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• Excel Saga - Vol. 2 - Episodes 6-9 And | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £10.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (82.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Even more mayhem in the chronically over-challenged and understaffed secret ideological organization of ACROSS (with a total membership of 2) whose goal is to conquer the city of F. Also contains your complete daily requirements of martian princesses afro-wearing action heroes mysterious governmental agencies space butlers deranged comic book authors androgynous prisoners in iron masks annoying roommates removable moustaches and a generous supply of adorably cute aliens bent o

• Excel Saga - Vol. 3 - Episodes 10-13 | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Excel Excel secret agent and agent of disaster and her trustworthy (although decidedly unhealthy) fellow agent Hyatt are back and once again they're out to conquer the city of F for the glory of the secret ideological agency of Across! Whether they're up against murderous monkeys possessed detectives or men with excessively inflamed anuses you can bet they'll give it their all or die trying! In fact you can usually bet on the latter. The most deranged duo to ever dangle their

• Wolf Guy | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Shinichi Sonny Chiba is a martial arts manimal in the ultra-70's, 100% bizarre mixture of horror, action and sci-fi that is Wolf Guy, one of the rarest and most sought-after cult films produced by Japan's Toei Studio. Based on a manga by Kazumasa Hirai (creator of 8 Man), and never before released outside of Japan, it's a genre film classic waiting to be discovered and a completely unclassifiable trip into phantasmagoric funk. Chiba stars as Akira Inugami, the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers! At the same time, Inugami also discovers the truth behind his family heritage, and that he may not be the last of his kind. Directed by B-movie genius Kazuhiko Yamaguchi (Sister Streetfighter, Wandering Ginza Butterfly, Karate Bear Fighter), Wolf Guy truly is one-of-a-kind, with Chiba in full effect as the part-man, part-wolf, all-karate action hero and a collection of familiar 1970's Toei actors in support. Violence, action, nudity, real surgical footage, and a psychedelic musical score all work together to create an unforgettable trip to the heights of Japanese cinematic weirdness. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition digital transfer High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original uncompressed mono audio New optional English subtitle translation New video interview with actor Shinichi Sonny Chiba New video interview with director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi New video interview with producer Tatsu Yoshida Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Wes Benscoter FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Patrick Macias and a history of Japanese monster movie mashups by Jasper Sharp

• The Return Of Martin Guerre | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The original award-winning medieval mystery (later remade in the U.S. as 'Sommersby' starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere) about a young man who unexpectedly returns home 8 years after abandoning his wife to fight in the war and attempts to resurrect his marriage. However where he was previously distant he is now attentive and loving to his wife leading her relatives to question his true identity and so the couple are taken to court in order to uncover the truth...

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Set Two (Episodes 14-26) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What's scarier than facing an army of ninja warriors? School exams! As everyone scrambles to prepare, Sarada goes on a quest to uncover the secret of her birth and find out more about her father, Sasuke. Will she find the answers she seeks in this shadowy legend? Then Boruto and classmates take a trip to a place haunted by a bloody pastthe Village Hidden in the Mist. This is one trip they won't forget!

• Hosoda Collection: Summer Wars Blu-ray Collector s Edition | Blu Ray | (15/01/2018) from £25.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  **The Collector's Edition includes a special deluxe clear sleeve and a 52-page companion book** After the sensational success of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, director Mamoru Hosoda was offered the chance to produce an entirely new film based on an original story. Inspired by his own life experience with his family, he created his second award-winning film, Summer Wars. With this film, Hosoda crafted a story that showed the importance of family and understanding those you love. Synopsis: Worlds collide in a tale where virtual reality meets actual reality. When Kenji Koiso is pulled from Oz-a popular social networking realm-to play fiancé to classmate Natsuki, he faces a mess of challenges. Between the boisterous and bickering characters of the Jinnouchi clan and the sudden chaos in Oz, Kenji and his new companions must learn the importance of coming together to face the toughest of odds. Special Features: Interview with Mamoru Hosoda (Director) Interview with Ryunosuke Kamiki (Kenji Koiso) Interview with Nanami Sakuraba (Natsuki Shinohara) Interview with Mitsuki Tanimura (Kazuma Ikezawa) Interview with Ayumu Saito (Wabisuke Jinnouchi) Interview with Sumiko Fuji (Sakae Jinnouchi) Teaser Trailers (2 trailers) Teaser TV Spot Original Trailer TV Spots (7 spots)

