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• The Hunted | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Empire Of Passion | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Very much a companion piece to Nagisa Oshima's classic In The Realm Of The Senses Empire of Passion is part ghost story part love story - a tale of murder guilt and revenge laced with a provocative air of eroticism. Set in rural Japan at the end of the 19th Century the plot is based on the true story of a housewife Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) who embarks on a torrid affair with a younger man Toyoji (Tatsuya Fuji) a soldier recently returned from the war. Following a passionate enc

• Battle Royale - Two Disc Special Edition | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  With the Japanese currently leading the way in thought-provoking cinematic violence, it's only fitting that Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale is being touted as A Clockwork Orange for the 21st century. Based on the novel by Koshun Takami, the film opens with a series of fleeting images of unruly Japanese schoolkids, whose bad behaviour provides a justification for the "punishments" that will ensue. Once the prequel has been dispensed with, the classmates are drugged and awaken on an island where they find they have been fitted with dog collars that monitor their every move. Instructed by their old teacher ("Beat" Takeshi) with the aid of an upbeat MTV-style video, they are told of their fate: after an impartial Lottery they have been chosen to fight each other in a three-day, no-rules contest, the "Battle Royale". Their only chance of survival in the "Battle" is through the death of all their classmates. Some pupils embrace their mission with zeal, while others simply give up or try to become peacemakers and revolutionaries. However, the ultimate drive for survival comes from the desire to protect the one you love. Battle Royale works on many different levels, highlighting the authorities' desperation to enforce law and order and the alienation caused by the generation gap. Whether you view the film as an important social commentary or simply enjoy the adrenalin-fuelled violence, this is set to become cult viewing for the computer-game generation and beyond. On the DVD: Battle Royale comes out fighting in a special edition format only a few months after the initial DVD release became cult viewing. But don't get too excited about the new cut of the film, only a few additional scenes have been added and the alternate ending simply offers a series of Requiem sequences. Disc 2 contains a whole heap of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, unfortunately many of these tend to repeat material. The Q&A with the cast (in full costume) and the director is repeated in the Tokyo Film festival. The special effects comparison feature is a case of "spot the difference" the S-FX hardly being in the Star Wars league and the instructional video on how to direct a film proves that the DVD makers have tried to grasp irony and failed. The disc also includes trailers and text filmographies for "Beat" Takeshi and director Kinji Fukasaku along with a written statement by the master of extreme cinema. Lacking in commentary and substance this DVD is redeemed by a superior sound and visual print to its predecessors. –-Nikki Disney

• Howl's Moving Castle (Limited Edition Sleeve Design Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Kagemusha | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this exciting visually dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa a petty thief named Kagemusha gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda. The warlord has been fighting two other leaders for control of 16th-century Japan and impersonators often take his place during battles to put him out of harm's way. Because of Kagemusha's strong physical similarities to the warlord he's a perfect choice for a ""shadow warrior."" However the arrangement suddenly

• Sword Of Doom | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tatsue (Nakadai) a man brought up to recognise only the way of the sword as the way of life finds that the art of killing is a pleasure. Ranged against him is Shimada (Mifune) who regards the use made of the sword as the manifestation of a man's spiritual state and vows to end Tatsue's spree in an era without values...

• Battle Royale | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This ultra violent satire from Japan tells of 42 teenagers taken to a remote island where they are told that if they wish to survive they must kill all of the others!

• What's Up Tiger Lily | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What better way for writer-star Woody Allen to cash in on the success of What's New Pussycat? than to write a quickie exploitation comedy that makes fun of quickie exploitation films? In What's Up Tiger Lily? his actors dub new dialogue onto a ridiculous Japanese spy extravaganza. Allen's exquisite sense of the absurd is in fine form as espionage professionals pursue a top-secret recipe for egg salad. At one point during the planning of a break-in, a spy unfolds a map of their quarry's residence, explaining that the man "lives here". "He lives on that small piece of paper?" questions one of the henchmen. It's that silly. But it's often uproarious. Louise Lasser, Allen's former wife is among the voice actors. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• Sabu | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A psychological period drama adapted from the classic rites of passage novel by Shuguro Yamamoto set during the Tokugawa era from enfant terrible of Japanese cinema Takashi Miike. Framed for a crime he did not commit Eiji is subjected to the harsh realities of the Ishikawa Island workhouse. Sabu Eiji's long-term friend must discover who is responsible for Eiji's incarceration before prison life consumes him completely...

