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• Seven Samurai | DVD | (22/11/1999) from £17.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (15.62%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Unanimously hailed as one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of the motion picture, Seven Samurai has inspired countless films modelled after its basic premise. But Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and dynamic character development. The story is set in the 1600s, when the residents of a small Japanese village are seeking protection against repeated attacks by a band of marauding thieves. Offering mere handfuls of rice as payment, they hire seven unemployed "ronin" (masterless samurai), including a boastful swordsman (Toshiro Mifune) who is actually a farmer's son desperately seeking glory and acceptance. The samurai get acquainted with but remain distant from the villagers, knowing that their assignment may prove to be fatal. The climactic battle with the raiding thieves remains one of the most breathtaking sequences ever filmed. It's poetry in hyperactive motion and one of Kurosawa's crowning cinematic achievements. This is not a film that can be well served by any synopsis; it must be seen to be appreciated and belongs on the short list of any definitive home-video library. --Jeff Shannon

• Iron Man: Rise Of Technovore | DVD | (15/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore is the explosive new chapter in the hugely popular Iron Man franchise in which, after being framed, Iron Man must go on the run from the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D agents. Featuring the voices of Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints) and Adrian Pasdar (TV's Heroes, voice of Marvel Anime Series). Directed by: Hiroshi Hamasaki.

• Irezumi | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Drawn from the pen of one of Japan's foremost writers of the 20th century, Junichiro Tanizaki (A Fool's Love, The Makioka Sisters), Irezumi is a stylish tale of lust, betrayal and revenge directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Blind Beast). Masumura's muse Ayako Wakao (The Blue Sky Maiden, Red Angel) stars as Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, who is tempted by her lover, Shinsuke, a lowly employee of her father's, to elope. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of another man, radically altering her relationships with all around her as her personality transforms under its influence. Available for the first time outside of Japan in a new 4K restoration, Irezumi sports some of Japanese cinema's most respected talent of its day both in front of and behind the camera. The bewitching cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu) captures the sensual atmosphere of the period setting, while the script by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba, Kuroneko) lends a modern twist to this feverish meditation on obsession and the act of creation. Special Features High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation from a new 4K scan Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio Optional English subtitles Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar David Desser Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns Out of the Darkness, a brand new visual essay by Asian cinema scholar Daisuke Miyao 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 Thomas Lamarre and Daisuke Miyao

• Akira Kurosawa - The Samurai Collection | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £34.43   |  Saving you £5.56 (16.15%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Akira Kurosawa: The Samurai Collection (5 Discs)

• Shikabane Hime - Complete Series | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £35.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (14.00%)   |  RRP £39.99

  She'll Kill Anything That's Dead!In the dark of night at a Buddhist temple, a mysterious ritual is performed causing the dead body of a beautiful teenage girl to be brought back to life. This girl is Makina Hoshino, the latest Shikabane Hime (corpse princess), or killer of restless souls. Caught between here and the afterworld, and bound to the monk who reanimated her, Makina can only gain eternal peace by killing 108 fellow zombies before she is murdered all over again.

• Arrietty | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This is a story of a family of "little" people. Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents.

• Daphne In The Brilliant Blue: Volumes 1-6 | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £17.98   |  Saving you £22.01 (55.00%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Beautiful Dangerous and Desperate for Work... Maia is having a very bad day. Her dream to join the elite Ocean Agency dies when she fails the entrance exam. Then no longer a student she is evicted! Broke homeless and unemployed Maia finds herself in the middle of a shoot-out between fugitive convicts and the Nereides - sexy Agents who only take the highest paying and dangerous jobs. Desperate Maia takes the first job offered to her: a starring role in the next Nereides operation - as bait!

• Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kenshin Himura is a legendary swordsman in the wars accompanying the turbulent fall of Japan’s Shogunate in the 19th century. Once feared as ‘Battosai the Killer’ he has adopted a peaceful life since the arrival of the ‘new age’ in Japanese history. But Makoto Shishio the ‘Shadow Killer’ who succeeded to Kenshin’s position in the service of the new government has since then been active in the Kyoto underworld.Because he knew too much of the dark side of the new government he was stabbed and his body set on fire. He survived however and wrapped in bandages has raised an army of disaffected former samurai with the aim of overthrowing the new regime. Agreeing to a request by Toshimichi Okubo the Home Minister Kenshin leaves his friends in Tokyo and sets out for Kyoto. He and Shishio are a match in skill and in wits but their aims are opposite. Kenshin seeks to preserve the nation without breaking his vow that he will kill no more.

• Arrietty (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  This is a story of a family of "little" people. Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents.

• Welcome To The Space Show | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £6.09   |  Saving you £13.90 (69.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Summer has finally arrived in the small, tight-knit community of Murakawa Village, where everyone practically knows everyone else. The population is so small that there's only five children-Kiyoshi, Natsuki, Noriko, Koji and Amane-enrolled and studying together at the village elementary school. A most unusual incident occurs during summer camp, when they find and save an injured dog, who turns out to be an alien from outer space! The alien named Pochi invites the children for a trip to the moon, but due to an unexpected accident, they end up traveling through the universe on the wildest school field trip of their lives! Ladies and Aliens! Welcome To The Space Show!

• Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (Steelbook Edition) | Blu Ray | (06/04/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kenshin Himura is a legendary swordsman in the wars accompanying the turbulent fall of Japan’s Shogunate in the 19th century. Once feared as ‘Battosai the Killer’ he has adopted a peaceful life since the arrival of the ‘new age’ in Japanese history. But Makoto Shishio the ‘Shadow Killer’ who succeeded to Kenshin’s position in the service of the new government has since then been active in the Kyoto underworld.Because he knew too much of the dark side of the new government he was stabbed and his body set on fire. He survived however and wrapped in bandages has raised an army of disaffected former samurai with the aim of overthrowing the new regime. Agreeing to a request by Toshimichi Okubo the Home Minister Kenshin leaves his friends in Tokyo and sets out for Kyoto. He and Shishio are a match in skill and in wits but their aims are opposite. Kenshin seeks to preserve the nation without breaking his vow that he will kill no more.

• Sanjuro | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sequel to Kurosawa's own 'Yojimbo' in which the crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent...

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer - Double Disc Set | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  For the first time on blu-ray, Shinya Tsukamoto's cult classics have been digitally restored from their original negatives to be presented in high definition in this double-disc set featuring brand new exclusive extras as well as Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' prototype short-film 'The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy' Tetsuo 1: A strange man known only as the 'metal fetishist', who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japan...

• Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 4 OVA Blu-ray/DVD Combi with Digital Comic | Blu Ray | (19/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Brand new FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST adventures await Amazing secrets and startling facts are exposed for the first time in the Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection, a new assortment of stories set in never-before-seen corners of the FMA universe. Join Ed and Al as they chase rumors of successful human transmutation into a web of shocking family drama and lies. Sneak a glance at hidden sides of Winry and Hawkeye's personalities. Survive the frigid north with a young Izumi Curtis as she fights to gain a deeper understanding of alchemy. Explore the legendary friendship shared by Mustang and Hughes and watch them grow from military school rivals into hardened brothers transformed by the horrors of the Ishvalan War. You thought you knew the whole story. You thought all the tales ere told. The Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection offers proof: You Were wrong.

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer - Double Disc Set | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For the first time on remastered DVD, Shinya Tsukamoto's cult classics have been digitally restored from their original negatives to be presented in high definition in this double-disc set featuring brand new exclusive extras as well as Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' prototype short-film 'The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy' Tetsuo 1: A strange man known only as the 'metal fetishist', who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by ...

• Criterion Collection: Yojimbo & Sanjuro | Blu Ray | (23/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Irezumi | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a young girl is seduced and has a spider tattooed on her back; she herself becomes a predatory monster taking revenge on every man who has shared her bed.

• Seven Samuari (Blu-ray Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (21/04/2014) from £21.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-10.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Limited Edition Steelbook - includes debossed title treatment. In sixteenth-century Japan a poor village is raided every year by a group of bandits until, driven to the brink of starvation, the villagers decide to hire professional warriors to protect them. With only three meagre meals a day to offer as payment, their quest seems an impossible one. Kurosawa's masterpiece testifies to his admiration for the classic Western, and in 1960 John Sturges repaid the compliments by remaking Seven Samurai as The Magnificent Seven.

• Tetsuo - The Iron Man | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto draws on the marriage of flesh and technology that inspires so much of David Cronenberg's work and then twists it into a Manga-influenced cyberpunk vision. A man (Tomoroh Taguchi) awakens from a nightmare in which his body is helplessly fusing with the metal objects around him, only to find it happening to him in real life... or is it? Haunted by memories of a hit and run (eerily prophetic of Cronenberg's Crash), the man knows this ordeal could be a dream, a fantastic form of divine retribution, or perhaps technological mutation born of guilt and rage. Shot in bracing black and white on a small budget, Tsukamoto puts a demented conceptual twist on good old-fashioned stop-motion effects and simple wire work, giving his film the surreal quality of a waking dream with a psychosexual edge (resulting in the film's most disturbing scene). The story ultimately takes on an abstract quality enhanced by the grungy look and increasingly wild images as they take to the streets in a mad chase of technological speed demons. This first entry in his self-titled "Regular Sized Monster Series" was followed by a full-colour sequel, Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer, which trades the muddy experimental atmosphere for a big-budget sheen but can't top the cybershock to the system this movie packs.--Sean Axmaker

• Arrietty Deluxe Collector's Edition - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Inspired by Mary Norton's classic children's book The Borrowers, tiny 14 year old Arrietty lives under the floorboards of an old house with her father and mother. Their peaceful life is dramatically changed when the ever curious Arrietty accidentally allows herself to be seen by Sho, a poorly and lonesome 12 year old human boy. The fledgling friendship between the two lonely children causes Haru the housekeeper to become aware of the borrowers' existence. The family of little borrowers are forced to choose between staying in their well-established home or leaving for the uncertainty of the great outdoors. "Arrietty is an enchanting and tender Ghibli treasur"Little White Lies "Jaw-droppingly beautiful, superbly paced, devastatingly charming"News of The World LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR'S DOUBLE PLAY (includes 5 postcards plus DVD and Blu-ray) EXTRAS: STORYBOARDS, TRAILERS AND JAPANESE TV SPOTS, INTERVIEWS WITH HAYAO MIYAZAKI – HIROMASA YONEBAYASHI, CECILE CORBEL “ARRIETTY’S SONG” PROMOTIONAL VIDEO