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• Street Fighter Alpha - The Movie | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £7.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (56.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Street Fighter Alpha is an animated film aimed less at admirers of the comic strip from which it derives than aficionados of the arcade computer game which is the best known embodiment of the material; as such, the narrative line is mostly an excuse for balletic fights in which eyes glare and sides of buildings fall off. Ryu is a brilliant young fighter worried that his technique may yet corrupt him into monstrousness; the boy Shun appears, claiming to be his brother and already well on the way to corruption by the technique known as the Dark Hadou. When Shun is kidnapped by an evil scientist, Ryu goes after him in spite of the possible cost to his own moral status; his friend Ken and Interpol agent Chen go along to help him, and if necessary to kill him to prevent his corruption. This is largely by-the-numbers martial arts anime, but at times exciting or beautiful for all of that; devotees of the game will love it. On the DVD: The DVD is generously stacked with English and Japanese soundtracks and English subtitles. There are interviews with the artists, creators and voice actors, a making-of documentary and various trailers and previews. --Roz Kaveney

• The Female Yakuza Tale | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £7.09   |  Saving you £8.90 (125.53%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Female Yakuza Tale is an anarchistic apex in the career of Japanese cult director Teruo Ishii whose fifty year resume includes Horror of Malformed Men and Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf. Notoriously lacking restraint sexy ""Pinky Violence"" star Reiko Ike returns in this gonzo sequel to Sex & Fury following the further exploits of Ocho a thief and gambler running afoul of evil yakuza in Meiji era Tokyo. Aided by a lone wolf adventurer (Ryohei Uchida) Ocho investigates a ruthless gang of cutthroats who are using indentured street walkers as drug mules to smuggle heroin from China. Director Ishii throws everything but the kitchen sink into this mind-altering sexploitation action saga all culminating in a bloody mobster massacre replete with sultry swordswomen. Full of intoxicating mayhem and uproarious kabuki-striptease antics Female Yakuza Talefreak-out filmmaking at its finest!

• Sanjuro | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sequel to Kurosawa's own 'Yojimbo' in which the crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent...

• Sayonara | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £11.42   |  Saving you £1.57 (13.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own cultural taboos...

• Red Beard | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The last and most ambitious of Akira Kurosawa's collaborations with Toshiro Mifune Red Beard marked the end of one of the most remarkable actor-director relationships in the history of cinema. Toshiro Mifune plays a commanding but humane doctor in a rural clinic in late 19th-century Japan. An idle and socially ambitious intern (Yuzo Kayama) arrives at the clinic and discovers the meaning of responsibility first to oneself and then to others. This intimate epic - a

• Love Hina Collection (inc Xmas & Spring specials) | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £53.45   |  Saving you £-13.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Love Hina: Collection (Including Xmas & Spring Specials) (8 Discs)

• Alien Vs Predator/Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £17.56 (186.21%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Alien vs Predator: It may be our planet but it's their war! The deadliest creatures from the scariest sci-fi movies ever made face off for the first time on film beginning when the discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There they make an even more terrifying discovery: two unstoppable alien races engaged in the ultimate battle... Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem: The warring alien and predator races descend on a small town where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

• 24 : Series 1 & 2 (Limited Edition Box Set) | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  This limited-edition DVD box set contains the complete first and second series of 24. Read our reviews of the individual series here: 24, Series 1, 24, Series 2.

• Irezumi | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a young girl is seduced and has a spider tattooed on her back; she herself becomes a predatory monster taking revenge on every man who has shared her bed.

• Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (22/09/2014) from £27.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Alien Vs. Predator 2: Requiem - Steelbook Edition Special Finishes Include: Matt Finish Emboss on one Side. After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring a lone Predator arrives to 'clean up' the infestation. Soon it's an all-out battle to the death with no rules no mercy - and hundreds of innocent people caught in the crossfire. As the creature carnage continues a handful of human survivors attempt a daring escape but the U.S. government may be hatching a deadly plan of its own...

• Marlon Brando Box Set | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  A collection of classic and unusual Marlon Brando movies including The Wild One One The Waterfront The Ugly American and The Appaloosa. The Wild One (1954) An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful 50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny the leader of a vicious biker gang that involves a small sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent on destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy) a 'good-girl' w

• 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

• Mikio Naruse Collection | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £149.90   |  Saving you £-104.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki) (1960) 2. Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (1955) 3. Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku) (1958)

• Black Angel 2 | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (66.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Takashi Ishii continues to explore the dark side of Tokyo in this sequel to Black Angel. This time Yuki Amami plays Mayu an assasin who becomes involved in a tangled web of friendship and revenge that can only end in despair. Ishii's direction makes for a dark gritty and intense move using violence as an expression of anguish.

• 24: Series 1 - 3 | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  24' is an innovative television drama where the entire series takes place in one day. Each of the 24 episodes covers one hour told in real time. And all the time the clock keeps ticking... This box set contains all three series of the high-octane adventures of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and his CTU team.

• Cops vs Thugs | DVD | (01/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It is 1963 and the police of Kurashima City have spent the past seven years eradicating the Yakuza gangs which have caused so much strife in the city. The last two remaining gangs Ohara and Kawade are in tatters with the Ohara Boss in prison. But with the police force full of corrupt officers the gangs begin to flourish once again. The Kawade gang sensing the opportunity to strike their enemies while their leader is incarcerated decide to stage a raid on a club owned by their rivals but the attention of the police is drawn to both gangs again. Ken Hirotani is running the Ohara gang while the Boss is in jail and he soon discovers that a childhood friend Kuno is now a police detective assigned to clean up the underworld. But Kuno's loyalties lay more with his friend than his career and his honour is tested time and time again. When a major property deal goes bad the police are able to persuade the two gangs to come to a truce but there are elements of both sides who don't like what their superiors are negotiating. Soon it's not only Cops vs Cops as loyalties are strained and honour pushes the boundaries of the law with an epic showdown looming.

• Sword Of Vengeance | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sword of Vengeance is the first of the internationally renowned Lone Wolf and Cub productions. Framed for treason the executioner of the Shogun is stripped of office and declared an outlaw. Together with his infant son he sets out as a mercenary on a blood soaked journey of revenge against the secret society that murdered his wife and robbed him of his good name. With his life in ruins and literally believing that he is in hell he and his baby son have become Lone Wolf and Cub

• The Killing Floor | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £5.86   |  Saving you £7.13 (121.67%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There are stories that feed on your fear where terror plays on your nightmares and the turn of every page leads you further into darkness. But for a man who has built his career on finding the next big horror novel it was just a matter of time before the story turned on him. Soon after David Lamont a literary agent dubbed ""The King of Fright"" moves into a coveted three-storey penthouse in New York he begins receiving violent crime scene photographs that appear to have taken place in his new apartment. The photographs are soon followed by stalker videotapes which document his every move.

• The End Of Summer | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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 a

• 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.