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• Sweet Bean (aka 'an') (2015) (Masters of Cinema) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most acclaimed figures in modern Japanese cinema, Naoimi Kawase followed up her remarkable 2014 Still in the Water with Sweet Bean [AN], a small-town drama of culinary redemption, which opened the prestigious Un Certain Regard strain of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Struggling street food vendor Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) finds himself confronted with Tokue (Kirin Kiki), an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. When he reluctantly accepts, it's not long before Tokue proves to have an extraordinary gift when it comes to making an - the sweet red bean paste filling used in his dorayakis - which starts a relationship that is much more than just street food. With Sweet Bean, Kawase again focuses on people at the periphery of Japanese society and investigates their place in the flow of life itself. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film for the first time in the UK. Special Features: High Definition presentation on the Blu-ray Optional English Subtitles A new, exclusive video interview with Naomi Kawase Theatrical trailer A 32-page booklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic Philip Kemp; an interview and statement from Kawase, and production images Click Images to Enlarge

• Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda (blu-ray boxset) | Blu Ray | (12/08/2019) from £43.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda (Blu-ray) Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda This new Blu-ray collection combines four career-defining titles by Palme d'Or winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda one of Japanese cinema's most celebrated auteurs. The set features his austerely beautiful debut Maborosi and lyrical fantasy After Life, alongside Nobody Knows and Still Walking, films that cemented Kore-eda's reputation as an heir to Ozu and a chronicler of the modern Japanese family. Available on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK, the four films included in Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda celebrate the richness, diversity, beauty and humanity of the director's work and essential viewing for fans of contemporary world cinema. Special features: Q&A with Hirokazu Kore-eda (2019): a newly filmed interview with the director, recorded at the BFI Southbank during its major retrospective of his work New feature-length audio commentary on Maborosi by Jasper Sharp New feature-length audio commentary on After Life by Tara Judah New feature-length audio commentary on Nobody Knows by Kenta McGrath New feature-length audio commentary on Still Walking by Alexander Jacoby Maborosi trailer (2019) Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the films and full film credits Other extras TBC

• Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda | Blu Ray | (25/11/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This Blu-ray collection combines four career-defining titles by Palme d'Or winning director Hirokazu Koreeda one of Japanese cinema's most celebrated auteurs. The set features his austerely beautiful debut Maborosi and lyrical fantasy After Life, alongside Nobody Knows and Still Walking, films that cemented Koreeda's reputation as an heir to Ozu and a chronicler of the modern Japanese family. Available on Blu-ray, the four films included in Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda celebrate the richness, diversity, beauty and humanity of the director's work and essential viewing for fans of contemporary world cinema.

• 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.

• 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.

• Returner | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The future could be history! Eighty years in the future time is running out on mankind. The only hope rests with a brave time traveller who must return to the past to change history...and alter Earth's destiny. 2084. After decades of intense fighting an alien invasion force is close to destroying what's left of the world. In a last-ditch effort to save the human race a guerrilla fighter named Miri leaps into a waiting Time Shifter. With the Alien Wars set to begin in 72 hours s

• 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

• Pistol Opera | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Killing With Style!!! Stray Cat is number three. She wants to be number one. Pistol Opera is an extreme tale of a female assassin's surreal rise up the ranks of the criminal underworld. Legendary director Seijun Suzuki reworks his own Branded to Kill thirty-three years later into a totally new jaw-dropping experience!