Miramax (Disney) has just announced Zhang Yimou's Hero, The Legend of Drunken Master (Drunken Master II, that is), Woo-ping Yuen's Iron Monkey, and the Takeshi Kitano Zatoichi for Blu-ray release Sept. 15th. They'll be in a box set and also available separately. SRP on the box set is $104.99, with the individual discs at $44.99 each. As always, they'll definitely retail at less than that. From my initial read, the only new feature is on Hero ("Close-Up of a Fight Scene"), with others carried over from the original DVD releases. I hope this indicates a wave of more East Asian releases on Blu-ray coming from Miramax, whether martial arts or not. I'm glad I held out for a domestic release of Hero on Blu-ray rather than import. For those who don't know, here's a link defining wuxia (yes, I know it doesn't really apply to Drunken Master).
