Jackie Chan Blu-rays (UK & Region B Buyers Guide)

[Drunken+Master]

List made for UK residents (or importers) buying UK Jackie Chan Blu-Ray discs.
Non-UK discs must contain either English dubs or subs to be considered for listings.
Lists do not include animated voiced parts or films with small cameos.

** 4K Disc listings at bottom of this post **

Totals below as follows.
UK Blu-Ray Releases = 65+1*
Region B Releases = 8
Region A Releases = 6
No Blu-Ray Release = 2

Total = 82 (77/79 Released Playable On Standard UK Blu-Ray Player)


UK Discs Confirmed Coming Soon:


*Magnificent Bodyguards - 88 Films - TBC


UK Blu-Ray Releases - 65 (Click on the cover image to be taken to the respective blu-ray page)
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Region B Blu-Ray (UK Player Compatible) with either Eng Subs or Dub - 8
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80 Days Around The World - English Language

Bleeding Steel - English Dub

Fantasy Mission Force - English Dub & Subs

First Strike - English Dub & Subs

Master With Cracked Fingers - English Subs

Rush Hour 2 - English Language

Skiptrace - English Language

Who Am I? - English Language



Region A Blu-Ray with either Eng Subs or Dub - 6 (4 UK Blu-Ray Player Compatible)
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A Legend - Eng Dub & Subs - Region A

Knight Of Shadows, The - Eng Dub & Subs - Region B Compatible

New Police Story - Eng Dub & Subs - Region Free

Panda Plan - Eng Dub & Subs - Region A

Shanghai Knights - Eng Lang - Region Free

Shanghai Noon - Eng Lang - Region Free


No Blu-Ray with English Subs or Dub - 2
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Hidden Strike
Thunderbolt



UK 4K UHD BD Releases - 8+1*
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UK 4K Discs Confirmed Coming Soon:


*Heart Of Dragon - 88 Films - TBC



Other Region 4K BD Releases (Region-Free) - 3
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Iron Mask (German) (English Language Film)

The Forbidden Kingdom (US) (English Language Film)

The Project A Collection (US) (Eng Dubs & Subs)

[newgen2005]

Very good idea, I have a few titles you can add to your list!

[Ste7en]

Nice. But rather than a list of existing BDs why not use the tags with the ref number between, like:

[drees5761]

Nice List. Remember a lot of his HK films released on Blu ray are upscales, not true HD and do not include original mono soundtracks, just 5.1 with added new sound fx.

[Steelguy]

Good idea, I often find I need to compare releases for quality and extras for Jackie Chan movies. I think they don't understand there is a demand for it in the UK or studios are not interested, we seem to be missing a lot of US releases for other genre as well. I know some of the releases for Jackie Chan movies outside of the more popular ones are like upscales due to the source being used, some overseas studios in Asia were not helping matters too, seems to be getting better lately though.

I would rather Arrow and Eureka or similar UK studios pick up the classic Jackie Chan movies, they will be treated better that way as we see with Drunken Master.

[Markgway]

The German releases aren't allowed to have English subs. Blame Fortune Star.

AFAIK, only two of them are proper HD anyways -- Heart of Dragon (JP version) and City Hunter. The rest are the usual upscales.

Several of them have original Cantonese mono, including the above two titles -- although City Hunter's mono is taken from the Japanese laserdisc and features a JP pop song instead of Jackie's classic theme.

Here's the song playing over the JP credits (by that I mean it has a couple of exclusive JP credits, almost the same as the HK credits).

Jackie Chan - City Hunter Japanese Laserdisc Outtakes - YouTube

The German BD has the song playing over the original HK credits.
I guess they forgot to re-edit the audio as they did with Heart of Dragon.

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I'd imagine the reason so few of Jackie's films are available on Blu in the UK is because most distributors aren't willing to accept upscales (even the crappy Medium Rare learnt their lesson after Operation Condor).

[DEF!]

Great idea for a thread. JC's Blu's are a mine field. I'm praying Drunken Master does crazy business for Eureka so we get more to follow asap. Providing we got proper restorations I'd double dip on all my region 1 Shout JC discs in a heart beat.

[reason108]

Originally Posted by DEF!

Great idea for a thread. JC's Blu's are a mine field. I'm praying Drunken Master does crazy business for Eureka so we get more to follow asap. Providing we got proper restorations I'd double dip on all my region 1 Shout JC discs in a heart beat.

