Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen SE Blu-ray (US)

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen SE Blu-ray (US)

Collector's Edition / Jing mo fung wan: Chen Zhen

Well Go USA | 2010 | 105 min | Rated R | Jun 14, 2011

A continuation of the 1995 television series Fist of Fury, Donnie Yen reprises his role as Chen Zhen, a role made famous by Bruce Lee in 'Fist of Fury' (1972). The film is set seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. That man is a disguised Chen Zhen, who intends to infiltrate the mob when they form an alliance with the Japanese. Disguising himself as a caped fighter by night, Chen intends to take out everyone involved as well as get his hands on an assassination list prepared by the Japanese.

Starring: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong
Director: Andrew Lau

Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio

Mandarin: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Mandarin: Dolby Digital 2.0
English: Dolby Digital 2.0

English, English SDH, French, Spanish (less)

Subtitles

English

Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)

Playback
Region A

Cover

Slip Cover

Availability

1-5 days

Harga

Rp. 369.000

Special Features

As has been the case lately with WellGo Collector's Edition Blu-rays, some of the supplements are on the Blu-ray with the main feature, while others are included on a supplementary DVD. The Blu-ray extras are:

• Behind the Scenes War Zone (SD; 7:57) includes some neat time lapse photography of the huge World War I battle set being built, and then moves on to show that sequence being filmed.
• Behind the Scenes Casablanca (SD; 9:34) shows several sequences being filmed that take place in and around the big nightclub where Chen Zhen becomes a partner.
• Theatrical Trailer (HD; 2:18)
• International Trailer (HD; 1:11)

The DVD supplemental features are:

• Behind the Scenes. A nice selection of segments is included which offers lots of shots of the film being made in almost all of the major sets utilized in the film. There is copious rehearsal footage, especially in the Hongkou Dojo sequence, which shows how carefully Donnie Yen plots out the elaborate fight sequences, and how also some fortuitous things just happen on the fly and are kept in the final cut of the film. The individual segments are:
  
  Tianjin Street (3:33)
  Market Place (5:30)
  Newspaper Office (3:19)
  Japanese Headquarters (3:04)
  Student Movement (3:48)
  Hongkou Dojo (11:03)
• Interviews. All of the major actors as well as director Andrew Lau are interviewed, some fairly briefly, other for quite some time. All of them speak about their characters and different aspects of the filming. Lau goes into some detail on the history of the character Chen Zhen which may help to fill in some gaps for those not that well acquainted with Zhen's (fictional) history. Shu Qi also gives us some backstory about her character which must have been planned at some point, but which is certainly not in the final cut in any definitive way. The interview segments are:
  
  Andrew Lau (16:27)
  Gordon Chan (1:43)
  Donnie Yen (9:23)
  Shu Qi (9:44)
  Anthony Wong (2:58)
  Huang Bo (5:16)
  Kohata Ryuichi (3:58)