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DVD review – Reign of Assassins (2010), Region 4, Madman

10 July 2011 Thomas Caldwell

Set during the Ming Dynasty in China, Reign of Assassins is a period martial arts film, with more of a focus on swordplay than hand-to-hand

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Film review – Red Cliff (2008)

21 July 2009 Thomas Caldwell

NOTE: This review discusses the Western release version of Red Cliff, which condenses the two-part Asian releases version into one single 148 minute film. John

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DVD review – Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Region 4, Rajon Vision

9 May 2006 Thomas Caldwell

Set in China in the 1920s, Raise the Red Lantern focuses on Songlian, played by Gong Li (2046, Memoirs of a Geisha), a young woman

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