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English dubbed version?

posted 13 years ago by CrazyJim2004
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So I was at a convention yesterday in Worcester and wandered across a DVD booth that was selling a lot of rare Asian import titles. I wasn't sure of the authenticity of the product as generally speaking, the place has quite a lot of booths selling bootlegs and knock-offs. One particular item that caught my attention was a "Reconstructed Director's Cut" of Bullet In The Head which also boasts "New English Language Version". Given the product in question, I assumed it was mostly likely some fan-made product that was put together by splicing a bunch of existing footage together and translating it into English.

I ended up buying the movie and upon opening it, the product at least looked like a higher-up quality of product than most of the DVD-R bootlegs floating around the convention with poor quality home-made covers printed up on computer paper. It was pressed, as opposed to burned. Of course, in my experience, I've seen quite a few illegitimate releases of Asian films that were actually pressed up and looked fairly aunthetic. The knock-off version of the Criterion "Killer" which has actually ended being legally sold in many mom & pop chains and online retailers, comes to mind.

Now to my knowledge, an actual English language dub of this film has never been commercially available and I assumed that given that there's actually quite a bit of English in the original version that no distributer ever had one made. While I didn't have the time to sit down and examine the entire film, I did give it a quick spin out of curousity and the voices on the track sound very similiar to the Golden Harvest dubs of the other John Woo HK films put out during that period. Does anyone know anything about this? There was also a similar version of "Better Tomorrow III" (another film which I had always believed never had been translated into a full English versiom), which was oddly labeled as being "directed by John Woo". The company listed on both releases is something called Bonzai Media. A quick web search revealed this which appears to be the exact same cover art-release as the title in question.

w.buy.com/prod/a-better-tomorrow-3-dvd/q/sellerid/23982953/loc/111/217 079564.html

My question is has anyone ever heard of these before?

www.facebook.com/pages/Destroy-All-Sisters-2011/27735363561 3582

[–] 13 years ago

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[–] Dr_Rude 10 years ago

Now to my knowledge, an actual English language dub of this film has never been commercially available

Unless of course you count the UK-DVD, the Dutch DVD the Czech DVD, the old Dutch VHS and many, many other versions I might be forgetting about at the moment.

And, yes, the version you bought is a bootleg. It's mostly identical to the (legitimate) DVD release by Fortune Star in Hong Kong of the release by Fortune Star (with an added English dub which was presumably ripped from one of the other versions I mentioned above. I should also add that this version can't nearly be considered a "Director's Cut", not only because it's missing some tiny bits and pieces, but mostly because Woo's true director's cut would have to be almost three hours long.