"Actor: Kyoko Kishida"

• Woman Of The Dunes | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hiroshi Teshigahara's powerful masterpiece based on the novel by Kobo Abe follows an amateur biologist who escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus he accepts a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds he is trapped. At first enraged the man's hatred for the woman soon turns to searing erotic lust.

• Manji | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £19.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (1.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Practically unclassifiable Manji moves from lesbian love to adultery to multiple sexual relationships tangled in webs of deceit blackmail and maybe even murder. Sonoko (Kyoko Kishida Woman of the Dunes) having grown bored with her pampered life as the wife of an impotent lawyer enrolls in art class where she scandalizes the school with her lusty paintings of fellow art student Mitsuko (Ayako Wakao Red Angel). A torrid affair erupts between Sonoko and Mitsuko fuelling jealousy among their male lovers. Soon their lives are entrenched in desire deception blackmail blood oaths and suicide pacts in this controversial and visually stunning film from director Yasuzo Masumura. A dazzling tale of love lust and the extremes of desire this controversial and groundbreaking drama boasts a screenplay by Onibaba/Kureneko director Kaneto Shindo. Another twisted masterpiece from the director of Blind Beast and Red Angel Manji is as shocking today as when it was first shown in Japan in the mid-1960s.