"Actor: Takeshi Kitano"

• Outrage | Blu Ray | (14/11/2011) from £9.71   |  Saving you £15.28 (157.36%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The king of yakuza epics Takeshi Kitano (Brother, Zatoichi, Hana-Bi, Sonatine) returns with his most violent gangster film yet. Mr. Chairman, the head of the ruling Sannokai yakuza clan, suspects that his henchman Ikemoto has struck a forbidden alliance with rival gangster Murase. Ikemoto tries to quell his boss' distrust by making a move against Murase, marking the start of a ruthless series of conflicts and betrayals. Before long, several yakuza clans are out for blood in their constant battle for power and money. The rival bosses fight to rise through the ranks by scheming and making short-lived allegiances. In this corrupt world where there are no heroes, it's a bad guy vs. bad guy in a spiralling outrage of gang warfare.

• Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £33.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1942: British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) arrives at a Japanese POW camp run by the disciplinarian Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto) who believes the prisoners are cowards because they have chosen to surrender instead of honourably committing seppuku (ritual suicide). When Yonoi meets Celliers he believes he is an evil spirit and a battle of wills begins between the two men.... This is not your average war movie and the performances by Bowie Sakamoto Tom Conti (who plays Mr Lawr

• Kikujiro | Blu Ray | (22/02/2016) from £17.05   |  Saving you £2.94 (17.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A story of the friendship between a small boy and a washed-up yakusa. When young Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) discovers a picture of his long-lost mother at his grandmother's house, he decides to leave the city and go in search of her. Travelling with the lazy, small-time gangster Kikujuro (Kitano), Masao's journey gets off to a bad start when the pair lose all their money at the racetrack and are forced to continue on foot. As their journey develops, and as they reach their final destination, the pair begin to appreciate that the most important thing about their quest has been the time they spent together.

• Keanu Reeves - Speed / Point Break / Johnny Mnemonic / Chain Reaction / A Walk In The Clouds | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Speed (1994): Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrills breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb wi

• Getting Any? | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the acclaimed director Takeshi Kitano [Fireworks, Kikujiro] comes a bizarre, over the top and absurd comedy full of slapstick silliness and never ending gags. A great satire of Japanese society and popular cinema, Getting Any?, embraces the spirit of Kitano s early stand-up and television work and as such it offers a genuine inside look into his true personality. The story follows the nerdy middle age Asao, a professional daydreamer, whose one and only goal in life is - as the title suggests - to get laid. Asao embarks on a series of slapstick adventures in search of fulfilling his ultimate fantasy - making wild passionate sex with a woman. His holy quest for sex lands Asao in a series of absurd situations, involving robbery schemes, big movie productions, yakuza gang rivalry wars and scientific experiments. Getting Any? may be very episodic and perhaps even pointless in the grand scheme of things, but for those willing to go for it, it's a hoot from start to finish. Special Features: Brand new restoration First 1000 copies come with limited edition slipcase

• 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.

• Battle Royale 3 Disc Edition | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £31.70   |  Saving you £-11.71 (-58.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ONE DEAD. 41 TO GO. Battle Royale is back. It's time to return to the island and kill your friends because the cult Japanese movie that defines twisted action and sickening violence is ready to shock you all over again. In a world where teenagers have no respect and adults are losing control there can be only one solution: Battle Royale! Now see what happens when you let a high school class loose on an island arm them and then give them a simple choice... Kill your friends or have them kill you; with poison cross-bows machetes and dynamite. `Beat Takeshi Kitano (Violent Cop Zatoichi) is a teacher pushed to the edge by his unruly charges. Kidnapped and gassed his class wake up with exploding metal rings around their necks. If they rebel they could lose their heads. Now they have three days and only one is permitted to survive this grisly battle to the death. Directed by the master of 70s Yakuza thrillers Kinji Fukasaku and featuring Kill Bill star Chiaki Kuriyama Battle Royale is the movie that helped to define extreme Asian cinema in the 21st Century.

• Brother | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £9.59   |  Saving you £-4.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Written, directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano, Brother is the story of a displaced yakuza gangster (Takeshi Kitano), whose crime family is annihilated in a Tokyo gang war, and who flies to LA in search of his brother.

