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• THE COMPLETE (EXISTING) FILMS OF SADAO YAMANAKA (Masters of Cinema) (DVD) | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The brief but prodigious career of Japanese director Sadao Yamanaka resulted in a catalogue of work characterised by an elegant and unforced visual style, fluid editing, and a beautiful attention to naturalistic performances. Although he made 22 films over a six-year period (before dying of dysentery in a Japanese Imperial Army outpost in Manchuria at the age of 28), only three of them survive, collected here for the first time in the West. Tange Sazen: The Million Ry Pot is a gloriously comic adventure yarn as the titular one-eyed, one-armed swordsman becomes embroiled in the hunt for a missing pot that points the way to hidden treasure. In Kchiyama Sshun, a subversively humanistic adaptation of a classic kabuki play, a small but invaluable knife stolen from a samurai leads to a chain of an increasingly complex and troublesome set of circumstances. His last film, Humanity and Paper Balloons, is an unsparing ensemble drama set among the lowest rungs of Japanese society in the 18th century. The Masters of Cinema Series is delighted to present these treasures of world cinema in a long-awaited two-disc DVD set, including rarely-seen fragments of two other lost Yamanaka films. Special Features: New digital transfer of all three films New English subtitle translations Rare fragments of other lost Yamanaka films A lengthy booklet, including Yamanaka's will, excerpts from his diaries, essays by Tony Rayns, Shinji Aoyama, Kimitoshi Sat, and more.

• Hands Of The Ripper Special Edition | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The infant daughter of Jack the Ripper is witness to the brutal murder of her mother by her father's hand. Later as a troubled young woman she is seemingly possessed by the spirit of her father and while in a trance she continues his murderous killing spree but has no recollection of the events afterwards. A sympathetic psychiatrist takes her in and is convinced he can cure her condition. Soon however he regrets his decision...

• Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete Collection | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £24.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (40.24%)   |  RRP £34.99

  More comedy madness!....The complete collection contains all three side-splitting series and over 9 hours of thoroughly outrageous comedy. Delivering laughter from beginning to end 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' follows the riotous lives of flat mates Linda (Kathy Burke) and Tom (James Dreyfus) in their equally hopeless search for a man. SERIES ONE 01. Who's That Boy 02. The Big Break 03. Legs & Co 04. Do They Take Sugar? 05. Saturday Night Diva 06. I Do I Do I Do SERIES TWO The Millennium Special 01. Teachers Pet 02. Stiff 03. Prison Visitor 04. Dirty Thirty 05. Glad To Be Gay 06. Sofa Man SERIES THREE 01. Down & Out 02. Lollipop Man 03. Secrets & Flies 04. Trauma 05. Singing In The Drain 06. Decoy

• Ozu Collection - The Gangster Films (2-DVD) | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The latest volume in the BFI's ongoing releases of the works of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu focuses on his crime films. These rare, silent works mix the thrills of western filmmaking with compositions that served as a forerunner to his renowned, mature, post-war style. All films are here presented with newly commissioned scores by Ed Hughes. Episode Comprise: Walk Cheerfully That Night's Wife Dragnet Girl Special Features: The only surviving fragment of A Straightforward Boy

• Halo: Season One 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (14/11/2022) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After years of human civil war and growing political unrest, mankind's very future is threatened when our outermost colonies intrude upon the sacred worlds of the Covenant a fanatical powerful alliance of alien species. As the Covenant destroys world after human world, only one soldier slows their advance a cybernetically enhanced Spartan supersoldier, the Master Chief. But as the incredible mystery of the Covenant's true ambition and the secrets of his own enigmatic past converge, he will have to decide if humanity is a cause worth saving. This 5-disc collection includes every exhilarating episode plus over 5 hours of special features! Includes collectible art cards of Kwan Ha, Dr. Halsey, Soren, Master Chief, Vannak, Riz and Kai.

• Breath | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Death row convict Jang Jin (Chang Chen) attempts to hasten his death sentence by stabbing himself in the neck with a sharpened toothbrush only to fail miserably leaving him temporarily mute. The unfortunate incident reaches the national news catching the attention of housewife Yeon (Park Ji Ah). On the surface Yeon's life resembles the ideal picture - a good husband (Ha Jung Woo) a stable livelihood. But beneath that shell lies sadness and torment over her husband's extramarital affairs. Jang Jin's story hits close to her heart leading her to a new path as she dares to leave her usual life to meet the convict in prison. Ironically it's inside a cold and dark place where all of life's pleasure and privileges have been stripped away that both Yeon and Jang Jin begin a remarkable healing process. But reality remains stern and cold for the condemned as death penetrates through the iron bars still demanding for his last breath.

• The Crazies | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £7.90   |  Saving you £3.35 (50.45%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A military plane carrying a secret bio-chemical warfare agent crashes near Evans City Pennsylvania releasing a deadly virus into the local water supply. Highly contagious the virus quickly begins to infect the town's residents producing homicidal insanity in its victims. As government scientists work to find an antidote the town is forcibly quarantined by the US military. Clad in protective suits troops of soldiers move in intending to control and cover up the situation and to

• I Saw The Devil | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £7.55   |  Saving you £10.44 (138.28%)   |  RRP £17.99

  I Saw The Devil is as action packed and thrilling as it is extremely dark and disturbing. Starring Lee Byung-Hun (GI JOE: The Rise Of Cobra) and Choi Min-Sik (OldBoy).

