What is the quality of the Fortune Star edition of Stanley Kwan's "Centre Stage," released last year? The review at DVD Times is inconclusive on this point. Is this the best DVD edition of the film we're likely to see for awhile?

I researched this recently and purchased the Fortune Star just last week. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, or to compare it to the mediocre (and truncated) Deltamac version I also own.

I could've sworn DVD Beaver had done a comparison but, if so, I'm unable to locate it.

One word of caution: the Fortune Star release is somewhat difficult to find (not available or out of stock forever at YesAsia and DDDHouse). Of the Asian DVD sellers I regularly use, only HK Flix seems to stock it (albeit, fairly priced at $16.95 USD).

CD-WOW also has it: http://www8.cd-wow.us/detail_results_2. ... code=17503

Thanks for that info--I never thought to check CD-WOW.

The other option is the Korean DVD version which is a port of the HK Fortune Star disc (with a book on the life of Ruan Ling-yu in Korean).

I would appreciate any help any of you can give me on this. Which edition is the best all around? I've been meaning to pick up a copy for quite awhile but have been frustrated by the lack of info I can find. I guess the most important question is which is most complete? I read somewhere that a Studio Canal edition was released last year and it was supposedly the most complete (whatever that means, given the troubled history of this film) but it only has French subs so that does me no good. Of the rest, which do you all recommend?

Fortune Star has just released a blu-ray of Center Stage. They also released a blu-ray of Rouge back in May.

A caveat for the uninitiated: Fortune Star blu-ray = garbage.

Oooh, can anyone elaborate on Fortune Star blu-rays being poor quality? I've wondered why it's been hard to find much feedback on the event of Rouge (such a visually incomparable film that I'm dying to find a good transfer of) being released on blu, but maybe that explains it.