Chow Yun-Fat
10 Films
Chow Yun-Fat
10 Included Films
Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
Director: John Woo
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray > Disk Kino/WCL China import
review: Disk Kino
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
Director: John Woo
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray > Disk Kino/WCL China import
review: Disk Kino
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
Arrow 4K UHD
Arrow or Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray, seems to be the same transfer see Finch's review
caps for the new Arrow/Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray upgrade compared to previous BDs
Arrow has better subtitles
Arrow UHD has much better English subtitles and additional extras making it the far superior release to the Shout version of the same master.
Arrow 4K UHD
Arrow or Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray, seems to be the same transfer see Finch's review
caps for the new Arrow/Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray upgrade compared to previous BDs
Arrow has better subtitles
Arrow UHD has much better English subtitles and additional extras making it the far superior release to the Shout version of the same master.
Director: John Woo
Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Arrow has a different grade and a better encode, though the difference in either is not major.
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.
Director: John Woo
Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Arrow has a different grade and a better encode, though the difference in either is not major.
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray, correct grade and archival extras missing from the Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Criterion LaserDisc, both Arrow 4K Blu-ray and Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray are worse.
Criterion USA LaserDisc [CC1397L]: Original Cantonese mono.
Best Cantonese mono still was from Criterion LaserDisc, as the Shout one was boosted with clipping, with some filtering and losing dynamic range over the Criterion LD.
There’s no need for other Cantonese audio, as all 5.1 remixes are extremely bad and not worth including.
For English Dub the Shout offered the best, it was pure mono. All other 5.1 remixed of said dub are also terrible and offer no value, only less fidelity and more echo.
Director: John Woo
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray, correct grade and archival extras missing from the Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Criterion LaserDisc, both Arrow 4K Blu-ray and Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray are worse.
Criterion USA LaserDisc [CC1397L]: Original Cantonese mono.
Best Cantonese mono still was from Criterion LaserDisc, as the Shout one was boosted with clipping, with some filtering and losing dynamic range over the Criterion LD.
There’s no need for other Cantonese audio, as all 5.1 remixes are extremely bad and not worth including.
For English Dub the Shout offered the best, it was pure mono. All other 5.1 remixed of said dub are also terrible and offer no value, only less fidelity and more echo.
Theatrical: Mill Creek Blu-ray
Theatrical: Mill Creek Blu-ray
Theatrical: Mill Creek Blu-ray
Theatrical: Mill Creek Blu-ray
Sony Pictures US set 4K Blu-ray has DV
Sony Pictures US set 4K Blu-ray has DV
Sony Pictures US set 4K Blu-ray has DV
Sony Pictures US set 4K Blu-ray has DV
10 films