Non-MoC Eureka Titles

[yoloswegmaster]

Also coming in November:



SPECIAL FEATURES

Limited edition (2000 Copies)
Limited edition O-card slipcase
1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray
Optional English subtitles
Brand new audio commentary with British cinema expert Melanie Williams
All Hands on Deck – Brand new interview with film historian Neil Sinyard, author of The Films of Richard Lester
Down with the Ship – Brand new interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on Juggernaut and the disaster film
Trailer
Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing on Juggernaut by British film scholar Laura Mayne

[dwk]

December release leak:
Horrible History: Four Historical Epics by Chang Cheh (1972-1976)
•Marco Polo
•The Pirate
•Boxer Rebellion
•Four Riders

Often described as the "Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema," Chang Cheh made nearly a hundred films during a long and storied career spent at the Shaw Brothers Studio, where he directed such landmark films as The One-Armed Swordsman, Five Deadly Venoms and The Heroic Ones. Many of his films drew upon Chinese history for inspiration - and many of them were based on real people and events. Eureka Classics presents four of his best historical epics in this limited-edition set: Marco Polo, The Pirate, Boxer Rebellion and Four Riders.
In Marco Polo, the eponymous Venetian explorer (Richard Harrison) becomes embroiled in a battle between the Mongol Empire and Chinese rebels in the thirteenth century. In The Pirate, the infamous nineteenth-century raider Cheung Po Tsai (Ti Lung) must evade agents of the Imperial Court while attempting to aid the downtrodden residents of a coastal village. In Boxer Rebellion, a group of Chinese patriots use kung fu to protect their nation against invading forces at the turn of the twentieth century. Finally, in Four Riders, a Chinese veteran of the Korean War enlists three comrades to help him escape the South Korean Military Police Command after he is falsely accused of murdering an American soldier.
Marco Polo, The Pirate, Boxer Rebellion and Four Riders are all fascinating examples of the rewriting of history common in popular genre cinema, directed with aplomb by a veteran of Shaw Brothers in Chang Cheh - one of the most celebrated and prolific filmmakers in Hong Kong. All four films are presented on Blu-ray from HD masters supplied by Celestial Pictures.

Special Features
1080p HD presentations on Blu-ray from masters supplied by Celestial Pictures
Original mono audio tracks
Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release
Two new commentaries by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and martial artist and filmmaker Michael Worth
Two new commentaries by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
National Defence - A new interview with Hong Kong cinema scholar Wayne Wong on Boxer Rebellion Rewriting History - A new video essay on Chang
Cheh’s historical films by Jonathan Clements, author of A Brief History of China
Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju)
PLUS: A Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing on all four films in this set by writer and critic James Oliver
Limited edition of 2000 copies only

[yoloswegmaster]

Glad to see more of the lesser known Shaw Bros titles getting releases. Though I do wonder why they keep getting James Oliver to write the essays for their HK releases, since he seems to have a bit of a monopoly on the essays. He isn't a bad writer but he isn't particularly memorable.

[Orlac]

Glad to see more of the lesser known Shaw Bros titles getting releases. Though I do wonder why they keep getting James Oliver to write the essays for their HK releases, since he seems to have a bit of a monopoly on the essays. He isn't a bad writer but he isn't particularly memorable.

I never found anything particularly interesting in what he writes - much more prefer Paul Bramhall or Brandon Bentley.

Mike Leeder and Arne Venema are fun to listen to but rely too much on repeated material and make some atrocious errors at times.

[Maltic]

Are those the first Shaw Bros titles to be released on Eureka?

[sabbath]

Nope. They already announced Super Spies and Secret Lies: Three Undercover Classics from Shaw Brothers last month: https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/super-s ... cret-lies/

[yoloswegmaster]

I never found anything particularly interesting in what he writes - much more prefer Paul Bramhall or Brandon Bentley.

Mike Leeder and Arne Venema are fun to listen to but rely too much on repeated material and make some atrocious errors at times.

It would be cool if they got a scholar from HK to do an essay, maybe someone like Jessica Yeung. She's done some stuff for Error4444 and I think she wrote an essay for the Lee Chang Dong release, though I could be wrong about that.

[TMDaines]

December release leak:
Horrible History: Four Historical Epics by Chang Cheh (1972-1976)
•Marco Polo
•The Pirate
•Boxer Rebellion
•Four Riders

Often described as the "Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema," Chang Cheh made nearly a hundred films during a long and storied career spent at the Shaw Brothers Studio, where he directed such landmark films as The One-Armed Swordsman, Five Deadly Venoms and The Heroic Ones. Many of his films drew upon Chinese history for inspiration - and many of them were based on real people and events. Eureka Classics presents four of his best historical epics in this limited-edition set: Marco Polo, The Pirate, Boxer Rebellion and Four Riders.
In Marco Polo, the eponymous Venetian explorer (Richard Harrison) becomes embroiled in a battle between the Mongol Empire and Chinese rebels in the thirteenth century. In The Pirate, the infamous nineteenth-century raider Cheung Po Tsai (Ti Lung) must evade agents of the Imperial Court while attempting to aid the downtrodden residents of a coastal village. In Boxer Rebellion, a group of Chinese patriots use kung fu to protect their nation against invading forces at the turn of the twentieth century. Finally, in Four Riders, a Chinese veteran of the Korean War enlists three comrades to help him escape the South Korean Military Police Command after he is falsely accused of murdering an American soldier.
Marco Polo, The Pirate, Boxer Rebellion and Four Riders are all fascinating examples of the rewriting of history common in popular genre cinema, directed with aplomb by a veteran of Shaw Brothers in Chang Cheh - one of the most celebrated and prolific filmmakers in Hong Kong. All four films are presented on Blu-ray from HD masters supplied by Celestial Pictures.

Special Features
1080p HD presentations on Blu-ray from masters supplied by Celestial Pictures
Original mono audio tracks
Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release
Two new commentaries by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and martial artist and filmmaker Michael Worth
Two new commentaries by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
National Defence - A new interview with Hong Kong cinema scholar Wayne Wong on Boxer Rebellion Rewriting History - A new video essay on Chang
Cheh’s historical films by Jonathan Clements, author of A Brief History of China
Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju)
PLUS: A Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing on all four films in this set by writer and critic James Oliver
Limited edition of 2000 copies only

A Guardian article predicting a lot of disappointed customers:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/o ... -histories