Man on the Brink | Blu-ray (Kani)
Later this month, Vinegar Syndrome/Kani is releasing the Blu-ray for Alex Cheung’s 1981 Hong Kong thriller, Man on the Brink, starring Eddie Chen (Crazy Blood), Ga Lun (Four Robbers), Kam Hing Yin (Police Story) and Ada Fung (Dangerous Encounter – 1st Kind).
Official details:
Following the success of Cops and Robbers (1979), Alex Cheung’s Man on the Brink further redefined the Hong Kong crime sub-genre. While indebted to New Hollywood staples such as Sidney Lumet’s Serpico (1973), this Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor Golden Horse Award winner unleashed a new appetite for undercover cop mayhem, prefiguring classics such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002-2003) with its jaw-dropping synthesis of urban grit, realistic drama and high stakes, captured with evocative hand-held, on-location camerawork. A missing link – if not a turning point – in Hong Kong action cinema, ready to be rediscovered.
Features:
- 1981 / 100 min / 1.85:1 / Cantonese DTS-HD MA 2.0
- Region A Blu-ray
- Interview with director Alex Cheung (2022, 39 minutes)
- Commentary with Director Alex Cheung and Assistant Director Teddy Chan (2022, 100 minutes)
- Q&A Post Screening Talk (2019, 72 minutes)
- 8mm Shorts:
- -Man on the Brink Making Of (1981, 14 minutes)
- -C.I.D. Making Of (1976, 1 minute)
- -Young Teddy & Alex Cheung (1973, 1 minute)
- -“Come Together” Music Video (1973, 3 minutes)
- Booklet: New writing by John Charles, Archival Photos
- English subtitles
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