Jing cha gu shi /
警察故事 /
"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, uno...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Chinese English |
| Language Notes: | Cantonese and dubbed English soundtracks with optional English subtitiles; Hong Kong-release version of Police story part II: Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles. |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Two-Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
971-972. |
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as motion pictures in 1985 and 1988. Wide screen (2.35:1). 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; on insert, an essay by critic Nick Pinkerton. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (222 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (illustrations ; 18 cm) |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A; 16:9 widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; mono (Cantonese, English) or DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (Cantonese). |
| Production Credits: | Police story: director of photography, Cheung Yiu-Jo ; editor, Peter Cheung ; music, Michael Lai. Police story part II: director of photography, Cheung Yiu-Jo ; editors, Peter Cheung, Keung Chuen-Tak, Sek Chi-Kong ; music, Michael Lai. |
| ISBN: | 9781681435756 1681435756 |