[quote name='Blade']Hong Kong is known as the bootleg capitol of the world, y/n? I don't know why they would release "official" region 0 DVD's when there are region specific versions of most titles. I'm not crapping on you Demolition Man because there's more than just R0 there, but I'm saying I don't think the official company would produce one version of a movie for the entire world if they could produce four versions and make four times the profit.[/QUOTE]
Hong Kong is totally the bootleg capitol of the world, along with China but that doesn't mean they don't produce Region 0 movies.
One may not think a company would produce official Region 0 titles, but Hong Kong does. I have a ton of them sitting in my room right now. Most asian movies will never be bought up in other regions so they aren't losing a worldwide market. And some of the recent big name movies have in fact been region locked but this is not true for most movies. Also almost every HK movie comes out with english subtitles too, which tells me they want US to buy those, because I'm sure most people in Asia don't need english subtitles.
Also the issue of piracy is so strong over there that making it region 0 is more advantageous to them because many importers will be able to buy the real thing easily with no region lock and with english subs as opposed to picking up a region cracked bootleg with fansubbed subtitles.
China is a little different from Hong Kong as their piracy is somewhat worse and movies get released on video usually after a few months of release. And they are really cheap too. However these are usually locked to region 3 and are exclusively dubbed in Mandarin regardless of what the original language is. They are usually of less quality as no time is spent on the transfer or extras.
Korea is different in that they usually provide english subtitles but still region lock themselves to region 3. But piracy is not as huge a problem over there.
Japan locks there region and usually never provides subtitles and are the most expensive to purchase.
Only recently has the US had some influence on these movies, as when Fearless was released it was locked to region 3 and the studio requested that they take out the subtitles. The Protector had english subtitles removed form its original release as well, althouth the Korean release was able to keep them. The last two big releases from China, Hero and House of Flying Daggers also have been region locked.
Oddly enough the 8 disc limited edition of Infernal Affairs says Region 3 on the box but they all ended up being Region 0. It seems this was just done to make the Weinsteins happy as IA was in limited theatre release then.
ing should have. 
