柔道龍虎榜 = Throw down

Rou dao long hu bang = Throw down

Blu-ray 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 (Louis Koo) now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner, a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a si...

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Judo Drama

Martial arts Drama

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Comedy films Feature films Feature films -- China Feature films -- Hong Kong Martial arts films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1092

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ISBN:

9781681438757
1681438755

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm)
digital
optical
surround
videodisc
Blu-ray
video file
region A
Blu-ray

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Yau doh lung fu bong
Throw down

Notes:

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
Director of photography, Cheng Siu-keung ; editor, David Richardson ; original music, Peter Kam
Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying, Tony Leung Ka-fai
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players
Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD master audio 5.1 surround
This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players
Cantonese dialogue; English subtitles

Control Number:

3091099

UPC:

715515264013

Other Authors:

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Fortune Star Entertainment (HK) Ltd., presenter
Gu, Tianle, 1970- actor
Guo, Fucheng, 1965- actor
Jin, Peida, composer (expression)
Liang, Jiahui, actor
One Hundred Years of Film Co., production company
Richardson, David M. (David Murray), editor of moving image work
To, Johnny, film director
Yin du ji gou you xian gong si (Hong Kong, China), production company
Yin he ying xiang (Xianggang) you xian gong si
Ying, Cai'er, 1983- actor
Yip, Tin-shing, screenwriter
You, Naihai, 1968- screenwriter
Zheng, Zhaoqiang, director of photography
Zhongguo xing ji tuan, production company
一百年電影有限公司, production company
中國星集團, production company
古天樂, 1970- actor
應采兒, 1983- actor
杜琪峰, film direcctor
梁家輝, actor
游乃海, 1968-, screenwriter
葉天成, screenwriter
郭富城, 1965- actor
鄭兆強, director of photography
金培达, composer (expression)
銀河映像(香港)有限公司,

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