"Actor: Hisashi Igawa"

• Rhapsody In August | DVD | (14/04/2000) from £15.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Japanese grand master Akira Kurosawa's eloquent examination of the nuclear holocaust in Nagasaki as seen though the eyes of a survivor and her four grandchildren 44 years after the event. The grandmother recalls the history of her family and Japanese society. As she searches for an understanding of the past she falls into despair over the loss of her husband in the blast as its anniversary draws near.

• Pacific Battleship Yamato | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pacific Battleship Yamato

• Madadayo | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £8.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (127.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The main story of the film is based on the life of a Japanese academic and author Hyakken Uchida (1889-1971). The film opens with him resigning as a professor of German in the period immediately before the Second World War. The plot of the film is centered around his relationship with his former students who care for him in his old age. The title 'Not Yet' in English is an allusion to an ancient Japanese legend mentioned in one scene of the film of an old man who refuses to die. This story is constantly referred to in the movie as every year on the professor's birthday his students throw him a party in which they all ask him ""Mada kai?"" (""Are you ready?""). He responds by drinking a large ceremonial glass of beer and shouting ""Mada dayo!"" (""Not yet!"") implying that death may be near but life still goes on!

• The Wolves | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An indisputable Yakuza masterpiece about loyalty and betrayal 'The Wolves' is as sharp as wolves' teeth. It chronicles one man's journey out of the simplistic values of the gang ethics that have provided him with a harsh haven into a wider and even darker world. Released from prison in a general amnesty Iwahashi returns to the bosom of the Enokiya gang. Here he findes that the feud between them and the Kannon gang has been resolved by a corrupt and successful enterpreneur Asakura.

• Pitfall | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A wandering miner looking for work with his young son is pursued and savagely killed by a mysterious silent assassin in a white suit and hat. The killer threatens a female witness to lie to the police and blame it on someone else. As mistrust and more killings spread through the barely populated rundown mining community ghosts of the dead appear and follow the action unheard by the living yet imploring them for answers. Who is the man in white and why does he sow confusion? Te

• Rhapsody In August | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From one of the world's most renowned and influential directors Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai) comes eloquent examination of the nuclear holocaust in Nagasaki as seen through the eyes of a survivor and her four grandchildren 44 years later. The grandmother recalls the history of her family and Japanese society. As she searches for an understanding of the past she falls into despair over the loss of her husband in the blast as its anniversary draws near.

• Bullet Ballet | DVD | (27/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Goda's wife has just commited suidide. While the police question him Goda learns that she killed herself using a .38 Police Special. Confused and angry at her death he begins to investigate how she obtained the gun in the first place. Soon his search becomes an obsession as each attempt to get a real gun meets in failure. When fate drops the object of his desire right in his lap he can't wait to use it. He heads out to find the street punks who mugged him and give them some righ

• The Last Bullet | DVD | (15/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Lat Bullet is a 1995 Australian film about a Japanese soldier and Australian soldier who fight in World War Two.