• Idle Hands | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £15.80   |  Saving you £4.19 (26.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Despite all the pot-smoking in Idle Hands, the message here seems to be that too many bong hits will take you on a one-way trip to the devil's playground. That's what happens to Anton (Devon Sawa), a wasted teen who's so perpetually zonked on weed that he doesn't notice his parents have been slaughtered by an evil force that then possesses Anton's right hand, taking on a wildly homicidal life of its own after Anton chops it off with a butcher knife. The first victims are Anton's pals Mick (teen-movie stalwart Seth Green), who gets a beer bottle embedded in his skull, and Pnub (Elden Henson), whose head is lopped off by a rotary saw blade, and later reattached with a barbecue fork and duct tape. (Did we mention that Mick and Pnub turn into undead jokesters? It's that kind of movie.) This unoriginal idea is little more than an excuse for gross-out effects and easy one-liners, and then Vivica A. Fox appears as the demon-buster who knows how to kill the hand once and for all. It's fun to a point, and certain to be a popular Halloween hit with its intended teenage audience, but you can't help wishing this movie had tried harder to be something more than a collection of crude and gory gags. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Chinese Ghost Story | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ning Tsai-Shen a humble tax collector arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia who warns him to stay out of trouble and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit...

• Scanners (DVD) | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £8.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (82.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  David Cronenberg's Scanners is one of cinema's great horror films and features one of the genres most iconic scenes. Drifter Cameron Vale is plagued by incessant voices in his head, unaware that he is a Scanner, a group of people with extraordinary powers who can not only read minds but literally tear them apart. He is discovered by Paul Ruth, a scientist aiming to help his kind adapt to society. However, an underground movement of Scanners led by the psychotic Derryl Revok have other intent...

• 21 Grams | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (299.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  21 grams is the weight we lose when we die, and this moving drama tells of three very different people brought together by the common bond of death.

• Annie Claus is Coming to Town | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Festive comedy starring Maria Thayer and Sam Page. When Santa Claus (Peter Jason)'s daughter Annie (Thayer) decides she needs a change of scenery he allows her to travel to her desired location of California but results to keeping an eye on her through a magic snow globe. As Annie settles in to her new home she makes friends with Lucy (Vivica A. Fox), the owner of Candy Cane Inn and gets a job at Wonderland Toys. When Wonderland Toys owner Ted (Page) reveals to Annie that his business is in trouble, she sets a plan in motion to help save the shop.

• Wings Of The Apache | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The U.S. Government is willing to help any country that requires help in ridding themselves of drugs with support from the Army. Unfortunately the drug cartels have countered that offer by hiring one of the best air-combat mercenaries and have armed him with a Scorpion attack helicopter. The army decides to send in its best people from its Apache Air Combat school. But first they have to be taught how to fly air-to-air combat missions....

• Halo: Season Two 4K UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (15/07/2024) from £51.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When the Covenant threatens mankind's greatest stronghold, Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and his elite team of Spartans embark on an epic journey to find the Halo and ensure humanity's survival...or guarantee their destruction. Also starring Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders), Natascha McElhone (The Crown), Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo), and featuring Jen Taylor (voice of Cortana in the Halo video game series). This 4-disc collection includes every thrilling episode of Halo: Season 2.

• Krampus: The Devil Returns | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £20.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sympathy For Mr Vengeance | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £22.02   |  Saving you £4.73 (23.35%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A deaf mute worker saves all his money for his sister who requires a kidney transplant. He has the wrong blood type to be able to donate one of his kidneys so he arranges a trade with a group of organ dealers: one of his kidneys and 10 million won in return for their finding a kidney for his sister. They renege but a legitimate kidney becomes available for transplant. Unfortunately he no longer has the 10 million won required for the hospital to perform the operation. He and his girlfriend a terrorist seeking to change how the poor are treated in Korea kidnap his former boss's daughter. But events spiral quickly out of control...

• Abhimaan | DVD | (01/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  A popular singer marries the daughter of a retired teacher but when her singing becomes more popular than his he becomes filled with anger and jealously that spiral out of control.

• Narcos Season 1 & 2 Boxset | Blu Ray | (04/09/2017) from £10.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dubbed The King of Cocaine , Narcos traces Pablo Escobar s rise to power between 1977 and 1992, a time in which he was responsible for smuggling 80 per cent of the cocaine supply into the United States, making himself a billionaire in the process. This is the next box-set that you absolutely have to own and binge watch, taking its rightful place in your collection alongside iconic series such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad and House of Cards.

• CITY OF WOMEN | Blu Ray | (25/02/2013) from £18.88   |  Saving you £1.11 (5.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Federico Fellini's epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro's delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini's own oeuvre), La citta delle donne [City of Women] taps into the era's restless youth-culture, coalescing into nothing less than Fellini's post-punk opus. Marcello Mastroianni appears as Fellini's alter ego in a semi-reprise of his character from 8-1/2, Snaporaz. As though passing into a dream, the charismatic avatar finds himself initiated into a phantasmagoric world where women - or an idea of women - have taken power, and which is structured like an array of psychosexual set-pieces - culminating in a bravura hot-air balloon that decisively sticks the anti up into climax. A great adventure through the looking-glass, as it were, of Fellini's own phallic lens and life-long libidinal ruminations, La citta delle donne sharply divided critics at the 1980 Festival de Cannes, some of whom had merely anticipated a nostalgic retread of the earlier Mastroianni works. What they were greeted with, and what remains today, is, in the words of Serge Daney, a victory of cinema. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present La citta delle donne on Blu-ray and DVD in Gaumont's glorious new HD restoration. Special Features: HD Restoration of the Film, presented in 1080p on the Blu-ray Newly Translated Optional Subtitles Substantial Booklet Containing Writing on the Film, Vintage Exerpts and Rare Archival Imagery