• Excel Saga - Vol. 5 - And | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Just when you thought it couldn't get any stranger Excel and her associates encounter the most horrifying of all devices...a sub-plot! You won't believe who's been plotting against whom as the writers double cross the author the director takes a new direction and the supporting cast comes back with a vengeance but absolutely no clue whatsoever! There's total Pedro-monium with Menchi-mania and Pedro-philia galore as everybody involved takes the fifth in Excel Saga volume 5!

• The Bad Sleep Well | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tense re-working of Hamlet (adapted from a novel by Ed McBain) is a biting expos of the corruption and politics of greed at the heart of Japanese business. Beautifully photographed in ravishing black and white Tohoscope this is original Japanese version never before released in Europe. A young man marries the boss's daughter as part of a scheme to take revenge on the influential businessman who forced his father to commit suicide. Leisurely paced bitterly ironic the film emplo

• Kingdom Come | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £6.97   |  Saving you £6.01 (151.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A group of strangers awake trapped inside an abandoned mental hospital. With no apparent way out and no one sure how they got there they begin searching for a way to escape. As they explore the cold dark maze of corridors they realize they are not alone and that they are being stalked by supernatural forces with sinister intentions. As they begin to unravel they realize that it might not be them that are trapped inside but something truly evil that is locked outside! In this place nothing is what it seems and the decisions they make will seal their fate forever.

• The Lady And The Duke | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Using ground-breaking digital technology director Eric Rohmer inserts his actors into painted backdrops to relay the story of the French Revolution as told by Grace Elliot a Scottish aristocrat and the Duc d'Orleans's former mistress...

• My 20th Century | Blu Ray | (20/03/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Ildikó Enyedi (whose latest film On Body and Soul scooped four major prizes - including the Golden Bear - at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival) this magical film spins a tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest on the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan who paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899 Moving at a dizzy pace between Budapest, Hamburg, New York, Burma, Austria, Paris and Siberia, this is a film of dazzling beauty and acumen. It is a modernist fable, a fantasmagoria of scientific, political and sexual revolution and radicalism, the birth of cinema, and the joy of life. Shot in luminous monochrome by cinematographer Tibor Máthé, the multi-award-winning My 20thCentury attempts to claim back from the century of genocide the wonder of existence in a constantly changing world. Awards: 1989 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Camera d'Or - Ildikó Enyedi 1989 Edinburgh International Film Festival / Winner: Jury Prize 1989 Las Vegas International Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize; Best Cinematography 1990 Hungarian Film Week / Winner: Foreign Film Critics Award; Best Director; Best Actress; Best Cinematography 1990 The New York Times ˜10 Best Films of the Year' Voted by critics in the Top 10 Hungarian films of all time Special Features: My 20th Century (1989) presented from a brand new HD restoration of the film by the Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by director of photography Tibor Máthé and director Ildikó Enyedi. Original Hungarian soundtrack in original Mono 16-bit LPCM audio A new filmed interview with director Ildikó Enyedi, shot exclusively for this release by filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio; The Duke of Burgundy). Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by author and academic Jonathan Owen. New and improved English subtitle translation. World premiere on Blu-ray.

• All About Lily Chou-Chou | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shunji Iwai's rites of passage movie focuses on the growing pains of a group of schoolchildren whose sole solace in the Japan's pervasive pop cyber culture is in the faceless celebrity singer known only as Lily...

