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• Sanjuro | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sequel to Kurosawa's own 'Yojimbo' in which the crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent...

• In The Realm of The Senses - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  One of the most shocking true stories to hit Japanese society and one of the most controversial films ever made, world renowned director Nagisa Oshima's In The Realm Of The Senses is like no other film you have experienced. Immediately banned on its 1976 release in the United States, given a limited release in the U.K and still censored in its own country, In The Realm Of The Senses is a masterpiece notorious for its graphic sexual content, scandalous subject matter and its unforgettable climax.Set in Pre-War Tokyo, 1936, In The Realm Of The Senses tells the story of Sade Abe. Having found work as a maid in a popular hotel, Sade soon begins a torrid relationship with the infamous owner. Completely infatuated with each other, their increasingly experimental sexual encounters spiral into an all-consuming, obsessive and destructive love affair where even life is worth sacrificing.

• 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

• 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.

• Black Belt | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £10.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (31.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 2005, "ONG BAK" set the martial arts world on fire again, bringing REAL martial arts back to movies. Now "BLACK BELT" brings the real force of karate to the screen.

• Death Note 1 and 2 Special Edition Twin Set | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £14.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (34.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Death Note: Based on the hit supernatural action mystery manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.The live-action film directed by Shusuke Kaneko - already established as a director of note through his series of popular monster movies featuring 'Gamera' - was released in late 2006 and went straight to the number 1 slot in Japan. The film follows the Manga story of Light Yagami who is a brilliant but bored student with great prospects. Life changes dramatically when he finds the Death Note a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami (God of Death) named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies. Light sees an opportunity to rid the world of evil using the powers granted in the Death Note.The police authorities call in the help of the famous but unconventional detective L when criminals begin to mysteriously die. Both Light and L believe themselves to be serving justice and so begins the battle of wits to see who really is good or evil. Death Note 2: 'The last name to be written in the Death Note... Whose name will it be?' Light and L's psychological duel enters a new phase; whoever is careless for even a split second will lose! To complicate things further Rem another shinigami brings the second notebook and Misa Amane a Japanese pop star and Kira worshipper comes into possession of it. Now becoming a Kira herself she accepts an offer to have the Eyes of the Death. With the Eyes of the Death one can know the name of any person without being told. Misa and Light begin to work together to find the true name of L...

• Criterion Collection: Yojimbo & Sanjuro | Blu Ray | (23/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Massacre Gun | Blu Ray | (28/06/2017) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Genre icon Jô Shishido stars in this tense and violent yakuza yarn from genre stalwart and Seijun Suzuki’s former assistant Yasuharu Hasebe (Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song). Shishido stars as Kuroda a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji In the Realm of the Senses) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious. Strikingly violent for the period and gorgeously photographed in monochrome like genre siblings Branded to Kill and A Colt is My Passport (Shishido’s other films from 1967) Massacre Gun is a bold iteration on the genre featuring some stunning compositions and the assured direction of Hasebe. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Limited Edition Blu-ray (3000 copies only) Restored High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation on Blu-ray for the first time in the world! Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Newly translated English subtitles Brand new interview with star Jô Shishido Interview with renowned critic and historian Tony Rayns Original theatrical trailer Gallery featuring rare promotional images Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ian MacEwan booklet featuring new writing on the film by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp newly illustrated by Ian MacEwan and featuring original archive stills

• 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

• Dolls | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £9.32   |  Saving you £10.67 (114.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dolls is a film of extraordinary beauty and tenderness from a filmmaker chiefly associated with grave mayhem and deadpan humor. That is to say, this is not one more Takeshi Kitano movie focused on stoical cops or gangsters. The title refers most directly, but not exclusively, to the theatrical tradition of Bunraku, enacted by half-life-size dolls and their visible but shrouded onstage manipulators. Such a performance--a drama of doomed lovers--occupies the first five minutes of the film, striking a keynote that resonates as flesh-and-blood characters take up the action. The film-proper is dominated by the all-but-wordless odyssey of a susceptible yuppie and the jilted fiancée driven mad by his desertion to marry the boss's daughter. Bound by a blood-red cord, they move hypnotically through a landscape variously urban and natural, stylized only by the breathtaking purity of light, angle, color, and formal movement imposed by Kitano's compositional eye and rigorous, fragmentary editing. Along the way we also pick up the story of an elderly gangster, haunted by memories of the lover he deserted three decades earlier and generations of "brothers" for whose deaths he was, in the accepted order of things, responsible. Another strand is added to the imagistic weave via a doll-like pop singer and a groupie blinded by devotion to her. This is a film in which character, morality, metaphysics, and destiny are all expressed through visual rhyme and startling adjustments of perspective. It sounds abstract--and it is--but it's also heartbreaking and thrilling to behold. Kitano isn't in it, but as an artist he's all over it. His finest film, and for all its exoticism, his most accessible. --Richard T. Jameson

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

  Pacific Battleship Yamato

• Death Note - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Death Note is based on the hit supernatural action mystery manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The live-action film directed by Shusuke Kaneko (Azumi 2 Gamera) follows the manga story of Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara - Battle Royale) a brilliant but bored student with great prospects. Life changes dramatically when he finds the Death Note a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies. Light sees an opportunity to rid the world of evil using the powers granted in the Death Note. Police call in the help of the famous but unconventional detective L when criminals begin to mysteriously die. So begins the battle of wits to see who really is good or evil.

