
Shout! Studios today introduces a new entertainment label, Hong Kong Cinema Classics™, "spotlighting a treasure trove of Hong Kong's most captivating and cinematic masterpieces on digital entertainment platforms in 4K and definitive-edition physical releases (UHD™ and Blu-ray™) for collectors' home entertainment shelves," according to an official announcement from the company. Looking over the list of what's coming, these are not empty words. When I was introduced to Hong Kong cinema in the late 90s, these are the very films I first eagerly devoured, as a consensus of a score of research books (and a few scattered websites). I considered myself fortunate to come of age on these films in the early DVD era, when visual quality and English-language subtitles stepped up from the videocassette era....
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