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• Akasen Chitai/Yokihi | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Filmed shortly before the Japanese government's introduction of an anti-prostitution bill Akasen Chitai is a compelling study of women torn between financial necessity and questions of conscience. It was nominated for the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and inspired French critic Jean Douchet to proclaim: ""For me along with Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Renoir's La Rgle du Jeu the greatest film in the history of cinema"". Set many centuries earlier Yokihi [Imperial Concubine Yang aka Yang Kwei Fei] recounts the Chinese legend referred to in its title. In eighth-century T'ang China widowed Emperor Hsan-tsung (Masayuki Mori) reigns alone devoting his life to the composition of music. When he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Machiko Kyo) who will become his imperial concubine a tale of political intrigue and rival dynasties is set in motion with ultimately tragic consequences. Sumptuously filmed in vibrant colour Yokihi is the most ancient of Mizoguchi's costume dramas yet its central themes of passion sorrow and the conflict between love and power remain timeless - it was also nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice.

• Bloodline | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The line between love and death is the bloodline. Based on the best-selling thriller. Featuring an extraordinary international cast Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline is a suspense thriller centering around an attractive and privileged woman who inherits the controlling interest of the family-owned pharmaceutical empire and almost immediately finds her own life in jeopardy. The film marks the return to the screen of Audrey Hepburn one of the legendary stars of the international film world and includes a first-rate cast - all of whom have good reason to do away with the endangered heiress. Magnificent locations in New York London Paris Sardinia Rome and Munich provide a sweeping panorama of the world of the jet set.

• The Japanese Masters Collection | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Floating Weeds (Dir. Yasujiro Ozu 1959): Floating Weeds is one of the final films directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. A remake of one of his own silent features it tells the story of a travelling Kabuki acting troupe led by Komajuro who arrive in a small coastal town. There Komajuro is reunited with his former lover Oyoshi and their illegitimate son who is unaware that the itinerant actor is his father. But the reunion provokes the jealousy of Sumiko Komanjuro's current mistress who plots a devastating revenge. Beautifully composed and surperbly played 'Floating Weeds' is one of Ozu's most affecting poignant and powerful films. The End Of Summer (Dir. Yasujiro Ozu 1961): This penultimate film by Japanese master director Yasujiro Ozu examines the difficulties faced by the Kohayagawa family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan. As the family's generations-old sake making business begins to fail in the face of increasingly fierce competition Manbei the incorrigible elderly patriarch rekindles an affair with an old flame much to the disapproval of his daughter Fumiko. He is further distracted by his attempts to marry off his other two daughters: Akiko the eldest and a widow with a small son and Noriko the youngest who is still single. A sublime bittersweet elegy for a vanishing world The End of Summer is beautifully shot in muted colour elegantly acted and masterfully directed by one of the 20th Century's greatest filmmakers. The Lady of Musashino (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi 1951): Mizoguchi's dissection of the Japanese reaction to the aftermath of war as a fastidiously moral woman faces upheaval with the changing times brought about by the new post-Imperial period... The Life of Oharu (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi 1952): In feudal Japan the daughter of a samurai Oharu falls in love with a man below her station. Expelled from the castle in Kyoto her family tries to regain respectability but Oharu is forced into a new life as a concubine and then a fallen woman ever hoping to preserve some semblance of purity in a corrupt world...

• Megalo Box 2: Nomad - The Complete Season | Blu Ray | (05/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Godzilla gegen Mechagodzilla | Blu Ray | (31/10/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bubblegum Crisis | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Blood Thirsty Trilogy | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Michio Yamamoto's early 1970's 'Blood Thirsty Trilogy' classic Japanese vampire tales rarely seen in the Western world! Legacy Of Dracula: When Kazuhiko visits the grave of his girlfriend Yuko he is shocked by what he finds... Following his subsequent disappearance his sister and her boyfriend follow his tracks to Yuko's ancestral home. Lake Of Dracula: When 5-year old Akiko witnesses a bloody murder by a hideous golden-eyed vampire she grows up forever

• Manon Lescaut - Puccini | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  TDK presents a recording of Puccini's heart-breaking opera from one of the best opera houses of the world featuring star tenor Jose Cura and remarkable soprano Maria Guelghina as the two inseparable lovers. Riccardo Muti music director of La Scala at the time of this performance gives full weight to the alternation of social realism and private amatory psychology of crowds and intimacy body and spirit. And the director of this Milan production the famous Italian film director Liliana Cavani provides it with a realistic setting. Every scene looks like a genre painting from which Puccini's psychograms emerge musically. This forms the background for the two outstanding singer actors who take the lead roles.

• KITES-AUF DER FLUCHT - MOVIE | Blu Ray | (26/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Anne Schwanewilms / Dresden / Fabio Luisi) | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Strauss:Der Rosenkavalier (2 Discs)

• Confidential Report | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Franco Corelli and Renata Tebaldi - Live in Tokyo 1973 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £18.29   |  Saving you £1.70 (9.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Live in Tokyo - NHK Hall 21st November 1973Tokyo Philharmonic OrchestraTadashi Mori, Conductor

• Torchwood - Series 1 - Complete | HD DVD | (30/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  The 21st Century is when it all changes and you've got to be ready... - Captain Jack Harkness. Set in modern-day Cardiff Torchwood stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack from Doctor Who. Captain Jack and a group of renegade criminal investigators are charged by the British government to find and retrieve alien technology and respond to any extra-terrestrial threats posed to Earth! Episodes Comprise: 1. Everything Changes 2. Day One 3. Ghost Machine 4. Cyberwoman 5. Small Worlds 6. Countrycide 7. Greeks Bearing Gifts 8. They Keep Killing Susie 9. Random Shoes 10. Out Of Time 11. Combat 12. Captain Jack Harkness 13. End Of Days

• Godzilla gegen Megalon | Blu Ray | (31/10/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Absolutely Fabulous: Die komplette Serie | DVD | (26/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A