Throw Down / Yau doh lung fu bong (2004) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1092]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x548, ~ 2.6 Mbps | 1hr 36mn | 2.04 GB | Chinese (中文): AC3, 6 ch, 448 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x548, ~ 2.6 Mbps | 1hr 36mn | 2.04 GB | Chinese (中文): AC3, 6 ch, 448 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Johnnie To
Writer: Nai-Hoi Yau (as Yau Nai Hoi), Tin-Shing Yip (as Yip Tin Shing)
Stars: Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying
One of the most personal films by the prolific Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To is a thrilling love letter to both the cinema of Akira Kurosawa and the art and philosophy of judo. Amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong’s nocturnal underworld, the fates of three wandering souls—a former judo champion now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner (Louis Koo), a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a singer (Cherrie Ying) chasing dreams of stardom—collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption. Paying offbeat homage to Kurosawa’s debut feature, Sanshiro Sugata, To scrambles wild comedy, flights of lyrical surrealism, and rousing martial-arts action into what is ultimately a disarmingly touching ode to the healing power of friendship.
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