Manufacturer: Showbox Media Group Ltd
Directed By: Prachya Pinkaew

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Clarence Gilyard, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Chris Conrad
Directed By: John G. Avildsen, Christopher Cain

Chinese director Zhang Yimou ends his bid to outfly Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with Curse Of The Golden Flower, the third in his Wuxia (the Chinese style of flying and fighting) films. Much like Hero and House Of Flying Daggers, it is drenched in colours so dazzling, and boasts action scenes so exhilarating, that you can almost forgive any shortcomings in the story. ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu

Director Zhang Yimou brings the sumptuous visual style of his previous films (Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad) to the high-kicking kung fu genre. A nameless warrior (Jet Li, Romeo Must Die, Once Upon a Time in China) arrives at an emperor's palace with three weapons, each belonging to a famous assassin who had sworn to kill the emperor. As the nameless man spins ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Donnie Yen
Directed By: Yimou Zhang

One of the most successful martial arts movies of all time, if not the best, Enter the Dragon (filmed in 1973) was Bruce Lee's last completed film and the first significant meeting of Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema. But it wasn't an entirely harmonious marriage, with on-set communication breakdowns and rows resulting in some poor scripting, editing and overdubbing. Lee plays a Shaolin ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri, Angela Mao
Directed By: Robert Clouse

Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Directed By: Yimou Zhang

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Robert Wall, Jon T. Benn
Directed By: Bruce Lee

Anybody hungering for a good old-fashioned Western needs to check out Warriors of Heaven and Earth, which--although it's set in 7th-century China--has all the valor and spectacle of a John Ford picture. It also has a goofy supernatural streak, for the chopsocky crowd. The opening 10 minutes or so offer an alarmingly convoluted plot, but it swiftly settles down. What's going on is that a ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Jiang Wen, Kiichi Nakai, Zhao Wei Wei
Directed By: He Ping

Manufacturer: DVD Digital Distribution
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson
Directed By: Sheldon Lettich

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is so many things: an historical epic on a grand scale, an Asian martial-arts flick with both great effects and fantastic fighting (choreographed by The Matrix's guru Yuen Wo Ping), a story of magic, revenge and power played with a posse of star-crossed lovers thrown in for good measure. Set during the Qing dynasty (the late 19th century), the ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung
Directed By: Ang Lee