• Gonin | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Takashi Ishii's visually sumptuous gangster movie Gonin ("The Five") is fascinating in its violence, its perversity and its quirkiness, even though its basic plot premise is fairly standard. Disco owner Bandai (Kouichi Sato) owes money to the yakuza boss Ogoshi and decides to rob him rather than pay him--the first part of the film shows him recruiting a crew of the damaged and despairing to help with the job, and disaster follows. Ogoshi hires the more or less unstoppable one-eyed hit man Kyoya ("Beat" Takeshi) and everyone ends up dead--robbers, gangsters and assassins--in an escalating sequence of reprisals. What is different about the film is the odd tangents the plot shoots off at--the sudden sexual attraction between Bandai and the con-man Mitsuya, the truth about the phone calls the desperate sacked salary man Ogiwara keeps making to his family--and its strong visual style. Crucial events take place in the background of shots, the sudden shift from neon-lit back al! leys to sunlight in the last sequence hits you like a blow in the face. Terrifying in its casual violence and impressive in its bleak nihilism, Gonin is one of the most interesting genre films of the 1990s.--Roz Kaveney

• Gohatto | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gohatto is a critcally acclaimed samurai drama set in an all male Shinsengumi samurai school in Japan circa 1865. Young recruit Kano joins the elite fighting force Shinsengumi and realises that he has become the object of desire amongst his fellow comrades. Whilst the samurai adhere to a strict set of rules the senior members of the militia have a growing concern for the consequences of Kano's effect on their samurai...

• Ambush At Blood Pass | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yojimbo a ronin (Mifune) is secretly commissioned to travel to Sanshu Pass. This once crucial thoroughfare in the time of the warlords is now just a backroad used by outcasts. There he is to wait until an undisclosed event occurs. On his journey he rescues a woman from her violent husband and takes her away with him. They arrive at an inn run by an old man and his granddaughter. This place has become home to a bunch of misfits including a one-time physician (Katsu) a wandering gambler and an officer of the law together with his prisoner. A dramatic chain of events unfolds forcing the once hostile and untrusting characters to unite in a common cause: their own survival. Ambush At Blood Pass examines the complex nature of the human condition under pressure.

• Pacific Battleship Yamato | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pacific Battleship Yamato

• Departures | Blu Ray | (06/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

• Armitage III - Polymatrix | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  2179: Mars has been colonized by Earth populated by humans and ""Second Type"" robots - machines designed to perform the menial tasks humans won't do. Then there are the ""Third Types"" - illegal humanoid robots designed by a nationalist force to look and behave exactly like humans - living undetected among the Martian population as citizens until one man Rene D'anclaude declares war on the ""Thirds"" vowing to destroy them all... This is a story of technology and emotion hatred and

• Okami-san And Her Seven Companions Complete Series Collection | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ryoko Okami the wolf and her BFF Ringo also known as Little Red Riding Hood are members of Otogi Bank - a high school club that helps classmates out of grim situations. One day a meek young man proclaims his love to Ryoko who does nothing but bite him in return. You're much too weak for me she huffs. So the boy joins Otogi Bank to prove he has the stuff to protect his beloved - even if it means taking a blow to the head with a lead pipe. He's no Prince Charming but will Ryoko allow herself to have her own happily ever after?

• Storm Over Asia | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The last of the three great films that VI Pudovkin directed in the 1920s, Storm Over Asia (1928) is an acknowledged classic of Soviet silent cinema. Filmed largely on location in Mongolia, the film has an authentic documentary feel, though the story is a stirring melodrama, about a young fur trapper who is mistreated by the occupying forces in the civil war and becomes a leader of the partisans. Pudovkin enjoys caricaturing the foreign (British) troops and the medieval rituals of a Buddhist temple, but it's out on the steppes that he really comes into his own, with panoramic shots of the vast landscapes. Together with The Mother (1926) and The End of St Petersburg (1927), Storm Over Asia (also known as "The Heir to Genghis Khan") entitles Pudovkin to be ranked with Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov as a master of the Soviet montage style, which he expounded in his book Film Technique (1929). On the DVD: The print, though not perfect, is of fair quality and a new score by Timothy Brock complements the images nicely. However, the so-called "Introduction" turns out to be just a few lines of text scrolling down the screen, telling you less than the information appearing on the sleeve notes. --Ed Buscombe