THE CHAMPIONS Blu-Ray Review: An Underrated Classic That Scores Big For Hong Kong Film Fans
THE CHAMPIONS is now available from Eureka Entertainment.
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SUPER SPIES AND SECRET LIES: Eureka Rolls Out A Trio Of Bond-Inspired Shaw-Produced Espionage Classics In November!
Eureka Entertainment is taking the superspy leap with a trio of spy-themed Shaw Brothers productions in Super Spies and Secret Lies. The titles, The Golden Buddha, Angel with the Iron Fists and The Singing Thief, will roll out via the Eureka Classics shingle beginning November 19 in North America on Limited Edition Blu-Ray with 2000 copies per territory. Read on for the language and catch the trailer! Following the enormous international success of Dr. No and From Russia with Love, Bondmania swept the globe and initiated a cycle of Bondsploitation movies. Studios all over the world sought to capitalize on James Bond and the concept of the super-spy – including Hong Kong’s venerable Shaw Brothers, who began producing tales of intrigue, espionage, and grand theft in the mid-1960s. Eureka Classics presents three of their best in this special-edition set: The Golden Buddha, Angel with the Iron Fists and The Singing […]
THE SWORD: Eureka Unsheathes The 1980 Wuxia Classic In 2K Limited Edition Blu-Ray This November!
I have a feeling that Patrick Tam’s The Sword was one of those remastered specialty picks that played a festival that flew off my radar at some point. Certainly it feels like it. At any rate, this baby is now coming to a phys-media outlet near you with Eureka Entertainment announcing their release of the 1980 wuxia classic as part of the Eureka Classics line beginning November 19. The film will be made available on Blu-Ray and with a 2k restoration with a limited edition release of the package rolling out 2000 copies (per territory), which include exclusive features such as an O-card slipcase, and a collector’s booklet. Read on for the language below and then head over to the MVD shop to make your pre-order! Best known as a key contributor to the Hong Kong New Wave as the director of My Heart is That Eternal Rose and the […]
BEAST FIGHTER – Eureka Blu-Ray Review: A Double-Fisted Dose Of Karate-Crazy Sonny Chiba Cinema
The BEASTFIGHTER box set is now available from Eureka Entertainment
BROKEN OATH Gets A Limited Edition 2K Rollout On Blu-Ray This Fall!
Jeong Chang-hwa’s 1977 Golden Harvest actioner, Broken Oath, was officially announced on Thursday with details pertinent to its upcoming Fall release on Blu-Ray. Eureka Entertainment is rolling out the Angela Mao-led martial arts classic on October 22 for its worldwide debut on Blu-ray from a brand new 2K restoration. A Hong Kong take on Japan’s Lady Snowblood, Broken Oath is an action-packed tale of righteous vengeance directed by Jeong Chang-hwa (King Boxer) and starring the first lady of kung fu cinema: the inimitable Angela Mao! Orphaned and angry, Lotus (Mao) is raised by Buddhist nuns before she is exiled for her violent ways – and skipping classes to improve her martial arts skills. Finding herself alone in the world, she quickly comes to discover the truth of her past: that her father was once a respected member of the Imperial Court who was murdered in cold blood, and that her […]
TWO TAOIST TALES: Eureka Launches A Pair Of Yuen Clan Classics From Eureka This September
Eureka Entertainment is proudly launching the worldwide Blu-Ray debuts of Yuen Clan actioners, Two Taoist Tales (Taoism Drunkard and The Young Taoism Fighter) on September 24. Directed by and starring Yuen Cheung-yan (The Miracle Fighters), Taoism Drunkard follows a man with a love for wine who accidentally damages a sacred statue. To atone for this blunder, he is asked by an enraged Taoist priest (Hsiao Hou-tao) to find a virginal boy (Yuen Yat-chor) to aid in defending his temple from a demonic sorcerer (Yuen Shun-yi). In The Young Taoism Fighter (directed by Police Story’s Chen Chi-hwa), a practitioner of Taoist kung fu (Yuen Yat-chor) manages to separate his soul from his body before teaming up with a vengeful young woman (Hilda Liu Hao-yi) to take on a sinister sorcerer (Kwan Chung) and the evil leader of a rival kung fu school (Yen Shi-kwan). Both films will be presented with brand […]
THE CHAMPIONS: Hong Kong Soccer Classic Scores A 2K Remaster For September U.S. Release On Blu-Ray From Eureka!
