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• Kaizo Hayashi's Maiku Hama Trilogy (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2025) from £49.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A trilogy of films about Yokohama private eye Maiku Hama (played by Masatoshi Nagase) directed by Kaizo Hayashi. In THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE he gets embroiled in the disappearance of a Taiwanese immigrant's brother, getting caught in the crosshairs of a gang war. In the 2nd film THE STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST he goes after a Man in White reigning over the embattled riverfront of Yokohama. The ominous final chapter THE TRAP straddles the line of psychological horror as a series of drug-fueled murders instill fear in Yokohama.Limited edition set (2000 copies) 4K Digital RestorationDisc 1: The Most Terrible Time in My LIFE (1994) 我が人生最悪の時Special Features:Director Kaizo Hayashi interviewProducer Shunsuke Koga interviewJasper Sharp feature audio commentaryTrailerDisc 2: Stairway to a Distant Past (1995) 遙かな時代の階段をMatthew Carter Video EssayEdmund Yeo selected audio commentaryTrailerDisc 3: The Trap (1996) ç½  THE TRAPSpecial FeaturesSamm Deighan feature audio commentaryJames Balmont video essayTrailer

• Branded To Kill | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Generally agreed upon to be Suzuki's finest work the film charts the progress of 'Number 3 Killer' Hanado an ice-cool Japanese hitman who get more than he bargained for when he agrees to make a hit for a beautiful girl. On the run and in danger from all sides Hanado must ultimately face the 'No.1 Killer'... A surreal and stunning fusion of '60's pop-aesthetic yakuza thriller raucous sex perverse desires staggering violence and delirious nightmare Branded To Kill is a unique thriller and a towering work of Art. Nikkatsu the studio that financed the film found the film was so intense and incomprehensible that Suzuki was immediately fired! Today it is regarded as his masterpiece.