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Chow Yun Fat: On Fire Trilogy (DTS Digitially Remastered) DVD Boxset

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Chow Yun Fat: On Fire Trilogy (DTS Digitially Remastered) DVD Boxset
Director: Ringo Lam
Manufacturer: Intercontinental Video & Fortune Stars
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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3 disc package (region 3NTSC)
A Set of Bookmarks
City On Fire (Digitally Remastered) DVD
Prison on Fire (Digitally Remastered) DVD
Prison on Fire II (Digitally Remastered) DVD

ASIN: B000JTHOVK

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Chow Yun Fat: On Fire Trilogy DTS Digitally Remastered (3 DVD Box Set / Region-3).

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This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movie
wrong movie
The Shawshank Last Castle Redemption
one of the films that made Chow great...

Prison on Fire
Starring: Chi Hung Ng , Victor Hon , Yun-Fat Chow , Shih Wu , and Roy Cheung
Director: Ringo Lam
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
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ASIN: 6305161461
Release Date: 2001-08-14

Amazon.com

This solid 1987 big-house melodrama costars Tony Leung Kar-fei (The Lover) as a bespectacled innocent, perhaps mentally impaired, who is unjustly imprisoned. Behind bars he is befriended by a life-loving reprobate (Chow Yun-fat) who displays his cool by rolling a lit cigarette over his knuckles, in a risky variation on the George Raft silver dollar trick. Director Ringo Lam jacks up the visceral tension effectively, even though Leung's character is too naive to be true. Chow is in top form, however, enduring even more brutal beatings than in A Better Tomorrow. All prison exposé films are essentially the same, but this one has a few unusual wrinkles: there are no intimations of that American slammer staple, homosexuality, though close fraternal attachments are suggested in a lyrical Christmas party dance sequence. --David Chute

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This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movie.......2006-03-22

Firstly, let me state that the movie you purchase off this page is not the movie anything else on the page refers to. That movie can be found at (at the time of my post) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305161461/qid=1143000381/sr=8-12/ref=sr_1_12/104-6669544-4164763?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

This movie does not have Chow Yun-Fat in it, is decidedly not a martial arts flic, and is not a story of an inmate guiding another; nor is this movie made on the kind of budget that even Chow Yun-Fat's older movies had. (Read the camera work leaves something to be desired)

What this movie does have is a touching story of a chinese neighborhood boss who rises to the top, only to be imprisoned on a life sentance for something which is arguably not of his doing. The story then follows his following depression, seperation from family and friends, and eventual turning to a Christian preacher as a confidant. For fear of leaving no surprises, I'll leave out any further details, but suffice it to say that while this movie was not worth the $12.99 I paid for it, it was worth viewing.

This movie would better be categorized as a crime melo-drama, and contains within it a somewhat effective argument against crime. Don't rent/buy this movie if you're looking for Martial Arts action (or any other sort of action), but while this story will never bring you close to tears, it is quite touching.

wrong movie.......2004-09-26

Not Ringo Lam and not Chow Yun-fat, This is a much newer movie.

The Shawshank Last Castle Redemption.......2002-05-07

When I first read about this movie, I was expecting a fire in a prison and Chow and his buddy trying to get out. What I got instead was a beautiful drama about friendship in the midst of prison. It was almost a combination of "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Last Castle." The acting was wonderful. And for a prison drama, it was very tender. The characters were great and you could feel yourself bonding with them. If you don't mind a good foreign film you have to read, Prison on Fire is a good movie for you.

one of the films that made Chow great..........1999-12-10

Audiences used to Western style cinema might poo-poo at the melodramatic sentiments of this film. It is melodramatic and at times unrealistic (I mean how many times can a guy get beaten but not die? ) but it is also without a doubt different. This is not an American prison film by any means which is reason enough to watch it. Also despite the gritty violence that Ringo Lam is known for, this is not a Midnight Express type film. Sure, there is the bad guard but there are also good guards.

Chow plays a kind hearted prisoner who knows the system. He takes the naive Tony Leung Ka Fai and helps him get through his prison term. Despite the closeness of the men's friendship in prison, there is no subtext (just as there isn't meant to be one in John Woo's HK films)

Chow is at his best here and shows why he is such a respected actor in the East. His expressions and mannerisms are excellent and help make Prison on Fire such a good film. Some of the expressions Chow used in this film and his other HK classics are used sporadically and unevenly in The Corruptor (Chow's 2nd American film.)

Customer Reviews:

Definately Worthwhile!!.......1999-05-27

It's more of the same from the first movie, but it is worthy. This one does have some comic relief though.

Average customer rating:

This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movie
wrong movie
The Shawshank Last Castle Redemption
one of the films that made Chow great...

Prison on Fire: Preacher
Starring: Kwong Leung Wong , Victor Hon , Yun-Fat Chow , Fui-On Shing , and Ka-Kui Ho
Director: Ringo Lam
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ASIN: B00008DDWR
Release Date: 2003-04-22

Amazon.com

This solid 1987 big-house melodrama costars Tony Leung Kar-fai (The Lover) as a bespectacled innocent, perhaps mentally impaired, who is unjustly imprisoned. Behind bars he is befriended by a life-loving reprobate (Chow Yun-fat) who displays his cool by rolling a lit cigarette over his knuckles, in a risky variation on the George Raft silver dollar trick. Director Ringo Lam jacks up the visceral tension effectively, even though Leung's character is too naive to be true. Chow is in top form, however, enduring even more brutal beatings than in A Better Tomorrow. All prison exposé films are essentially the same, but this one has a few unusual wrinkles: there are no intimations of that American slammer staple, homosexuality, though close fraternal attachments are suggested in a lyrical Christmas party dance sequence. --David Chute

Customer Reviews:

This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movie.......2006-03-22

wrong movie.......2004-09-26

Not Ringo Lam and not Chow Yun-fat, This is a much newer movie.

The Shawshank Last Castle Redemption.......2002-05-07

one of the films that made Chow great..........1999-12-10

Prison on Fire and City on Fire (School on Fire is the last in the trilogy) are known as Ringo Lam's masterpieces and it's easy to tell why. Prison is a fast paced film with loads of heart. The fighting among prisoners and among guards is quite something to watch. It's a prison film with chinese ideals of chivlary, honor and friendship among men. One could even make a case for it being a film with John Wooism themes with out the ballet.

Prison on Fire
Average customer rating:

This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movie

wrong movie

The Shawshank Last Castle Redemption

one of the films that made Chow great...

Prison on Fire
Starring: Kwong Leung Wong , Victor Hon , Yun-Fat Chow , Fui-On Shing , and Ka-Kui Ho
Director: Ringo Lam
Manufacturer: Tai Seng Video Marketing
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Binding: VHS Tape

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ASIN: 6304856385
Release Date: 2001-04-24

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Customer Reviews:

This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movie.......2006-03-22

wrong movie.......2004-09-26

Not Ringo Lam and not Chow Yun-fat, This is a much newer movie.

The Shawshank Last Castle Redemption.......2002-05-07

one of the films that made Chow great..........1999-12-10

Customer Reviews:

Definately Worthwhile!!.......1999-05-27

It's more of the same from the first movie, but it is worthy. This one does have some comic relief though.

Average customer rating:

This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movie
wrong movie
The Shawshank Last Castle Redemption
one of the films that made Chow great...

Prison on Fire
Starring: Kwong Leung Wong , Victor Hon , Yun-Fat Chow , Fui-On Shing , and Ka-Kui Ho
Director: Ringo Lam
Manufacturer: Tai Seng Video Marketing
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

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Yun-Fat, Chow | ( Y ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

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