Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest Limited Edition 4K UHD [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

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Wanting to ape not only the changing style of new Hollywood at the start of the 70s, but also the hyper kinetic and excessive stylings of the spaghetti westerns he also admired, Lee moved his film to Italy, with a film less interested in the sociopolitical issues of his first two, and more interested in flexing its visually creative muscles. Especially in comparison to the near pristine nature of what’s just been seen, fine detail never quite resolves at the level of the two previous films, especially in the film’s first act which looks very soft.

Getting all the actual Lee footage out of the way in the first act (and up until then its more of the same from the previous film, using shadows, ‘relaxed focus’ and anything it could waft in front of the camera to mask the obvious stand in), the rest of the film is actually a deliciously gonzo fight fest.While the English and Cantonese options are strong in their own right, the Mandarin soundtrack delivers a fuller, more satisfying soundstage, exhibiting distinct clarity and definition of the background information. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. All ten — five triple-layered UHD100 discs and five dual-layered BD50 discs — come individually packaged in separate digibook packages, which are housed inside an attractive box that slides open from the top. These incidents all seem to be connected to the factory’s boss, Hsiao Mi (Han Ying-Chieh), so Hsiu steps in. Within the span of only four films, the legendary filmmaker and martial artist Bruce Lee left a tremendous impact and legacy upon the world of cinema, becoming an international icon of the genre who sadly passed away much too soon but gave moviegoers four beloved classics.

At the end of the day, however, none of that matters because fans are here to watch the actual footage of Lee ascending the pagoda and go one-on-one with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Sure, there’s still a lot of stuff out there on Lee – some of which is notably on Criterion’s recent boxset – which again, likely rights issues preclude their being here, but the combination of the archive supplementals that have been sourced and the staggeringly good new features included here really should satisfy all but the most ravenous of Lee fans. For this Limited Edition box set, Arrow Video has culled together an impressive and exhaustive collection of bonus material that will take — and has taken — days to sift through. Awash in a noticeably thick layer of natural grain, the video has a lovely film-like appearance and appreciable depth, sure to make fans very happy. This included Golden Harvest, who took Lee’s Game of Death footage and crowbarred it into a film of the same name that shared little else with the filmmaker’s original intentions.In later close ups, we almost get there with some decent textural complexity and relatively sharp lines on show (Norris’ chest hair is still nicely clear! Looking at the legacy of Bruce Lee through his four completed films and the partial footage of his fifth, its impossible not to see that his place in cinema history is thoroughly deserved. Essentially, this martial arts actioner comes with a surprisingly thoughtful and poignant center, making it one of Lee's better and more memorable films. There, Bruce became an actor, like his father, from an early age, making his screen debut at the tender age of 6.

but generally, there is an overall reduction in detail levels here, further compounded by the obvious focus problems in some scenes. But still, the Brucesploitation craze continued, thanks to the success of Game of Death especially in Japan and two years later, Golden Harvest yet again raided their vaults of Lee footage and created Game of Death II in 1980. In The Big Boss, Lee plays Cheng Chao-an, a young Chinese man who moves to Thailand to live with his cousins and work in an ice factory.Like Enter, the sequel to the previous movie is offered only as a Blu-ray disc, which could be a mild disappointment but not all is lost since the result is a great-looking AVC MPEG-4 encode. While whites are clean and energetic, specular highlights supply a crisp, radiant sheen to metallic surfaces and allow for better visibility within the hottest spots, like lightbulbs and clouds in the distance. and yet upon its premiere in Hong Kong, the crowd erupted over it and Lee, instantly recognising the birth of a major star. Again, feeling weightier because of the messaging of the film – violence begats violence – the fight scenes here rightly cemented his status as a superstar, but let’s not forget he can act too, with emotions that seems to plug directly into the drama of the story.

It’s a jaw-dropping release for fans of Lee, one which showcases an entire cinematic legacy, not just a set of films, and one which is going to be hard to beat by anyone in the physical media game. As clean and solid as the English track is, displaying great definition and excellent balance in the mid-range with distinct background effects, the dubbing can be comical and silly, but it also has that kitschy, grindhouse charm that only these classic martial arts movies can deliver. And in that fight, Norris is really the first to present Lee with a legitimate challenge and threat, as though the American fighter hired by a ruthless crime boss (Jon T. His own brother (Tae-jeong Kim) takes up the investigation into a deer blood drinking western martial artist (Roy Horan) and his one-armed manservant and comes across all manner of strangely trained peacocks, a lion attack using a lion suit that makes Bert Lahr’s in The Wizard of Oz look scarily authentic and a Bond villain underground lair that’s a direct copy of your local Rollerama from back in the day. In close ups, the requisite facial, clothing and set textures are beautifully sharp and clear, including the wonderful sea of faces of the locals striving to watch the filming, all having a coherence that just belies not just the films’ relatively cheap origins, but the years of poorly transferred TV, VHS and DVD versions most of us grew up watching (albeit in truncated form for this reviewer).The first three movies and Game of Death are UHD discs with outstanding Dolby Vision HDR videos and excellent DTS-HD MA soundtracks. com is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pay4Later Limited, trading as Deko, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 728646).