Police story ; Police story 2 Ging chaat goo si
(2019, original release: 1985)

Fiction

Blu-ray

Call Numbers:
BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/CANTONESE/POLICE

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/CANTONESE/POLICE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
EDITION
Two-Blu-ray special edition
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (222 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : illustrations ; 18 cm)

ISBN/ISSN
9781681435756 972, 1681435756 :, 0715515229012 971, 1681435756 CC3018BD-1, 9781681435756 CC3018BD-2, 715515229012
LANGUAGE
Chinese
NOTES

Features: New 4K digital restorations of Police Story and Police Story 2; Alternate 5.1 surround soundtracks; Alternate version of Police Story 2, presented in a 2K digital transfer for the first time from a subtitled 35 mm Hong Kong-release print; New interview with filmmaker Edgar Wright and a 2017 podcast conversation between Wright and actor-director Jackie Chan; New programs on Chan's screen persona and action-filmmaking techniques featuring author and New York Asian Film Festival cofounder Grady Hendrix; Episode of Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show from 1989 featuring interviews with Chan and actor Maggie Cheung; Archival interviews with Chan and actor and stuntman Benny Lai; Excerpts from Jackie Chan: My Stunts, a 1999 documentary codirected by and starring Chan; Excerpt from a 2017 television program reuniting Chan with the original members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team; Television program from 1964 detailing the rigors of Beijing-opera training, akin to the education that Chan received as a child; Chan stunt reel; Trailers; An essay by critic Nick Pinkerton

Police story (1985 : 100 min.) -- Police story 2 (1988 : 122 min.)

"The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan's breathtakingly inventive action comedies, two smash hits that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-kui, a Hong Kong police inspector whose methods are, ahem, unorthodox; the phenomenal Maggie Cheung, in a star-making role, plays his much-put-upon girlfriend, May. Packed wall-to-wall with astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography, epic explosions, charmingly goofball slapstick, and awesomely 1980s electro soundtracks, Police Story and Police Story 2 set a new standard for rock-'em, sock-'em mayhem that established Chan as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring and would influence a generation of filmmakers, from Hong Kong to Hollywood"--Container

Police story: Director of photography, Cheung Yiu-Jo ; editor, Peter Cheung ; music, Michael Lai

Police story 2: Director of photography, Cheung Yiu-Jo ; editors, Peter Cheung, Keung Chuen-Tak, Sek Chi-Kong ; music, Michael Lai

Police Story 2: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Bill Tung, Lam Kwok-Hung

Police story: Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Chor Yuen, Bill Tung, Ken Tong, Lam Kwok-Hung

Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; mono (Cantonese, English) or DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (Cantonese)

Cantonese or dubbed English dialogue with optional English subtitiles

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