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Canada
Info kindly provided by Eric Ku from http://aheroneverdies.tripod.com,
Shelly Kraicer from http://www.chinesecinemas.org, and
Lisa Roosen Runge
from Toronto.
Toronto & suburbs
W.Y. Trading – http://www.wyvideo.com/
Three locations:
*Wa Yi Trading
482 Dundas Street West (east of Spadina)
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 1G9
Sell legitimate DVD/VCD, not bootlegs [Lisa]
*Market Village Mall,
4350 Steeles Avenue West (at Kennedy)
Markham, Ontario
Canada L3R 9V4
Tel: (905) 477-9265
Fax: (905) 477-2958
*Times Square Store
Unit 96, 97, Building E 550,
Highway 7 East Richmond Hill,
Ontario Canada L4B 3Z4
Tel: (905) 886-8881
Fax: (905) 886-8339
This is the most reliable place for new releases, and at a good price. Their back
catalogue is also easy to find, sorted by lead actor. If you know the release date, you
can pre-order new releases. One can order through them as well, if you have the Chinese
characters. Also sells music CDs. [Lisa]
There is another store with two locations,
*Cash & Carry Outlet in
English, in Chinese Yule Cheng [= "Entertainment City"]
422 Dundas Street West (East of WY Trading)
Tel 416.351.8800
*Cash & Carry Outlet
4188 Finch Ave. E. Unit 5,6,7 (at Midland)
Tel. 416 609 0801
They have a vast selection, but not well organised. Slightly more expensive than WY
Trading. [Lisa]
Pacific Mall
Kennedy and Steeles
I would say that in terms of buying movies Pacific Mall is the best place. Since there are
more than 6 shops inside that mall [Eric]
Most of these stores do not sell legitimate products. One exception, with ever-shrinking
stock, is AV Centre Unit [Lisa]
AV Centre Unit
B11, Pacific Mall,
4300 Steeles Avenue East
Tel. (905) 944-0959
Music Headquarters is a music store that also
sells DVD/VCD, with two locations. [Lisa]
*Music Headquarters
Pacific Mall
Tel (905) 470-8038
*The other Music Headquarters is
in another suburban mall [Lisa]
First Markham Place
3255 HWY 7 (east of Woodbine)
Tel (905) 513-0018
Leisure Palace Glen
Watford and Sheppard
Dragon Video
Brimley and Sheppard
2102 Brimley Road, Unit 109
Scarborough
Tel: 416-609-1279
For rental, the best place is dragon video since it's nice and cheap. But I'm talking
about vcds not dvds. [Eric]
Dragon Center
Spadina and Dundas
All bootlegs here, as at Chinatown Centre, on Spadina South of Dundas I have never been to
these others, they are quite far out. [Lisa]
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USA
Los Angeles
Giant Robot Store
2015 Sawtelle Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025
U.S.A.
Tel: 310.479.7311
Mon-Sat 11:30-8pm, Sun 12-6pm
http://www.giantrobot.com
store@giantrobot.com
Watch out, these are rare stuffs but quite pricey. They have a wide selection of
cute stuffs & figurines, DVDs, and a large selection of cool books: art books, design
books, funky & Jap stuffs, guides to HK places. They sell as well some of Christopher
Doyle Books (Buenos Aires Affair) and even famous designer Michael Lau figurines!
(The one who made figurines for HK band LMF)
Info below courtesy Asian film foundation. More at: http://www.asianfilm.org/links.html#Anchor-STORE-42291
Banzai Anime
2961 Sepulveda Blvd.,
West Los Angeles, CA 90064.
Tel: 310-231-6080
http://www.banzaianime.com/
Large selection of Japanese anime DVDs, books games and soundtracks. Also offers Hong
Kong, Korean and Japanese DVDs.
Five Star Laser
1045 E. Valley Blvd., #A113,
San Gabriel.
Tel: 626-281-7676
Huge selection of DVD and VCDs for sale. Hong Kong classics, current releases plus
Japanese and Korean imports.
Happyland
141 N. Atlantic Blvd., #105,
Monterey Park.
Tel: 626-458-9857
Collectibles, magazines and Hong Kong, Japanese and Korean films on CDs, LDs, VCDs and
DVDs for sale and rental.
NeoHappyland
988 N. Hill St., #108,
Los Angeles.
Tel: 213-680-4010
Chinese books, CDs, VCDs, VHS for rental and sale. Manga soundtracks, gifts and
collectibles.
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Minneapolis
Neil Koch kindly reports that there really aren't any
reliable sources for HK videos. There are a lot of Asian video shops, but almost all of
them stock Vietnamese or Laotian videos. Those that do either carry overpriced Tai Seng
imports or bootlegs.
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San Francisco
Info kindly provided by Joelle Collier
Sun Entertainment:
716 Sacramento St.
San Francisco, CA 94108.
Tel: 415-986-6787
FAX: 415-986-6797
http://www.sunentertainment.com
Any of the guys there can help you, but I suggest asking for Kent. He's particularly
helpful.
