2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 1 of 5 – Hong Kong Connection
We have acquired 15 films from the Kung Fu Masters the Shaw Brothers.
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has the world’s largest Chinese-language film collection including 760 films produced from the 1950s to the 1990s by the Shaw Brothers Studio founded by Sir Run Run Shaw and Runme Shaw in 1958.
Until Celestial Pictures began digitally restoring the films from their original negatives in 2002, few titles from the Shaw Brothers film archive had previously appeared since their original cinema release.
The Shaw films represent all genres, including kung fu, action, social satire, situation comedies, historical epics, horror and suspense, among others.
FUNimation will release “Sword of Swords”, “The Duel”, “The Lady Hermit” , “The 14 Amazons”, “Shaolin Hand Lock”, “Invincible Shaolin”, “Soul of the Sword”, “Life Gamble”, “Shaolin Rescuers”, “Shaolin Prince”, “Bastard Swordsman”, “Opium and The Kung Fu Master”, “The Supreme Swordsman”, “Return of Bastard Swordsman” and “Hong Kong Godfather”.
FUNimation Entertainment is bringing these films to DVD in 2010 and 2011.
For more info, read the official press release (link soon to follow).
117 Responses to “2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 1 of 5 – Hong Kong Connection”
Jenell on January 5th, 2010 at 1:09 pm says:
Are the movies supposed to be funny? LOL
It’s nice seeing more Live-action films released in R1. Can’t wait to see what Funi shows us tomorrow.
mudduck454 on January 5th, 2010 at 1:24 pm says:
I know it is not even released in Japan yet, and it wont hit theaters there until december, but some company better get space battleship yamato the live action movie, other than that…. good move funi for giving us some live action asain films
Sirch on January 5th, 2010 at 1:26 pm says:
Nice! I love me some old kung-fu movies, especially Shaw Brothers. Will they be dubbed or just subbed? Either way is fine with me.
[...] right off the bat, it’s been nothing but live action movies – and while their Shaw Brothers announcement did tickle my fancy a bit, the subsequent announcement of RoboGeisha and Kamui didn’t [...]
Old Pang Yau on January 5th, 2010 at 9:55 pm says:
I hope Funimation will bring these to blu-ray at some point. Between the fact that BCI (who previously owned and released Opium and the Kung Fu Master) released one Shaw Brothers blu-ray, and the fact that Funimation has done at least ONE live action blu-ray (with Ichi, which got great blu-ray reviews), it would be great to see the Shaw Brothers films in HD.
I also understand that not all of the SB films were mastered in HD, but the ones that were would be perfect for blu-ray.
Also, keep in mind that other companies will be releasing blu-ray Shaw Brothers films as well, with Media Blasters releasing The Deadly Duo this month, and Dragon Dynasty releasing The 36th Chamber of Shaolin in March.
Overall, I’m just saying it would be a great idea for collectors out there. I hope the techs at Funimation see this message!
And even if they decide 100% against blu-ray (hopefully not), I’ll still at least buy the DVDs 
[...] Whoo-hoo! [...]
Fate on January 6th, 2010 at 1:14 am says:
It’s nice to see this blog post shift into a more positive note, the overwhelming negativity from some people brought the whole post in general down.
kodocha_lover on January 6th, 2010 at 10:51 pm says:
yup yup live action all the way! we’re moving up!(lol jk KODOCHA ALL THE WAY!!)
stryker on January 7th, 2010 at 3:44 pm says:
PEOPLE COPY AND PASTE…
I wont riot, I will just stop feeding funimation my money and give it to the company that releases the shows I want
PASS IT ON…
sh16 on January 7th, 2010 at 8:35 pm says:
like i said i’d rather not.
Karma on January 8th, 2010 at 2:11 am says:
More than half of you people are the very definition of the words “whiny”, “ungrateful”, “selfish”, “self-centered” and “ignorant”.
I really wish that people like half of you would take 3 seconds to consider whether or not you fit the description of these words before you start posting some complaining, whining, childish hissyfits like 11 year olds with no social graces, and trying to pass it off as a valid opinion.
I mean seriously. My god.
You’re not interested? Good for you. News flash. For everyone not interested, there exists 5 people who are. So please get over yourselves, or think for 3 seconds before posting something that makes you sound really unintelligent.
Aw, who am I kidding? You’ll all still keep doing it.
I mean look at the way the rest of the week in comments have been going as you work your way up in the blog. They only get worse as the announcements unfold
It’s really kind of depressing that THESE are the people that Funimation has to depend on for sales. .
anthony on January 14th, 2010 at 1:48 pm says:
Shaw Brothers! hong kong moives! i love you funimation you guys really made me happy with this news! 
Sabastion on January 14th, 2010 at 2:02 pm says:
I LOVE the Shaw Brothers! Now all you need to do is get distribution rights to Lock and Roll Forever… PLEASE!!!!
Lennie Leston on January 15th, 2010 at 1:40 am says:
Hi appreciate the blog must have taken a fair amount of work.
Will Thomas on January 15th, 2010 at 10:54 am says:
Shaw Brothers, Shaolin films! Awesome! I can’t wait to introduce my anime kids to it. Thank you,
Funimation.
noel shaw on January 17th, 2010 at 9:35 am says:
Shaw Brothers on dvd is great and trust me their is an market for these films;just like some people don`t care for anime,lol.But that doesnt make one genre better than teh other just an different taste for your eyes
Terence Lee on January 30th, 2010 at 9:05 pm says:
Please release blu ray for The 14 Amazons, arguably the best Shaw movie ever.
