We announced a while back that HANA was coming out on DVD from Funimation on June 24. They had a nice cover for the disc, and it's a great, albeit overlooked, film. Apparently there was some issue with the image they used on the cover and they've sent out new artwork which still looks nice and it's still set for June 24:

In a shocking move, Kino is releasing EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES on DVD this July 15. Say what?!? This is the mind-bending 1993 parody of Wong Kar-wai's ASHES OF TIME that was fully endorsed by Wong, is directed by his producing partner, Jeff Lau, and stars almost the complete cast of ASHES. Gaze upon the face of this mo lei tau madness and feel the insanity fry your brains. I'm glad they're doing this but I really hope they didn't pay a lot of money for this one. Better question: how'd they even find elements?

But soon DVDs will go the way of the Betamax as Blu-Ray takes off like a rocket. Mega Star has announced a small but eclectic initial Blu-Ray line-up that includes Stephen Chow's CHINESE ODYSSEY flicks, the INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy, PERHAPS LOVE and some early Wong Kar-wai, but their Andy Lau concert disc, ANDY LAU: WONDERFUL WORLD 2007, broke the first-day sales record for all Blu-Ray discs.

Andy was so excited by this news that he fired a small child out of his crotch.

Then he acted all cool: "Actually this technology is very new, if you want to watch the disc you would need to purchase a Blu-ray player, thus I'm rather reserved when releasing the disc, I never expected it would have such good sales record." Immediately afterwards he said he didn't wear any special HD make-up while shooting because his skin is so good. I want to make a wallet from Andy when he dies!

And Kino, not one to be outdone by Andy Lau, is responding to his child-sized crotch rocket trick by releasing Wong Kar-wai's FALLEN ANGELS on Blu-Ray. 

Out soon is Teruo "HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN" Ishii's cult flick, BOHACHI BUSHIDO: CODE OF THE FORGOTTEN EIGHT which is about "...a privileged samurai gang in charge of recruiting women for prostitution in old Edo's pleasure quarter," and it stars that most manly of men, Tetsuro Tanba! And in other old news, Synapse Films finally released their deluxe edition DVDs of KARAOKE TERROR (thrill killers + karaoke + rocket launchers) and PARTY 7 (by director Katsuhito Ishii of TASTE OF TEA and FUNKY FOREST).

(Pictures and more commentary from Andy's Blu-Ray celebration)

(HANA)

(BOHACHI BUSHIDO)

(PARTY 7)

(KARAOKE TERROR)

(EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES)