"Actor: Tadanobu Asano"

• Tokyo Zombie | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £12.43   |  Saving you £8.55 (90.57%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tokyo Zombie

• Ichi The Killer | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Explore your fear Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku and the Home of Kakihara a sadistic Yakuaza killer. He relentlessly tears apart the underworld searching for the man who killed his boss. The mastermind behind the plot is Jijii an ex-cop bent on turning the gangsters of Japan against one another. His trump card is a physically powerful child-like lunatic who is constantly on the verge of snapping. This madman is Ichi the Killer and between him and Kakihara the streets will run red with blood.

• Mongol | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This epic story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world, including Russia, in 1206.

• Zatoichi | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Japanese cult anti hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano.

• Katsuhito Ishii Collection | Blu Ray | (17/07/2023) from £54.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Maborosi (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/07/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Yumiko is troubled by the notion that she brings death to people close to her. Following the loss of her grandmother and husband, she remarries and begins to find happiness anew. But on a return to her old home for her brother's wedding, a flood of troubling memories begins to haunt her. The debut fiction feature from the Palme d'Orwinning director of Shoplifters, Hirokazu Koreeda, Maborosi is an exquisite meditation on uncertainty and coming to terms with the past, which garnered awards at the Venice Film Festival and brought both the director and cinematographer Masao Nakabori to international stardom. Features: Birthplace (2003, 30 mins): Makiko Esumi takes the viewer on a tour of the locations of Maborosi in this short film featuring behindthescenes stills and onset footage Audio commentary by filmmaker and writer Jasper Sharp (2019) Reissue trailer (2019): produced for the BFI's 2019 rerelease of Maborosi Flesh and Blood Trailer (2019): trailer specially produced for the BFI Southbank retrospective of the cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda

• 47 Ronin Limited Edition Lenticular Sku | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £14.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (100.47%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Keanu Reeves makes an explosive return to action-adventure in 47 Ronin. After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honour to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (Reeves)- a half-breed they once rejected - as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors. As this exiled enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon he will transform into the hero who inspires this band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity. Helmed by director Carl Rinsch (The Gift) 47 Ronin is produced by Pamela Abdy (Identity Thief upcoming Endless Love) and Eric McLeod (Mr. and Mrs. Smith Austin Powers series). Special Features: Deleted Scenes: Mika Regrets Her Love for Kai Mika Attempts to Poison Lord Kira Oishi Attempts to Buy Kai from the Dutch Captain Isogai is Entranced by the Witch Re-forging the Legend Keanu and Kai Steel Fury: The Fights of 47 Ronin Myths Magic and Monsters: The FX of 47 Ronin

• Ichi The Killer | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £15.94   |  Saving you £4.05 (25.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with 100 million yen. His loyal gang members led by Kakihara start a search but their aggressive methods worry the other yakuza gangs. Kakihara's most scary counterpart is the mysterious Ichi a psychopathic killer with a dark childhood secret...

• Zatoichi | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £10.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (149.90%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This thrilling tale of swordplay and adventure from cult filmmaker Takeshi Kitano (Hana-Bi) is packed with brilliantly choreographed action scenes and riotous humour. Beat Takeshi plays the blind wanderer Zatoichi whose humble fa''ade masks his prodigious skills as a master swordsman gifted with a lightning fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. When he arrives in a remote mountain town whose people are being terrorised by the ruthless Ginzo gang and their mighty samurai ronin Hattori (Tadanobu Asano) Zatoichi's path is set for many violent confrontations.

• Redline Blu-ray/DVD Double Play | Blu Ray | (14/11/2011) from £26.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (11.16%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium. In this race, not only is anything possible, but also anything is allowed.The film is produced by the studio Madhouse (Ninja Scroll, Summer Wars), directed by Takeshi Koike (The Animatrix's World Record) and written by Katsuhito Ishii (Piroppo, Trava).

• 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...

• Last Life In The Universe | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kenji an obsessive-compulsive Japanese man mysteriously on the verge of suicide resides in the Thai capital Bangkok. Thrown together with a slovenly Thai woman the mis-matched pair finds that each may be ultimately good for the other... Winner of Best Film at the Bangkok International and Fant-Asia film festivals Tadanobu Asano also scooped the Best Actor award at the 2003 Venice film festival.

• Zatoichi - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook - Limited to 4000 copies. This thrilling tale of swordplay and adventure from cult filmmaker Takeshi Kitano (Hana-Bi) is packed with brillitantly choreographed action scenes and riotous humour, "Beat" Takeshi plays the blind wanderer Zatoichi, whose humble facade masks his prodigious skills as a master swordsman, gifted with a lighning gast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. When he arrives in a remote town whose people are being terroised by the ruthless Ginzo gang and their mighty samurai ronin Hattori (Tadanobu Asano), Zatoichi's path is set for many violent confrontations.

• Cafe Lumiere | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yoko (Hitoto Yo) is a young Japanese writer researching the life of Taiwanese musician Jiang Wen-ye who was popular in Japan during the 1930s. Raised by her uncle in Yubari but living in Tokyo with her father and stepmother Yoko becomes friends with Hajime (Asano Tadanobu) the owner of a secondhand bookstore. They often meet in her favorite coffee shop making small talk and enjoying the passing scene. He is a train buff who spends his days riding the subway recording the sound of trains public address announcements and the conversations of passengers. Though they are best friends he is startled to find out that she is pregnant by a Taiwanese whom against her strict parents' wishes she does not want to marry... Acutely observed and exquisitely realized Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 16th film is a loving tribute to the great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. The film the first by Hou to be shot in a foreign location pays homage to Ozu by depicting themes repeated in many of his films: relationships between aging parents the marriage plans of a grown child the coming and going of trains and the quiet contemplation of everyday life.

• Ichi The Killer | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ichi The Killer

• Away With Words | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Asano has a phenomenal memory. For him words take a unique form as he tastes smells and visualises them to the point where he can never forget a word once he has heard it. One day he decides to travel and arrives in Hong Kong where he soon encounters Kevin a man who soon becomes lover confidante and friend to Asano. However Kevin is an alcoholic and the relationship between the two becomes fraught as words seem to stand in the way of the pairs' future together.

• Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore (Limited Edition with Soundtrack CD) | Blu Ray | (07/12/2015) from £17.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (43.78%)   |  RRP £22.99

  "Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. He uses religion and violence to stay in power. What superstition and razzle dazzle don't accomplish, his goons do. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman, who is headstrong and impulsive, and often gets into trouble. Before long, she falls in love with the henchman, and the star-crossed lovers decide to leave town. Fighting ensues. It is while on the run that they finally get to know each other for the first time. "

• Vital | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hiroshi Takagi (Asano) is a young man who has just regained consciousness having slipped into a coma following the horrible car accident which claimed the life of his girlfriend Ryoko. Takagi awakes with no memory of any sort: not of the accident not of his family not of his girlfriend. His parents both doctors take him home where he discovers a box full of old medical textbooks and fascinated he subsequently enrolls in medical school. Still Takagi is a shell of a man; he show

• Ichi the Killer - 3 Disc Special Collectors Box | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A bumper box set featuring the live action feature film and the anime spin-off adventure. Ichi The Killer Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with 100 million yen. His loyal gang members led by Kakihara start a search but their aggressive methods worry the other yakuza gangs. Kakihara's most scary counterpart is the mysterious Ichi a psychopathic killer with a dark childhood secret... Ichi The Killer (Anime): Bullied at school by day and psychologically tormented by th

• Parasyte The Movie: Part 1 | Blu Ray | (11/04/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  THE INVASION BEGINS THIS WINTER! BASED ON THE WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLING MANGA AND HIT ANIME... A series of grizzly murders are occuring around the world. Dubbed the Mincemeat Murders by the press the authorities have no idea who or what is responsible. Meanwhile! Average Japanese high school student Izumi Shinichi discovers an alien parasite living in his right hand. Shinichi calls the parasite Migi which now has an eye and a mouth and is a sentient being in his own right. Accepting the fact that they now have a symbiotic relationship and that if one of them dies the other will also die they join forces against the other parasites invading the earth.