• Boiling Point | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £4.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (101.41%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Masaki a gas station attendant and local baseball player incurs the wrath of the local yakuza the notorious Japanese criminal organization he heads to Okinawa to buy a gun so he can stand up for himself. While there he is joined in his quest for revenge by a former gangster (Kitano) who seemingly has his own reasons for revenge. Violence escalates until the mild-mannered Masaki takes an oil truck from his gas station and drives it straight into yakuza headquarters...

• 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...

• Battle Royale (3 Disc Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  One Dead. 41 To Go. Battle Royale is back. It’s time to return to the island and kill your friends, because the cult Japanese movie that defines twisted action and sickening violence is ready to shock you all over again. In a world where teenagers have no respect and adults are losing control there can be only one solution: Battle Royale! Now, see what happens when you let a high school class loose on an island, arm them and then give them a simple choice... Kill your friends or have them kill you; with poison, cross-bows, machetes and dynamite. ‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano (Violent Cop, Zatoichi) is a teacher pushed to the edge by his unruly charges. Kidnapped and gassed, his class wake up with exploding metal rings around their necks. If they rebel, they could lose their heads. Now they have three days and only one is permitted to survive this grisly battle to the death. Directed by the master of 70s Yakuza thrillers Kinji Fukasaku and featuring Kill Bill star Chiaki Kuriyama, Battle Royale is the movie that helped to define extreme Asian cinema in the 21st Century. 3 Disc Edition Features: Collector’s booklet by Tom Mes, author of ‘The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film’ illustrated with stills, artwork and a printed interview with director Kinji Fukasaku Brand new restored transfer in glorious high definition 1080p of the Theatrical Version and Director’s Cut Brand new subtitle translation on both features Disc 1 – Theatrical Cut: Special Features Original theatrical trailer The making of Battle Royale: The Experience of 42 High School Students Disc 2 – Special Edition [Director’s Cut]: Special Features Conducting Battle Royale with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra Special Edition Trailer TV Spot: Tarantino Version Shooting the Special Edition Takeshi Kitano Interview The Correct Way to Make Battle Royale [Birthday Verion] Tokyo International Film Festival Presentation Disc 3 – Special Features Opening Day at Marunouchi Toei Movie Theatre The Slaughter of 42 High School Students Premiere Press Conference The Correct Way to Fight in Battle Royale Royale Rehearsals Masamichi Amano conducts Battle Royale Special Effects Comparison Behind the Scenes Featurette Filming on Set TV Spots, Promos and Commercials Kinji Fukasaku Trailer Reel

• 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.

• Johnny Mnemonic/Chain Reaction/Point Break | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £25.25   |  Saving you £-12.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Johnny Mnemonic: The 21st Century. Information is the ultimate commodity. The most valuable of information is transported in Mnemonic implants in the heads of professional Mnemonic couriers like Johnny who offer both security and confidentiality for the right price. But Johnny has paid a heavy price of his own - he's dumped his own memories to make room for the programmes he smuggles. To buy them back he agrees to deliver priceless data the most important data of the 21st Century data that has already set an army of professional killers on his trail. But the massive upload is too much for his brain and Johnny must find the secret codes to download the information - or die! Chain Reaction: A student machinist (Keanu Reeves) finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups high tech espionage and murders after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich (Reeves) and Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finishes celebrating their triumph than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named as the main suspects Eddie and Lily quickly realise their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureaucrat (Morgan Freeman) who may or may not be on their side. Point Break: Keanu Reeves stars as Johnny Utah a clean-cut FBI rookie assigned to track down a gang of bank robbers operating in Southern California. Since his partner (Gary Busey) is convinced that the robbers are surfers Johnny decides to go undercover in the maverick world of surfing. He soon meets Bohdi (Patrick Swayze) a charismatic adrenaline junkie who'll do anything for a thrill..perhaps even rob banks. As the two become friends Johnny falls under the dangerous influence of Bohdi. He becomes addicted to the endless days of surfing and reckless nights of partying and even gets involved with Bohdi's ex-girlfriend (Lori Petty). As Johnny gets closer to cracking the case he learns the truth of Bohdi's most important lesson - if you want the ultimate thrill you have to pay the ultimate price.

