Wednesday 13 April 2011

THE BOXER'S OMEN (Hong Kong, 1983)

VCD / HK / letterbox / Cantonese & Mandarin / English subs

Awesome, wild and crazy (crazy like in no-holds-barred wacky!) horror film from SB.

NB: the entry on HKMDB is wrong. The original Chinese dialect isn't Mandarin but Cantonese. Maybe someone made that entry after having bought the reg. 1 DVD thinking the US company would do things right. Well, they didn't! The DVD carries the wrong Chinese dialect, the right one is Cantonese. There's also some brief English dialogue in the film. In the Mandarin dub this is just dubbed into Mandarin. The HK video-cd from Celestial has both audio tracks and the picture quality is awesome for a VCD. Someone ought to make a fan dub with the reg. 1 DVD and add the correct audio.

6 comments:

  1. there's also a Japanese DVD, which has Both Audio Tracks plus 2 rare Original HK Theatrical Trailers. Plus the video Encoding is better. No English Subs of course, but some dedicated Fans did a new Version with this ;)

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  2. Hey Spannick!

    Thanks for the info, mate. A new version by dedicated fans! Cool. Would love to see that version. I actually stumbled over the Japanese DVD on eBay but didn't know it had better encoding + rare trailers.

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  3. i saw this a few years ago and its fuckin awesome

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  4. It certainly is. Thanks for your comment, mate. xD

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  5. hey brother, any torrent known for this gem???

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  6. No idea. It's on dvd. Support the legal release.

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