Don’t Play with Fire - PRE-ORDER - 2 Disc Limited Edition Blu-ray Exclusive

Directed By: Tsui Hark
SKU: CE241
Year: 1980
$39.95

Quantity

 
 
After a fatal hit-and-run, three high school friends flee the crime scene. They are witnessed by Pearl, a sadistic young girl, who pursues the group and blackmails them into more crimes, with increasingly disastrous consequences. 
 
Don’t Play with Fire (aka Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind), directed by Tsui Hark (A Better Tomorrow), is one of the most controversial and violent crime films from the Hong Kong New Wave of the 1980s. Cult Epics presents a 2-disc limited edition of 3000 copies featuring three versions of the film including a new 2K transfer and extensive bonus features.
 
Cult Epics website Blu-ray Exclusive: 4 Repro Hong Kong Lobby card prints + Poster with art by Tony Stella (12”x18” folded). With first 500. 
 

Special Features

Disc 1

  • Uncensored International Theatrical version
  • 2K Transfer & Restoration
  • Audio Commentary by Frankie Balboa and Brandon Streussnig 
  • Interview with actor Paul Che 
  • Interview with actor Albert Au
  • Interview with screenwriter Szeto Cheuk On
  • Interview with assistant director O Sing Pui
  • Trailers

Disc 2

  • Banned Chinese version (2K/SD)
  • English dubbed version (SD)
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Bonus Extras
  • Print:
  • Reversible sleeve w/original Poster art
  • Slipcase art design by Tony Stella
  • Limited Edition of 3000 copies
  • Exclusive: 4x Repro Hong Kong Lobby Card Prints (500)
  • Exclusive: 13"x18” Poster with Art by Tony Stella (500)

Technical Specs

Hong Kong / 1980 / Color / Original Aspect Ratio 2.35:1 / 97/100/91 Mins / Cantonese language with optional English subtitles/English dub / DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo 

Information

Release Date: June 23, 2026