disc release of Jet Li’s Once Upon A Time in China that will already hit the HK shelves this Friday (September 18th). The film has been announced back in June together with Police Story.
Talking of Police Story, looks like Fortune Star didn’t really put much effort really fucked up this release…at least if we can trust this single screenshot of the Blu-ray Disc from the Asian DVD Guide forum. Of course my copy has already shipped, so I’m going to keep you updated if the rest of the film looks just as bad once it arrives.
Guess I have to stop to blindly pre-order BD releases from Hong Kong if labels begin to screw paying customers like this.

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After the fresh announcement for the HK Blu-ray Disc for Jackie Chan’s Police Story, Fortune Star puts another big log on the fire with the last two of the already announced four Bruce Lee classics for Blu-ray Disc.
According to YesAsia, the HK Blu-ray Disc of Enter The Dragon and The Way of the Dragon will be released with English subtitles on September 30th.
It is to be expected that Fortune Star/Kam & Ronson will “protect” these two releases from evil European customers by using region code A like their former Bruce Lee releases.
[Thanks to Martin and AnimeOnBlu for the heads up!]

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After a bunch of delays, the Hong Kong based distributor Fortune Star finally starts to keep its promises made in earlier this year regarding the announced Blu-ray Disc releases. After two of the four Bruce Lee classics were already released in August, fans of HK super star Jackie Chan can rejoice as well as YesAsia has listed the Blu-ray Disc release of the first part of Chan’s Police Story 1985 classic today!
The Police Story trilogy was announced together a Blu-ray Disc trilogy box of Jet Li’s Once Upon A Time in China back in June. The Blu-ray Disc of Police Story I will be released on September 7th and will (according to YesAsia) include English subtitles. Since there’s a huge “1″ visible on the front cover and spine (displayed left) I guess the other parts will be released soon as well.
Let’s hope that Fortune Star won’t use region coding to lock out European buys like they did with their Bruce Lee releases…

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After several postponements (June, then July…) the first two Blu-ray Disc releases of Bruce Lee classics have popped up online. YesAsia has listed Fist of Fury and The Big Boss for August 10th with English subtitles. Both releases are marked Region A, but so far all reported Deltamac releases have been region free. The release date(s) for Enter The Dragon and The Way of the Dragon are still unknown.

Preorder Fist of Fury & The Big Boss from YesAsia.com
[08.08.09] Update: Fist of Fury and The Big Boss are locked to Region A!

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As some of you noticed and commented on, Fortune Star and Kam & Ramson sadly didn’t manage to release the Bruce Lee classics The Big Boss, The Way of the Dragon, Fist of Fury and Enter The Dragon on Blu-ray Disc in June like they announced back in May.
I was hoping till the last day of June that the titles would pop up at the usual retailers, but to no avail. Now muldoon, admin of the recently mostly inactive Asian DVD Guide, has posted on the sites forum that the films will be released in mid-July! He doesn’t mention any more information or sources but because of the site’s good connections to the Asian labels I just hope that this time we’ll finally be able to get the titles in fine high definition.

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