Once a Thief 1991 2160p UHD BluRay REMUX DV HDR HEVC Dual-Audio FLAC 1 0-CiNEPHiLES

A romantic and action packed story of three best friends, a group of high end art thieves, who come into trouble when a love-triangle forms between them.

Year: 1991
Duration: 108 min
Release date: Thursday 22nd July 1999
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

    

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Stars:
Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung, Kong Chu, Kenneth Tsang, David Wu, Fung Woo, Pierre-Yves Burton

Chung.hang.sei.hoi.1991.AKA.Once.a.Thief.DUAL.2160p.UHD.Blu-ray.Remux.DV.HDR.HEVC.FLAC.1.0-CiNEPHiLES

---GENERAL----
Size...........: 69.1 GiB
Container......: Matroska
Duration.......: 01:48:18.784

---VIDEO----
Codec..........: HEVC, Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, Profile 7.6, dvhe.07.06, BL+EL+RPU, no metadata compression, Blu-ray compatible / SMPTE ST 2086, Version HDR10, HDR10 compatible, PQ
Resolution.....: 3840x2160
Bit rate.......: 89.4 Mb/s
Frame rate.....: 23.976 fps

---AUDIO----
Format.........: FLAC
Channels.......: 1 channel
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 324 kb/s
Language.......: Cantonese (Original Cantonese Mono Mix)

---AUDIO----
Format.........: Dolby Digital
Channels.......: 2 channels
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 192 kb/s
Language.......: Cantonese (Alternate Cantonese Dual Mono Mix)

---AUDIO----
Format.........: FLAC
Channels.......: 1 channel
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 280 kb/s
Language.......: English (English Dub / Original Mono Mix)

---AUDIO----
Format.........: FLAC
Channels.......: 1 channel
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 277 kb/s
Language.......: English (English Dub / Alternate Mono Mix)

---AUDIO----
Format.........: FLAC
Channels.......: 1 channel
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 302 kb/s
Language.......: English (Commentary by James Mudge, Hong Kong Film critic at easternKicks)

---AUDIO----
Format.........: FLAC
Channels.......: 2 channels
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 351 kb/s
Language.......: English (Commentary by Hong Kong cinema expert Bey Logan)

---SUBTITLES---
Language.......: English (US), UTF-8
Language.......: English (US) (PGS), PGS
Language.......: English (US) (Titles and French Parts Only / Stripped / English Dub), UTF-8
Language.......: English (US) (Titles and French Parts Only / English Dub), UTF-8
Language.......: English (US) (Titles and French Parts Only / English Dub / PGS), PGS
Language.......: English (US) (English / English Dub), UTF-8
Language.......: English (US) (SDH / English Dub), UTF-8
Language.......: English (US) (SDH / English Dub / PGS), PGS
Language.......: Chinese (Simplified) (Simplified), UTF-8
Language.......: Chinese (Simplified) (Simplified / PGS), PGS
Language.......: Chinese (Traditional) (Traditional), UTF-8
Language.......: Chinese (Traditional) (Traditional / PGS), PGS
Language.......: French (FR) (Metropolitan), UTF-8
Language.......: Indonesian, UTF-8
Language.......: Malay, UTF-8
Language.......: German (PGS), PGS
Language.......: Spanish (Latin America) (Latin American), UTF-8
Language.......: Thai, UTF-8
Language.......: Thai (PGS), PGS
Language.......: Vietnamese, UTF-8

Source #1: Shout Factory USA UHD Blu-ray (2026): Used everything, minus chapters.
Source #2: Cargo Records GER Blu-ray (2022): Additional subs.
Source #3: Kam & Ronson Enterprises HKG Blu-ray (2024): Additional subs.
Source #4: Kam & Ronson Enterprises HKG Blu-ray (2010): Additional subs.
Source #5: Hong Kong Legends PAL DVD (2005): For the Bey Logan commentary.
Source #6: Columbia/Tri-Star NTSC DVD (2003): Named chapters, alternate cantonese mono and subs.
Source #7, #8: Amazon, iTunes WEB-DL: Additional srts.

NOTES
Used superior video from Shout Factory UHD Blu-ray as the CHN UHD one had DNR and a total off the rails grade, with an overbright grade and jacked up contrast, the Shout has a lot more grain and fine detail as seen on the comparisons;

Demuxed with latest DGDemux with merge DV function. The Dolby Vision FEL already has CM v4.0.

Shout Factory has the best mono (besides the alternate), the 5.1 remixes are horrible with lots of ambient sounds added that drowns the rest. I didn't see any merits to include any remix.
Now, like before, the NTSC DVD R1 had a dual mono which has in parts better fidelity, specially on score and in some action parts; so it was added (and synced, with one edit to compensate 1 frame missing) as alternative. Curiously, Shout did add to their discs the English dub alternate mono (which is the same as the NTSC DVD R1, albeit better on UHD), but not the Cantonese track, so at least this remux give option for that Samples

Both English dubs were included due to the different fidelity through out the movie and its effects, the first one is similar to the GER Blu-ray, but the GER has a lot of hum and distortions, so the Shout was chosen, for the alternate English dub, it's the same as the NTSC DVD R1, but slightly better on Shout; so also kept the shout one.

All audios on the Shout Factory were monos, so stripped the dual channel to one channel.

Commentary from the Hong Kong Legends PAL DVD was synced (keeping the intro with a few edits and tempo change, plus more three edits to compensate some frames differences) with same speed as the UHD (with both tempo/pitch as the UHD).

PGS from the Shout UHD were too bright and were tonemapped to 65%, likewise for the rest of the pgs and synced. Same for srts.

Named chapters from the NTSC DVD (preferred over the HKL PAL ones) synced to I-frames of remux.

Screenshots have been tonemapped for reference

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