Throw down = Yau doh lung fu bong

Throw down Yau doh lung fu bong

DVD - 2021

"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 now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner (Louis Koo), 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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Subjects
Martial arts > Drama.
Judo > Drama.
Comedy films.
Martial arts films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Comedy films
Martial arts films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2021]
Language
Chinese
English
Corporate Authors
Zhongguo xing ji tuan, Yin du ji gou you xian gong si (Hong Kong, China), One Hundred Years of Film Co, Yin he ying xiang (Xianggang) you xian gong si
Corporate Authors
Zhongguo xing ji tuan (production company), Yin du ji gou you xian gong si (Hong Kong, China), One Hundred Years of Film Co, Yin he ying xiang (Xianggang) you xian gong si
Other Authors
Johnny To (film director), Naihai You, 1968- (screenwriter), Tin-shing Yip (actor), Tianle Gu, 1970-, Fucheng Guo, 1965-, Cai'er Ying, 1983-, Jiahui Liang, Zhaohui Zhang, 1963-
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
Wide screen (2.35:1).
Special features: 4K digital restoration; Interview from 2004 with Johnnie To; new interviews with coscreenwriter 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.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, region 1; Dolby audio 5.1 surround ; wide screen 2.35:1 aspect ration.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Cheng Siu-keung ; editor, David Richardson ; original music, Peter Kam.
ISBN
9781681438764
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