They should be able to get Snake in the Eagle`s Shadow with no problem since the rights for that are owned by the same folks that own Drunken Master. Otherwise, they would have to deal with Fortune Star for most of JC`s classics. And, that would be a hard road to travel down. Not only would they have to wait until 4k masters are done, but, also make sure that they are color timed correctly (if Ritrovata are doing the restore) and make sure the original mono audio tracks are used. FS are a little sneaky when it comes to stuff like that. Though, if Eureka! would be willing to go to all that trouble, then, yes, those releases would be a day 1 purchase for me.

[malcy30]

Any news on Railroad Tigers as it's out Monday ?
Presume it's subtitled rather than dubbed ?

Has anyone seen it ? is Jackie Chan genuinely the lead or only a cameo but his name means the distributors hype up his role.

[grim_tales]

Twilight Time are releasing Drunken Master and SITES soon right?

[reason108]

Originally Posted by grim_tales

Twilight Time are releasing Drunken Master and SITES soon right?

Someone said June. We shall see.

[Aclea]

The German 3D disc of Chinese Zodiac has the English soundtrack, but it's only the shorter international version - and the 3D is very weak.

[charliemaess]

HK Rescue is about the best thing happening right now. Awesome discs.

[reason108]

Originally Posted by charliemaess

HK Rescue is about the best thing happening right now. Awesome discs.

But, they are boots!

[levcore]

Originally Posted by Aclea

The German 3D disc of Chinese Zodiac has the English soundtrack, but it's only the shorter international version - and the 3D is very weak.

I thought the 3D was surprisingly good in this and not weak at all. Nice medium 3D presentation IMO and a solid enough conversion.

[levcore]

Originally Posted by malcy30

Any news on Railroad Tigers as it's out Monday ?
Presume it's subtitled rather than dubbed ?

Has anyone seen it ? is Jackie Chan genuinely the lead or only a cameo but his name means the distributors hype up his role.

I would also like to know this as I was planning on picking this up today. Trailer looked like a lot of fun.

[Magic Monkey]

Originally Posted by malcy30

Any news on Railroad Tigers as it's out Monday ?
Presume it's subtitled rather than dubbed ?

Has anyone seen it ? is Jackie Chan genuinely the lead or only a cameo but his name means the distributors hype up his role.

There's very little information of the UK Kaleidoscope, a week before release date even the Kaleidoscope's own site didn't known it at all. Since then a very sparse product page came forth (maybe because I emailed them about details and lack of product page?) Also the Amazon page is sorely lacking details.

Seems that the Well Go Usa Blu-ray coming out in June 20 has much more bonus features. Though the original language audio track seems to be lossy Dolby Digital 5.1. Eng dub only DTS-HD MA 5.1.

The HK release of the movie seems to have some bonus features although they are not listed on the back cover.

I'm waiting for more info of the UK Kaleidoscope.

Hard one to choose from.. don't understand why some companies can't publish good details about their products.

[malcy30]

Originally Posted by Magic Monkey

There's very little information of the UK Kaleidoscope, a week before release date even the Kaleidoscope's own site didn't known it at all. Since then a very sparse product page came forth (maybe because I emailed them about details and lack of product page?) Also the Amazon page is sorely lacking details.

Seems that the Well Go Usa Blu-ray coming out in June 20 has much more bonus features. Though the original language audio track seems to be lossy Dolby Digital 5.1. Eng dub only DTS-HD MA 5.1.

The HK release of the movie seems to have some bonus features although they are not listed on the back cover.

I'm waiting for more info of the UK Kaleidoscope.

Hard one to choose from.. don't understand why some companies can't publish good details about their products.

Thanks for the info.

Seems crazy in the US to go lossless on the dub and lossy on the original language track. However has seen that before on other titles, as they market these to martial arts and action film fans who particularly in the US would favour a dub rather than those who enjoy watching a film in the original language.

Am nervous about Kaleidoscope as presume small company and don't have the pedigree of an Arrow or Eureka. What's their track record like on previous releases. Am nervous at only £9.99 it's going to be a very basic release.

[Vintrus]

You missed the French Twin Dragons Blu-ray.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Twin-...Blu-ray/92446/

[derek_1999]

Any update on Railroad Tigers - re extras or slipcase etc

Guess one of us will have to get a copy to find out