4K UHD, Blu-ray Release: The Blood of Fu Manchu & The Castle of Fu Manchu

4K UHD/Blu-ray Release Date: July 29, 2025
Price: Blood: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $34.99; Castle: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $34.99
Studio: Blue Underground/MVD

In the unrated European version of 1968’s The Blood of Fun Manchu, international super-villain Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee, The House That Dripped Blood) and his sadistic daughter Lin Tang (Tsai Chin, Lucky Grandma) reveal their latest diabolical plot for world domination: ten beautiful women are infected with an ancient poison so deadly that one kiss from their lips will bring instant death and lead to a global plague. Now the Asian madman’s nemesis, Nayland Smith (Richard Greene, Sword of Sherwood Forest), must desperately hunt an antidote in a savage South American land where rape and torture reign and the ultimate evil lies.

Maria Rohm (The Girl from Rio) and Shirley Eaton (The Million Eyes of Sumuru) co-star in this wild Fu Manchu feature directed by the one and only Jess Franco (Marquis De Sade’s Justine)!

Blue Underground presents the film in a brand-new 4K restoration from its uncut original camera negative, complete with additional scenes of nudity and violence in Dolby Vision HDR!

Here’s a breakdown of the features:

• Ultra HD Blu-ray (2160p) and HD Blu-ray (1080p) Widescreen 1.66:1 feature presentations
• Audio: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
• Subtitles: English SDH, Francais, Espanol
• NEW! Audio Commentary with Film Historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
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  The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)

  The Rise of Fu Manchu – Interviews with Director Jess Franco, Producer Harry Alan Towers, and Stars Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, & Shirley Eaton

• NEW! Sanguine-Stained Celluloid – Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of “Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco”
• Trailers
• NEWLY EXPANDED! Poster & Still Gallery
• NEW! RiffTrax Edition – THE BLOOD OF FU MANCHU Riffed by Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett & Kevin Murphy (77 Mins.)

Next up, Christopher Lee returns as the diabolical super-villain in 1969’s The Castle of Fu Manchu!

This time around, Fu Manchu, along with his sadistic daughter Lin Tang (Tsai Chin), creates a fiendish new chemical weapon that will turn the seas into a giant block of ice. But when his archenemy Nayland Smith (Richard Greene) tracks the madman’s trail of kidnapping, murder and massive global destruction, he himself becomes trapped in Fu Manchu’s impenetrable lair of cruelty. Can any of the world’s top-secret agents (including a wild performance by director Jess Franco) now stop the cold-blooded terror that lives in The Cast of Fu Manchu?

Directed once again by Franco, Blue Underground presents the movie in a brand-new 4K restoration from the original camera negative in Dolby Vision HDR!

Bonus features:

• Ultra HD Blu-ray (2160p) and HD Blu-ray (1080p) Widescreen 1.66:1 feature presentations
• Audio: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
• Subtitles: English SDH, Francais, Espanol
• NEW! Audio Commentary with Film Historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth
• The Fall of Fu Manchu – Interviews with Director Jess Franco, Producer Harry Alan Towers, and Stars Christopher Lee & Tsai Chin
• NEW! Castle of Carnage – Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of “Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco”
• International Trailer
• NEWLY EXPANDED! Poster & Still Gallery
• NEW! RiffTrax Edition – THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU Riffed by Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett & Kevin Murphy (75 Mins.)