Chiba's Fighting Fist & Soul Of Bruce Lee!??

[GwaiLoMoFo]

Never heard of either one of these Chiba flix until I saw em on the shelf this week. Anybody seen either of these titles and are they any good?? Honestly they SOUND terrible :D. Recently released as a double feature from BCI/Rarescope. Check out that CLASSIC cover. (lol!)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a120/Biglidd/Chiba.jpg

[Yakuza954]

Wow, these were released already? They fell under the radar for me. Soul of Bruce Lee is aka actually Soul of Chiba, was an HK-co production in the 70's, and is actually a pretty fun movie if you're a Sonny Chiba fan. It has Etsuko, "Bronson Lee" and Bolo Yeung. Fighting Fist is one I haven't seen but it was also made in HK and in the 90's so I'm interested in seeing it.

[LoBo]

The release date is actually April 8. They must have got it before.
________
WEED VAPORIZER (http://weedvaporizers.org/)

[GwaiLoMoFo]

I saw them at my local Best Buy. Sometimes Best Buy does that, dont think its intentional.

[Alex]

which best buy did you see these at? i've been dying to check this out, I've heard tons of positive stuff about Soul of Chiba

[kungfusamurai]

Are they in their original languages or are they english dubs? Also, I hope the Soul of Chiba/Bruce Lee is using a nice source print.

I bought the VHS a few months ago, and I think I mentioned it in another thread here, that it featured some really great fight scenes. The movie itself is just so so. But Chiba really opens up in this flick. The way the fights are filmed are more like HK than the Japanese filmmakers of that same time period.

KFS

[Righteous Master]

Never heard of either one of these Chiba flix until I saw em on the shelf this week. Anybody seen either of these titles and are they any good?? Honestly they SOUND terrible :D. Recently released as a double feature from BCI/Rarescope. Check out that CLASSIC cover. (lol!)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a120/Biglidd/Chiba.jpg

That has got to be one THE WORST DVD covers that I have ever seen. What were they thinking?

[Morgoth Bauglir]

Yeah that cover is as ugly as can be, but still, I can't wait to get this.

[kungfusamurai]

That has got to be one THE WORST DVD covers that I have ever seen. What were they thinking?

What's wrong with seeing Chiba covered in wires and wearing Depends? :) It's actually a scene from the movie. Maybe it was the only lobby card photo they had that was presentable enough for the cover art.

I'm just hoping the film itself is widescreen, and japanese language.

KFS

[Alex]

Considering it's rarescope it will most likely be widescreen but dubbed, or with really bad embedded subtitles. I'm not complaining mind you, I love rarescope and buy their stuff religiously. I'd much rather see a poor print of a good movie than not see it at all.

[saltysam]

Both english and japanese versions of Soul Of Chiba are on the disc.quality is crap on both.one version is letterboxed at about 1:66:1 and the other 1:85:1.

[saltysam]

Screen shots of the dvd here

http://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4581

[LoBo]

I knew i was right that the Japanese version was cropped.
________
DEPAKOTE SETTLEMENT UPDATE (http://www.classactionsettlements.org/lawsuit/depakote/)

[kungfusamurai]

Dang! Too bad, the damn thing looks like it was sourced from VHS. I have the Arena VHS and it's the same thing (i.e. it's of the same aspect ratio). So if I bought the set, I'd be just buying it for the Japanese audio with subs. Not sure if it's worth getting for that reason.

The screen caps of the German disc seem to indicate that one used a film print source. If it's got a Japanese language track, I'll probably get that instead.

KFS

[Nakadai]

Blind bought this a few moments ago. For those that have actually watched this, what were your thoughts?

I must admit this is the first i've heard anything of it.