2024 HAUL - DECEMBER CHAPTER: BATCH #4.1
More stuff. More time off work. As Itsuki once said - "Let's Focking Go".
Arrived last Monday.
BLEACH Part 2 has arrived, covering episodes 28-55 of the long-running shonen anime series. The limited edition comes with a slipcase and three small art cards. No unboxing planned yet as I intend to have Parts 2-5 combined to save repetition.
Arrived last Monday & Tuesday. A few months ago, 88 Films revealed they picked up another batch of films from Celestial Pictures for the Shaw Brothers collection. As you may or may not know, the Blu-ray line-up of Shaw Bros titles pretty much started through 88 Films though their first 25 releases have now discontinued. I jumped onto the Shaw Bros bandwagon with their second batch of releases.
These are Li Han-Hsiang's 1974 film
The Golden Lotus (金瓶雙艷), Lau Kar-leung's 1979 film
The Shadow Boxing (茅山殭屍拳) aka Spiritual Boxer Part II, and Sun Chung's 1979 film
To Kill A Mastermind (七煞). Each of these were released around September this year and their first print editions come with a slipcase and some art cards. Since their second batch onwards (for context, these films are part of their third & current batch of releases) they have commissioned artwork by various individuals who have worked on different Asian Cinema releases which look great like KUNG FU BOB.
I plan to get their recent Shaw Bros releases around early next year.
Arrived yesterday. Surprise we have four more Eureka Entertainment releases, picked up from retailer Terracotta Distribution. Now the reason for this is because I've been occupied by various priorities of titles throughout the past year and there's been so many Asian Cinema releases which is awesome but sometimes, especially in Eureka's case, the pre-order price isn't at a good deal or it's just bad timing. So this haul was there to pick up a few of the titles that I missed out on so that going into the new year there's less titles to worry about losing out.
Anyway, the ones that I received are Brandy Yuen's 1983 film
The Champions (波牛) starring Yuen Biao, Lo Wei's 1973 film
A Man Called Tiger (冷面虎) starring Jimmy Wang Yu, Ting Shan-hsi's 1976 film
A Queen’s Ransom (鱷潭群英會) also starring Jimmy Wang Yu which is also known as
International Assassin in some territories, & from the Masters of Cinema line-up I also picked up Kinji Fukasaku's 1964 film
Wolves, Pigs and Men (狼と豚と人間).
Also worth mentioning that if you've been a fan of Eureka Entertainment's output and haven't been caught up with the latest news, Eureka has also revealed that their booklets will now remain first print edition exclusives across the whole slate going forward, including catalogue releases. So at some point I do want to pickup around 6 Japanese titles left on my list before it's too late.
