Release Date: December 17, 2024
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $31.96
OrbitDVD- $25.99
DiabolikDVD-$29.99
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Writer: Barry Wong
Starring: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Biao Yuen, Joyce Godenzi, Wah Yuen, Woo-Ping Yuen
Legendary actor-director Sammo Hung delivers a bazooka blast of pure adrenaline in this exemplar of Hong Kong action cinema at its most entertaining. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood war films like The Dirty Dozen, Eastern Condors follows a ragtag band of Asian American prisoners dropped into Vietnam on a secret suicide mission to prevent a cache of weapons from falling into the hands of the Viet Cong, who are more than ready for a fight. Propelled by a dynamic ensemble cast that includes the ever-charismatic Yuen Biao as a black-market trader and a superhuman Yuen Wah as a giggling martial-arts monster, this rip-roaring spectacle offers a nonstop barrage of turbocharged set pieces that defy death, logic, and gravity itself.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $31.96
OrbitDVD- $25.99
DiabolikDVD-$29.99
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Writer: Barry Wong
Starring: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Biao Yuen, Joyce Godenzi, Wah Yuen, Woo-Ping Yuen
- Hong Kong
- 1987
- 98 minutes
- Color
- 2.39:1
- Cantonese
Legendary actor-director Sammo Hung delivers a bazooka blast of pure adrenaline in this exemplar of Hong Kong action cinema at its most entertaining. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood war films like The Dirty Dozen, Eastern Condors follows a ragtag band of Asian American prisoners dropped into Vietnam on a secret suicide mission to prevent a cache of weapons from falling into the hands of the Viet Cong, who are more than ready for a fight. Propelled by a dynamic ensemble cast that includes the ever-charismatic Yuen Biao as a black-market trader and a superhuman Yuen Wah as a giggling martial-arts monster, this rip-roaring spectacle offers a nonstop barrage of turbocharged set pieces that defy death, logic, and gravity itself.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring film critic Tony Rayns
- 2K digital restoration of the English-dubbed “export cut” of the film
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Sammo Hung
- Interviews from 2001 with Hung and actor Yuen Wah
- Eastern Condors Live!, an onstage performance from the 1987 Miss Hong Kong Pageant
- Teaser and trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Sean Gilman
