Triad Trilogy - DVD

Three-disc set includes 3 Ninjas (1992) Take InchThe Karate KidInch and blend in a little InchHome Alone,Inch and you get this terrific family action film about three brothers who are trained in the martial arts by their grandfather and get to use their skills to fight a crooked arms dealer and his henchmen. Chad Power, Michael Treanor, Victor Wong star. 85 min. C/Rtg PG 3 Ninjas Kick Back (1994) Those high-kicking ninja kids face danger, excitement and even romance when they head to Japan to help Grandpa award a priceless dagger to the winner of a martial arts tournament. While battling Grandpa's old enemy, they meet a pretty girl who teaches them some lessons about self-defense and life. Max Elliott Slade, Sean Fox and Victor Wong star. 93 min. C/Rtg PG 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) While vacationing with their martial arts expert grandfather, the ninja brothers befriend a Native American girl and find themselves embroiled in a battle between the girl's people and weaselly businessmen. There's action, laughs and lessons learned in this third installment of the popular series, featuring Victor Wong, Charles Napier and Vincent Schiavelli. 87 min. C/Rtg PG-13 Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Region Free

Writer and director Nicolas Winding Refn made his 1996 feature film debut with PUSHER. This violent, edgy, yet moving cult classic established Refn as an uncompromising filmmaker of great talent and depth. The trilogy stands as a masterful reinvention of international crime cinema, as poignantly human as it is brutally and viscerally realized. The PUSHER TRILOGY reveals the humanity in even the most violent criminals and how every pusher-no matter what his status-is only one bad deal away from total ruin.

PUSHER TRILOGY Four-disc set includes Pusher (1996) Called a Scandinavian InchTrainspottingInch by critics, this edgy Danish drama follows a small-time Copenhagen drug dealer who loses his stash during a police raid and only has two days to pay off a big debt to his boss, or face the consequences. Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbaek star. RUNTIME 100 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Pusher II With Blood On My Hands (2004) Hard-boiled sequel to the 1996 Danish crime thriller picks up the story of small-time thug Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) as he is released from prison. Eager to clear his debts, Tonny seeks employment from his disdainful father (Leif Sylvester), a mob boss who refuses to accord him a respectable position in the gang. When Tonny discovers he may have fathered a child of his own, he tries to conquer his fears before it's too late. Anne Sorensen, Kurt Nielsen also star. RUNTIME 96 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Pusher III I'm The Angel Of Death (2005) The concluding chapter in Nicolas Winding Refn's brutal underworld trilogy finds middle-aged, Balkan-born drug kingpin Milo (Zlatko Buric) desperate to protect his status in the Copenhagen underworld. Faced with the challenge of selling a shipment of designer drugs, Milo also tries to kick his own smack habit and arrange a birthday party for his grown daughter. Marinela Dekic, Ilyas Agac also star. RUNTIME 103 minutes. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR