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Mystery Of Chessboxing 1080 P 239 76 Restored Kungfurobber Cantonesepcm.mov
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Hello everyone, I have finished restoring and creating a 1080p restoration of Mystery of Chessboxing, with the original Cantonese dubbed soundtrack using the transport stream of RZA's 35mm reel capture as a source. Restoring the film was a long and tedious task, and it was done with a lot of effort being made working with a lower bitrate source. I have employed the best tools at my disposal to make the task possible, using the GAIA-HQ plugin as a deblocking algorithm to restore some details resulting from compression and also additionally using tools such as DVO Pheonix and a lot of time manually removing debris and dirt using Photoshop. The Cantonese soundtrack used is from a less than ideal VHS bootleg done some years back gratefully by a contributor on the old Asian DVD Club website, so I have used it as a source here as the RZA had hastilly replaced the optical Cantonese track with an English dub from a poor quality source. This results in the audio cutting out intermittently at 4 points in the film for a few miliseconds as the VHS distorts whenever the reel is changed. The film also suffered from bad magenta fades as seen on the scan, so colour correction was used to restore t…
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TheKungFuRobber Films
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film, movie, kung fu, restoration, Cantonese, Hong Hwa, Mystery of Chessboxing, Wu Tang
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