Updated: Rare footage from the unreleased ‘HK Superstars’

"Hong Kong Superstars" VHS Cover

We are pleased to share extremely rare footage from the unreleased Hong Kong Superstars video, featuring revealing English interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of Hong Kong’s most popular action stars.

Hong Kong Superstars was a fan magazine from the UK focusing on Hong Kong Cinema (as edited by Chris Ducker). The video magazine was modeled on what Eastern Heroes had done by branching out into making videos.

Eastern Heroes were actually set to release the Hong Kong Superstars video in 2001 under the title of Cinema of Vengeance 2. For unknown reasons this never happened and the project was shelved.

With the exception of the Donnie Yen interview, which was featured on the UK DVD release of Drunken Tai Chi, the contents of the Hong Kong Superstars video has never been seen until now – and this is thanks to Lee Mason, who not only edited the videos, but also made them public on youtube.

Without further ado, here’s the first wave of footage: Anthony Wong’s UK visit in 1999 (click here to watch). |  Simon Yam’s UK visit in 1999 (click here to watch). | Behind-the-scenes footage from Johnnie To’s The Mission, featuring interviews with Simon Yam, Johnnie To and Francis Ng (click here to watch). | 1999 interview and dance demonstration by Moon Lee (click here to watch).

Updates: Behind-the-scenes footage from Purple Storm, featuring interviews with Daniel Wu and Teddy Chen, and on set footage of Josie Ho, Emil Chau and Gam Kwok-leung (click here to watch). | Interview with Shaw Legend Lo Meng (click here to watch) on set of Dru Hill’s music video in London 1999. Also includes footage of Bobby Samuels choreographing action for Dru Hill.

Interview footage of Daniel Wu and Stephen Fung promoting the release of Gen X-Cops in Hong Kong 1999 (click here to watch). | Interview with Darren Shahlavi shot in 1999, featuring behind-the-scenes footage from Tai Chi 2 (Tai Chi Boxer) and Bloodmoon (click here to watch). | Last but not least, HK Superstars’ opening (click here to watch) and closing credits/outtakes (click here to watch).

Rare interview with Donnie Yen, conducted by Andy Prior in Hong Kong 1999 (click here to watch). This interview was taken from the unreleased Hong Kong Superstars interview (although this footage was previously used on the UK DVD of Drunken Tai Chi from Eastern Heroes).

BREAKING NEWS: In 2000 Jet Li visited the UK to promote Romeo Must Die. While there he took time out of his busy schedule to meet his UK fan club at the Warner Brothers offices in London. Except for a few VHS copies that were produced in 2001, the following video documenting the event has rarely been seen until now (although some of the footage was included on the HKL DVD of Once Upon A Time in China 2). Due to copyright issues here on youtube, several film clips had to be edited out, resulting in some unfortunate jump cuts (click here to watch).