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Complete list of "Made in Hong Kong" tapes
Topic Started: May 23 2009, 01:25 PM (8,086 Views)
Jack J
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Hello Littlemissbashful,

I'm sorry I couldn't answer your post earlier but incidentally you posted it just after I had to deal with some real life stuff and I was away from the forum for quite some time (no, I wasn't in jail, lol).

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Anyhoo, thanks for your entries to the list. I'll add them ASAP. Cheers. :cheers:

About the subtitles; well, usually the cinema subs are burnt into the print itself and the new video subs are placed under the picture (unless it's a fullscreen picture obviously but I think it's still quite easy to see if they are video subs or cinema subs). About the cuts; I have my info from Asian Dvd Guide (I assume someone made comparisons).
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On the MIHK tapes, from what i recall, the subs were often newly mastered.

I have a few MIHK tapes i am willing to part with for just a few quid each if anyone wants them? Most are MINT sell-thru (small-box) releases but i do have the ex-rental (big-box) release of Ringo Lam's CITY ON FIRE too...

The biggest, most frustrating thing about MIHK's tape releases was the fact that they used Macrovision on their tapes. Sure, anyone can get a cable or kit and remove the Macro signal. But maaaaaan...if you didn't have the means to do so, watching these films (despite being cracking quality releases at the time) was often marred by the fact that the colour was always made too strong by the Macrovision and the contrast was hard to get right also.
Their otherwise excellent tape release of BULLET IN THE HEAD was a case in point: everyone's skin-tones looked so damned peach-tinted and it was hard to get a satisfying image adjustment...

Otherwise....nice prints for the time that were often complete (the odd censored exception, of course), full-length original edits, original ratios, in clean condition and with good remastered subs...

Can't recall which i still have, but i believe it is A CHINESE GHOST STORY (sell-thru), PRISON ON FIRE (sell-thru), TIGER ON THE BEAT (sell-thru) and CITY ON FIRE (rental version). Maybe one or two others, but most have gone since the superior DVD versions materialised. May POSSIBLY still have one of the catalogues kicking around somewhere too (these were often included in with the tapes)...

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:hello!:

Hi, thanks for the message and if you are still collecting numbers I don't think you have these:

HK067 MIHK Dreadnaught VHS Orig W/S ratio - English Subs

HK071 MIHK The Fate Of Lee Khan VHS Orig W/S ratio - English Subs

HK072 MIHK A Chinese Ghost Story II VHS Orig W/S ratio - English Subs

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Littlemissbashful
Aug 10 2009, 04:24 AM
:hello!:

Hi, thanks for the message and if you are still collecting numbers I don't think you have these:

HK067 MIHK Dreadnaught  VHS Orig W/S ratio - English Subs

HK071 MIHK The Fate Of Lee Khan  VHS Orig W/S ratio - English Subs

HK072 MIHK A Chinese Ghost Story II  VHS Orig W/S ratio - English Subs

Cheers

LittlemissB

Six months later and you get a reply! :blink: Sorry, things don't always go so quickly around here. :lol:

Thanks for your three entries. I've added them to the list.


Recently I got hold of PEDICAB DRIVER myself! :wub: It's really cool to get this tape as there's no official DVD release and because the copyrights are floating in a void there might never be a DVD release! :o The MIHK tape is the best there is; letterboxed, new subtitles, and fully uncut! The HK laserdisc is cut.


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MR VAMPIRE II: HK074. :D


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Arr, for fuck's sake! :angry: :blink: :lol:

I've just got hold of this UK VHS release of ROUGE. The reason I bought it was to get the film in its original format; the new(ish) DVD from Fortune Star has had its top and bottom cut off for some reason. I guess to make it look even more "letterboxed" than its original widescreen format. Go figure.

The old DVD releases are presented in the film's original format (at least that's what I've read) but unfortunately I haven't been able to find any of those anywhere. So I settled for a VHS which was released by a company called BlueLight but to my big surprise it turns out this video release is exactly identical to any of the Made in Hong Kong tapes!! :blink:

Everything down to type of font, the way to write index number and all. And also the inside of the cover has info by Bey Logan and there's a list of the tapes that were currently available from MIHK at the time. Also, ROUGE is listed as being a MIHK release. But it wasn't! So I guess the people behind the MIHK company set up another line as well and for some reason included ROUGE in this and not in the Hong Kong series which is odd to say the least!

On the tape there are trailers for some of the other BlueLight releases and they're non-Asian films. So it seems the MIHK guys wanted a kind of "world film" series as well. Cool enough but this just means there's gonna be more titles to track down and I have no idea where to begin. Try looking for "Blue Light" via Google search!

Not a whole lot of you seem to have been able to help much with the MIHK tapes cos you don't collect sell-thru crap (haha) so I'm not too hopefull with this but if any of you have any tapes from this line and can provide title(s) + index number then that would be just smashing! :D Cheers.
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i love this movie.. one of the best from HK
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Feb 5 2010, 01:04 PM
i love this movie.. one of the best from HK

You're absolutely right!! Even if you can't sell your tape. :P
(I've seen you've tried to sell it for months, even on ADG). :lol: I do hope you'll find a collector who wants it some day. Has it got subs and which format is it?
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fiol
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i love this movie.. one of the best from HK

You're absolutely right!! Even if you can't sell your tape. :P
(I've seen you've tried to sell it for months, even on ADG). :lol: I do hope you'll find a collector who wants it some day. Has it got subs and which format is it?

yeah i'm trying to sell the HK tape because i dont need it.. i already have the remastered dvd version and i'm fine with that.
unfortunately i cant try the vhs because my vhs player is dead, so i dunno if it has subs and the aspect ratio ^^

if nobody wants it, i will keep it as a keepsake of my last trip in HK and of Anita Mui/Leslie Cheung
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Here is my ROUGE collection: the UK ICA tape (1994 copyright) + Deltamac dvd
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