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Shaolin Soccer Ultimate Edition DVD

Posted by Todd Brown at 8:51am.

Posted in Film News .

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God bless those Koreans.  They know a marketing opportunity when they see one and they go for it with gusto.

Case in point:  Steven Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle releases and sets all sorts of box office records throughout Asia and, voila!  A three disc release of Chow’s brilliant Shaolin Soccer.  And what have they put on those three discs?  Why, three different versions of the film, of course, all apparently English subtitled, including DTS tracks and region free.  Plus a stack of other bonus features.  You get the original cut, the extended version and the Miramax cut-to-pieces version.  Now that is a release worth calling an ‘Ultimate Edition’.

I’ve already got a Hong Kong issue of this but I’ll be making the switch for three reasons - I’d love to have all three versions of the film, the video quality should be higher and the subtitle quality pretty much has to be higher.  Miramax was going after US based importers of Shaolin Soccer pretty hard a while back, so you’ll probably need to go through a Korean based seller for this, though these guys are in the US and are currently taking pre-orders.

Check out DVD Debate for a larger cover image and more specific specs.

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Reader Comments

  1. swarez 12/28/2004 @ 1:03pm

    Woohoo! Finally I can get a decent release of the directors cut.

  2. swarez 12/28/2004 @ 1:32pm

    How are DVD Asian.com? Reliable?

  3. crazybee 12/28/2004 @ 2:15pm

    DVD Asian’s okay.  Their prices aren’t the lowest, but for a US-based e-tailer, they’re good enough.  Service is good, too.

    I’m kinda interested in getting this set, too, but we’ll see if I want it in a month.  I’m pretty content with the HK version.

  4. logboy 12/29/2004 @ 12:04pm

    official korean sellers seem to have started listing it at $13.50…
    nice and cheap. shipping should be about $6 or so…

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