Gents and ladies, I have searched long and hard for this LD, but continue to come up short. The ONLY true to the source Stereo release of POLICE STORY III was the Hong Kong Laserdisc (image at bottom).
The Japanese laserdisc is mono, which is useless since the theatrical release was in stereo and Jackie Chan’s first film with sync sound. The Hong Kong laserdisc accurately captures what is a pretty darned good sound mix.
Unfortunately, my quest to restore that soundtrack to some now available High Def video is proving impossible because no one has this laserdisc.
I am hoping someone here has this title and is willing to help me capture the PCM Digital sound or perhaps knows someone who owns this release.
It was a double disc set (they spread the film across two discs to charge more money) and looked like this…
Please bare in mind that the Criterion SUPERCOP laserdisc is useless, as it has the mono version of the soundtrack (and it’s terrible muffled and low in volume to boot).