Takumi (Chou) spends his school days in a daze about the flirty Natsuki (Anne Suzuki) his afternoons working at the gas station of best bud Itsuki (Chapman To) and his nights delivering tofu for his hard drinking dad Bunta (Anthony Wong). For five years 18-year-old Takumi has been delivering tofu in his father's obsolescent Toyota AE86 every morning. Not only has he become a good racer but he has also unwillingly perfected the art of drifting. Asked to drive this AE86 in a David and Goliath race against Night Kid's GTR a glorious but unexpected victory awakens the competitive genes in his blood while his overnight fame inevitably leads to hellraising races one after another each more exciting and perilous than the last... Based on the Japanese manga by Shuichi Shigeno.
Liam is a seven year old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. At school he is learning about the perils of Catholicism, and at home he watches things change after his Father loses his job.
An ex-Navy commando (Mark Dacascos – Double Dragon) is framed for a bungled mission to save hostages from terrorists in which he survived being shot 7 times by an assassin (Tony Todd - Candyman). Years later he is hired to protect a weapons distributor and his wife only to have the same assassin kill them; this sets him on a mission with the assigned FBI agent (Carrie Anne Moss – The Matrix) to bring the killers and conspirators to justice.
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
As Victoria Wood once said, "There's nothing you can't say if you say it in the right way". And she goes on to prove that triumphantly in An Audience with Victoria Wood, recorded in front of fellow celebs (whom she sends up effortlessly, describing her long-time collaborator Julie Walters as "the lady with the split ends"). Victoria Wood may be the queen of suburbia but her endless takes on the finer details of banality have an acuity of which Alan Bennett would be proud. Most people cannot do monologue without lapsing into self-consciousness. But she's just brilliant. Her depiction of a nervy woman attempting to conduct a survey in the street, for instance, is priceless: "Here's my ID. Yes, I do look rather startled. It was taken in a photo booth and someone had just poked an éclair through the curtain". She's like Joyce Grenfell on speed. And it's that surreal juxtaposition of the commonplace and the wacky that makes her routines anything but. Even when she takes up residence at the piano, belting out home-made ballads (and this video includes the famous "Let's Do It"), she's both touching and amusing. At one point, she suggests that the British are no good at having fun. Get this video and prove her wrong. --Harriet Smith
In 1929 F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu Faust Sunrise) one of the greatest of all film directors invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North Man of Aran) to collaborate on a film to be be shot on location in Tahiti a Polynesian idyll in which Murnau imagined a cast of island actors would provide a new form of authentic drama and offer rare insight into their primitive culture. The result of their collaboration was Tabu a film that depicts the details of indigenous island life to tell a mythical tale that is rich in the universal themes of desire and loss. Subtitled A Story of the South Seas Tabu concerns a Tahitian fisherman (played by an islander Matahi) and his love for a young woman (played by fellow islander Reri who went on to star on Broadway) whose body has been consecrated to the gods rendering her tabu as far as mortal men are concerned. The lovers flee their island and its restrictive traditions but will their love prevail in the civilised world? This Oscar-winning film (the Academy Award went to cinematographer Floyd Crosby) is both poetic and simple in tone. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present - completely uncensored and fully restored - this landmark film of rare exoticism and magical beauty described by critic Lotte Eisner in 1931 as the apogee of the art of the silent film for the first time ever on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio.
George Formby joins the Royal Navy and tackles a devious Nazi spy ring in this classic wartime comedy musical! George Blake (George Formby) is desperate to join the navy and to do his bit in fighting against Hitler. The trouble is, the navy doesn't want him! It looks like George will see out the war as a steward at the Senior Service Club - until fate takes a hand! During an air raid blackout, he accidentally puts on the naval uniform of one of his chums - and before he knows it, everyone thinks he's a fully-fledged matelot. New, George must keep up the pretence, because he's terrified of being considered a German spy! Meanwhile, real German spies are desperate to sink a new U-boat hunting warship and when George blunders across their cunning plans he finds himself in even hotter water!
