Shaw Brothers

One of the most important studios in Chinese cinema history, Shaw Brothers will always be best known in the west known for their excellent output of martial arts pictures (though they did do other types of films). Unlike a studio like Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers lives off the fact that the settings in their films are usually on a set instead of real locations and that they feature very loud and completely unrealistic sound effects. These treasures are just recently getting great releases in the US from Image Entertainment and The Weinstein Company...