Recently in box of shaw Category

Kungfuology staffer Andy Best recently happened upon a box of 90 Shaw movies in his local store. Follow this feature as Andy 'live-blogs' one a week. Spoiler alert!

Round two, and there's the bell. A quick glance at the box shows the next movie's title, Miss 0. Looks like a potential false start. Let's pop in the disc and see. Feeling good today, finally got my VISA, another year all tied up. And ... yes ... Miss 0, Gold Dig Films 1978. Chow Yun Fat in modern day Hong Kong and a girl with memory loss. A quick sweep of the net doesn't reveal any apparent Shaw connection.

We move onto the next and it's another dissapointment but of a slightly more complex nature ... 

Kungfuology staffer Andy Best recently happened upon a boxed set of 90 Shaw movies in his local store. Follow this feature as Andy 'live-blogs' one a week. Spoiler alert!

And we're off. There's 90 movies in this set but glancing at the box I see some strange titles and repeats too. This blog will be as much about the China DVD experience as the movies themselves. As you might be able to catch in the photo, there's about 7 movies per disc. At one a week it's going to take me nearly two years (with holidays). Jia you!

So the first disc is in my machine, it's a typical Shanghai rainy Sunday and I'm ready to go. I must confess, my wife went into the set before to watch a favourite of hers One-armed Swordsman and it had a choice of original soundtracks and English titles too so I'm quite optimistic about the whole project ...