Brandy Yuen’s 1983 action sports comedy, The Champions, is coming to Blu-Ray from Eureka Entertainment. Yuen Biao heads the Golden Harvest classic whose production frame work hails from the celebrated Yuen Clan with Yuen Shun-yi (The Miracle Fighters) and Yuen Chun Yeung (Armour of God) behind the action and stunts. Lee Tong (Yuen Biao, Dreadnaught) is a young farmer who has grown up in an isolated rural community. When an indiscretion lands him in hot water, he leaves his home in the countryside and heads for the big city – where he meets Suen (Cheung Kwok-keung, Eastern Condors), an urban soccer player who recognises Tong’s talent for the beautiful game and encourages him to try out for a pro team. But Tong’s first chance at sporting glory is scuppered by a rivalry with the narcissistic King (Dick Wei, Project A), who relegates the newcomer to cleaning up after his teammates. […]
BLACK MASK Eureka Blu-Ray Review: Two Discs. One Movie. No Mercy!
Eureka Entertainment is the latest banner to carry the mantle for director Daniel Lee’s 1996 action sci-fi, Black Mask. The release marks the latest since the film’s transition to overseas markets, with U.S. labels Artisan Entertainment and Distant Horizon nabbing the title for its own remixed version a few years later. Based on a 1991 manhua by Pang Chi-Ming and Li Chi-Tat, the Jet Li starrer centers on the former member of a clandestine unit, once subject to a government experiment to create supersoldiers. Tsui-chik (Li), formerly of Squad 701, maintains a low profile as a librarian who spends his time buried in books. He gets along with his co-workers, and his best friend is Shek (Lau Ching-wan), a Hong Kong Inspector who oftentimes finds himself rescuing Tsui-chik from muggers and gangsters. Little does Tsui-chik know that his former team has resurfaced to cause a stir in the criminal underworld, […]
Eureka Entertainment Line Up Sonny Chiba’s BEAST FIGHTER Films for A June Release
Eureka Entertainment continue their long line of stellar Blu Ray releases with the upcoung double-pack of Karate Bullfighter and Karate Bearfighter. Both films star the iconic Japanese badass, Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter), and are based on the Manga, Karate Baka Ichidai, which ran 1971 to 1977 (and was later adapted into an anime series). Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, director of the fan favorite, Sister Street Fighter, the films focus on Masutatsu “Mas” Ōyama, the world reknowned karate master and Sonny Chiba’s real-life teacher: In Karate Bullfighter (or Champion of Death), a karate tournament is crashed by an enigmatic martial artist calling himself Ōyama (Chiba), who arrives in tattered rags and beats all who dare challenge him. But Ōyama’s entrance into the world of karate has unforeseen consequences, and soon he is fighting for far more than sporting victory. Then, in Karate Bearfighter, Ōyama is expelled from the karate community for refusing to pull his punches. With nowhere […]
Eureka Entertainment To Release Yuen Woo-Ping’s Madcap Classic, THE MIRACLE FIGHTERS, This June!
It’s a good time to be a Hong Kong cinema fan! Eureka Entertainment recently announced they will be releasing a Blu Ray of Yuen Woo-ping’s masterclass in madness, The Miracle Fighters, in the UK and the US on June 25th. Many people know Woo-ping as being the man responsible for the action in films like The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill but in the early 80’s he, with help from his brothers (aka The Yuen Clan), created some of the most innovative and inventive productions to come out of Hong Kong (including Donnie Yen’s first film, Drunken Tai Chi). To say that The Miracle Fighters has to be seen to be believed is an understatement. It’s off the wall in all the right ways During the Quing dynasty, marriage between Manchu and Han people is outlawed. When it is discovered that high-ranking official Kao Hsiung (Eddy Ko) has taken a Han wife, the Emperor […]
THE VALIANT ONES: Eureka Lands 4K/Blu-Ray May North American Debut!
