Ringo Lam’s The Adventurers Getting Eureka Classics Release
Andy Lau stars as a vengeance-obsessed air force pilot in Ringo Lam’s, The Adventurers
The action-packed tale of heroic bloodshed comes in the shape of Ringo Lam’s The Adventurers. Eureka Entertainment are set to release as part of there Eureka Classics range in April on Blu-ray from a brand new 2K restoration.
This was the only collaboration between action master Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs). The Adventurers is an explosive story of heroic bloodshed featuring Rosamund Kwan (Once Upon a Time in China), David Chiang (Election) and Victor Wong (Big Trouble in Little China).
Wai Lok-yan (Lau) was just eight years old when his parents were killed before his eyes in Cambodia, where his father had been working for the CIA during Pol Pot’s ascent to power in the latter days of the Cambodian Civil War. Taken to Thailand by his father’s colleague Seung (Chiang), Yan grows up to the Thai Air Force and comes to discover that his father’s murderer – Ray Liu (Paul Chun, Royal Tramp), once a double agent – has now become a wealthy arms dealer based in the United States. With the help of the CIA, Yan intends to get close to Liu and have his revenge by taking on an assumed identity and gaining the trust of Liu’s daughter, Crystal (Jacklyn Wu, A Moment of Romance) – but first he will need to go undercover in San Francisco’s criminal underworld to rescue her from the clutches of the Vietnamese Black Tiger Gang.
This was made shortly before Ringo Lam departed for Hollywood to make Maximum Risk with Jean-Claude Van Damme, To many fans this is considered a hidden gem amongst the many heroic bloodshed films produced in Hong Kong during the 1990s.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
Limited edition of 2000 copies | Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Time Tomorrow | 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray from a brand new 2K restoration | Original Cantonese mono and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options | Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release | New audio commentary by film critic David West | Two Adventurers – new interview with Gary Bettinson, editor of Asian Cinema journal | Previously unseen archival interview with writer and producer Sandy Shaw | Theatrical trailer | PLUS: A Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring a new essay by Hong Kong cinema scholar Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park | All extras subject to change
HONG KONG | 1995| 15 | 110 MINS | 1.85:1 OAR | ACTION/THRILLER | CANTONESE
The Adventurers will be released on Blu-ray as part of the Eureka Classics range from 28th April in the UK and Ireland. Then Diabolik DVD releasing the film in North America on 29th April.
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