Product Details

• Actors: Gwok Wa Cheung, Tonpei Hidari, Kara Hui, Eddy Ko, Philip Kwok
• Directors: Biao Yuen
• Format: AC-3, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Chinese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: January 9, 2001
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000JMOV
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,290 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Peacock King" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Title(s) AKA: Legend Of The Phoenix Languages: ENGLISH (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround), Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 - Stereo) Subtitles : English, Chinese Film Director(s): Yuen Biao, Nam Lai-Choi Film Producer(s): Chua Lam Released: 1987 ( Hong Kong ) Overview: From Ngai Kam Lam, the director of the notoriously banned The Story of Ricky, comes another eye-popping live action anime extravaganza. Legendary fight master Yuen Biao (Project A) stars as Peacock, a Buddhist priest endowed with magical skills, who must descend through one of the gates of hell (underneath a Tokyo department store!) and stop the emergence of the horrific Hell King. Battling everything from little gremlins to massive dinosaurs Peacock has to resort to some serious kung fu if he's to stop Armageddon! Written by Izô Hashimoto (co-writer of Akira) and based upon the original manga Kujaku-Oh, The Peacock King is a visual feast for the eyes. The combined talents of Takashige Ichise (The Grudge, Dark Water) Shinji Higuchi (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and Keita Amemiya (Cashan: Robot Hunter) bring to life a blaze of special effects that sear the screen with excitement as action legend Yuen Biao cranks up his breathtaking fight skills like never before. Cast: Yuen Biao, Pauline Wong Siu-Fung, Hiroshi Mikami, Narumi Yasuda, Gloria Yip Wan-Yi, Gordon Liu Chia-Hui Features: Anamorphic Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, StereoYuen Biao Interview (12 mins., In Cantonese w/English Running Time: 81 mins. (approx.) Trailers Plot: Hell Virgin (GLORIA YIP) tries to gain control of the world. YUEN BIAO must stop Hell Virgin & her evil horde. There are no reviews for this product. Write a review Your Name: Your Review: Note: HTML is not translated! Rating: Bad Good Enter the code in the box below: Continue

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For those of you who care about THIS movie and not the anime, September 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Peacock King [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This moive is about Hell Virgin trying to take over the world. Full of dragons, magic, and Yuen Biao plays the peacock king he's cool. There is very cool animation in this.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only for fans of really weird movies, June 2, 2007

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morgoth "we lamas are traditional enemies of ... (omaha, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peacock King (DVD)

Yuen Biao stars as a young Tibetan priest who knows all sorts of magic and has to battle demons when the holes of Hell open up. There is a young girl who has been chosen to be the Hell Virgin and she is causing all sorts of destruction. I can't say too much about the story because you don't find out what is going on until about 25 minutes left. I was about to turn the movie off because it doesn't make any sense, but they finally explain things and the movie picks up quite a bit in the last 25 minutes.

The action is mainly monster surprise attacks, but with 20 minutes left in the movie Yuen Biao takes on Gordon Liu and all of his men in a great fight. Biao gets to show off his awesome kicking skills and you really have to wonder why he didn't get to display his kicks more in movies. Some of the special effects are crude but most of it is fun to watch. There is a witch that can turn into a really scary monster, and some of the explosions are spectacular.

While the movie drags along for the first 40 minutes and seems really pointless, it gets pretty crazy when the 4th hole of Hell opens up. The story that is presented is far too complex for 80 minutes, but it is still tons of fun. This movie was crazy enough for me to want to see Saga of the Phoenix which looks like the sequel.

2.5/5

The DVD from Universe Laser and Video Company has good picture and sound quality. The subtitles are not bad.