JAPANESE DVDs

9th April 2003, 01:03 AM

I have just ordered some Japanese DVDs - including FLESH AND BLOOD THE HAMMER STORY, 100 YEARS OF HORROR (6 discs, 780mins).

They also have availble for online ordering.....

The Silent flute
Blood of Fu Manchu
Face of Fu Manchu
Century of Science Fiction (5 discs, 490mins)
Death Trap

Other non-Lee items of interest include
All 45 episodes of COLUMBO
All Space: 1999 episodes
Twins of Dracula (the alternative titled TWINS OF EVIL)
Poe's House of Usher/Pit and Pendulum/Premature Burial (3 AIP disc set)

All the Japanese discs have English language soundtracks, and are NTSC Region 2.

9th April 2003, 12:10 PM

Whats the 'The Silent flute' I don't know of that one, heard of it but what's its about?

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**Joe Skinnell** · 9th April 2003, 05:23 PM

The Silent Flute is another name for Circle of Iron starring David Carradine. You can read more about it here.

9th April 2003, 08:54 PM

Thanks, that was a great help, I think I do rember seeing it now.
Silent Flute was not a name I knew.

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**Don Boycik** · 22nd April 2003, 04:58 AM

Circle of iron was terrible it was one of C.lee's worst movies. i almost fell asleep watching it. all it did was drag on an it really didn't have much of a plot that i can remember. the best part of the movie was C.lee's cameo at the tail well the last 15 or so min of the movie. an even he seemed bored in that one!

**Matt Gemmell** · 22nd April 2003, 09:32 PM

I really liked The Silent Flute a.k.a. Circle Of Iron but I can understand as to why it's an aquired taste .
It was mostly written by Bruce Lee and contains much of his philosophical views on life and the martial arts .
Being a HUGE Bruce Lee fan and a student of the martial arts , this film was everything I was hoping for . Many fans had been panicing at the film being completed without Bruce at the helm but with his friend James Coburn completing the script we need'nt have worried . The fact that Christopher Lee has a cameo was icing on the cake .

25th April 2003, 10:18 PM

I received my Japanese DVDs this week. I have watched FLESH AND BLOOD - and not too bad quality - I think the flaws that were there were courtesy of the BBC filming (eg Hazel Court in blooming white). The 100 YEARS OF HORROR set I have only seen 1 episode so far ("Bela Lugosi") and again the quality is average - sadly there are Japanese subtitles that I cannot remove on this disc (which I suspect will be on all the discs in this set).

Best of all was the COLUMBO disc where the quality is superb. A Universal release, luckily all the 1967-1978 episodes are available. The one I watched was with the late great Ruth Gordon ("Try and Catch Me" 1977)

**Matt Gemmell** · 25th April 2003, 10:26 PM

Mark , glad to see you're a Columbo fan ..... he's just the best .
Oh , just one more thing ;)
Is there any sign of the missing footage from Horror Of Dracula that the producers of Flesh And Blood were looking for ? ie. the disintegration scene .

26th April 2003, 01:28 AM

No Matt sorry, no sign of that sequence. And the programme was 100min (ie not 2 x 50min).