Eureka Entertainment is supplying wuxia film fans with the North American debut of 1975 wuxia classic, The Valiant Ones, arriving May 28. Billed as Taiwanese auteur King Hu’s last great master piece from the Golden Age of wuxia cinema, Eureka is rolling it out as part of their Masters Of Cinema Series in a Blu-Ray/4K HUD bundle, freshly restored in 4K and complete with special features. Only 2000 copies will be made available with the first print edition of each format in each territory to feature limited edition O-card slip cover packaging. Read on below, and don’t miss the latest trailer! The Valiant Ones is perhaps the last true wuxia film directed by celebrated Taiwanese filmmaker King Hu, an undisputed master of the genre. Shot back-to-back with The Fate of Lee Khan (but not released until two years later), it stands as a worthy follow-up to his earlier works Come […]
Jet Li Action Thriller BLACK MASK Kicks Off MVD/Eureka North American Catalog Partnership
Director Daniel Lee’s 1996 gory action sci-fi thriller, Black Mask, will get a hyper-kinetic Blu-Ray revival in North America later this year through a new deal announced on Tuesday between genre labels MVD and London-based Eureka Entertainment. The two brands announced the distribution deal which would pave the way for a North American rollout of Eureka’s award-winning Blu-ray catalog to North America for the first time. “It’s extremely exciting to be partnering with MVD for our North American physical and digital distribution,” said Kevin Lambert, former Head of Content at Arrow Films who joined Eureka! in 2023. “We can’t wait to get our first releases out to US retailers, and we look forward to bringing the best of auteur and classic cinema, including our celebrated Masters of Cinema series, to a wider audience. It is a big new step forward for the company, and I’m sure Blu-ray collectors will be […]
DUEL TO THE DEATH Wields A Fully-Loaded Limited Edition 2K Restoration On Blu-Ray This Fall
You can always count on niche banners to keep up the posterity on classics for physical media, including Eureka Entertainment which has been on a roll with a variety of genres in its output since 1981. Their latest brings forth martial arts cinema legend Ching Siu-Tung’s 1983 wuxia hit, Duel To The Death, which makes its return to physical media via the UK-based distributor and packed with a bevy of special features to make the purchase worth your while. Our own Vance Ang took to the dashboard for his own providential thoughts in a review he remarkably posted way ahead of this announcement. As genres, horror and thriller films manage to build up the tension, where a violent final act reaches a crescendo that will stay in the consciousness of the viewer for many hours, if not days or even weeks. Yet Duel is neither horror nor thriller. Evidently, there are some […]
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA: All Four Jet Li Starrers Make Their Way This December From Eureka Classics
Tsui Hark’s Once Upon A Time In China film series became one among many quintessential investments in introducing the world to one of Hong Kong Cinema’s most renowned film stars to date, with Jet Li in the title role of legendary healer and pugilist, Wong Fei-Hung. Undoubtedly, it’s the first three that get the most attention having long been celebrated by most fans thanks to companies like Fortune Star and Hong Kong Legends. This time, Eureka Entertainment is taking the mantle once again through its Eureka Classics shingle with another revisit of the trilogy on 4K Blu-Ray, as well as Li’s 1997 reprisal in a 2K-restored Once Upon A Time In China and America, beginning December 7, brandishing new artwork to boot. Pre-orders are now up and running through the UK’s Eureka Store and at Zavvi. Starring Jet Li as the real life Cantonese folk hero, Wong Fei-hung, a physical […]
WHEELS ON MEALS: Eureka’s 2K-Restored Limited Edition Blu-Ray Relaunch Gets A Trailer
UK distro banner Eureka Entertainment is the latest to revive its series of Jackie Chan classics as its done in the last few years, now with Sammo Hung’s “three brothers” reunion, Wheels On Meals. Pre-orders are still up and running at UK outlets for Amazon and Zavvi and now with an official trailer making the rounds following its live premiere on Wednesday. Eureka Entertainment to release WHEELS ON MEALS, a spectacular, non-stop action comedy starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, presented from a brand new 2K restoration for the first time ever on Blu-ray in the UK as part of the Eureka Classics range on 18 March 2019. Available with a Limited Edition slipcase and booklet [4000 copies ONLY]. From a brand new 2K restoration comes perhaps the greatest martial-arts comedy of all time, Sammo Hung’s Wheels on Meals, starring Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao as the […]
Eureka Announces JACKIE CHAN’S PROJECT A & PROJECT A II For UK Release
