Hapkido (Eureka)

[Doctor Schnabel]

Soll 2022 kommen

Wohl der beste Film mit Angela Mao, Sammo Hung und Carter Wong. UK DVD von Hong Kong Legends ist toll Brauche ich kein Upgrade

Plot
Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair way of students that side up with the invasors, when they gang assault one of the fighting men. Between the three, they send the aggressors away. Retaliation is heavy: their school is destroyed, and they are banished. They return to China, and start their own school, and set out on good-will visits to the other martial arts schools, only to find that everybody in their neighbourhood is already dominated by the Japanese. They have many kung fu fights to win, before they eventually manage to establish peace

[Julio Sacchi]

Der war damals auf Platz 1 der Kinocharts in den USA Hab jetzt erst festgestellt, daß die Schnarchklopper damals für 1-2 Jahre an der amerikanischen KInokasse ordentlich abgeräumt haben

[Sylvio Constabel]

UK DVD von Hong Kong Legends ist toll Brauche ich kein Upgrade.

Das.

[Bewitched240]

Hol ich mir.

[Doctor Schnabel]

Der war damals auf Platz 1 der Kinocharts in den USA Hab jetzt erst festgestellt, daß die Schnarchklopper damals für 1-2 Jahre an der amerikanischen KInokasse ordentlich abgeräumt haben

Kung Fu Filme kamen damals bei den Schwarzen gut an

Angela Mao führt in New York, Queens ein Restaurant. Regelmässig Besucher die Autogramme wollen Sollte ich nach Covid auch aufsuchen, so lange sie noch lebt

[kami]

Angela Mao führt in New York, Queens ein Restaurant. Regelmässig Besucher die Autogramme wollen Sollte ich nach Covid auch aufsuchen, so lange sie noch lebt

Die Frau ist gerade mal 71.

[Doctor Schnabel]

Sterben kann man immer

[Doctor Schnabel]

Release Date: 22nd August 2022



SPECIAL FEATURES

Limited Edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling [2000 copies]
Limited Edition Reversible Poster featuring original theatrical poster artwork [2000 copies]
1080p presentations of both films across two Blu-ray discs, from new 2K restorations
Hapkido – Original mono Mandarin and English audio options, including two variations of the classic English dub
Hapkido – DTS-HD MA 5.1 English dub (newer dub originally created for the film’s original DVD release)
Lady Whirlwind – Original mono Mandarin and English audio options
Optional English Subtitles, newly translated for this release
Hapkido – New feature length audio commentary with Asian film experts Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) & Michael Worth
Hapkido – New feature length audio commentary with Frank Djeng & martial artist / actor Robert “Bobby” Samuels
Lady Whirlwind – New feature length audio commentary with Asian film experts Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) & Michael Worth
Lady Whirlwind – New feature length audio commentary with Frank Djeng & martial artist / actor Robert “Bobby” Samuels
Lady Whirlwind – New feature length audio commentary by film journalist and author Samm Deighan
Brand new interview with Angela Mao, filmed in 2022
Archival interview with Angela Mao
Archival interview with Carter Wong
Archival interview with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao
Hapkido – Alternate opening credits
Selection of trailers and TV spots
Stills Galleries
Reversible sleeve featuring original Hong Kong poster artwork
A Limited Edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing by James Oliver [2000 copies]






Angela Mao and director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) were a superstar pairing that produced an incredible series of top tier kung-fu classics including Deadly China Doll, When Taekwondo Strikes and the two films presented here – Hapkido and Lady Whirlwind.

In Hapkido (aka. Lady Kung Fu in the West), a group of martial artists (Mao, Sammo Hung, and Carter Wong) start their own school to teach the Korean martial art, Hapkido, but a rival Japanese academy attempts to crush them – deeming Hapkido inferior to their Japanese fighting style. Similar to the plot of Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury (a canny decision by the filmmakers, capitalising on Mao often being referred to as a “female Bruce Lee” ), Hapkido was a huge hit in the West, even briefly beating Lee’s Enter the Dragon at the North American box office.

Perhaps her most iconic film, Lady Whirlwind (bizarrely re-titled as Deep Thrust in the US, to capitalise on the success of Deep Throat, which probably made its tag lines—“The Deadly Stroke of Bare Hand Combat” and “Mistress of the Death Blow”—a tad misleading) stars Mao as a deadly fighter out for revenge on the man who wronged her sister (played by Shaw Brothers veteran Chang Yi). After tracking the man down, she finds he is on his own vengeful path against a gang of Japanese thugs and agrees to help keep him alive – as long as she gets to take her revenge when it’s all over!

Two excellent martial arts films make their debuts on Blu-ray—and the first time Lady Whirlwind has ever been available in the UK—from brand new 2K restorations!