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• Laputa - Castle In The Sky | Blu Ray | (09/05/2011) from £24.82   |  Saving you £0.17 (0.68%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Available for the first time in high definition on Blu-ray Double Play courtesy of Studio Ghibli and master animator Hayao Miyazaki 'Laputa: Castle In the Sky' is an imaginative tale full of mystery and adventure. The high-flying journey begins when Pazu, an engineer's apprentice, finds a young girl, Sheeta, floating down from the sky, wearing a glowing pendant.Together, they discover both are searching for the legendary floating castle, Laputa, and vow to unravel the mystery of the luminous crystal around her neck. Their quest won't be easy, however. There are sky pirates, secret agents and monumental obstacles stopping them from discovering the truth - and each other. However, Laputa is more than it appears, and some seek to use it for evil.'Laputa: Castle In the Sky' continues Hayao Miyazaki's obsession with air travel, featuring some truly remarkable designs, especially for the floating fortress Laputa itself. It is said that he based a lot of the environments on rural Wales, following his time spent there during the miner's strikes. Special Features: Storyboards Promotional Video Behind the Microphone Behind the Studio The World of Laputa Creating Castle in the Sky Character Sketches Producer's Perspective: Meeting Miyazaki Textless Opening and Ending Credits TV Spots Original Japanese Theatrical Trailers Studio Ghibli Collection Trailers

• Prison School: The Complete Series Blu-ray + Free Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (14/09/2020) from £16.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When the prestigious all-girls Hachimitsu Private Academy becomes co-ed, five young men are the first males to attend. But the girls aren't so accepting of their new classmates. Despite their best attempts, Kiyoshi and his friends are met with cold shoulders from the girls. So what better way to deal with rejection than a little bit of peeping? When they chance a peak at the girls during bath time, their plan falls apart and they are caught by the Underground Student Council. Unwilling to hear any excuses, the USC enforces an absurd punishment imprisonment! For a month, the boys must live within the school's very own penal system while enduring long, hard, and grueling tasks. But the work is the least of their worries. With the sharp crack of a riding crop and the harsh discipline from a stiletto heel, it's going to take more than sheer will power to survive the next month especially when the ladies of the USC have their own secret agenda.

• Prison School: The Complete Series | DVD | (14/09/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Prison School Limited Edition includes episodes 1-12 of the anime directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. When the prestigious all-girls Hachimitsu Private Academy becomes co-ed, five young men are the first males to attend. But the girls aren't so accepting of their new classmates. Despite their best attempts, Kiyoshi and his friends are met with cold shoulders from the girls. So what better way to deal with rejection than a little bit of peeping? When they chance a peak at the girls during bath time, their plan falls apart and they are caught by the Underground Student Council. Unwilling to hear any excuses, the USC enforces an absurd punishment imprisonment! For a month, the boys must live within the school's very own penal system while enduring long, hard, and grueling tasks. But the work is the least of their worries. With the sharp crack of a riding crop and the harsh discipline from a stiletto heel, it's going to take more than sheer will power to survive the next month especially when the ladies of the USC have their own secret agenda.

• Zoku Owarimonogatari BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (09/08/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Owarimonogatari PT 3 BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (05/07/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Koyomi wakes up to see Mayoi Hachikuji before him, the girl who supposedly had gone to the afterlife. She tells Koyomi that they are currently in Avichi, the lowest levels of hell. Koyomi is dubious of how Mayoi knew about the exact timing of his death and which hell he would drop into, when Mayoi tells him that she was there to pick him up by the request of a certain individual.

• Koyomimonogatari BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Koyomimonogatari You're looking for a horror story? I wish I got one for you. Untold stories... one per month for one year... Taking place between other Monogatari stories, a chapter not yet told surrounds Koyomi Araragi and the strange happenings he gets pulled into over the course of a year. With one episode told per month, the story unravels in this 12 episode-long series of shorts.

