Cowabunga Dude! For ARROW Video In December
Chow Yun Fat crime thriller classic, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 4K, wild and weird Shaw Brothers box set and a groundbreaking hip hop doc!
This Christmas is going to be ‘Turtally Rad’! Classic Chow Yun Fat thriller, Shaw Brothers box set and a ground breaking hip-hop documentary, all coming to Arrow Video in December.
It’s going to be a Heroes in a Half Shell Christmas, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy released on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray. A shell-shocking saga of mutants, martial arts and New York mayhem, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy brought comic book grit, practical effects wizardry and pizza-fuelled fun to a generation of moviegoers, helping turn four sewer-dwelling brothers into global pop culture icons. Restored in glorious 4K and packed with extras, this radical set – a perfect bound collector’s booklet, three double-sided foldout posters, trading cards, a Roy’s Pizza loyalty card, and four character stickers.
The greatness in December continues in scorching style with the release of City on Fire on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Limited Edition Blu-ray, marking the first of Arrow’s Golden Princess releases, with seminal titles from the renowned film company coming in 2026. After the success of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow, lead actor Chow Yun Fat cemented his reputation as Hong Kong’s hottest new action film megastar with his electrifying performance in Ringo Lam’s City on Fire, one of the most beloved examples of the ‘heroic bloodshed’ subgenre. A marked influence on Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Lam’s gritty and dynamic crime thriller has been restored from the original negative and is finally unleashed on home video again in all its lethal fury, looking and sounding more spectacular than ever before.
Shaw Brothers fans This month Arrow Video release Shawscope Volume Four on Limited Edition Blu-ray. As special effects-driven horror and sci-fi cinema dominated the global box office in the 1970s, Hong Kong’s mightiest film studio Shaw Brothers not only followed suit but took things one step beyond! From slimy creatures to supernatural wizardry to sex-crazed serial killers, the biggest collection in Arrow Video’s Shawscope series yet features sixteen of the wildest and weirdest films the company ever made – Super Inframan; Oily Maniac; Battle Wizard; Black Magic and its sequel; Bewitched; the Hex trilogy; Bat Without Wings; Bloody Parrot; The Fake Ghost Catchers; Demon of the Lute; Seeding of a Ghost; Portrait in Crystal; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Gorgeously restored in all their gory glory with an amazing array of never-seen-before bonus features, this hefty beast of a box set comes with an illustrated 60-page collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on these truly out there films.
Finally in December, Wild Style on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray as well as an LP Bundle. In early 1980s New York City, independent filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and downtown artist Fred Brathwaite ventured uptown with the aim of capturing an exciting new underground scene that was happening in the South Bronx, a scene that featured graffiti artists, breakdancing b-boys and two turntables and a microphone. The result was Wild Style, a unique hybrid of fiction and documentary, and to many viewers it was their first glimpse of the musical and cultural phenomenon called hip hop. Endlessly sampled, imitated and debated, Wild Style is the truest portrait of the hip hop scene during its early years, and remains one of the most important music films ever made. Arrow Video is proud to present Wild Style in an exclusive new 4K restoration with hours of brand-new bonus features, vintage interviews and featurettes. Also included are a limited edition exclusive CD, a perfect bound collector’s book featuring new and archival essays and articles, alongside an extensive collection of stills and artwork from the film, a reversible sleeve featuring, a double-sided foldout poster, an exclusive comic book by Ed Piskor, and three Wild Style logo stickers. The Limited Edition LP Bundle comes with the brand-new 2LP Special Edition of the Wild Style original feature soundtrack on coloured vinyl.
City on Fire Limited Edition Blu-ray 1st December
Ko is an undercover cop on one last job, assigned to infiltrate a gang of jewel thieves committing armed robberies across Hong Kong. When another police officer is killed in the line of duty during one of the gang’s heists, Ko finds himself caught in the crossfire between the police force desperate to catch the culprits at any cost, and the trigger-happy thieves who begin to smell a rat in their midst. As the bullets fly and the body count rises, Ko’s only hope for survival might be his burgeoning friendship with weary gang member Fu…
Also available on: Limited Edition 4K UHD
Shawscope Volume Four Limited Edition Blu-ray 8th December
One of Shaws’ most beloved cult classics, Hua Shan’s tokusatsu tribute Super Inframan stars Danny Lee (The Killer) as the titular high-kicking superhero, defending the planet against a demon queen and her legion of subterranean mutant minions. Lee also stars as a monster vigilante issuing vicious justice in Ho Meng-hua’s creeptastic Oily Maniac and as the prince granted magical powers in Pao Hsueh-li’s fantastical wuxia Battle Wizard. Director Ho next treats us to a double-helping of occult mayhem with Black Magic and its sequel, where Ti Lung battles wicked voodoo doctors with the power to cast spells and raise the dead. Four more doses of unhinged madness follow from Kuei Chih-hung in the form of Bewitched and the Hex trilogy, an unforgettable quadruple serving of possession and witchcraft that presaged his notorious brain-melting classic The Boxer’s Omen.
Master filmmaker Chor Yuen adds a hefty dose of horror to his trademark wuxia-mystery style in Bat Without Wings, in which a young sword fighter must end a deranged martial arts master-turned-multiple murderer’s perverted rampage. Hua Shan returns with Bloody Parrot, an eye-poppingly vivid horror fantasy about two swordsmen hunting a demon that offers to grant wishes, only to leave a messy trail of destruction in its wake. Lau Kar-wing’s kung fu jiangshi comedy The Fake Ghost Catchers sees two conmen unwittingly enlisted to battle spirits from the underworld, while Tang Tak-cheung’s hair-raising wuxia fantasia Demon of the Lute has to be seen to be believed. Yang Chuen’s gruesome splatterfest Seeding of a Ghost has a taxi driver enlist a necromancer’s help in avenging the murder of his wife, with sickening results; and Hua Shan returns with Portrait in Crystal, a deliriously imaginative tale of a murderous swordswoman brought to life through a crystal sculpture. Last but not least, Alex Cheung’s Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is an out-of-this-world comedy in which city girl Cherie Chung is abducted by aliens and taken to a galaxy far, far away…
Wild Style Limited Edition LP Bundle 1st December
In this unique hybrid of fiction and documentary, the story of lone graffiti artist Lee “Zoro” Quiñones trying to achieve success on his own terms is brought to vivid life with support by Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, Sandra “Lady Pink” Fabara and Patti Astor, and with historic music performances by such luminaries as Grandmaster Flash, Busy Bee, The Fantastic Five, The Cold Crush Brothers and The Rock Steady Crew. To create the score, Chris Stein (Blondie) would collaborate with Brathwaite to produce the actual breakbeats to be used in the film, an inspired decision that would provide a source of obsession among crate diggers for decades to come.
Also available: Limited Edition 4K UHD
Last month we shared info the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy… info here. Releasing on 15th December and releasing on Limited Edition 4K UHD – Arrow Store Exclusive. Limited Edition Blu-ray – Arrow Store Exclusive, Limited Edition 4K UHD.
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