• Japanese Classics Of Horror And Fantasy | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A box set containing some of the best horror and fantasy films ever produced in Japan! Portrait Of Hell Created by premier Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa (creator of Roshomon) 'Portrait of Hell' is a mesmerising look into humans creating hell on earth in their own unique ways. Must be seen to be believed! Illusion Of Blood From Shiro Toyoda director of the nightmarish 'Portrait Of Hell' comes a chilling story of love betrayal and vengeance. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as the selfish samurai Iyemon who after the loss of his lord has been left impoverished. He become outraged that his father-in-law intends to sell his two daughter's into prostitution. It is not love but respectability that Iyemon desires... Tokyo The Last Megalopolis When Masakado was executed for crimes against humanity over a thousand years ago his malevolent spirit refused to die with him merely becoming dormant and waiting for the chance to rise again. To disturb it is to awaken a terrible vengeance on the city of Tokyo. The demonic psychic Kato attempts to revive the slumbering evil and use its energy to plunge the city into a hell on Earth. It is up to a lone spiritual warrior Keiko a descendant of Masakado to stop the maniacal Kato before the spirit is released and the ancient curse is unleashed upon the world. Princess From The Moon Toshiro Mifune stars in this enchanting film based on the traditional Japanese fairytale 'Kaguya' as the male half of a country couple who find a baby girl in the bamboo and raise her as their own until the truth is revealed when she is taken back...

• Persona | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the novel by Osamu Soda this psychological mystery thriller deals with issue of identity and the struggle for individuality in modern day Japan. Yuki Kawamura and mitsugi Ashihara are students at the private Koyokan High School. One day they receive an e-mail invitation to a 'mask' party from the quiet and introverted classmate from their old middle school. Strange things start to happen at their school as pupils start to don masks and take on new personas. This fashion

• Bullet Ballet | DVD | (27/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Goda's wife has just commited suidide. While the police question him Goda learns that she killed herself using a .38 Police Special. Confused and angry at her death he begins to investigate how she obtained the gun in the first place. Soon his search becomes an obsession as each attempt to get a real gun meets in failure. When fate drops the object of his desire right in his lap he can't wait to use it. He heads out to find the street punks who mugged him and give them some righ

• Oshima Boxset - The Realm of the Senses & Empire of Passion | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Realm of the Senses: Ai No Corrida is perhaps the most notorious erotic film in cinema history having been banned at the 1976 New York Film Festival and denied a video release in the UK until 2000. Based on fact the film depicts the relationship between an ex- prostitute who becomes a domestic servant and her master who have a mutual sexual appetite which is almost boundless. The climax to the film is legendary and has become one of the most talked about scenes in movie history. Empire of Passion: Oshima deservedly won the Best Director award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival for this thrilling ghost story set in late 19th century rural Japan. A housewife embarks on a torrid affair with a younger man and they decide that they must kill her elderly husband in order to protect their sordid secret. Having committed the murder they dispose of the body and explain his absence to the village by claiming he had departed for Tokyo to find work but three years after his death the ghost of the dead husband starts appearing in the village threatening to expose the illicit passion

• What's Up Tiger Lily | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £10.80   |  Saving you £2.19 (16.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In describing What's Up Tiger Lily? we thought it best left to Woody himself: 'We took a Japanese film made in Japan by Japanese actors and actresses and I took out all the soundtrack and knocked out all the voices and I wrote a comedy. The result is a movie where people are running around doing all those James Bondian things but what's coming out of their mouths is something wholly other. It was done before actually in Gone With The Wind but not many people know that. Those were Japanese people actually and we dubbed in American voices Southern voices. But that was years ago'. Woody Allen.

• Massacre Gun | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £7.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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.