• Death Note | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £7.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (88.08%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With his memory recovered and Higuchi of the Yotsuba Group out of the way Light can put his master plan into motion and march humanity closer to his perfect world. Then a new investigative force steps forward to challenge Kira - the SPK headed by boy genius Near. Near's first plan of action: get his hands on a Death Note. And when Light's sister Sayu is kidnapped it just might get him closer to his goal!

• Stray Cat Rock: The Collection | Blu Ray | (03/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Stray Cat Rock series stars Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood Blind Woman's Curse) who with these five films began her reign as the badass action queen of the era. In these five tales of rebellious youth she stars alongside the gorgeous Bunjaku Han (Love Letter) and Tatsuya Fuji (In the Realm of the Senses). In Delinquent Girl Boss the girl gang go up against criminal organisation the Seiyu Group following a fixed boxing match blood is shed and friendships are tested. In Wild Jumbo Kaji and the gang get involved in a kidnapping and the robbery of a religious organisation. InSex Hunter Kaji's girl gang go up against The Eagles a group led by Fuji where sex and violence erupt over the treatment of 'half-breeds'. In Machine Animal gang rivalry is once again the focus with two gangs pursuing some LSD pushers looking to move a big score. The series swansong Beat'71 sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united. Directed by genre veterans Yasuharu Hasebe (Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song) and Toshiya Fujita (Lady Snowblood) the films feature a psychedelic mix of girl gangs bikers sex drugs and rock and roll with plenty of ass-kicking to boot all captured in a delirious mash up of pop aesthetics including split screens freeze frames injections of colour frenetic editing and dizzying angles making these films a riotous joy from beginning to end. Special Features: Limited Edition Blu-ray (2000 copies only) High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of all 5 films in the Stray Cat Rock series available in the English speaking world for the first time Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays) New English subtitle translation of all five films Interview with Yasuharu Hasebe director of Delinquent Girl Boss Sex Hunter and Machine Animal Interview with actor Tatsuya Fuji star of all five films Original Trailers for all five films Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp

• Empire of Passion - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In feudal Japan a young soldier begins an intense affair with an older married woman. Driven by passion, obsession and jealousy they decide to violently murder her husband and dispose of the body in a nearby well. Claiming her husband is working away from home the couple carry on their affair in secret. Three years later her husband returns from the dead to haunt the illicit couple, feeding off their guilt and pushing them deeper into the dark realms of insanity.With films such as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Gohatto and the infamous In The Realm Of The Senses, director Nagisa Oshima is one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in Japanese cinema. Made in 1978, Empire Of Passion is an atmospheric, unsettling and unforgettable experience. A huge influence on contemporary Asian horror it has lost none of its beguiling power.

• Criterion Collection: Yojimbo | Blu Ray | (23/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Death Note Vol.5 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Mello realizes that he may be Kira's next target he bursts into the SPK headquarters to retrieve a picture of himself--and gives Near a piece of information that may prove to be an invaluable advantage: some of the Death Note rules are fake. With this information in hand Near's suspicions of the task force and Light in particular become certainties. Now that he's in the spotlight once more Light decides it's time to recruit some new disciples...

• Arrietty Deluxe Collector's Edition - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Inspired by Mary Norton's classic children's book The Borrowers, tiny 14 year old Arrietty lives under the floorboards of an old house with her father and mother. Their peaceful life is dramatically changed when the ever curious Arrietty accidentally allows herself to be seen by Sho, a poorly and lonesome 12 year old human boy. The fledgling friendship between the two lonely children causes Haru the housekeeper to become aware of the borrowers' existence. The family of little borrowers are forced to choose between staying in their well-established home or leaving for the uncertainty of the great outdoors. "Arrietty is an enchanting and tender Ghibli treasur"Little White Lies "Jaw-droppingly beautiful, superbly paced, devastatingly charming"News of The World LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR'S DOUBLE PLAY (includes 5 postcards plus DVD and Blu-ray) EXTRAS: STORYBOARDS, TRAILERS AND JAPANESE TV SPOTS, INTERVIEWS WITH HAYAO MIYAZAKI – HIROMASA YONEBAYASHI, CECILE CORBEL “ARRIETTY’S SONG” PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

• Death Note - The Movie (2 Disc Limited Edition) | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £30.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "The human whose name is written in this note shall die." In "Death Note", Light Yagami is an elite university student and a genius who stumbles upon a shinigami's (God of Death) dropped 'Death Note'.

• Shikabane Hime - Corpse Princess Vol.1 | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £25.25   |  Saving you £-0.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Makina Hoshino is already dead, but she can’t let go of this twisted world. She burned to death along with her entire family in a fire started by freaks that wouldn’t stay buried. Makina knows she doesn’t belong among the living, but that won’t stop her from unleashing the full fury of her twin MAC-11 machine guns on the rotting remains of those who refuse to die. She’s hell-bent on filling every empty grave she can find with the monsters that should be six feet under. Makina is a Shikabane Hime – a Corpse Princess – and it’s her job to finish off the undead leftovers haunting the dark corners of a city that used to be safe.