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• Azumi | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (70.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In war-torn Shogunate Japan Azumi (Aya Ueto) is a beautiful young girl who has been trained from childhood with nine other orphans to become a fearless assassin. Martial arts master Gessai (Yoshio Harada) has raised the ten children in complete seclusion in the hope that his protgs will one day defeat the merciless warlords and restore peace to the land. To test that they are the ruthless killers they will need to be for the mission Gessai orders them to pair off and fight to the

• Princess Blade | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (15.49%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Shinsuke Sato's The Princess Blade is, in some respects, a standard Japanese action adventure with a lot of swordplay and repayment of blood debts; but it differs in that it stretches the formula in interesting ways. Its moody angst is turned up to full power and it has a twilit elegiac quality, a sense of the sadness of things, which is at once very Japanese and very stylish. Yukio is one of the assassins of the house of Takemikazuchi, a group of exiled royal guards from a neighbouring kingdom who have created a life in the isolated low-tech kingdom Japan has become in some near future. She is in fact the last of the original Takemikazuchi family, who have gradually been marginalised and murdered. Informed of this and on the run from her fellow swordsmen, she takes refuge with, and falls for, Takashi, an assassin of a more modern kind, an alienated young man whose concern for his retarded sister sits uneasily with his bomb-making. The film moves steadily from explosions of passionate action beautifully choreographed to quiet intense moments of stillness, ending ambiguously on the latter. It is a superior film in its genre because it coherently questions the values and actions it celebrates. --Roz Kaveney

• Ring - SteelBook - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (18/03/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introducing a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse Arrow Video is proud to present Ring, the film that started it all, restored from the original negative in glorious high definition and supplemented by a wealth of archival and newly created bonus materials. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, approved by director of photography Junichiro Hayashi High definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Lossless Japanese DTS-HD master audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 soundtracks Optional English subtitles New audio commentary by film historian David Kalat The Ring Legacy, a series of new interviews from critics and filmmakers on their memories of the Ring series and its enduring legacy A Vicious Circle, a new video interview with author and critic Kat Ellinger on the career of Hideo Nakata Circumnavigating Ring, a new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ring series Sadako's Video Theatrical trailers Booklet containing new writing by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Limited edition packaging featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Set Two (Episodes 14-26) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What's scarier than facing an army of ninja warriors? School exams! As everyone scrambles to prepare, Sarada goes on a quest to uncover the secret of her birth and find out more about her father, Sasuke. Will she find the answers she seeks in this shadowy legend? Then Boruto and classmates take a trip to a place haunted by a bloody pastthe Village Hidden in the Mist. This is one trip they won't forget!

• Hanasaku Iroha Collection BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (08/03/2021) from £34.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hanasaku Iroha Collection When Ohana's mother flees with her boyfriend to avoid paying his debts, Ohana is sent to live with her grandmother, who owns the hot spring inn, Kissuiso. Upon arriving Ohana is put to work at the inn. Thrust into a life where the customers always come first, she struggles to find her place at the inn and fit in with her coworkers.

• Hidden Fortress | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A story of rival clans hidden gold and a princess in distress The Hidden Fortress is a thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai action movie. It was Kurosawa's first film shot in the widescreen process of Tohoscope and he exploited this to the full in the film's rich variety of landscape locations including the slopes of Mount Fuji. The Hidden Fortress became Kurosawa's biggest box-office hit to date and won several awards including the Golden Bear at the 1959 Berlin Film Fest

• Sanjuro | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  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...

• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (23/09/2024) from £28.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom - Part 1 | DVD | (17/10/2022) from £10.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to the princess, Kazuya Souma is crowned the new king. Unlike the royalty before him, he won't be using swords and magic to rule; will administrative reform really get this kingdom back on track?

• Shogun (New to Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (11/06/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Remastered in amazing high definition, SHOGUN is one of the most famous and award-winning television events in history. From bestselling author James Clavell comes the sweeping story of love and war, set against the brutal background of feudal Japan at the beginning of the 17th century. Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, a sailor shipwrecked off the coast of Japan. Rescued, he becomes an eyewitness to a deadly struggle involving Toranaga, a feuding warlord intent on becoming SHOGUN - the supreme military dictator. Blackthorne is irresistibly drawn to the magnificent Lady Mariko, the married confidant to Toranaga, while at the same time vying to become the first-ever foreigner to be made a samurai warrior. For the first time on Blu-ray, this landmark television event is packed with fascinating special features that take you inside the spectacular world of SHOGUN.

• Snow Falling on Cedars | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fog as thick and palpable as cotton hangs suspended over San Piedro Island. On the bay, a flickering lantern signals distress from a crippled fishing boat, while elsewhere a freighter lurches blindly through the chalky mist.

