...... ...... ___::::::__ \ :::::: (_ ______________:\ :::::: | _)) . :::::: | _____ _______ ________ ____\ ________________:::::: | ___\ __/_______\\_ __ /________\ ___/____\__(__\\_ ___ /:::::: | _ _) \___ | /_ | _\ \\_ | | / / :::::: | \\\ \| : |/ : \| : : :/ / :::::: | \\ ╖ ╖_ ╖ ._ ╖ ╖_ . _╖ / :::::: | - ---------\____//---/________//------\_____// :----/________/_ _ :::::: _| - ------------------------------|----------------/ :::::: \: : //__::::::__\ . ::::::ns. ...... ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Half.a.Loaf.of.Kung.Fu.1978.VCDRip.XviD-GREiD │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ PACKER........: TEAM GREiD ENCODER.......: TEAM GREiD SUPPLiER......: TEAM GREiD ARCHiVES......: 49*15MB GREiD DATE....: 17/05/2010 DVD DATE......: N/A GENRE.........: MARTiAL ARTS LANGUAGE......: CANTONESE SUBTiTLES.....: ENGLiSH RUNTiME.......: 01:33:23 ALT. TiTLE....: Karate Bomber iMDB RATiNG...: 5.3/10 (507 votes) iMDB LiNK.....: http://former.imdb.com/title/tt0080623/ ViDEO CODEC...: XViD RESOLUTiON....: 608x256 ASPECT RATiO..: 2.38:1 ViDEO BiTRATE.: 948 kb/s avg. FRAMERATE.....: 25.000 AUDiO CODEC...: MP3 AUDiO BiTRATE.: 86 kb/s avg. PLOT: Mostly a Kung-fu showcase; a loose script describes Jackie Chan's character learning Kung-fu from a beggar-master and his pupil while guarding a caravan from bandits. RiPPERS NOTES: Half.a.Loaf.of.Kung.Fu.1980.DVDivX-EPiC was released 2001-12-04. Not being able to check this release out for obvious reasons, some investigating had to be done. At the time of the EPiC release, there was only one company that had released this on dvd. That was Simitar, and they released it on the US and Australian markets on the 22d of october 1997. The Simitar dvd does not contain english subtitles, so the EPiC release must therefore be an english dubbed version. The first wide screen dvd version of this movie was released in the UK by the company Eastern Heroes. That was on the 3rd of june 2002. The conclusion is that the EPiC release must've been 1) English dub, and 2) Fullscreen 4:3. Then there is the Colombia-Tristar version (released on the 17th of december 2002), which contains subtitles and the cantonese audio track aswell as an english dubtrack. Sadly, this release is also cropped to 4:3. No need to distress however, The Team has gathered no less than three different versions of this movie, all with different features. First one out is Half.a.Loaf.of.Kung.Fu.1978.SUBBED.DVDRip.XviD-GREiD, taken from the above mentioned Colombia-Tristar release with all its features. Second one out is Half.a.Loaf.of.Kung.Fu.1978.WS.DVDRip.XviD-GREiD which was taken from the Eastern Heroes release. This one contains english dub only and has an aspect at around 2.00:1. The picture is a little bit jumpy sometimes. Third one out is Half.a.Loaf.of.Kung.Fu.1978.VCDRip.XviD-GREiD. This one is taken from the Joy Sales vcd (some preprocessing was done to enhance the video quality). As this vcd lacks english subtitles (and luckily they opted against putting the chinese subtitles on the print itself), we decided to sync the Colombia-Tristar subtitles to this release which contains cantonese and mandarin audio tracks and is in a full 2.35:1 aspect. This is The Team's recommended version. There is also a japanese dvd release utilizing a remastered Joy Sales print (and japanese subtitles only). This one however is rare and very expensive to buy so i guess by leaving that one out, we're leaving headroom for a future scene release of the remastered dvd :D. And if we're lucky, maybe some day Joy Sales releases this dvd in HK, this time around including english subtitles. Included as extras is a Mandarin dubtrack. To get Mandarin dub on this movie, follow these easy steps ========================================================== Due to codec hassle and platform dependency issues, we have decided that from now on we'll use the excellent tool xdelta found at http://xdelta.org for applying external dub tracks to our releases. Windows users: Unpack the movie and extras into a temporary directory. Run gid-half.mandarin.bat. Others: Visit the url stated above. Make sure that you have enough space on your harddrive to apply patch! Starring: Jackie Chan, Doris Lung, Dean Shek Tin, James Tin Jun, Gam Ching Lan, Miu Tin, Lee Man Tai, Kam Kong, Wu Ma, Lee Hoi Lung, Li Min Lang, Lee Chi Lun, Peng Kong, Ko Keung, Gam Sai Yuk etc. GREETS: REDDOG