[via Wildgrounds]

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[via Twitch]

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White Snake (Eva Huang), in the incarnation of a beautiful lady, falls in love with a young herbalist Xu Xian (Raymond Lam). With the help of Green Snake (Charlene Choi), she ventured into the human world and got married to Xu Xian. In a twist of event, Fa Hai (Jet Li), a sorcerer from Jin Shan Temple, crosses path with White Snake. A fiery battle is about to begin…

[via FilmSmash]

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Good to see Jet Li isn’t too strict about his announcement about leaving the martial arts genre after Fearless. Tsui Hark’s first 3D film Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is supposed to open in Chinese theaters in December.

[via Twitch]

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Kommen wir zum letzten Tag der großen Geburtstagsaktion, bei der es diesmal ein kleines rotes Schmuckstück zu gewinnen gibt. Nämlich die koreanische Ultimate Edition (Fotogalerie) von Yimou Zhangs Hero (Ying Xiong).
Die Aufgabe für heute: Nennt in den Kommentaren eine alternative Nachricht, die Nameless (Jet Li) dem König hätte überbringen können/sollen/müssen.

Achtung: Heute habt ihr nur bis 21 Uhr Zeit eure Kommentare abzugeben, danach werden die Gewinner der Geburtstagsaktionswoche ermittelt und bekannt gegeben.

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One person out of every thousand is born with autism. It follows that China has over one million autism patients. David (Wen Zhang) is one of them: he looks absent-minded, repeats other people’s words, swims with amazing ease, keeps everything at home in exact order…and maybe he is not totally aware of his mother’s death some years ago. Working in an aquarium, Sam Wong (Jet Li) takes tender care of this twenty-two-year-old son of his. With the generous help of the neighbors, the two live happily together. Yet, the father understands very well that in the end, he will have to depart from the world, leaving his son alone and that day will come sooner than everyone is ready to believe.

[via Filmsmash & Wu-Jing.org]

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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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Second, almost four minutes long trailer for directors Sanping Han and Jianxin Huang’s take on the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, The Founding of A Republic (Jian Guo Da Ye) starring…well, almost every Chinese actor possible.

[via MTime]

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