Joy Sales has released a complete list of movies from the Fortune Star catalogue that it intends to remaster and re-release on DVD. The majority of it is already available on DVD, and some of it is already available on clean anamorphic DVD, but here are some highlights.

* Dreadnaught - This Yuen Biao starrer directed by Yuen Woo-ping is a personal favorite of mine, and features what may be the most amazing lion dance scenes ever committed to film. Also, medicine fu, dry-cleaning fu, and tailor fu.

* The Fate of Lee Khan - Any release from King Hu is good news, though Raining in the Mountain still remains unavailable outside of a gorgeous but expensive French import.

* Hapkido (aka Lady Kung Fu) - Finally, an Angela Mao film is seeing the light of day. Fu fans will recognize her as Bruce Lee’s little sister in Enter the Dragon. She has a huge back catalogue just waiting to be exploited, and this is a start.

* Peking Opera Blues - Tsui Hark’s gender-bender operatic dramedy, with Brigitte Lin. Some think it’s the best HK movie ever made, others among our correspondents found it a big disappointment. Personally, I fall somewhere in between. Worth seeing for yourself though. Also, while I usually find Sally Yeh annoying (as in The Killer), here she’s cute as a button.

* Dragons Forever - Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao, the Dream Team.

* The Miracle Fighters - Yuen clan wackiness, including a giant animated hammer man that looks like he escaped from a Peter Gabriel video.

* Sex and Zen - The ultimate insane category III arty sex comedy. Only rivalled by A Chinese Torture Chamber Story, which isn’t the least bit arty.

* One-Armed Boxer - More one-armed hijinks from Jimmy Wang Yu, perhaps the only actor in history to be typecast as missing an arm despite having a full set. Followed by the amazing Master of the Flying Guillotine.

Sadly, many films which are very difficult to pick up did not make the list, including Devil Fetus (a wonderfully disgusting horror film), Robotrix (Amy Yip meets Robocop), I Love Maria (Sally Yeh meets Short Circuit) and numerous Angela Mao and Jimmy Wang Yu films.

::: Complete List of Titles to be Remastered
Asian DVD Guide, May 9, 2006

::: Fortune Star Catalogue Complete List (Excel File)
Source: Asian DVD Guide