RELEASE DATE: April 2024
In April of 2024, Chameleon Films will be releasing the Blu-ray (Region B) for Motorway, a 2011 Hong kong thriller from director Pou-Soi Cheang (SPL II: A Time for Consequences). The film will be available in both a standard and a Limited Pressed CD soundtrack version.
Motorway stars Shawn Yue (The Brink), Anthony Wong (Untold Story), Michelle Yip Suen (Dream Home), Gordon Lam (I Did It My Way) and Josie Ho Chiu Yee (Twins Effect).
This radically pared back action film transforms driving into an intensely existential test in the tradition of Walter Hill’s The Driver and Nicolas Refn Winding’s Drive.
Abstract, yet at the same time viscerally exciting, Soi Cheang provides all the things we have come to love in Milkyway films: crisp, neo-noir nighttime images, location shooting right in the middle of Hong Kong, and an intense concentration on character as it is explodes into deeply satisfying genre action. Cheung (Shawn Yue Man-lok) is a hot-headed young cop who lives to drive. Partnered with old hand and mentor Fung (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) he must learn control and focus when he goes up against a legendary getaway driver from the mainland (Guo Xiaodong). They say that when the rubber hits the road you find out your true worth, and here is the proof of that in spades.
Produced by Johnnie To, Motorway carried off Best Film and Best Director awards from the Hong Kong Film Critics’ Society in 2013. Film Comment described it as “unfiltered cinematic pleasure.”
The skill of driving is transformed into an intensely existential test in Soi Cheang’s visceral car chase action film Motorway.
Features:
- Special Edition Soundtrack version-only: Pressed CD soundtrack by co-composers Xavier Jamaux & Alex Gopher (43 min)
- Collector’s slipcase & booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Gary Bettinson and a new interview with Screenwriter Joey O’Bryan
- New audio commentary by Hong Kong cinema experts Arne Venema & Mike Leeder
- “Inside Track” – a new interview with Associate Producer Ding Yuin-shan (35 mins)
- New interview with Co-Composer Xavier Jamaux (13 mins)
- Never-before-seen in full archival interviews with Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong, Barbie Hsu, Soi Cheang & Johnnie To (48 mins)
- Newly translated and improved optional English subtitles by Dylan Cheung
- Reversible sleeve with newly created and original poster artwork
- Extensive behind the scenes from the making of Motorway (57 mins)
- Photo gallery
- Theatrical trailer
Plus, for those who love the electronic soundtrack as much as we do, we are simultaneously releasing a Special Edition version that includes the full 43-minute CD soundtrack by co-composers Xavier Jamaux and Alex Gopher, never-before commercially released on disc.
Hard pass. So many better films in the milkyway company and they delivery this to us? And another crapshit commentary by mike leeder. Get him on a diet and give us Bey Logan instead. NEXT PLEASE!
Great movie. Few people got it (I didn’t say “understand it”, I just said got it). Very good kung fu movie without martial arts.
Can I have the regular edition without the Mike Leeder commentary?
Show me where I can pick it up. That’s the version I want too! Commentaries used to mean something. Now it is just some big loser creep stealing stuff from bey logan.
I know other people don’t like Leeder’s commentaries either, but if they really feel so strongly about it, they can petition to these companies to not have him anymore and bring in someone else. (It’s never gonna be Logan again)
And just like people don’t have to watch or listen to comedians they don’t like, the same can be done here.
I don’t agree with everything Leeder says, and sometimes I think the things he posts on social media are out of line, but I’ve liked some of his commentaries.
It’s funny to say that a guy with a good reputation and no accusations is a “creep” while someone who’s had a terrible reputation since before the accusations is the bastion of good commentary.
If i was looking for a loser who was a harmless puppy dog around women, mike leeder is your guy…. (we all know he has never made it to first base with the opposite sex)… if I was looking for some awesome commentary from a primo Hong Kong cinema historian then give me Bey. I’m looking for cinema knowledge. Not a roommate. Canceling a guy like Bey, and settling for Leeder is 1000% lowering the standards.