• Zatoichi (Collector's Edition) | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Masterless samurai Zatoichi comes to a village that is on the brink of gang war. Always on the run and looking for the next dice game a blind masseur and swordsman soon finds himself a wanted man in town when he protects his landlord's nephew in a slaughter at the makeshift casino. At the same time two geishas come to town to seek revenge for the deaths of their family ten years previously. As they begin to hunt down those responsible Zatoichi and the geishas find themselves targets in a final bloody showdown... Resplendent with Takeshi Kitano's trademark blend of skewed social probing comedy and violence the famous Japanese Zatoichi character gets a new spin helping the film secure four awards at the Venice film festival in addition to the People's Choice award in Toronto.

• Violent Cop | DVD | (05/01/2010) from £13.24   |  Saving you £6.75 (50.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Japanese superstar Beat Takeshi Kitano makes his directorial debut in this critically acclaimed action film in which he also stars as Azuma an urban cop at the end of his rope. Not above using violent tactics in order to punish the lawless Azuma's daily routine involves a new partner and a mentally challenged sister. When his violent ways cause the death of a friend his short fuse comes dangerously close to reaching its' end...

• Sonatine | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Takeshi is Murakawa an established and ruthless Yakuza sent outside his usual turf to intervene in a gang war on the tropical island of Okinawa. Things go badly wrong and he and his gang get caught in the crossfire. Forced to retreat to a seaside hideaway they kill time and fool around on the beach but then their enemies start picking them off one by one. Murakawa decides to go on the offensive for a final and breathtaking showdown... Contrasting lyrical scenes with shocking bursts of violence laughter with gunfire 'Sonatine' is Takeshi at his best.

• Arakimentari | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £11.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The documentary feature 'Arakimentari' explores the work of popular and controversial Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in a style designed to match Araki's own. Araki's fame and the debate around his photography derive mostly from his work with nudes which blur the lines normally established between art erotica and pornography. The photographs have often been credited with reversing the Japanese ban on the visual representation of pubic hair and Araki has been seen by his s

• Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence | DVD | (17/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A highly unusual war movie with as many detractors as fans, this first English-language feature directed by Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) stars David Bowie as a silent, ethereal POW in a Japanese camp. In the face of the camp's brutal conditions and treatment of prisoners, Bowie's character earns the respect of the camp commandant (played by Japanese pop star Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also wrote the score) through his own enigmatic rebellion. While the two seem locked in an unspoken, spiritual understanding, another prisoner (Tom Conti) engages in a more conventional resistance against a monstrous sergeant (Takeshi). The film has a way of evoking as many questions as certainties, and it is not always easy to understand the internal logic of the characters' actions. But that's generally true of Oshima's movies, in which the power of certain relationships is almost hallucinatory in self-referential intensity. The cast is outstanding, and Bowie is particularly fascinating in his alien way. --Tom Keogh

• Battle Royale 3 Disc Edition | Blu Ray | (07/03/2011) from £39.13   |  Saving you £-10.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.99

  ONE DEAD. 41 TO GO. Battle Royale is back. It's time to return to the island and kill your friends because the cult Japanese movie that defines twisted action and sickening violence is ready to shock you all over again. In a world where teenagers have no respect and adults are losing control there can be only one solution: Battle Royale! Now see what happens when you let a high school class loose on an island arm them and then give them a simple choice... Kill your friends or have them kill you; with poison cross-bows machetes and dynamite. `Beat' Takeshi Kitano (Violent Cop Zatoichi) is a teacher pushed to the edge by his unruly charges. Kidnapped and gassed his class wake up with exploding metal rings around their necks. If they rebel they could lose their heads. Now they have three days and only one is permitted to survive this grisly battle to the death. Directed by the master of 70s Yakuza thrillers Kinji Fukasaku and featuring Kill Bill star Chiaki Kuriyama Battle Royale is the movie that helped to define extreme Asian cinema in the 21st Century.