• Live At Koenji High | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  For the uninitiated, imagine Yoshida Tatsuya's drum and bass punk-prog-metal duo RUINS, preaching the one true interplanetary gospel - an overcharged jazz fusion opera emboldened by reeds, keyboards and a soaring front-woman speaking in somersaulting tongues.That still doesn't come close.Live at Koenji High is a live document of a band that is indescribable - performing at home - fresh off of their European tour, and with new members AH on vocals and Yabuki Taku on keyboards. Filmed with multiple cameras and excellent sound, Live at Koenji High is the bare bones - no interview clips - no special features - no mysteries revealed - just Koenjihyakkei live on stage.Previously available only in a limited pressing in Japan, Live at Koenji High includes two new songs, unavailable anywhere else and comes packaged in a standard DVD case with all new, exclusive cover art.Track Listing:1. Vissqaguell2. Becttem Pollt3. Rattims Friezz4. Dhorimviskha5. Phlessttighas6. Fettim Paillu7. Angher Shisspa8. Wammilica Iffirom

• Battle Royale 2 - Revenge | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  This time it's war! Louder longer even more brutal! Battle Royale 2 gets an extended version! Three years after the events of the original Battle Royale the survivor of the game Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist and leading his group known as Wild Seven is determined to bring down the government. To counter this new threat the government enacts the New Century Terrorist Counter - Measure Alternative program (a.k.a. the Battle Royale II act) and sends the forty-two students of Shikanotoride Junior High Class 3-B to hunt Nanahara and his cohorts down in their island stronghold. Shiori Kitano the daughter of the late headmaster of Nanahara's first Battle Royale signs up for the program to avenge her father. In order for the government to study the benefits of teamwork the new students are forced to work in pairs with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days or die... Director Kinji Fukasaku died during the making of the film and so it fell to his son Kenta to complete this apocalyptic vision in the process turning it into an even bigger box-office smash than the original in Japan. Liberally soaked in black humour and satirical comments on current world affairs the fight for survival is on!

• The Toshiro Mifune Trilogy | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sword Of Doom: Tatsue (Nakadai) a man brought up to recognise only the way of the sword as the way of life finds that the art of killing is a pleasure. Ranged against him is Shimada (Mifune) who regards the use made of the sword as the manifestation of a man's spiritual state and vows to end Tatsue's spree in an era without values... Samurai Assassin: Threatened from the East and West Japan and the Tokugawa Shogunate are dangerously unstable. Lord Li Naosuke the 'Red Devil' has raised up a puppet figure to become the Shogun lemoshil. The year is 1860. Among his opposition is the Mito Clan. Undefeated they are planning his assassination. Amongst their numbers is one Niiro Tsurichiyo (Toshiro Mifune). The illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman Niiro has been brought up in a merchants household harbouring ambitions to become a samurai. A swordsman of outstanding ability a social outcast earning his living through brawling and blackmail. Now the Mito Clan suspect him of being a spy... Samurai Rebellion: Sasahara (Mifune) has spent his life as a retainer in the service of his lord. Yet when his lord seizes his daughter-in-law for his own gratification Sasahara is brought into conflict not only with his master but also his oldest friend Asano (Nakadai)...

• Zatoichi at the Fire Festival | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It is Tempo-era Japan in the nineteenth century. Zatoichi is on his travels again. They will bring him to a village where the Boss of All Bosses Yamikubo holds sway a man known as the Prince of Darkness. This is a place where women can be bought at auction... and if the bidder is unlucky enough to purchase the wife of one particular nameless samurai the commission on the sale is his life. It is a town where fate introduces Zatoichi to another blind man the Boss of All Bosses who proceeds to unravel the ways of destiny for him and illuminates the duty of the blind. Here Zatoichi teaches Umeji a boy who is a pimp the way to be a man... and nearly loses his second virginity in the process. It is back to this place that he is invited by his newfound guru the blind boss. And at this party the father of his female companion Okiyo is to take Yamikubo's place as the Boss of All Bosses. This is a party where human flesh will fuel the flames in an incandescent night where love and hate are seen to be the same thing observed from a distance by the shadowy figure of the masterless samurai.

• Ran | HD DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A