A Man Called Hero blu-ray

[toddly6666]

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Ekin Cheung, Shu Kei, Nicolas Tse, Yeung Kung Yue
Region/Format : Blue-ray A, B, C (All Region)
Rating/Genres : Action, Adventure
Distributed by : Vicol Entertainment
Directed By : Andrew Lau
Release Date : 08-10-2015
Pre-Order Price : HK$155/US$19.87
Description :
Blu-ray
Widescreen
Dolby TrueHD 96K 5.1、Uncompressed PCM 2.0
Language ： Cantonese, Mandarin
Subtitles ： Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese & English

Running time 105 minutes
Synopsis :
After a simple initiation ceremony, Hero goes home with excited but he finds his parent was killed. What had happened was, Gian took a group of foreigners to Hero's parents and forced them to hand over the Red Sword, their family treasure. In order to take revenge, Hero kills the foreigners. Thereafter, he wants by the police and signs up to be a coal miner in America.......

[Dragon Lee]

Nice find Todd. Haven't seen this in ages but I remember sorta liking it. Might pick it up.

[tsetse27]

nice! a guilt pleasure for me!

i guess this is still the shorter version, not the longer theatrical cut?

Now, hopefully Young and Dangerous series is next...

[tigerstyles]

I bet this has dated badly due to it's lame CGI

[whiteberry]

I wonder if they will restore the Ku Klux Klan scenes that were cut from the DVD.

[alexavril]

runtime：116min
Uncut version

[The Mole]

It is indeed the uncut version. All the KKK-scenes and the rest of the missing stuff are included.

[wesslan]

So how is the quality? Vicol have done some nice discs in the past.

[CelestialAgent]

VSA are doing a USA release with slipcase

[HippieDalek]

For anyone curious about the Vinegar Syndrome release I watched my copy over the weekend and I can confirm that it does contain the often cut KKK scenes.

This is a full length version of the film, but I hesitate to call it uncut as there is still one small change from the theatrical version.

At the end of the scene where Hero and Sword reunite on the rooftop, Hero originally jumped away across the night sky, silhouetted in front of the moon. I heard this shot generally lead to laughter in cinemas so it was changed to Hero simply fading out once he jumps up onto the tower.

The Vinegar Syndrome Blu Ray (which I assume uses the same master as the Chinese Blu Rays) uses the fade out version of that shot. No run time difference, just a visual change.

I've attached a screenshot from the ancient Speedy VCD which until now was my only copy of the full length version of the film. Amongst all the compression artefacts you might just be able to make out Hero jumping in front of the moon as seen in Hong Kong cinemas.



As for the visual quality...it's ok...quite a bit of DNR but I assume that's just because of the master they were given by the Chinese Studio. It's still a huge step up from my old VCD ��

[Chumpster99]

Originally Posted by HippieDalek

For anyone curious about the Vinegar Syndrome release I watched my copy over the weekend and I can confirm that it does contain the often cut KKK scenes.

This is a full length version of the film, but I hesitate to call it uncut as there is still one small change from the theatrical version.

At the end of the scene where Hero and Sword reunite on the rooftop, Hero originally jumped away across the night sky, silhouetted in front of the moon. I heard this shot generally lead to laughter in cinemas so it was changed to Hero simply fading out once he jumps up onto the tower.

The Vinegar Syndrome Blu Ray (which I assume uses the same master as the Chinese Blu Rays) uses the fade out version of that shot. No run time difference, just a visual change.

I've attached a screenshot from the ancient Speedy VCD which until now was my only copy of the full length version of the film. Amongst all the compression artefacts you might just be able to make out Hero jumping in front of the moon as seen in Hong Kong cinemas.



As for the visual quality...it's ok...quite a bit of DNR but I assume that's just because of the master they were given by the Chinese Studio. It's still a huge step up from my old VCD ��

Dang, didn't know there was a VCD of the unedited version out there. I know Djeng mentions on the commentary it aired unedited on TVB. Any uploads/videos of it in action out there? Might have to track it down.

Funny enough, there's three different versions of that scene. Special Cut and the BD fade Hero after he lands on the tower, but in the dubbed export cut (Which was available on widescreen DVD in Canada via VSC) he jumps off the tower towards the moon still - but fades into the dark night sky rather than continuing across the moon. Certainly works much more cleanly than the edit made for the special cut / BD.

Vinegar Syndrome release seems to add a layer of artificial grain to try and alleviate the DNR. I sort of appreciate it, but it definitely doesn't look quite right, sadly. English dub reverts to the original Cantonese track for sections missing from the export cut, so it seems there was no dub made for the full uncut version (though given the export cut was appreciably longer than the special cut, it's mostly only the KKK scenes that revert to Cantonese, and much of the dialogue in those scenes is already in English anyways.)