Hi-YAH!, Well Go USA’s very own Asian/martial arts streaming channel has just announced their New Release line up for the month of April, which includes a New title added to Hi-YAH! every Friday.
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Read on for the full list of New and Exclusive titles:
4/5/24 | One Percent Warrior (Hi-YAH! Exclusive)
Get ready for One-Percent Warrior, the latest from martial arts star, Tak Sakaguchi (Battlefield Baseball, Re:Born). For the film, Sakaguchi re-teams with filmmaker Yudai Yamaguchi, who previously worked with Tak as writer on Versus, and as director on Yakuza Weapon. These two, packaged with choreographer Kensuke Sonomura (Hyrda), earns One Percenter a spot on your must-see list.
Two ruthless yakuza gangs interrupt the shooting of an action flick at an abandoned factory. The action star isn’t too pleased. One hundred yakuza against one ? Pfff, too easy. | Read our review.
4/12/24 | The Dragon Family
Need a little Hong Kong triad action in your life? Introducing Dragon Family, a 1988 thriller from legendary director Lau Kar-Wing (Dirty Kung Fu). Its all-star cast includes Alan Tam (The Last Blood), Andy Lau (I Did It My Way), Max Mok (7 Assassins), Norman Chu (Code of the Assassins), Michael Miu Kiu Wai (White Storm 2), Stanley Fung Shui Fan (Accident), Kent Cheng (Run and Kill) and Kara Hui Ying Hung (Sakra). | Read our review.
4/19/24 | Initial D
Based on the anime and manga of the same name, Andrew Lau’s 2005 adaptation, Initial D, is about an ace drifter named Takumi (Jay Chou) who delivers food for his dad Bunta (Anthony Wong) in the same car he uses to race rival street-racers. Takumi prefers to be anonymous, but when he gets challenged by some cheap competitors, he’s forced to ask his dad to pimp his ride. In the mean-time, he has to deal with an awkward relationship with a more out-going (a little too out-going, actually) girlfriend named Natsuki (Anne Suzuki). | Read our review.
4/26/24 | First Option
First Option is a 1996 Hong Kong actioner that revolves around the Hong Kong Police Department’s Special Duties Unit. When a raid by customs officials goes drastically wrong, the SDU are called in to deal with the ruthless mercenaries responsible, but before long the operation is derailed by a series of inter-departmental rivalries that could cause more innocent lives to be lost.
Directed by Gordon Chan (God of War), First Option stars Michael Wong Man Tak (Triple Threat), Gigi Leung Wing Kei (The Monkey King) and Damian Lau Chung Yun (Zu: Warriors from Magic Mountain).
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