Taiwanese actor turned director “Doze” Chen-zer’s over the edge gangster movie Monga is finally coming to DVD. Thanks to Hong Kong Distributor Mega Star, both regular and Blu-ray version will be released July 9, 2010. However it will only be on Region 3 for now, until Warner Brothers finds the time to acquire it for US release.
A film that receive local controversy due to its depiction of massive violence and street fight, Monga stars two of Taiwan’s entertainment heartthrob Ethan Juan Ching-tien and Mark Chao You-ting. The setting takes place during the end of Taiwanese dictatorship, five young men decided to join a gang in their district. As they enjoy their new found status, they do not realized that other gangster have also interest in this prospering area. Now they must fight in order to keep their territory.
The movie was a hit when it was released way back in February.
I admit, since our first news about Takashi Yamazaki’s live-action adaptation of Space Battleship Yamato, nothing interesting has been happening lately. However, good things comes to those who wait and that time is actually now. A new super awesome one and a half minute teaser trailer surface recently for this big budget film. Based on anime series that premiered in October of 1974 the plot is set in 2194, an alien species called the Gamilons begin an invasion of planet Earth. Despite human’s effort to fight back, they were defeated and on the brink total wipe out. Five years later, [...]
Accident is Hong Kong thriller film of noted director Pou – Soi Cheang and other directors who had collaborated with him for this much awaited movie in 2009. It tells a story about a notorious group of assassins whom instead of killing their foes with indescribable force, the characters made it appear that it was a case of “everyday accidents. Each “ accident” was very much detailed, It was through these critically planned and analyzed film sequences, that moviegoers will have the pleasure and excitement to watch, while their adrenalin rises up to the highest level from start to finish. [...]
US Distributor Virgil Films and Entertainment will be releasing Seven Days on Region 1 DVD this coming August 24, 2010. Directed by Shin-yeon Won, the man behind cult film such as Bloody Aria and Scary Hair. The plot is about a hotshot lawyer named Yu Ji-yeon and also a single mother who learn that her daughter has been kidnapped while competing in a 100 m relay, unlike other typical story of requesting a ransom in exchange for a life, the kidnapper demands that Ji-Yeon defend a nutorios rapist/murderer Jang Chul Jin (Choi Myeong-Su) and win it at the trial. She [...]
