Johnnie To – Yau doh lung fu bong AKA Throw Down (2004)
One of the most personal films by the prolific Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To is a thrilling love letter to both the cinema of Akira Kurosawa and the art and philosophy of judo. Amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong’s nocturnal underworld, the fates of three wandering souls—a former judo champion now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner (Louis Koo), a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a singer (Cherrie Ying) chasing dreams of stardom—collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption. Paying offbeat homage to Kurosawa’s debut feature, Sanshiro Sugata, To scrambles wild comedy, flights of lyrical surrealism, and rousing martial-arts action into what is ultimately a disarmingly touching ode to the healing power of friendship.
Throw.Down.2004.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
Size: 2.44 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 1024x436
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s
BPP: 0.280
Audio
#1: Chinese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s (Cantonese)
Language(s):Cantonese
Subtitles:English