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Disc 10 of The Chow Yun-Fat Collection: Volume One contains The Eighth Happiness (1988) on Blu-ray, with an audio commentary by James Mudge and the theatrical trailer. Three brothers - Fong Kim-long, Fong Kim-fai and Fong Kim-sang - each stumble into romance after a telephone-line mix-up brings the women who will become their future wives into their lives.

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Disc 9 of The Chow Yun-Fat Collection: Volume One contains The Eighth Happiness (1988) in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision, with an audio commentary by James Mudge. Three brothers - Fong Kim-long, Fong Kim-fai and Fong Kim-sang - each stumble into romance after a telephone-line mix-up brings the women who will become their future wives into their lives.

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Disc 12 of The Chow Yun-Fat Collection: Volume One contains Fractured Follies (1988) on Blu-ray, with an audio commentary by James Mudge and the theatrical trailer. May was born with one leg an inch shorter than the other. After she is knocked down by a taxi driven by Joe, he wrongly believes he crippled her and volunteers to work at her family's supermarket to repay her medical bills - and the two begin to fall for each other.

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Disc 11 of The Chow Yun-Fat Collection: Volume One contains Fractured Follies (1988) in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision, with an audio commentary by James Mudge. May was born with one leg an inch shorter than the other. After she is knocked down by a taxi driven by Joe, he wrongly believes he crippled her and volunteers to work at her family's supermarket to repay her medical bills - and the two begin to fall for each other.

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Tequila, a hard-edged Hong Kong cop whose partner is killed in a teahouse shootout with gun smugglers, reluctantly teams up with Alan, an undercover officer embedded deep inside the triad syndicate under investigation. As the two men close in on the gang's enormous weapons cache, hidden beneath a hospital, their uneasy partnership builds toward a prolonged, explosive final confrontation.

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Hong Kong CID officer Michelle Yip teams up with a Japanese Interpol agent and an air marshal after they foil a plane hijacking, only to become the targets of a vengeful gang of Vietnam veterans.

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Disc 8 contains The Iron Buddha (1970), plus audio commentary by James Mudge and newly translated optional English subtitles. When a notorious and odious villain kills his master and entire clan, the stalwart warrior known as The Iron Buddha sets out on an unquenchable quest for revenge. This engrossing film features fight choreography from the legendary Sammo Hung, who also appears in a small role.

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A martial arts master famed for his Shaolin pole technique is deceived by a scheming clan into teaching his powerful specialty to their students.

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Hired to escort a briefcase handcuffed to his arm, a nameless courier in pre-Handover Hong Kong would rather party than deliver — drifting instead into the orbit of a mercurial mob boss and his mistress in Wayne Wang's genre-bending cult film.

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Disc 10 contains New Tales of the Flying Fox (1984), Lau Sze-Yu's wuxia adaptation of Jin Yong's novel The Young Flying Fox, starring Felix Wong, Alex Man, Bryan Leung and Kara Hui — one of the twelve films in Shout! Factory's Shaw Brothers Classics: Volume Eight. Swordsmen Hu Yidao and Miao Renfeng agree to duel to settle their rivalry, but Hu is killed by a secretly poisoned blade — a treachery engineered by the villain Tian Guinong. Hu's infant son Hu Fei is rescued and raised by the servant Ping Asi, and grows up determined to avenge his father. Lau Sze-Yu's Shaw Brothers wuxia adaptation of Jin Yong's The Young Flying Fox stars Felix Wong as Hu Fei, with Alex Man, Bryan Leung and Kara Hui.

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Disc Two of Shawscope Presents: Street Gangs of Hong Kong contains Big Brother Cheng (1975) and Big Bad Sis (1976), each with a brand new audio commentary by Hong Kong cinema expert Frank Djeng, plus the original theatrical trailers for both films. Chen Kuan-Tai returns as teahouse owner Wang 'Big Brother' Cheng in Big Brother Cheng, again reluctantly resorting to violence to protect his establishment and keep the city safe, while in the spinoff Big Bad Sis a factory worker uses her formidable combat skills to train her sworn sisters to fight back against the men who oppress them — two of Shaw Brothers' socially charged 1970s street-gang thrillers, newly restored in Arrow's Shawscope Presents: Street Gangs of Hong Kong.

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Disc One of Shawscope Presents: Street Gangs of Hong Kong contains The Delinquent (1973) and The Teahouse (1974), each with a brand new audio commentary by Hong Kong cinema expert Frank Djeng, plus the original theatrical trailers for both films and a US TV spot for The Delinquent, released as Street Gangs of Hong Kong. In The Delinquent, a hot-headed young martial artist fights back against the ruthless triad gang trying to recruit him; in The Teahouse, Chen Kuan-Tai stars as Wang Cheng, a small business owner reluctantly resorting to violence to protect his establishment and keep the city safe — two of Shaw Brothers' socially charged 1970s street-gang thrillers, newly restored in Arrow's Shawscope Presents: Street Gangs of Hong Kong.

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Disc 9 contains the film All Men Are Brothers, an audio commentary with James Mudge, the original theatrical trailer, and a Celestial trailer. The long-awaited sequel to the martial arts hit The Water Margin, adapted from one of China's most enduring 14th-century novels. Also known as Seven Soldiers of Kung Fu and 108 Heroes, the action-packed epic features a cast of kung fu favorites and no fewer than four action choreographers.

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Disc 11 contains the film The Savage 5, an audio commentary with James Mudge, veteran Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks, and a Celestial trailer. The heroes are savage because the villains are brutal, cruel and vicious: a gang that at first only wants the village locksmith to open a stolen safe soon escalates into tormenting the village. In the tradition of The Seven Samurai, Chang Cheh and action choreographers Liu Chia-liang and Tang Chia stage each struggle with gritty depravity and desperate power, making for an especially realistic, grueling exercise in white-knuckle suspense.