Product Details

• Actors: Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Aaron Kwok, Jordan Chan, Cherrie Ying, Louis Koo
• Directors: Johnny To
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009PW3W4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,185 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Tai Seng Entertainment Release Date: 07/26/2005 Run time: 95 minutes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't expect an action movie and you're in for a treat, April 30, 2006

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Throw down (DVD)

Throw Down is a real crowd-pleaser despite being more interested in the quirky characters than the judo bouts in the film. Johnnie To's tribute to Kurosawa and filled with references to Sugata Sanshiro (far more than the one that To admits to), it actually feels more like a Hong Kong version of Britcom Black Books, with Luis Koo's drunken former judo prodigy staggering his way from scam to scam with his two employees between mismanaging his nightclub with about as much grasp of conventional reality as Bernard Black.

It's a redemption story, of course, with the cocky young challenger Aaron Kwok and the death of a friend eventually spurring him to clean up his act. Although it's filled with great moments of pure filmmaking, from the slow-motion bar-room judo brawl that spills out into the street to Cherrie Ying running joyfully through the streets with her hands full of stolen cash while her pursuers sporadically stop to pick up the stray notes that fall from her arms, it's not really an action movie: even the final fight between Koo and Tony Leung Ka-Fei is almost thrown away. It's the disparate characters and the sheer enjoyment To takes in them that makes this work. Even one of the villains of the piece, Siu-Fai Cheung's Brother Savage, who lives to humiliate children and customers by beating them at the games in his arcade, is impossible to really hate, while Leung's character is never turned into a monster who must be destroyed but simply an adversary who must be beaten fair and square. Great fun.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Judo Planet, February 18, 2009

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Pablo Acosta (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Throw down (DVD)

This is a beautiful movie. Not just for judokas.But judokas will fall in love with it. There are many references to Kurosawa and Sugata Sanshiro, his first movie. This is not a martial arts movie, it is really a drama, but the action scenes are just beautiful.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Easy to see why so many people hate this film, September 3, 2011

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Travis (los angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Throw down (DVD)

People either love this film or hate it. I am in the group of people that hate it. I am a Louis Koo fan and I have loved many of Johnnie To's films but this movie is completely moronic. People just go around challenging others to judo matches in the streets and they flip each other over and over again. This movie would probably be very offensive to people that compete in judo because of how cheesy and stupid it is.

Louis Koo hardly says anything in this movie and it is probably the first time I have not liked him in a film.

You are taking a chance by getting this film. You will either love it or hate. That's the risk you take.