Stephen Chow is Beggar So, a talented but lazy nobleman’s son who loses everything and has to rebuild himself in Gordon Chan’s 1992 martial arts dramedy King of Beggars, now on Blu-Ray from Eureka!
Tag Archives: Drama
Running Scared (2006) [Underrated Gems]
After finding out a hidden weapon went missing, the search for it spirals into a relentless, night-long descent through the darkest corners of the criminal underworld.
Illustrious Corpses [1976] [Radiance Films LE]
A police detective tries to solve the killing of judges in Francesco Rosi’s wonderful 1976 political thriller, Illustrious Corpses, re-released on Blu-ray by Reliance Films.
Blood of Revenge [1965] [Radiance Films LE]
The politics and rivalries of crime, business, and personal wants come to a head in Tai Kato’s lush 1965 yakuza melodrama Blood of Revenge, on its first Blu-ray via Radiance Films.
Mother of Flies [2026]
A young woman and her father seek a cure for her illness via a strange and dangerous witch in The Adams Family’s affecting folk horror Mother of Flies, now streaming on Shudder.
Cheap Thrills [2013] [Arrow Video LE Blu-Ray]
Two down on their luck guys perform increasingly dangerous dares for cash in E. L. Katz’s wonderfully nasty 2013 dark comedy Cheap Thrills, now with a new LE Blu-Ray from Arrow Video.
On the Run [1988] [88 Films Blu-Ray]
A cop is blamed for his wife’s murder and joins with the assassin to try to escape Hong Kong in Alfred Cheung’s neo-noir On The Run, on Blu-Ray from 88 Films