UK-based home distributor Eureka Entertainment isn’t done making 2018 their year for celebrating the Guiness World Record-breaking stunt and cinema stylings of legendary action star Jackie Chan. Project A & Project A II are both on deck this Fall returning Dragon Ma to the fray as he fights pirates and gangsters while surviving big scale explosions and falls next to fellow brothers Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. The 2K-restored 2-disk package is now on pre-order with links available! New Announcement! JACKIE CHAN’S PROJECT A & PROJECT A PART II, a set of effortlessly entertaining action comedy adventures, will be released on Blu-ray as part of the Eureka Classics range on 22 October 2018, presented from brand new 2K restorations in a lavish Special Limited Edition 2-disc Hardbound Boxed Set. Available to PRE-ORDER now from Amazon https://amzn.to/2n3B7W8 and Zavvi http://po.st/Mzx1od A pair of incredible action-adventure extravaganzas from the legendary Jackie Chan, […]
Eureka Entertainment Signals Two 4K Restoration Jackie Chan Blu-Rays Debuting In UK Next Month For POLICE STORY And POLICE STORY 2
Earlier this month, UK distro outlet Eureka Entertainment made way with several 4K restoration announcements debuting in the region on Blu-Ray in the next few months host to the iconic and legendary work of action maestro Jackie Chan. Two of those titles will come packages together for a specialized release for fans with Police Story and Police Story 2 which now come branded with an official trailer ahead of an August release. Both films will have English and original Cantonese audio tracks which ardent fans of Hong Kong action cinema will easily appreciate. This, next to the continued sustenance of Chan’s screen persona – Ka-Kui’s bone breaking and death defying action, gags, stunts and memorable moments featuring Maggie Cheung, Lam Kwok-Hung, Benny Lai (fondly known as the “abba-abba” guy), late actor Bill Tung and the old school JC Stuntmen Association therein, should make for a more than ample deal for […]
CITY HUNTER: Jackie Chan Doles Out The High Seas Action This Fall On UK Blu-Ray From Eureka!
UK distro outlet Eureka Entertainment has it in for Jackie Chan fans with a few ‘Classics’ re-releases pending this Fall. Chan’s zany 1993 lead rendition as a perverted and lazy, albeit highly-skilled crime fighter in Wong Jing’s adaptation of manga hit, City Hunter, is one of them as of announcements made earlier this month. Eureka’s unveiled a trailer which you can view right above. Detailed specs are below as quoted from the original announcement just over a week ago: New Announcement! CITY HUNTER, Jackie Chan’s stylish action-comedy extravaganza, will be released as part of the Eureka Classics range, presented from a stunning new 2K restoration, on Blu-ray from 17 September 2018, featuring a Limited Edition O-card and Collector’s Booklet [First print run only]. Available to PRE-ORDER now (see links below) Jackie Chan stars as the girl-chasing private detective Ryo Saeba in this hilarious live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese manga […]
War Thriller RESCUE UNDER FIRE Gets A Fall UK DVD Release From Eureka
Eureka Entertainment rolled out a volley of announcements on Thursday for forthcoming UK DVD and Blu-Ray releases between now and next month. Spanish-American filmmaker Adolfo Martínez Pérez stands to gain from this latest update now with an official trailer for his 2017 directorial debut, Rescue Under Fire, billed as “an adrenaline-fueled action thriller based on true events”. The crew of a medical helicopter crashes in Afghanistan whilst attempting to assist an ambushed patrol of Spanish and American troops. The Spanish army has only one night to organise the rescue of the crew and injured, but what seems routine turns into hell once they receive the order to rescue the helicopter as well. Things only get worse when during the night a huge concentration of insurgents begin surrounding them. The debut feature from director Alfredo Martínez, a multi-award winning writer who has worked behind the scenes on numerous Hollywood blockbusters including […]
RE:BORN: Hero Musings Set The Tone For The Breakneck New U.K. Trailer
Four years since stirring talk of sequels and a retirement, it wasn’t until the last few years we finally started learning what to make of all that noise with the announcement of the new movie, Re:Born. The messaging on that film’s development then slowly seuged from talk of his final film endeavor to something much more ceremonial in the cult action star’s return, which is understandably confusing. Forgiveable? Well, why not? A legendary soldier with a mysterious past decides to unleash his inner beast to stand up for what he cares about. RE:BORN marks the comeback of Tak Sakaguchi (Versus, Alive, Shinobi:Heart Under Blade), often described as one of the most under-rated actors in the action movie scene, and this film highlights him at his very best. Director Yuji Shimomura (Flash Point, Warriors Way, Gantz:Perfect Wars) teamed up with fight choreographyer Yoshitaka Inagawa, a former close combat instructor for U.S. […]
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