Throw down
2021
DVD
"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 now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner (Louis Koo), a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a singer (Cherrie Ying) chasing dreams of stardom--collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption. Paying offbeat homage to Kurosawa's debut feature, Sanshiro Sugata, To scrambles wild comedy, flights of lyrical surrealism, and rousing martial-arts action into what is ultimately a disarmingly touching ode to the healing power of friendship."--Container.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781681438764
Edition: DVD Special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title: Yau doh lung fu bong
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
- 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.
- Title from container.
- Director of photography, Cheng Siu-keung ; editor, David Richardson ; original music, Peter Kam.
- Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying, Tony Leung Ka-fai.
- DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- For private home use only.
- Audio tracks in Chinese (Cantonese), with optional subtitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC3294DDVD
- CC3294D
Control Number: 3091098
UPC: 715515264112
Publisher: New York : Criterion Collection, [2021]