"Actor: Miho Kanno"

• Tomie Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the smash-hit series of the same name by cult manga artist Junji Itō (Uzumaki), Tomie tells the tale of an evil high-school seductress identifiable by a beauty mark beneath her left eye, whose bewitching kiss drives men to madness.Photography student Tsukiko (Mami Nakamura, Tokyo Trash Baby, Love Exposure) is plagued by violent dreams as she struggles to recall long-suppressed memories following a teenage trauma with the help of psychiatrist Dr. Hosono (Yoriko Douguchi, Cure, Charisma). Meanwhile, as Detective Harada (Tomorō Taguchi, Tetsuo: The Iron Man) leads an investigation into a missing high-school girl, he discovers a long line of similar cases that can be traced back decades, with all of the victims going by the name of Tomie Kawakami, and all slaughtered and decapitated by jealous lovers before they reach womanhood. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's new neighbor seems to be harboring something nasty in the downstairs apartment, something which rapidly begins to take on a dangerous form.Tomie is a creepy supernatural chiller directed by Ataru Oikawa (screenwriter of the pioneering Japanese horror Door) and featuring a chilling turn by the sensational Miho Kanno (Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness, Dolls). Arrow Video is proud to present this key title from the J-Horror boom of the late 1990s, which spawned a string of sequels, for the first time on Blu-ray outside of Japan, with a host of newly produced extras.LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS¢ High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation ¢ Original lossless 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio ¢ Optional English subtitles ¢ Brand new audio commentary by critic and Japanese cinema expert Amber T. ¢ It's a Girl's World, a brand new interview with director Ataru Oikawa ¢ Scream Queen, a brand new interview with actress Mami Nakamura ¢ From Manga to Screen, a brand new interview with producer Mikihiko Hirata ¢ Trailer ¢ Image gallery ¢ Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Zack Davisson and Eugene Thacker ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck

• Dolls | Blu Ray | (14/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first story concerns a young executive who left his girlfriend in pursuit of a career. Following a failed suicide attempt, he runs to his former love's side and now they roam the country together, bound by a red cord, in search of something they have lost. The second is about an ageing yazuka who also abandoned his girlfriend for the sake of success. 30 years later, he is compelled to return to the park where they used to meet. The final tale is of a former pop star who becomes a recluse following a disfiguring accident. One day, one of her greatest fans comes to prove the extent of his devotion to her

• Sakuran | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sakuran follows the ascent of Kiyoha (Anna Tsuchiya Kamikaze Girls) a rebellious and feisty girl sold to a brothel in the notorious Yoshiwara district; a nightlife zone that served both the elites and working classes for hundreds of years. Kiyoha rises through the ranks of the competitive brothel initially as the house girl of an established courtesan learning the trade and eventually becoming Oiran - the preeminent courtesan of the brothel. Headstrong and independent from the outset Kiyoha is choosy about her customers and defiant to her employers and fellow courtesans; she wants to find her own freedom rather than have a rich merchant buy it for her. Adapted from the Manga comic series by Moyoco Anno and directed by acclaimed photographer Mika Ninagawa Sakuran is a tour de force of new Japanese film and music talent.

• Dolls | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £9.32   |  Saving you £10.67 (114.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dolls is a film of extraordinary beauty and tenderness from a filmmaker chiefly associated with grave mayhem and deadpan humor. That is to say, this is not one more Takeshi Kitano movie focused on stoical cops or gangsters. The title refers most directly, but not exclusively, to the theatrical tradition of Bunraku, enacted by half-life-size dolls and their visible but shrouded onstage manipulators. Such a performance--a drama of doomed lovers--occupies the first five minutes of the film, striking a keynote that resonates as flesh-and-blood characters take up the action. The film-proper is dominated by the all-but-wordless odyssey of a susceptible yuppie and the jilted fiancée driven mad by his desertion to marry the boss's daughter. Bound by a blood-red cord, they move hypnotically through a landscape variously urban and natural, stylized only by the breathtaking purity of light, angle, color, and formal movement imposed by Kitano's compositional eye and rigorous, fragmentary editing. Along the way we also pick up the story of an elderly gangster, haunted by memories of the lover he deserted three decades earlier and generations of "brothers" for whose deaths he was, in the accepted order of things, responsible. Another strand is added to the imagistic weave via a doll-like pop singer and a groupie blinded by devotion to her. This is a film in which character, morality, metaphysics, and destiny are all expressed through visual rhyme and startling adjustments of perspective. It sounds abstract--and it is--but it's also heartbreaking and thrilling to behold. Kitano isn't in it, but as an artist he's all over it. His finest film, and for all its exoticism, his most accessible. --Richard T. Jameson

• Hypnosis | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £22.96   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned the words 'green monkey' before they died...

• The Takeshi Kitano Collection (3 discs) | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Dolls: Bound by a long red cord a young couple wanders in search of something they have forgotten. An aging Yakuza returns to the park where he used to meet his long-lost girlfriend. A disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan... Zatoichi: Masterless samurai Zatoichi comes to a village that is on the brink of gang war. Always on the run and looking for the next dice game a blind masseur and swordsman soon finds himself a wanted man in town when he protects his landlord's nephew in a slaughter at the makeshift casino. At the same time two geishas come to town to seek revenge for the deaths of their family ten years previously. As they begin to hunt down those responsible Zatoichi and the geishas find themselves targets in a final bloody showdown... Takeshis' i: Beat Takeshi a prominent actor meets a lookalike named Kitano who is a struggling actor but after the meeting Kitano's dreams take a violent surreal turn.

• Modern Japanese Horror | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hypnosis: Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned the words 'green monkey' before they died... Pyrokinesis: Junko Aoki has always kept away from other people. Held to be rude and unfriendly her co-workers make no effort to associate with her. But Junko's remote appearance hides a deadly secret