DVD The Blade Collector
HK Vidéo - remastered edition

image

Beautiful colors, excellent definition and very few drawbacks. Master is clean.

sound

Excellent cantonese mono with lot of punch and French 5.1 with a catastrophic dubbing.

subtitles

Excellent french subtitles.

special features

An original anamorphic trailer, trailers from other DVDs of HK Vidéo on DVD 1. On DVD 2 the two documentary bonuses are spoken in english. Le Bras droit de Tsui Hark is an 8 minute long interview of screenwriter Koan Hui in which he evokes his acquaintance with Tsui Hark, his formation as a sceenwriter with him and how he feels about the character Tsui. Action et Vérité is a 58 minutes long documentary with interviews of Tsui Hark, Koan Hui and Hung Yan-Yan. It gives us details about the shooting, how Tsui Hark tried to find a new way for wu xia pian and the movie's influences. The DVD contains 12 postcards from the movie and a book containing (in french) three articles about the movie borrowed from former newspaper HK and biographs/filmographies of Tsui Hark and Chiu Man-Cheuk. Excellent.