I was reminded of dddhouse.com last night; source of ridiculously cheap asian movies. HK$30 for a DVD, in most cases, which is a fair bit less than US$5. Once the postage kicks in it's a bit more, but still very cheap. So I was obliged to order nine DVDs, which, including shipping, cost me about AU$80, which is about US$57 or UK£31. The DVDs in question being:- Flirting Scholar (it's Stephen Chow)
- Osaka Wrestling Restaurant (it had no IMDB review, a funny name, and Sammo Hung)
- Moon Warriors (it's the one missing movie from my mesh of movies which have trailers for each other at the start)
- High Risk (which I just now discovered to be naught but an alias of Gorgeous - a good movie, but I already have it. Tsk.)
- Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain (because the name sounds amusingly like a Sunday-Afternoon-Disney movie)
- Hail The Judge (it's Stephen Chow again)
- Last Hero In China (it's also known as Iron Rooster vs. The Centipede. Iron Rooster! Centipede! And Jet Li movies do okay.)
- Forbidden City Cop (it's Stephen Chow again)
- Dr Wai In The Scripture With No Words (fun title, and IMDB reviewers alternately love it and hate it, which usually means good things, and it gets the bonus Jet Li points.)
If you're tempted to order things from there, Attack The Gas Station is highly recommended, as are Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer, From Beijing With Love and God of Cookery. And the Sixty Million Dollar Man is worth it just for the cover. From the Jackie Chan section I recommend Gorgeous, Project A 2 and Mr Nice Guy. If you like the old-style Kung Fu movie with a cliché "you set fire to my trousers, now I'm going to learn better kung-fu for a bit and then come back for revenge" plot, Drunken Master is the best of them, closely followed by Snake in the Eagle's Shadow. And from Chow Yun Fat and my mesh-of-trailers section, God Of Gamblers is quite fun in a Rain-Man-but-not-crap sort of way. Jet Li has The Tai Chi Master, but his section is devoid of prices for The One which I think means it's out of stock. Tsk.
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