Gilbert And Sullivan's Pirates Of Penzance: Having mistakenly been sent as an apprentice to pirates young Frederic is happy to leave his indentures on his 21st birthday. Falling in love with the beautiful Mabel one of the many daughters of Major-General Stanley he decides to marry. However the pirates are all to keen to marry the rest of Stanley's daughters! A spectacular interpretation of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic! Gilbert And Sullivan's Mikado: A lavish 1982 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera in which Nanki-Poo the son of the Mikado escaping a distasteful marriage arrives in the town of Titipu disguised as a musician... Gilbert And Sullivan's HMS Pinafore: A sailor falls for the captain's daughter. They become thwarted in their attempt to keep their love alive but a strange twist in the tale offers these lovers another chance... A thrilling adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera.
When a group of children are seemingly abandoned by their mother they seek assistance from their mysterious grandmother a reclusive loner who is initially reluctant to take them in... Homecoming is a tender tale of second chances and the real meaning of family that proves that home is truly where your heart is.
When Captain David Dillon's jeep runs out of fuel by a grand house he has no idea what is waiting for him on the other side of the imposing front door. After a simple request to borrow the telephone and a chance meeting with the man of the house Tom Wilton Dillon soon realises that the man's wife Laura is suffering terrible abuse at the hands of her alcoholic and aggressive husband. Compelled to act Dillon befriends Laura and soon falls in love with her. In order to be together they must rid themselves of Wilton once and for all but how do you plan the perfect murder? And is Laura the longsuffering wife she appears to be?
When a group of children are seemingly abandoned by their mother they seek assistance from their mysterious grandmother a reclusive loner who is initially reluctant to take them in... Homecoming is a tender tale of second chances and the real meaning of family that proves that home is truely where your heart is.
Includes Jailhouse Rock Trouble With Girls Spinout and Double Trouble. Jailhouse Rock: Elvis stars as Vince Everett a small-time convict introduced to the music business by his cellmate a former country music singer who also teaches Vince the guitar. On his release Vince tastes success as a performer but becomes disillusioned by the record industry until he is advised to set up his own label. He is a sensation but now that he is a superstar will he forget the people who
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Harvey Fierstein recreates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play. Both funny and poignant. Torch Song Trilogy chronicles a New Yorker's search for love respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. Armed with a keenly developed sense of humour and piercing wit. Arnold tests commonly accepted terms of endearment and confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.
Philosophical cab driver Keith Barret hosts a series of celebrity debates on what makes a successful relationship. 1. Richard Madeley & Judy Finnigan 2. Kerry & Bryan McFadden 3. Ronnie & Anne Corbett 4. Darren Day & Suzanne Shaw 5. Sian Lloyd & Lembit Opik 6. Tony Wilson & Yvette Livesey
Ten episodes from the first series which follows Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally as they travel 'down under'.
Beautiful Joanna Darby (Lindsay Wagner) is haunted by a brush with drowning and her frightful journey to the gates of the afterlife. Soon after she experiences a horrifying series of narrow escapes from death through encounters with strangers who seem bent on killing her. Struggling with fear and past guilt Joanna is unsure whether she is a victim of coincidence or the target of some malicious spirits. Hoping to restore her peace of mind Joanna and her boyfriend visit Mexico where unknowingly they arrive during the annual Day of the Dead festival. Before long Joanna is nearly pulled into another violent death by a boating accident victim who grabs her on his way down. Joanna enlists her old flame Peter to help her unearth supernatural explanations for her predicament. When they discover the eerie truth Joanna must race against time to survive four more attempts on her life by walkers from the other side who want to reclaim her.
This box set contains all four of the films based on Tom Clancy's hugely popular Jack Ryan books: The Hunt for Red October (starring Alec Baldwin as Ryan), Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger (both starring Harrison Ford) and The Sum of all Fears (starring Ben Affleck).
Alex Lee (Heche) is a loan officer at an international bank who is forced into moonlighting as a hooker when her own debts begin to mount. One night Alex encounters a new client financial racketeer Bruno (Walken) who becomes obsessed with Alex's dominating sexual performance. Fearing she may be working for the FBI Bruno sends his bodygaurd Tony (Bauer) to check her out. Meanwhile Bruno's estranged wife Virginia (Chen) meets Alex at her bank and the two women become instant
A religious mystery opera. A magnificent doomsday vision. A full length nightmare. This DVD production of Rued Langgaard's allegorical opera Antikrist witnesses the spectacular Danish co-production by the Royal Danish Opera and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation from 2002. No pains are spared as the composer's revelation unfolds with its intriguing allegorical characters and its powerful statement about the moral decay of modernity.
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