Since 1981, Eureka Video has offered some of the most startling films in crisp clear DVD and Bluray transfer. Here are some selected films including a brief message from Ron Benson.
Please note that the trailers do not reflect the quality of the DVDs offered by Eureka.
Dear Friends,
We’d like to wish all of you a Happy Easter, and to our Jewish customers Happy Passover.
Some eggsiting news (sorry, but the egg puns will get worse), copies of the standard dual format edition of Lifeboat, have just shipped to us from replication and should arrive for Tuesday, packed full of eggstras (I told you they would get worse) including two shorts by Hitchcock, it really is an eggstraordinary release. The Steelbook versions are eggspected early next week too and will be shipped as soon as they arrive.
Our special offers are still running over the Easter holiday weekend so if you haven’t taken advantage of the eggsellent savings now’s the time to shell out for those cracking titles you’ve been looking at.
New release news, In May we have Ruggles of Red Gap and Island of Lost Souls coming to the Masters of Cinema series. At the same time we will be releasing Takashi Miike’s Yatterman a crazy mix of action and comedy, and the first live-action adaptation of one of the most popular anime series of all time, it is a must for any fan of Asian cinema. More details and full specs of all three titles coming in our next newsletter.
Competition time! Like or follow us on Facebook or Twitter before Tuesday 10th April and one lucky person from each social networking site will win an April new release title of their choice! Both are regularly updated with all the latest news about Eureka and Masters of Cinema products – winners will be announced via Twitter and Facebook on Monday 16th April.
That’s all yolks until next time, have a great Easter and best wishes, Ron Benson and all at Eureka Entertainment.
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The Yellow Sea
The critically-acclaimed, award-winning director of The Chaser — Na Hong-jin— brings us his latest brilliant crime drama, the enthralling, action packed thriller The Yellow Sea.Gu-nam is a desperate gambler and debt-ridden taxi driver living in Yanji City — a region that has adjoining borders to North Korea, China and Russia. His wife fled to South Korea six months ago and he hasn’t heard from her since. In order to repay his debts and attempt to find his wife this mild, unassuming man accepts a contract killing from local gangster Myun-ga. Crossing the dangerous Yellow Sea to Seoul he seeks out both his target and wife, but soon finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy of lies, deceit and betrayal. Before he can fulfill the contract he witnesses others murder his target. Fleeing the scene, he is not only being pursued by the police, but those responsible.
Possibly the most electrifying, edge-of-the-seat crime dramas of present years The Yellow Sea is also the first Korean film to ever receive investment from a major Hollywood studio (Fox International Productions), and directed the hottest young director to come out of Korea in the last 50 years, The Yellow Sea is the film action fans have been craving for years. Na’s director’s cut of the film is proudly presented here for the first time in the west, along with a host of enthralling extras.
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The Complete Lone Wolf and Cub Collection
At last… the riveting, bloody, and ultra-stylish Lone Wolf and Cub series, together with the classic Shogun Assassin (all based on the perennially popular manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima) available together in one boxset, officially licenced from Toho, fully uncut, and freshly remastered.Filled with memorable set pieces, iconic characters and violent action, this series more than lives up to its reputation as a pinnacle of Japanese exploitation cinema whose musings on the meaning of honour in a lawless world still resonate today. In White Heaven In Hell alone, Ogami Itta kills 150 people onscreen, the highest body count for a single character in a single film in cinema history.
In America, the first two Lone Wolf instalments were re-edited into the legendary Shogun Assassin, the film that single-handedly created legions of new fans of Japanese action cinema upon its release. Originally prosecuted as a video nasty in the 1980s, this hugely influential thrill-ride is presented here along with the original Lone Wolf and Cub series, gorgeously remastered in their original aspect ratio.
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Mad Detective
2007’s largest grossing film at the Hong Kong box office – the smash-hit Mad Detective – is one of the freshest and most satisfying films from that country in a decade. The traditional Hong Kong police film is turned on its head: the imaginative twist being our hero – Detective Bun (a role created for Lau Ching Wan) – who has the ability to ‘see’ people’s inner personalities or “hidden ghosts”. Breaking new ground and establishing new cinematic rules, Johnnie To’s latest giddily entertaining collaboration with Wai Ka Fai radically raises the level of storytelling in modern film.Click to order
M
From cinema’s first serial killer hunt, Lang pulls back to encompass social tapestry, police procedural, and underworld conspiracies in an astonishingly multi-faceted and level-headed look at a deeply incendiary topic. One of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time, M remains as fresh and startling almost 80 years on. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present a stunning high-definition restoration of a definitive classic of world cinema.Click to order
House
An unforgettable mixture of bubblegum teen melodrama and grisly phantasmagoria, Obayashi’s deranged fairy tale House is one of Japanese cinema’s wildest supernatural ventures and a truly startling debut feature. A rollercoaster ride without brakes, House is by turns sinister, hilarious and curiously touching, with ceaseless cinematic invention and a satirical, full-blooded approach to the horror genre. A gigantic smash upon its original release in Japan.
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F for Fake
Reality and artifice, truths and lies, the means and the ends — these are the poles traversed by Orson Welles in his landmark examination of the nature of authenticity and artistic essence: F for Fake. Described by Welles as “a new kind of film,”? F for Fake — a.k.a. Fake!, a.k.a. About Fakes, a.k.a. ?Question Mark”?) — is a prism of a movie, a kaleidoscope in which fiction, documentary, and the poetic essay interlock, fragment, and recombine to form one of the most entertaining and profound works in all of cinema.
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Les Maîtres du temps
René Laloux, the director of Fantastic Planet, created Les Maîtres du temps, his penultimate animated feature film, in 1982. On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel – a young boy – alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. On board Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad who knows the planet Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel…Click to order
Grey Gardens
Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter Little Edie. Big and Little Edie are the aunt and first cousin of Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, and this documentary is a portrait of their unusual life together. A stirring portrait by the pioneers of documentary filmmaking, the Maysles Brothers.Click here to order
Prince Valiant
The Saturday matinee adventure classic is back! Young Prince Valiant travels to Camelot to become a squire for Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur’s legendary knights, unaware that the traitor that sold his father King Aguar to the pagan rival King Sligon is already seated at the Round Table!
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The Adventures of Mark Twain
The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain’s works, built around a plot that features Twain’s attempts to keep his “appointment” with Halley’s Comet. Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn stow away with Mark Twain on an incredible journey in Twain’s airship.The Adventures of Mark Twain was the first full length feature film in the magic of claymation, directed by Will Vinton (best known for The California Raisins animation).
There’s much more from cult TV to classic cinema and cutting edge film at Eureka Video.
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