| The Chinastar dvd presentation is excellent. The anamorphic picture is framed at 1.78:1 and looks absolutely wonderful. The level of detail and sharpness is probably the best I've seen on a Hong Kong dvd. I didn't spot any obvious examples of edge enhancement and only a few specks and marks turned up in the beginning of the movie.
The sound on offer here is the original sync sound cantonese track, along with the mandarin dub (both in Dolby Digital 4.1 according to my player). The dialogue driven soundtrack is quite restrained and only really comes alive when the wonderful music kicks in. That works very well though.
The subtitles are a bit small to read at first, but you get used to that after a while. A few spelling errors sneak in on occasion but other than that it seems like a good translation of the dialogue. Also included are chinese subtitles and, in a nice touch from Chinastar, a subtitle stream for the english and japanese dialogue only. So good, Chinastar!
The extras are quite many for a Hong Kong dvd. You get the trailer for the movie itself along with trailers for Legend of Zu and Failan. Also included are cast & crew notes, character quotes, synopsis of the film (skip that next time, we know how to read the back of the dvd), a short making of (no english subtitles) and 6 deleted scenes. Only 2 of those are actual deleted scenes and 1 is an extended scene. The others are actually outtakes (which are fairly funny). Shame that were no english subtitles here either. It would have made an excellent package all round.
To sum it up I choose to quote Lau Ching Wan's character:
So good! |