Jet Li vs. Yasuaki Kurata Fist of Legend ( Original Cantonese and Mandarin Re Sound)

The original Cantonese sound effects for the fight scenes sometimes had a little too much of the psshh psshh that was common throughout the 90s Hong Kong action films especially in the sequence between Jet Li and Yasuaki Kurata. Because I own the Dragon Dynasty BluRay, I decided to take it s Mandarin Dub, which has a much heavier bass in its sound design whilst still maintaining the overall sound style of that era, and spliced it together with the original Cantonese. That way during the dialogue, Jet Li and Yasuaki Kurata are speaking with their actual voices rather than being dubbed by Mandarin voice actors particularly good for retaining Kurata s Japanese lines. The nondialogue segments have the Mandarin resound to accentuate the impact of the hits. Unfortunately the kiyas, grunts, etc. , are in Mandarin so you get a deeper voiced Kurata who often yells Haizo . Not to mention the Dragon Dynasty edition uses dubtitles which only subtitles the English d