88AV
122 Gouger Street, Adelaide
Tel: (08) 8231-8668
Website: coming soon!
Also known as Wong 88 Audio Vision Centre, they specialise more on electrical goods,
VCD+DVD players etc... but they have a small selection of VCDs for $25 and up. [CY]
Academy Cinema City
20 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
Tel: (08) 8223-5000
Mainstream cinema which occasionally screens a Hong Kong Move midnight show on
Saturdays (generally starting at 11:30pm). If you want to know what's on, check the Academy page on this site or call the cinema. [Mark]
Alpha Video
419 Magill Road, St Morris
Tel: (08) 8332-9270
Ingle Farm Shopping Centre
Montague Rd., Ingle Farm
Tel: (08) 8265 1313
My fave. It's a mainstream video store but they stock a larger selection of HK/Asian
movies than most. From your rudimentary action HK flicks to arthouse. Not the most recent
ones, you realise, but still a lot better than your average Blockbuster. They also have a
good section of Japanese anime/manga. I go to the St Morris store, but I presume that the
Ingle Farm store has a similar range. [CY]
Asia Records
Hanson Road
This place offers LDs, VCDs and DVDs for rent. I don't know how big their range is but
from their name, I assume they must offer mostly HK (& possibly other Asian) items. LD
hire is $5.00 per night. [Jez]
Atlantic Video
358 Main North Road, Blair Athol
Tel: (08) 8349 8555
This mainstream store has a reasonable but small number of old Shaw Brothers-type
historical actioners and D&B-type actioners from the mid-seventies up to
late-eighties. These are dubbed into English. You have to hunt for them through their
general movie section. It's worth doing if you're patient. The other two Atlantic Video
outlets at Semaphore and Smithfield Plains may also be worth careful inspection. [Jeff]
Update: For the last year Atlantic have had a fairly good selection of HK videos - they
seem to have just about everything put out by Chinatown Video. [Chris]
Bao Lien Video
56 Hanson Road, Woodville Gardens
Tel: (08) 8243-0009
This place offers tapes of HK movies and TV serials that have been dubbed in
Vietnamese. Tape hire is $3.00. [Jez]
Chinatown Bookshop
118 Gouger Street, Adelaide
Tel: (08) 8231-7336
It's the only mainstream Chinese bookshop actually. Cantopop CDs, knick
knacks, baby posters etc. plus laser discs for hire. There are deposits, membership fees
etc... for hiring. [CY]
Cuu Long Video
Hanson Road, Kilkenny
This place offers a large range of HK movies that have been dubbed in Vietnamese. I
believe they have the OUATIC series and Jet Li's other recent films. Mind you, dubbing
with Vietnamese is delayed by more than twelve months for HK movies so 1998 items like Hitman
may not be available yet. This place also offers a wide range of tapes of TV serials
from TVBI, ATV, Taiwan, Mainland China, Singapore, etc. that have been dubbed in
Vietnamese. They also offer VCDs and DVDs for rent. Tape hire is $3.00. [Jez]
Kino at Hyde Park
114 King William Road, Hyde Park
Tel: (08) 8373-1635 Fax: (08) 8373-1304
More of your arthouse video store. Don't think you'll find Stephen Chow's movies if you
catch my drift. More Chen Kaige than Wong Jing. Nevertheless, worth a look. [CY]
Minh Tien Video
16 Hanson Road, Kilkenny
Formerly known as Thu Kieu Video, this place offers tapes of HK TV serials mainly from
TVBI and ATV that have been dubbed in Vietnamese. They sometimes have the occasional
Singaporean or Taiwanese TV serials as well as a limited number of HK movies - all dubbed.
Tape hire is $3.00. [Jez]
Movieland
6/53 Grange Road, Welland
Tel: (08) 8340-0411
This mainstream video store is by reputation as good as Alpha Video, Magill Road. [Jeff]
Movie Mart
1/53 Grange Road, Welland
Tel: (08) 8340-0499
This is a good place to buy Siren's Chinatown and Classic Hong Kong Videos. They offer
a small discount on most tapes sold and have discount sales on a fairly regular basis.
[Jeff]
Ngai Sing AKA New Star Video
California St. North (off 65, Grote Street)
Tel: (08) 8231-6713
The video store in Chinatown, just 'bout everybody hires from here. Pretty up to date
with TVB serials and movies. Quality can vary but it's the only store in Adelaide that
caters fully Cantonese serials/movies. They have books of reproductions of film
posters and they hang posters of the more recent films on their walls. Rental prices are
$3.50 per tape or $3.00 for old (they have to be reeeeally old) ones. Deposit is $20.00
per tape, or membership is $30.00. Opening hours are 10:00am weekdays, 11:00am Saturdays,
1:00pm Sundays & public holidays. Closes at 6:00pm. Grote St. is a major road and
leads to the markets and chinatown so it's not that hard to find. California St. North is
clearly marked as well. [CY]
Saigon Video
40c Hanson Road, Woodville Gardens
Tel: (08) 8347 1797
A Vietnamese video rental store. The people are friendly here. Many of their videos are
or were ex-New Star Video's tapes. [Jeff]
This used to be a Vietnamese video rental place but it is now owned by Chinese owners, and
now only offers full Cantonese and Mandarin (subbed and unsubbed) TV serials and movies -
No vietnamese videos at all. They rent tapes, VCDs and DVDs of TV serials, movies and
karaoke from HK and China. They also sell some movie posters, TV posters, audio CDs, VCDs
and possibly DVDs. Tape hire is $3.50 per night. [Jez]
Plus:
Other stores can be found around the suburbs populated by the Vietnamese community, eg
Prospect, Westfield, Arndale. If anyone has any details, please send them in!
This list of HK-related stores in Adelaide has been compiled by CY and
added to by Jeff for inclusion in the Hong Kong
Movie Resource, a list of places to find HK film worldwide. Check it out, and
contribute if you can.
