Keung (Jackie Chan), a former Hong Kong martial arts champion, comes to New York to attend the wedding of his Uncle Bill (Bill Tung) who introduces his new wife to him down at his supermarket. Keung gets a job with one of the workers, Elena. Bill's friend asks him to take care of his car, until later that night, a street gang starts a motorcycle race near his apartment. They are about to run over his friend's car until Keung jumps down and stops them. He soon starts a rivalry with the street gang when he drives them away from the supermarket that they were robbing and vandalizing. When a member of the street gang gets involved in an illegal diamond deal gone bad and steals the diamonds, the small-time gangsters become the victims of a much larger criminal syndicate, and Keung agrees to help them. Keung convinces the street gangsters to reform, then brings the big-time criminals to justice. [ More Detail ]
Jackie Chan is the girl-chasing detective Ryu Saeba in this hilarious live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese comic book/anime series, now finally available in the U.S.! When Ryu is asked to track down a rich tycoon's runaway daughter, Shizuko, he ends up on a luxury cruise ship held hostage by a group of international terrorists. With a little help from a bumbling assistant, Kaori, Ryu has to save Shizuko, the wealthy passengers and more beautiful women than even he can handle.City Hunter has an all-star cast that includes Joey Wong (A Chinese Ghost Story), and Chingmy Yau (Naked Killer), and featuring Richard Norton (Mr. Nice guy) and Gary Daniels. In a now-classic fight, Jackie and Daniels are transformed into characters from the Streetfighter 2 video game! City Hunter is laugh-out-loud manga in motion, packed full of Jackie's trademark fights and stunts guaranteed to make both anime and Jackie Chan's fans Gala Gala Happy! [ More Detail ]
AKA Cult Toons was a series of 30-minute experimental alternate comedy VJ (video jockey) videos, directed by Xavier Perkins and Brett Foraker, produced for Cartoon Network UK in 1999.It could be considered to be the pinnacle of CNUK's effort to branch into older audiences, a year or two before the introduction of CN:X (Later Toonami) in UK, and even Adult Swim in USA. It could also be considered to be one of the closest mass media productions to the internet meme "Youtube Poop".**If you have an episode on VHS or DVD, please contact me.**This is part one out of four.(C)1999 Cartoon Network Europe / Exceeda.DVD archive kindly provided by Andyfly55I take no credit for this work. [ More Detail ]
Documentary hosted by martial arts acting legend Jackie Chan on the creation of action sequences in his movies.Joined by the Jackie Chan Stunt Team he reveals the tricks of the trade, shows the training involved in being a stunt man and conducts a masterclass in how to choreograph fight scenes.He also talks about his stunts in "Police Story" and there is behind-the-scenes footage of "Who Am I?" and "Rush Hour". [ More Detail ]
In-depth documentary about martial arts legend Jackie Chan.Featuring insights and revealing anecdotes from Jackie Chan himself about his early acting career, his subsequent success and his personal life.Films discussed include "Snake In The Eagle's Shadow", "Drunken Master", "Project A", "Police Story" "Armour Of God" and "Miracles". [ More Detail ]
Hime-chan's Ribbon is a magical girl manga series created by Megumi Mizusawa that was serialized in Ribon Magazine from August 1990 to January 1994. It was later developed into a 61 episode anime series produced by Studio Gallop that aired from October 2, 1992 to December 3, 1993. Hajime Watanabe's first project as a character designer was with Hime-chan no Ribbon. The manga series was collected into ten volumes in Japan, where it also received a full DVD release. [ More Detail ]
Erika, the princess of the Magic Kingdom has come to Earth in order to find a human girl who looks just like her. That girl turns out to be Himeko Nonohara, a tomboy's tomboy. Erika must give Himeko a magical item she has created in order to prove her worth as a successor to the crown. Himeko must test this item, a hair ribbon that allows her to transform into any other person she sees, to see if it is worthy. The series follows Himeko's adventures and her budding romance with Daichi, the boy who discovers her secret. w/subs [ More Detail ]