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• Mafia Family Yanagawa - Part 1 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Renowned street thug Jiro Yanagawa is released from prison in Shimonoseki Japan's Kyushu region. Bailed out before his partner in crime Koichiro Tachikawa Yanagawa enters the notorious Yoshimizu Yakuza family only to bust out and return to Osaka to launch a bloody territory war with his own newly-formed clan against the Devils Dragons. ""If you want to rise to power you have to steal from the rich!"" became his mantra... No one in Japan is unfamiliar with this blood-soaked true s

• Mafia Family Yanagawa - Part 2 | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £10.96   |  Saving you £8.02 (100.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The second part of the Yanagawa Family saga. Notorious for his killer instinct Jiro Yanagawa fights to the death. One year following the infamous ""8 Yanagawa's vs Devil Dragon 100"" on Japan's west-side is the scene for this follow-up battle of revenge. Action-filled fight scenes litter this amazing movie with drugs prostitution and bloody bouts of revenge dominating every frame as Yanagawa takes over... Based on a true story but not for the Squeamish!

• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  David Bowie stars in Nagisa Oshima's 1983 Palme d'Or-nominated portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II.This powerful prisoner-of-war drama features a stunning cast - including David Bowie in one of his greatest roles - and is the first English-language film by acclaimed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses).Set in Java at a Japanese POW camp in 1942, a war of wills - and unspoken erotic attraction - unfolds between a rebellious prisoner, David Bowie, and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto, who is impressed by Bowie's defiance while bilingual prisoner Tom Conti (Mr. Lawrence) engages in a more adversarial relationship with sadistic sergeant Takeshi Kitano (Hana Bi), who finally offers Lawrence a sinister 'Christmas' present.Fine performances by Conti, Kitano (his first dramatic role), Sakamoto (his acting debut, he also contributed the memorable score) and Bowie, combined with stunning cinematography and brilliant direction by one of Japan's finest filmmakers, make this a memorable and compelling war drama.The Oshima Gang Featurette (The Making Of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)An Interview With producer Jeremy ThomasAn Interview With actor/composer Ryuichi SakamotoAn excerpt from Scenes by the Sea: The Life and Cinema of Beat Takeshi Kitano Theatrical Trailer