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• Oldboy (1 Disc) | DVD | (01/02/2007) from £11.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Taken without reason. Imprisoned for 15 years. Released without reason. 5 days to seek the truth... One day in 1988 ordinary white collar worker Oh Dae-soo (Choi Min-sik) is kidnapped and incarcerated in a private makeshift prison cell dressed up like a cheap hotel room. With only a TV for company Dae-soo makes numerous attempts to escape and to commit suicide but they all end up in failure. All the while Dae-soo asks himself what made a man hate him so much enough to imprison him in solitary confinement with no explanation. While suffering from his near-madness Dae-soo becomes shocked when he watches the news and hears that his beloved wife was brutally murdered. At this very moment Dae-soo swears to take revenge on the man who destroyed his happy life. 15 years on and without a word of warning Dae-soo is released. Given a new set of clothes a mobile phone and the attentions of curious sushi waitress Mido Dae-soo begins to track down his enemy only to find he may be the pawn in a much bigger game which is only just beginning. Taunting Dae-soo the culprit gives him just 5 days to catch and kill his captor or Mido will die... Based on Japanese manga of the same name by Minegishi Nobuaki and Tsuchiya Garon winner of the Jury Grand Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and winner of 5 Grand Bell awards in Korea (including Best Film for Park Chan-wook and Best Actor for Choi Min-sik) 'Old Boy' is a masterfully inventive revenge thriller complete with blackly comedic moments.

• Blood Rain | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second feature from Kim Dae-seung the award-winning director of the 2001 romantic drama Bungee Jumping Of Their Own Blood Rain is a gripping and grisly period detective thriller set in 19th century Korea starring Cha Seung-won (Eye For An Eye; Kick The Moon). It is a time of feudal barons and superstition. An island community is shocked when a ship bound for the imperial courts inexplicably bursts into flames. On board was a cargo of handcrafted paper from the island's factory a place harboring something sinister. Detective Won-kyu (Cha Seung-won) is dispatched to investigate only to discover the community in the grip of terror. A series of murders convinces them a malevolent spirit is responsible taking revenge for crimes that no one wants to talk about pronouncing predictions of doom when the Blood Rain falls. Won-kyu follows an increasingly corpose-riddled trail that not only threatens his life but also is set to reveal a dark secret that links him to the village's shameful past. A refreshing and fiendishly intriguing serial killer mystery thriller Blood Rain takes a traditional detective tale and relocates it to an earlier age much in the spirit of In The Name Of The Rose and Brotherhood Of The Wolf. The film's lavish production values add a pleasing richness to the proceeding whilst the unexpected and extremely grisly violence is at times as shocking as that in any current Asian thriller. Blood Rain is a delightfully dark and devious who-dunnit told with style and intelligence.

• Asura: The City Of Madness | DVD | (05/06/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Detective Han has for years been secretly doing dirty work for the corrupt mayor Park Sungbae. However, when an investigation is raised against the mayor, Detective Han is pressured by a ruthless prosecutor Kim Cha-in to cooperate. Feeling trapped, Han persuades his young partner Sunmo to take over his work for the mayor, but things start to get tangled in unpredictable ways. As things are getting worse, only the most evil survives in the dark and dangerous world.

• Christmas In August | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's a long hot summer in Korea; on the outskirts of Seoul shy thirtysomething bachelor Jung-won (Han Suk-kyu) is reeling from the heatwave. Retiring to his photo studio he dutifully accedes to the requests of students who ask him to enlarge their favorite girls' pictures housewives who request him to restore their images of young age and elderly women who come to his studio alone to have photos taken for portrait. Everything changes when the unconventional twentysomething Da-rim (Shim Eun-ha) enters the studio one day. Stopping off from her traffic control duties more and more often Da-rim's consistenly surprising and endearingly awkward attempts to woo the older man cause a subtle excitement in his heart. However Jung-won bears a painful secret that as the pair grow closer will make any relationship tinged with sadness... Boasting an terrific central turn by perhaps Korea's finest actor Han Suk-kyu matched by an outstanding performance from Shim Eun-ha 'Christmas In August' is Hur Jin-ho's masterful look at a delicate relationship on borrowed time a surefooted but never schmaltzy romantic drama a beautifully evocative Korean weepie.

• Old Boy | UMD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Vengeance Deluxe Edition | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Sympathy For Mr Vengeance (2002): 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... Oldboy (2003): Taken without reason. Imprisoned for 15 years. Released without reason. 5 days to seek the truth... One day in 1988 ordinary white collar worker Oh Dae-soo (Choi Min-sik) is kidnapped and incarcerated in a private makeshift prison cell dressed up like a cheap hotel room. With only a TV for company Dae-soo makes numerous attempts to escape and to commit suicide but they all end up in failure. All the while Dae-soo asks himself what made a man hate him so much enough to imprison him in solitary confinement with no explanation. While suffering from his near-madness Dae-soo becomes shocked when he watches the news and hears that his beloved wife was brutally murdered. At this very moment Dae-soo swears to take revenge on the man who destroyed his happy life. 15 years on and without a word of warning Dae-soo is released. Given a new set of clothes a mobile phone and the attentions of curious sushi waitress Mido Dae-soo begins to track down his enemy only to find he may be the pawn in a much bigger game which is only just beginning. Taunting Dae-soo the culprit gives him just 5 days to catch and kill his captor or Mido will die... Based on Japanese manga of the same name by Minegishi Nobuaki and Tsuchiya Garon winner of the Jury Grand Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and winner of 5 Grand Bell awards in Korea (including Best Film for Park Chan-wook and Best Actor for Choi Min-sik) Old Boy is a masterfully inventive revenge thriller complete with blackly comedic moments. Lady Vengeance (2005): The cinematic flair and narrative surprises that marked Park Chan-Wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy continue in this third and concluding part of the director's thematically-linked trilogy of revenge. Intense and inventive the film follows the progress of beautiful impassive Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-Ae) after she's released from prison having served 13 years for the kidnap and murder of a young boy. Once on the outside she hooks up with some former cellmates a preacher who thinks she's an angel the detective who originally arrested her and the daughter she gave up for adoption gathering around her all the people needed to carry out an elaborate plan of revenge. Her target is kindergarten teacher Mr. Baek (Oldboy star Choi Min-Sik) while her weapon(s)-of-choice are unexpected and highly personal. This is striking and ghoulishly entertaining stuff a highwire act poised between horror tragedy comedy and exploitation. With the aid of Oldboy Director of Photography Jeong Joeng-Hun who employs some neat tricks and brings a vibrant beauty to the dark proceedings Park ensures there's never a dull moment.