• Giants And Toys | Blu Ray | (10/05/2021) from £9.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire revolving around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry. As a new recruit to the marketing department of World Caramel, fresh-faced graduate Nishi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) is eager to impress his ambitious and hard-nosed boss Goda (Black Test Car's Hideo Takamatsu), even if it strains his relationships with his college friend Yokoyama (Koichi Fujiyama) and budding love interest Masami (Michiko Ono), who work at the rival companies of Giant and Apollo. With World's lead over its competitors slipping badly, the two spot a chance to get back in the race in the shape of the pretty but unsophisticated 18-year-old, Kyoko (Hitomi Nozoe). Goda and Nishi get to work polishing this rough diamond as their new campaign girl, but as the three rival confectionary companies pitch themselves into an all-out advertising war that spills out onto the streets of Tokyo as it escalates to ludicrous extremes, Kyoko's newfound fame starts going to her head. Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut, this lurid adaptation of the award-winning 1957 novel by Ken Kaiko is considered a landmark in Japanese film history and a key work by Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast, Red Angel), one of the country's most highly acclaimed directors of his generation. Its absurdist and acidly cynical take on the excesses of the media and advertising worlds recalls the work of Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?), as it presents a garish vision of a bold new postwar Japan where traditional company values come head-to-head with American-style consumer capitalism. Special Features High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio Optional English subtitles Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar Irene González-López Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns In the Realm of the Publicists, a brand new visual essay by Asian cinema scholar Earl Jackson Original Trailer Image Gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Michael Raine

• Flcl Complete Collection | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The entire collection of FLCL in one box set. Includes: Fooly Cooly: Naota has enough to deal with at home. His older brother went to the US to play baseball. And his father and grandfather never behave like normal adults. Not to mention his brother's girlfriend is now making advances on him. Plus there's a so called alien girl hitting on him. Literally. With a bass guitar. Oh did we mention the robots that keep springing from his head. Fire Starter: Hanging out by the river and playing with cars no one would suspect that Mamimi is a girl with a dark past. She's been obsessed with the videogame 'Fire Starter'. Coincidentally there's been a string of fires around town. Fires like the one that burned down the school 6 years ago where Naota first met Mamimi. And if that's not enough there's something growing inside Naota's head. Marquis de Carabas & Full Swing: In these episodes Naoto finds himself being tagged to play the lead in the school production of Puss And Boots by class president Ninamori whose reasons for choosing him have little to do with acting ability. Later Naoto finds his patience wearing thin when Haruko takes it upon herself to teach him baseball. Brittle Bullet: Mabase's safe for now but there's a new kind of danger. Naota finds himself in the midst of a survival game with Karuko on his team. With weapons blazing it looks like Kitsurubami has joined the tray. And Amaroo is getting his hair dyed? He's freshening up in anticipation to meet some girl from his past. So what exactly is his relationship to Haruko? Get out those guns because not everyone will be left standing. FLCLimax - The End Is Here: The end is near and both Haruko and Canti are at large. Now Medical Mechanica is preparing to move. Before Amarao can do anything to stop it he needs to find the terminal core. Meanwhile a Takkun less Mamimi has found a new friend with an appetite for the mechanical. Before it's all over Naota and Canti are in for the battle of their lives. And then there's Atomsk. What a climax!

• Floating Weeds | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Floating Weeds is one of the final films directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. A remake of one of his own silent features it tells the story of a travelling Kabuki acting troupe led by Komajuro who arrive in a small coastal town. There Komajuro is reunited with his former lover Oyoshi and their illegitimate son who is unaware that the itinerant actor is his father. But the reunion provokes the jealousy of Sumiko Komanjuro's current mistress who plots a devas

• Kisses | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Masmura's debut feature with its stripped down narrative and handheld camerawork sent a shock wave through Japanese cinema in much the same manner as Godard in Europe. With its liberated camera and even more liberated protagonists this is the film which caused Oshima to say of Masumura ""a powerful irresistible force has arrived in Japanese Cinema."" A young boy and girl meet while visiting their respective fathers in prison. The young lovers soon embrace both each other and their mu

• Psycho Diver - Soul Siren | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (49.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a dark world of private terror Yuki a beautiful pop star is haunted by violent memories and discovers psychic powers she cannot control. It is up to Bosujima a Pscho Diver with exceptional talents to descend into her turbulent soul and set things right before the inner demon triumphs. What he doesn't know is that there are other who will stop at nothing to control Yuki's fate and that he is stepping into a power struggle he will probably not survive... A mind-bendingly origin

• Texhnolyze - Vol. 3 | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £11.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (67.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ""Spectacle"" has started and the city of Lukuss has become a battleground between the city's major gangs; the Organo the Racan and the Salvation Union. All the while Yoshii the anarchist from the surface world continues to bring even more chaos and destruction to the city. Onishi Ichise and Ran all must now fight to stay alive in a world that's starting to crumble around them. Treachery and betrayal lie in store for all of them but will any of them be able to realise the great