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Throw down [digital videodisc] / Fortune Star, Janus Films ; producers, Johnnie To, Stephen Lam ; writers, Yau Nai-hoi, Yip Tin-shing, Au Kin-yee ; director, Johnnie To.

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[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]

Martial arts -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1092.

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

"Amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong's nocturnal underworld, the fates of three wandering souls--a former judo champion now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner (Louis Koo), a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a singer (Cherrie Ying) chasing dreams of stardom--collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption. Paying offbeat homage to Kurosawa's debut feature, Sanshiro Sugata, To scrambles wild comedy, flights of lyrical surrealism, and rousing martial-arts action into what is ultimately a disarmingly touching ode to the healing power of friendship."--Container.

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