Eureka Entertainment has announced three new titles to join their collection on Blu-Ray in early 2025: Legend Of The Eight Samurai (1983), The Daredevils & Ode To Gallantry: Two Venom Mob Films (1979), and Mabuse Lives! Dr Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964. These represent an array of classic tales spanning a range of genres. Details on these films can be found below:

Legend Of The Eight Samurai

Street Date: February 18, 2025

Synopsis: Japanese box-office sensation directed by the revered Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale), “Legend of the Eight Samurai” brings together an impressive ensemble cast, including Hiroko Yakushimaru (Sailor Suit and Machine Gun), Hiroyuki Sanada (Ring), Sonny Chiba (Message from Space) and Etsuko Shihomi (The Street Fighter), in a sweeping epic that blends fantasy with historical drama.

The Satomi Clan have been all-but wiped out by their mortal enemies: the ghoulish members of the undead Hikita Clan. The last Satomi survivor is Princess Shizu (Yakushimaru), who goes into hiding to avoid meeting the same fate as her family. Left to wander on her own, she eventually becomes entangled with farmer-turned-soldier Shinbei (Sanada) and then a pair of warrior monks who reveal themselves to be two of eight fabled Hakkenden – or “Dog Warriors” – who can lift the curse that has been placed upon her family. Together, they must find the rest of the Hakkenden and take on the leader of the Hikita Clan: the evil Tamazusa (Mari Natsuki).

Following Message from Space, which transported the story to a science fiction setting, “Legend of the Eight Samurai” is Fukasaku’s second loose adaptation of Toshio Kamata’s Shin Satomi Hakkenden, itself an adaptation of Kyokutei Bakin’s earlier epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden. The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present the film on Blu-ray for the first time in North America from a new 4K restoration.

The first print run of 2000 copies in each territory will feature an O-card slipcase and collector’s booklet. 

Bonus Materials

• Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Chris Malbon
• 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray from a brand new 4K restoration
• Uncompressed original Japanese audio and alternate English dub track
• Optional English subtitles
• New audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Joe Hickinbottom
• New Interview with Kinji Fukasaku’s son, filmmaker Kenta Fukasaku
• New video essay by film historian and critic Stuart Galbraith IV
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A collector’s booklet featuring a new essay by Tom Mes, co-founder of Midnight Eye

The Daredevils & Ode To Gallantry: Two Venom Mob Films

Street Date: March 25, 2025

Synopsis: During his long and industrious career, the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema” Chang Cheh made several films with the celebrated “Venom Mob,” a group of skilled martial arts performers – including Lu Feng, Chiang Sheng, Philip Kwok, Sun Chien, Lo Mang, and Wai Pak – who rose to fame as the stars of his own Five Deadly Venoms. Here, Eureka Classics presents two of the Venom Mob’s best: The Daredevils and Ode to Gallantry. Set in Republic era China, The Daredevils follows Yang Ta-ying (Lo Mang) as he sets out to avenge his father, a military commander who was murdered in cold blood by Han Pei-tsang (Wong Lik), a thief-turned-soldier who killed Yang’s father – along with the rest of his family – to take control of his estate and his army. With the help of his friends Chen Feng (Chiang Sheng), Fu Quanyi (Lu Feng), and Xin Zheng (Sun Chien), he sets out for justice. Then, in Ode to Gallantry, a lone martial artist nicknamed “Mongrel” is continually drawn into an intense struggle between several warring martial arts clans after he stumbles across the Black Iron Token, which entitles the owner to have any wish granted by Xie Yanke (Wong Lik), a brutal kung fu master. After forming in 1978 for Five Deadly Venoms, the Venom Mob made over a dozen films with Chang Cheh that featured at least three of their number in starring roles. Filled with thrilling action set-pieces courtesy of some of the most talented martial artists to emerge in the 1970s, The Daredevils and Ode to Gallantry are two of the finest among them.

The first print run of 2000 copies in each territory will feature an O-card slipcase and collector’s booklet. 

Bonus Materials

• Limited edition of 2000 copies
• Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Chris Malbon
• 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
• Deadly Venoms – new interview with Hong Kong cinema scholar Wayne Wong on the Venom Mob
• PLUS: A limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing by writer and critic James Oliver
• * All extras subject to change

Mabuse Lives! Dr Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964

Street Date: April 1, 2025

Synopsis: Fritz Lang made two of the defining works of early German cinema with Dr Mabuse the Gambler and The Testament of Dr Mabuse, two masterpieces centred on Norbert Jacques’ nefarious literary supervillain. In 1960, Lang was charged by Artur Brauner’s CCC Film with making a third crime thriller centred on the infamous Dr Mabuse, completing a trilogy nearly forty years in the making. A huge success, The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse gave CCC the confidence to launch into an entire series focused on the master criminal between 1960 and 1964, all starring Wolfgang Priess in the title role. All six films are presented here alongside a wealth of new and archival extras. In Fritz Lang’s final film, The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse, the eponymous master of disguise (Priess) re-emerges in the Cold War era after a lengthy absence – and uses all manner of methods to insight murder and mayhem. The Return of Dr Mabuse sees him use brainwashed prison inmates to commit a litany of crimes while evading the German authorities and the FBI. In The Invisible Dr Mabuse, he seeks to use an amazing new invention – a device that renders the user invisible – to his own ends. The Testament of Dr Mabuse – a remake of Lang’s earlier film – has the German police tying themselves in knots as they try to figure out how their adversary could be continuing his reign of terror from inside an asylum. In Scotland Yard Hunts Dr Mabuse, Mabuse’s tentacles begin to creep across the English Channel. Finally, in The Death Ray of Dr Mabuse, the criminal mastermind comes to possess a weapon capable of unleashing untold destruction. Directed by Fritz Lang, Harald Reinl, Werner Klingler, Paul May and Hugo Fregonese, the CCC Mabuse series continues Fritz Lang’s legacy. The Masters of Cinema series is honoured to collect all six of the 1960s Mabuse films together in this set, presented in high definition from 2K restorations and available for the first time on Blu-ray in the US.

The first print run of 2000 copies in each territory will feature an O-card slipcase and collector’s booklet. 

Bonus Materials

• Limited edition of 2000 copies
• Limited edition hardbound slipcase featuring new artwork by Tony Stella
• 1080p HD presentations of all six films from 2K restorations of the original film elements undertaken by CCC
• Original German audio and optional English dubs on select films
• Optional English subtitles
• Archival audio commentary on The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse by film historian and author David Kalat
• New audio commentaries on the other five films by film historian and author David Kalat
• Mabuse Lives at CCC – New interview with producer and managing director of CCC Film Alice Brauner, daughter of CCC founder Artur Brauner
• New introductions to each film by genre film expert and Video Watchdog founder Tim Lucas
• Kriminology – new video essay by David Cairns & Fiona Watson
• 2002 interview with actor Wolfgang Preiss
• Alternate endings for The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse and The Death Ray of Dr Mabuse
• PLUS: A limited edition 60-page collector’s book featuring new notes on each film by journalist Holger Haase, a new essay by German film scholar Tim Bergfelder, an archival essay by David Cairns, archival writing by Fritz Lang and notes by Lotte Eisner on
• * All extras subject to change

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