Magic Cop
July 14, 2023
The Hong Kong actioners Magic Cop and The Last Blood are being released on Blu-ray Disc by 88 Films and MVD Entertainment Group.
Due July 25 is Magic Cop (1990). Mixing comedy, action and esoteric lore, the restored film from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema is making its Blu-ray debut. In the film, after seeing off hopping corpses in Mr. Vampire, Lam Ching-ying (Enter the Dragon, Eastern Condors) faces a new supernatural challenge: someone is using the living dead to smuggle drugs into modern day Hong Kong and only Lam’s Officer Feng — policeman and Taoist master — can stop them, proving the power of traditional Chinese magic in the process. At age 17, star Lam Ching-ying became a stuntman and martial arts coach at the Shaw Brothers Studio, working on classics The Big Boss, Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon. The film also stars Michael Miu (Black Ransom), Wu Ma (Police Story 2) and Billy Chow (Fist of Legend). Special features include audio commentary by Frank Djeng.
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Also known as Hard Boiled II, Police Protectors and 12 Hours of Terror, The Last Blood (1990) is being released Aug. 8, also for the first time on Blu-ray. A gunplay movie such as only Hong Kong filmmakers could produce and a full-tilt tribute to the heroic bloodshed of John Woo (Hard Boiled), The Last Blood is a pioneering mix of Buddhists and bullets. In the film, star Andy Lau is out for blood — literally. Terrorists have shot two people: their target was a Tibetan religious leader but they also wounded the girlfriend of Bee (Lau, God of Gamblers, Infernal Affairs). Since both victims share the same rare blood group, Bee joins the cops (headed by Alan Tam, Armour of God) racing to find a donor. But the terrorists haven’t finished yet. The film also stars Eric Tsang (The Eye) and Bryan Leung (Iron Monkey). The Last Blood is known in the United Kingdom as Hard Boiled II (most likely to boost video sales). However, the film has nothing to do with the John Woo film, considering it was made two years earlier. Special features include audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Frank Djeng and the theatrical trailer.