High and Low (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025)
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| RRP Based on an Ed McBain novel, High and Low is a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune. Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeur's boy by mistake but still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up.An anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society, High and Low is a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnapper's state of mind. Kurosawa's virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal as equally brutal, but nonetheless human.Extras¢ Presented in High Definition¢ Newly recorded audio commentary by Japanese film expert Jasper Sharp¢ Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create High and Low (2002, 38 mins): the director discusses how High and Low came to exist, and how specific sequences were filmed. Also features interviews with actors Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, and Tatsuya Mihashi, as well as cameraman Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda and script supervisor Teruyo Nogami¢ **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with new essay on the film by Alex Barrett, archive essay by Philip Kemp and an original review from Monthly Film Bulletin
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Love and Crime | Blu Ray | (20/01/2025)
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| RRP Japan's legendary King of Cult Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men, Shogun's Joy of Torture) delivers four dramatized tales of real-life crimes of passion involving women across the ages in this grotesque anthology featuring the stories of the Hotel Nihonkaku Murders, the notorious poison wife and last woman in Japan to be executed by beheading, Oden Takahashi, the brutal serial killer Yoshio Kodaira and the story of Sada Abe, the infamous castratice featured in Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses. 88 Films is proud to present this unflinching look at female pathology drawn from Japan's criminal casebooks for the very first time outside Japan.
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn | DVD | (01/09/2001)
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| RRP Fantastic adaptation of the classic novel by Mark Twain.
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Pollock | DVD | (24/02/2003)
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| RRP Ed Harris directs and takes the title role in this biopic of the infamous American artist, almost as famous for his destructive private life as his abstract paintings.
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Good Morning | Blu Ray | (17/01/2011)
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| RRP A bright Tokyo suburb buzzing with gossip and intrigue is the backdrop to world renowned Japanese director's Yasujir Ozu's outstanding comedy Good Morning. Disillusioned with the seemingly meaningless chatter of the adult world two brothers take a vow of silence when their parents refuse to buy them a television set. With its dexterously woven plot built on mishaps and misunderstandings Good Morning pokes fun at the silliness of everyday adult communication whilst gently acknowledging its fundamental necessity. Available on Blu-ray for the first time. Also contains full length feature I Was Born But... Ozu's superb early comedy as an extra.
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High And Low | DVD | (28/03/2005)
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| RRP Kurosawa drew on the thriller 'King's Ransom' by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter) for this contemporary study of the inequalities and hierarchical rigidity of modern Japan. In the first half of the film set in a single room an industrialist agonises on whether to pay the huge ransom demanded by kidnappers who have mistakenly snatched his chauffeur's son instead of his own. The second half of the film shot in a frenzied restless style on sleazy urban locations concentrates on the polic
Casshern | DVD | (25/04/2005)
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| RRP Mankind battles against extinction in this spectacular Japanese sci-fi epic.
Assassination | DVD | (23/01/2006)
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| RRP Assassination (or Ansatsu) marked Masahiro Shinoda's first attempt at a period film and is widely considered to be his finest achievement. Previously gaining fame and status alongside Nagisa Oshima and Kiju Yoshida challenging established Japanese cinema with tales of reckless youth The Dry Lake (1960) and the seminal yakuza drama Pale Flower (1964) Shinoda graduated from Shochiku where like Shohei Imamura his grounding wa
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Princess Daisy | DVD | (17/04/2006)
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| RRP Based on the Judith Krantz novel which tells the story of a beautiful and spirited daughter of a Russian Prince and an American movie star. This rich and captivating story blends romantic passion with bitter tragedy glittering glamour with dark and dangerous intrigue. The beautiful and elegant Daisy has been scarred by a troubled and traumatic childhood. With a hollywood filmstar mother and exiled Rusian Prince Father her life should have been privileged and perfect but her parent
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I Live In Fear | DVD | (28/03/2005)
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| RRP When a wealthy foundry owner and bullying patriarch decides to move his entire family from Tokyo to Brazil to escape the nuclear holocaust which he fears is imminent his family tries to have him declared mentally incompetent... Made at the height of the Cold War when the superpowers were engaged in series of nuclear tests this blazing attack on complacency was one of the director's most deeply-felt but least commercially successful films. Nonetheless it deserves to be more widely
Casshern - Limited Edition | DVD | (25/04/2005)
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| RRP Mankind battles against extinction in this spectacular Japanese sci-fi epic.
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Princess Daisy | DVD | (22/09/2003)
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| RRP Based on the Judith Krantz novel which tells the story of a beautiful and spirited daughter of a Russian Prince and an American movie star. This rich and captivating story blends romantic passion with bitter tragedy glittering glamour with dark and dangerous intrigue. The beautiful and elegant Daisy has been scarred by a troubled and traumatic childhood. With a hollywood filmstar mother and exiled Rusian Prince Father her life should have been privileged and perfect but her parents angrily split after her domineering father's refusal to accept Daisy's brain damaged twin sister and the tragedy is made worse by the death of her Mother in a car accident. Arriving penniless in America Daisy enjoys a meteoric rise to stardom as a fashion supermodel. She's desired by men envied by women and tormented by a guilty secret she has gaurded all her life.
Art Lives: Frida Kahlo | DVD | (05/11/2007)
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| RRP This easy-to-follow Bass DVD tutor will take you step by step from first day exercises to playing along with a professional backing track!
Clear pictures and demonstrations along with jargon free commentary to guide you through...
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Big Brother 1 And 2 Uncut | DVD | (27/05/2002)
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| RRP This is the ultimate box set for those who have been gripped by the phenomenon that is Big Brother. It contains the two official DVDs that were generated by the first two series of Big Brother. The DVDs give a full and frank expose of what exactly went on within the Big Brother house and reveal explicit footage that never shown on TV. Re-live the hastly eviction of Nasty Nick the romance of Helen and Paul and the ultimate high experienced by the two series winners: Craig and Brian. It's all here and it's compelling viewing.
Casshern (1 Disc Edition) | DVD | (10/04/2006)
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| RRP Mankind battles against extinction in this spectacular Japanese sci-fi epic.
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Ozu - Tokyo Twilight / Equinox Flower / Good Morning | DVD | (24/04/2006)
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| RRP A collection of classic movies from lauded Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. Regarded by many as the world's finest director and renowned for his formalist style Yasujiro Ozu made his first film in 1927 and went on to direct 55 films before his death in 1963. It was only during his final years however that his genius as a film-maker was recognized in the West alongside such contemporaries as Buuel Bergman and fellow countryman Akira Kurosawa. This box set features three works
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Skin of our Teeth | DVD | (01/02/2011)
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| RRP Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family - a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people. This eloquent comedy serves up an allegorical tale of one American family whose members must come to grips with their destinies. Having survived fire, flood pestilence, seven-year locusts, the Ice Age and a dozen wars, the Antrobuses are as durable as radiators, and remain as optimistic as a spring day. ...
Ozu - Vol 4 | DVD | (29/01/2007)
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| RRP Late Autumn (aka: Akibiyori): Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband step into the fray suitors are simultaneously sought for both generations of the Miwa family! An Autumn Afternoon (aka: Sanma No Aji): Widower Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) gradually comes to realize that his 24 year-old daughter should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life and so prepares to arrange a marriage for her.
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