"Actor: Machiko Ono"

• The Mourning Forest (2007) (Masters of Cinema) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ten years after becoming the youngest winner of the Caméra d Or, Naomi Kawase returned to Cannes and claimed the prestigious Grand Prix for The Mourning Forest [Mogari no mori], a beautiful and contemplative portrait of grief. Machiko (Machiko Ono) is a young nurse who still carries the burden of her young son s death. Shigeki (Shigeki Uda) is an elderly widower and a resident at the nursing home where Machiko works. After celebrating Shigeki s birthday, Machiko takes him for a drive in the countryside, but their car breaks down and Shigeki absconds into the nearby forest. Machiko has no choice but to follow, and they become lost in the dense woodlands, before their fates eventually become entwined. Drawing comparisons to Shohei Imamura (particularly his Palme d Or winning The Ballad of Narayama) and Terence Malick, Naomi Kawase s The Mourning Forest is a hauntingly beautiful, symbolically rich masterpiece, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film for the first time ever on Blu-ray, in a special Dual Format edition. DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: Stunning 1080p presentation on the Blu-ray, with a progressive encode on the DVD Uncompressed PCM audio on the Blu-ray High Definition Stills Gallery PLUS: A booklet featuring a statement from Kawase made at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, alongside stills from the films production

• Like Father, Like Son | DVD | (05/05/2014) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Hirokazu Kore-eda, the globally acclaimed director of Nobody Knows, Still Walking and I Wish, returns to the big screen with another family - a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born... Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one...

• Like Father, Like Son | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £16.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (23.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day he and his wife Midori get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son Keita is not 'their' son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby. Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision to choose between 'nature' and 'nurture.' Seeing Midori's devotion to Keita even after learning his origin and communicating with the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a 'father' all these years...

• Eureka | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This 220 minute beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan a crazed killer apparently without motive hijacks a city bus. In the ensuing carnage only three people survive - the driver a schoolgirl and her older brother. After a long period away the traumatized bus driver returns to his family only to find his wife has left him. The two students have withdrawn further into silence si

• Ugetsu Monogatari | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of the Rain and Moon, aka Ugetsu] is a highly acclaimed masterwork of Japanese cinema. Based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari, the film's release continued Mizoguchi's introduction to the West, where it was nominated for an Oscar and won the the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion award (for Best Direction). In 16th century Japan, amidst the pandemonium of civil war, potter Genjuro (Mori Masayuki) and samurai-aspirant Tobei (Ozawa Sakae) set out with their wives in search of wealth and military glory respectively. Two parallel tales ensue when the men are lured from their wives: Genjuro by the ghostly charm of Lady Wakasa (Kyo Machiko); Tobei by the dream of military glory. Famed for its meticulously orchestrated long takes and its subtle blending of realistic period reconstruction and lyrical supernaturalism, Ugetsu Monogatari is an intensely poetic tragedy that consistently features on polls of the best films ever made.