ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1983)

Directed by Alex Cheung, this features Eden (James Yi Lui), a private eye, and Li Tien Zhen (Cherie Chung) meeting when they both decide to jump in front of a train. He’s depressed at where life has taken him, and she’s been kidnapped by a UFO and lost her virginity, which ruins her marriage to Mr. Kwok (David Lo). And then, it becomes a series of sketches, including car crashes and a scene that is totally Marilyn in The Seven Year Itch.

Wuxia and martial arts weren’t selling, so Shaw Brothers was looking for something to replace those types of movies, so they were co-producing movies like Inseminoid and Blade Runner. This is a bunch of things thrown in a pot: a werewolf, a food fight, Close Encounters, music videos, some aliens, romance, a Star Wars parody, comedy and martial arts. 

It doesn’t all work, but when the hero pulls his shirt open to reveal the Shaw Brothers logo, I laughed.

The Arrow Video release of this film, part of the Shaw Scope Volume 4 set, features a high-definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation, newly restored in 2K from the original negatives by Arrow Films. It has commentary by martial arts cinema expert Frank Djeng, an interview with director/co-writer Alex Cheung and a newly filmed appreciation by film scholar Victor Fan. You can get this set from MVD.

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