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Roy Chiao

Roy Chiao

6 films on Best Blurays6 in 4K

Roy Chiao photo

Roy Chiao was a Chinese actor most famous in the Western world for playing the minor villain Lao Che in the 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Senzo Tanaka in Bloodsport.

Biography from TMDB

6 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Supporting role · Director: King Hu

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2025 Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

With better detail and grading than the China 4K Blu-ray. Comparisons

Best Audio:

2016 Eureka UK Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

But all are within the margin of error, minus Criterion

Supporting role · Director: Steven Spielberg

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly:

35mm scan, Blu-ray, DVD or LaserDisc.

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray heavily revisionist. Purist option: 35mm scan, Blu-ray, DVD or LaserDisc.

Best Audio:

Letterbox LaserDisc 2.0 matrix stereo, DVD 5.1, Blu-ray 5.1

Additional Info:

The Paramount 4K master is HEAVILY revisionist in that all of the effects and opticals were redone and tweaked with errors and issues. There has been grain management (moments of stagnating grain and haloing) and the encoding isn't great hence the typical Paramount noise in the image. (especially skies) The HDR is a bit bright in the highlights. The Blu-ray is showing its age but does not have any of these digital alterations. It is from the scan done by Laser Pacific and is the highest quality unaltered master we have. The DVD was done by Lowry Digital and had much scrubbing and processing of grain in addition to edge enhancement. The letterbox LaserDisc was the first widescreen release and is very good for its time.
The 4K Blu-ray audio is seemingly an Atmos remix of the 5.1 found on the Blu-ray which itself is very similar to the DVD 5.1. All are presumably based on the 70mm Dolby six track mix. The Atmos is more processed and moves the sound around more so it is inferior to the older 5.1 iterations. On release Temple of Doom had 70mm, 35mm Dolby Stereo and mono mixes. The mono was for 16mm and other outlets and is presumably close to if not a mixdown of the stereo. It is seemingly the last Lucasfilm title that had a mono mix made. The Dolby Stereo is one of the most aggressive matrix mixes ever made and is still a blast to this day on the letterbox LaserDisc release. It is more aggressive than any of the 5.1 discrete versions which is either due to studios taming the audio later or the 35mm mix being handled a bit differently to the 70mm mix. In terms of releases today, the LaserDisc still sounds better than DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray because of this factor.

DFIC extensive review: https://youtu.be/evsrJOTIjdA?si=wtdWGxZBfhPYTIeW

Supporting role · Director: Newt Arnold

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · hdnumerique.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France ESC 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

(the ESC 4K Blu-ray have no original 2.0 and a different Atmos mix. More about the ESC mix in this review)

Small role · Director: Robert Clouse

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

But compression is not very good. The two cuts are (by mistake?) separate videos on one disc.

Best Audio:

Criterion Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Also see review

Small role · Director: Robert Clouse

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest 4K

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Small role · Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

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