why am i having such a dificult time finding jackie chans "drunken master II" on DVD in the original language

Question

jet li's "fist of legend" as well

Answer 1

...the gentleman above me, is absolutely correct; since the US distributor, in this case, Dimension, bought the rights (and grossly/badly/incorrectly edited & dubbed) to "Fist of Legend", "Drunken Master" and many other great martial arts imports, only THEIR versions are available here in the US...

...but there IS good news out there; apparently, Buena Vista, who owns the Dimension label, has heard the overwhelming and influential outraged outcry of martial arts fans, and has developed the Dragon Dynasty label, through the Weinstein Company (...who broke from Dimension/Miramax, a little while back); through Dragon Dynasty, we will be seeing new releases, as well as re-issued classics, including "...Legend" and "DM2", in both their original import versions, as well as dubbed versions (I got advance word on this news, a couple of years ago, at one of the Southern California based Fangoria Weekend of Horrors horror film conventions)...

...if you check out the Dragon Dynasty website, you will see that they have already released some classic and extraordinarily rare and contemporary martial arts films, sword-welding and bullet-flying action films, including "Shanghai Express", "Five Fingers of Death", "Hard-Boiled", Jackie Chan's "Police Story" series, and the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, which inspired director Martin Scorsese to create the film, "The Departed"...

...check it out, here...and stay tuned!!!

Answer 2

a us based ditributer bought out the rights to drunken master 2 was released in the us as legend of the drunken master in an edited dubbed version,also scenes edited out. its a teribble verison..so its very difficult to get hold of the original version in its original language..lucky i have the original verion. same with fist of legend so many version...