Eastern Condors
Legendary actor-director Sammo Hung delivers a bazooka blast of pure adrenaline in this exemplar of Hong Kong action cinema at its most entertaining. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood war films like The Dirty Dozen, Eastern Condors follows a ragtag band of Asian American prisoners dropped into Vietnam on a secret suicide mission to prevent a cache of weapons from falling into the hands of the Viet Cong, who are more than ready for a fight. Propelled by a dynamic ensemble cast that includes the ever-charismatic Yuen Biao as a black-market trader and a superhuman Yuen Wah as a giggling martial-arts monster, this rip-roaring spectacle offers a nonstop barrage of turbocharged set pieces that defy death, logic, and gravity itself.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring film critic Tony Rayns
- 2K digital restoration of the English-dubbed “export cut” of the film
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Sammo Hung
- Interviews from 2001 with Hung and actor Yuen Wah
- Eastern Condors Live!, an onstage performance from the 1987 Miss Hong Kong Pageant
- Teaser and trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Sean Gilman
New illustration by Sam Hadley
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring film critic Tony Rayns
- 2K digital restoration of the English-dubbed “export cut” of the film
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Sammo Hung
- Interviews from 2001 with Hung and actor Yuen Wah
- Eastern Condors Live!, an onstage performance from the 1987 Miss Hong Kong Pageant
- Teaser and trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Sean Gilman
New illustration by Sam Hadley
Cast
- Sammo Hung
- Tung Ming-sun
- Yuen Biao
- Kiet
- Joyce Mina Godenzi
- Cambodian guerrilla leader
- Lam Ching-Ying
- Lieutenant Colonel Lam
- Yuen Wo-ping
- Yam Yan-hei
- Chin Ka-lok
- Yuen Siu-chuen
- Corey Yuen
- Woo Dik-chu
- Charlie Chin
- Szeto Chun
- Cheung Kwok-keung
- Chin Dai-gong
- Billy Lau
- Chin Dai-hoi
- Peter Chan
- “Onion Head” Ma Bat-kau
- Ka Lee
- Stuttering Keung
- Hsiao Ho
- Fan Man-lung
- Ha Chi-chun
- Liu Shun-ying
- Yuen Wah
- General
- Dr. Haing S. Ngor
- Yeung Lung
Credits
- Director
- Sammo Hung
- Executive producer
- Raymond Chow
- Produced by
- Leonard K. C. Ho
- Screenwriter
- Barry Wong
- Cinematographer
- Arthur Wong
- Lighting
- Chow Lam
- Art director
- Raymond Lee
- Editor
- Peter Cheung
- Music
- Sherman Chow
- Theme song composed by
- Jonathan Lee
- Stunt coordination
- Sammo Hung’s stunt team
A scene from Eastern Condors
