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• Evil Dead Trap - Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (24/06/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Nami, the host of a late-night TV show, receives a videotape containing brutal scenes of a woman being tortured and dismembered, she takes her camera crew out to the abandoned military base where she discerns the footage was shot in order to investigate whether what she has witnessed is a snuff film. One by one, her fellow investigators succumb to a grisly fate. Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda (Mermaid Legend) from a script by Takashi Ishii (the Angel Guts series, Freeze Me) and featuring eye-popping SFX work by Shinichi Wakasa (the Godzilla Millennium series), 88 Films is proud to present this landmark Japanese slasher for the very first time on Blu-ray in the UK.

• Black Rain | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £6.91   |  Saving you £6.08 (87.99%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Black Rain is a ridiculously entertaining thriller by Ridley Scott (Alien), starring Michael Douglas as a tough New York cop who--along with his partner (Andy Garcia)--goes to Japan to deliver a local mobster. When the latter escapes, Douglas's brand of gonzo crime fighting rubs his Japanese hosts the wrong way. Slick, mechanistic, and absurd, the film is all surface action and attitude (not to mention Scott's incredibly busy, trademark art direction); and one can get lost in the sheer indulgence of it. However, if you can buy Douglas as an iconoclastic lawman, you can buy anything else here, including the notion of Kate Capshaw as a blonde escort highly desired by Japanese businessmen. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

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  When Nami, the host of a late-night TV show, receives a videotape containing brutal scenes of a woman being tortured and dismembered, she takes her camera crew out to the abandoned military base where she discerns the footage was shot in order to investigate whether what she has witnessed is a snuff film. One by one, her fellow investigators succumb to a grisly fate.Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda (Mermaid Legend) from a script by Takashi Ishii (the Angel Guts series, Freeze Me) and featuring eye-popping SFX work by Shinichi Wakasa (the Godzilla Millennium series), 88 Films is proud to present this landmark Japanese slasher for the very first time on Blu-ray in the UK.Product FeaturesHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) Presentation in 1.66:1 Aspect RatioOriginal Mono 2.0 Audio with Improved English SubtitlesAudio commentary by critics Jasper Sharp and David FlintArchive interview with director Toshiharu IkedaOriginal StoryboardsStills galleryBehind the Scenes StillsTrailerBooklet essay by Jim HarperOriginal and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan SheadyIncludes OBI Strip

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• The Black Angel | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £12.90   |  Saving you £-2.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Takashi Ishi's visually stylish The Black Angel is a fascinating cross between Japanese gangster film and Jacobean revenge tragedy. Sent away to the US after the slaughter of her parents by rivals led by her half-sister Chaiko, Ikko (Riona Hazuki) returns determined to reclaim her yakuza kingdom. Ikko is obsessed with childish memories of Mayo the hitwoman, the original Black Angel, entrusted with getting her out of the country. The intervening 14 years have been hard on Mayo--being the Black Angel is tough on the nerves--and she is hired to kill Ikko, not realising they have met before. This is a tragic film in which three strong women are destined to destroy each other through the trickery of male betrayal; from the beginning, as a child is smuggled away and a mother told the infant is dead, it is clear that we are in a land of myth, with no happy endings. A night time Tokyo of bright lights and dark shadows, of dead-end corridors and escalators that lead you only to your death, is provided as a moody backdrop. Takashi's inventive set pieces of mood and action include a shootout in a strip club set to Verdi's Requiem. On the DVD: The Black Angel is presented on disc in widescreen, while the moody, atmospheric score is done full justice by the Dolby Digital soundtrack. The only special features are filmographies and biographies, production stills and the theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Asian Shockers | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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  A talk show hostess asks her viewers to send in home videos to profile on her program. When she receives a snuff video she and her crew set out to follow the path of the video and locate the scene of the crime and get to the bottom of this mystery. The only problem is that there is someone or something waiting for their arrival...

• Tokyo Bullet Reloaded - Black Angel / Score / Gonin | DVD | (01/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Black Angel: Ddirector Takashi Ishii continues to explore his distinct vision of Tokyo as a dark forbidding Technopolis a city of faceless chrome and marble structures cold lights and deep shadows. The Black Angel stars Riona Hazuki as Ikko the most powerful female action heroine ever to hit celluloid. At age 6 Ikko was safely put on a plane to Los Angeles by hitman Mayo but not before seeing her Yakuza boss father and mistress mother killed before her eyes. Flash forward 14 years. Ikko returns to Tokyo seeking revenge for the killings. She too calls herself the Black Angel styling herself after Mayo whom she remembers as a towering almost superhuman figure. When her target realises that she is after him and his gang he enlists the original Black Angel to wipe out Ikko and the stage is set for a violent reunion... (Dir. Takashi Ishii 1997) Gonin: Japanese Director Takashi Ishii's brutal hyperstylish hallucinogenic "" roller coaster"" of a movie takes a group of five desperate men through the robbery of a Yakuza gangster and the bloody revenge that follows. Ishii has assembled a cast of Japan's coolest actors including Naoto Takenaka (""Shall We Dance"") and the legendary 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano and his fluid sensual camera work creates sequences of unrivalled ballistic bloodshed. But what really raises this movie to a different level is the off-beat characters: 'Beat' Takeshi's sadistic portrayal of the one-eyed hitman gay hustlers and downtrodden ex-cops give 'Gonin' an eccentric film noir atmosphere that will blow you away. (Dir. Takashi Ishii 1995) Score: A gang of thieves come together for a jewellery heist one which they naturally carry out in their finest Reservoir Dogs outfits. All goes pretty much according to plan until a pair of psychotic highway robbers follow them to their hideout and attempt to part the gang from their loot... (Dir. Atsushi Muroga 1995)