The Eureka Leisure August 2024 lineup of Blu-ray releases is an thrilling variety which entails a Laurel & Hardy collection.

A Gentleman Called Tiger – August 26, 2024 United kingdom. August 27, 2024 US & Canada

Starring Jimmy Wang Yu (The 1-Armed Swordsman) and directed by Lo Wei, the gentleman powering the smash-strike Bruce Lee automobiles The Huge Boss and Fist of Fury, A Male Identified as Tiger is a martial arts extravaganza unveiled at the height of an intercontinental kung fu trend.

Chin Fu (Wang Yu) is a formidable martial artist who suspects his father’s clear suicide was genuinely a chilly-blooded murder. His want for options – and revenge – certified prospects him to Japan, precisely exactly where he becomes entangled with the yakuza. With the assistance of his fellow countryman Liu Han-ming (James Tien, Hand of Death) and a nightclub hostess (Maria Yi, Fist of Fury), Chin Fu sets out to infiltrate Tokyo’s underworld, expose a prison conspiracy and uncover his father’s genuine destiny by any implies required.

Extended rumoured to have been ready as the 3rd collaboration in in between Lo Wei and Bruce Lee prior to Lee developed his directorial debut with The Way of the Dragon, A Person Termed Tiger rather grew to come to be a vehicle or truck for a additional martial arts celebrity in Jimmy Wang Yu.

Exclusive Features and Specs

• NEW 2K RESTORATION of the 1st Hong Kong theatrical lessen (79 mins)
• NEW 2K RESTORATION of the extended export variation (112 minutes)
• Initial Mandarin and common English dub audio options (1st mono shows)
• Optional English subtitles, not too long ago translated for this release
• Brand new audio commentary on the Hong Kong version by East Asian film skilled Frank Djeng (NY Asian Movie Pageant)
• Model new audio commentary by action cinema authorities Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
• Reversible sleeve featuring original poster artwork
• Trailer
• A confined edition collector’s booklet featuring new composing on the film by James Oliver
• Confined version O-Card slipcase that contains new artwork by Darren Wheeling
• Confined version reversible poster showcasing major poster artwork

Wolves, Pigs & Men – August 19, 2024

A standout yakuza film directed by a master of the style in Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without getting Honour and Humanity), Wolves, Pigs and Adult guys is an uncompromising treatise on brutality and brotherhood starring Rentaro Mikuni (Harakiri), Kinya Kitaoji (Battles With out Honour and Humanity: Remaining Episode) and the inimitable Ken Takakura (Abashiri Prison).

Kuroki (Mikuni), Jiro (Takakura) and Sabu (Kitaoji) are 3 brothers born into poverty. Kuroki, the eldest, finds an escape from his squalid beginnings by turning to organised criminal offense – and shortly each of these Jiro and Sabu have adopted him into the yakuza life-style. But none of the brothers see eye to eye, just about every of them displaying a lot more loyalty to their felony comrades than to their siblings. Adhering to a stint in jail, Jiro convinces Sabu to assistance him pull off a likely advantageous heist, most important to a series of betrayals and horrifically violent functions that will exam the bonds of blood to their breaking position.

Mixing the staple themes of the Japanese gangster film with narrative and aesthetic qualities borrowed from the French New Wave and American film noir, Wolves, Pigs and Adult males stands as one particular unique of the greatest yakuza films of the 1960s. The Masters of Cinema sequence is pretty pleased to present the film in its United kingdom debut, on Blu-ray from a new restoration of the genuine film functions by Toei.

Unique Features and Specs

• NEW RESTORATIONrestoration of the exclusive film elements supplied by Toei
• First Japanese audio monitor (uncompressed LPCM mono)
• Audio commentary track by Jasper Sharp
• Interview with screenwriter Junya Sato
• Job interview with producer Tatsu Yoshida
• Interview with Kinji Fukasaku’s biographer, Sadao Yamane
• Trailer
• A collector’s booklet showcasing new building by Japanese cinema certified Joe Hickinbottom
• Confined edition O-Card slipcase showcasing new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju)

Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – August 19, 2024

Standing tall along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin as pioneers of cinematic comedy, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two of the most beloved comedians in the history of going images. Having acted with each other with each and every person other for the pretty 1st time in 1921, they officially teamed up later in the decade in a sequence of shorts created for producer Hal Roach – launching a wildly powerful partnership that would survive into the appear period and pretty final for a different quarter of a century.

This collection captures the duo’s earliest (mis)adventures on monitor, chronicling their journey from their 1st films with each other – The Blessed Pet and the aptly titled 45 Minutes to Hollywood – to the dawn of their formal partnership in 13 shorts launched for the duration of 1927. From Duck Soup and Sailors Beware! to Do Detectives Consider?, Placing Pants on Philip and The Battle of the Century (as quickly as obtainable only in incomplete variations proper till its missing scenes ended up rediscovered in 2015), these films present the improvement of two independent comedians into the most influential and celebrated comedy duo of all time.

The Masters of Cinema collection is proud to current the early performs of Laurel & Hardy – painstakingly restored from the best out there supplies held by collectors and archives all more than the globe – in a exclusive two-disc Blu-ray edition for the pretty 1st time in the Uk from 2K restorations. The set consists of the adhering to shorts: Lucky Pet, 45 Minutes from Hollywood, Duck Soup, Slipping Wives, Really like ’em and Weep, Why Girls Love Sailors, With Enjoy and Hisses, Sailors, Beware!, Do Detectives Consider?, Flying Elephants, Sugar Daddies, The 2nd 100 Several years, Get in touch with of the Cuckoo, Putting Trousers on Phillip, and The Battle of the Century.

Specific Characteristics and Specs

• NEW 2K RESTORATIONS
• Scores by a choice of silent film composers which contains Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola, Eric le Guen and Donald Sosin
• Alternate scores on choose shorts
• Audio commentary tracks on all films
• New interviews with silent film authorities
• Picture galleries
• Archival recordings and interviews
• A collector’s booklet showcasing newly penned notes on each and every film by Paul Merton, and a new essay by Imogen Sara Smith
• Limited edition O-Card slipcase showcasing new artwork by Scott Saslow