• Princess Mononoke | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Princess Mononoke has already made history as the top-grossing domestic feature ever released in Japan, where its combination of mythic themes, mystical forces, and ravishing visuals tapped deeply into cultural identity and contemporary, ecological anxieties. For international animation and anime fans, this epic, animated 1997 fantasy, represents an auspicious next step for its revered creator, Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service), an acknowledged anime pioneer, whose painterly style, vivid character design, and stylised approach to storytelling take ambitious, evolutionary steps here. Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god", transformed by human anger. Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal curse brings him into the midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle between man and nature. Miyazaki's convoluted fable is clearly not the stuff of kiddie matinees, nor is the often graphic violence depicted during the battles that ensue. If some younger viewers (or less attentive older ones) will wish for a diagram to sort out the players, Miyazaki's atmospheric world and its lush visual design are reasons enough to watch. For the English-language version, Miramax assembled an impressive vocal cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup (as Ashitaka), Claire Danes (as San), Minnie Driver (as Lady Eboshi), Billy Bob Thornton, and Jada Pinkett Smith. They bring added nuance to a very different kind of magic kingdom. -- Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com On the DVD: with an impressive widescreen aspect of 2.35:1 and a pleasant 5.1 Dolby digital sound, you cannot fault the transfer of this animation in any way. However, the special features leave a lot to be desired on what is a classic piece of modern anime. The "Behind the Scenes" feature holds no information on the making of Princess Mononoke in its original form--with no input from animator Hayao Miyazaki--and the trailer is taken from the American release of the movie (even though it calls itself an "original" theatrical trailer), complete with the annoyingly hyped-up voiceover that comes with US film trailers. The redeeming feature of this DVD is the ability to watch the anime in its original language with subtitles, a much more passionate and beautiful form--so much of the feeling and lyricism of the movie is lost with the transfer to English language and misplaced casting. After watching the original Japanese version of Princess Mononoke and reading the book you begin to wonder why the West has become such a solitary child of Disney. --Nikki Disney

• Samurai Bride - Complete Collection | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £19.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Complete collection of episodes from the anime series based on the light novels by Akira Suzuki. The episodes are: 'True Shadow Now Open' 'Kiss Again' 'Love and Kiss' 'Bride of the General' 'Underworld Supremacy' 'The Reputed Dandy Guest' 'Non-Cancelable!' 'Shadow of Mystery' 'The New Master Samurai' 'Secret of the Chingo Stone' 'The Showdown' and 'Birth of Samurai Bride'.

• The First Purge (4KUHD + Blu-ray + digital download) | 4K UHD | (29/10/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Behind every tradition lies a revolution. Next Independence Day, witness the rise of our country's 12 hours of annual lawlessness. Welcome to the movement that began as a simple experiment: The First Purge. To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the marginalized, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

• Red Beard | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £18.44   |  Saving you £3.31 (19.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The last and most ambitious of Akira Kurosawa's collaborations with Toshiro Mifune Red Beard marked the end of one of the most remarkable actor-director relationships in the history of cinema. Toshiro Mifune plays a commanding but humane doctor in a rural clinic in late 19th-century Japan. An idle and socially ambitious intern (Yuzo Kayama) arrives at the clinic and discovers the meaning of responsibility first to oneself and then to others. This intimate epic - a

• Love Hina Collection (inc Xmas & Spring specials) | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £53.45   |  Saving you £-13.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Love Hina: Collection (Including Xmas & Spring Specials) (8 Discs)

• The Scent Of Green Papaya | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On DVD for the first time; Tran Anh Hung's beautiful and intoxicating film begins in Saigon in 1951. Ten year old Mui takes up her position as servant to a wealthy though troubled family. She performs her duties with great diligence while carefully observing and taking great pleasure from the smallest details of life around her. Ten years later her life changes when she is sent to work for a family friend who had always held a fascination for her. 'The Scent of Green Papaya' is fi

• Insecure | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £6.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Created by Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, Insecure explores the black female experience. Modern-day black women are usually portrayed as strong, confident and flawless. But Issa and Molly are definitely not killing it. These best friends must deal with their own real-life flaws as they attempt to navigate different worlds and cope with an endless series of uncomfortable everyday experiences Episode Names: 1. Insecure as F**k 2. Messy as F**k 3. Racist as F**k 4. Thirsty as F**k 5. Shady as F**k 6. Guilty as F**k 7. Real as F**k 8. Broken as F**k Extra Content: A. On the Set with Issa Rae (4:33) B. Insecure: In the Room (2:00) C. Conjugal Visits (3:52)

• Ring | DVD | (18/03/2019) from £8.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introducing a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse Arrow Video is proud to present Ring, the film that started it all, restored from the original negative in glorious high definition and supplemented by a wealth of archival and newly created bonus materials. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, approved by director of photography Junichiro Hayashi Standard definition DVD presentation Japanese 5.1 and 2.0 soundtracks Optional English subtitles New audio commentary by film historian David Kalat The Ring Legacy, a series of new interviews from critics and filmmakers on their memories of the Ring series and its enduring legacy A Vicious Circle, a new video interview with author and critic Kat Ellinger on the career of Hideo Nakata Circumnavigating Ring, a new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ring series Sadako's Video Theatrical trailers Limited edition packaging featuring original and newly commissioned artwork

• Hyouka The Complete Series Limited Edition + Digital copy | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A worthy addition to any animation fan's collection, Hyouka is a stunning masterwork that spins a charming tale of high school romance and mystery. After disenchanted student Hotaro Oreki joins his school's Classic Lit Club, he meets Eru Chitanda, a kindhearted and inquisitive girl with boundless curiosity, and a knack for getting him caught up in all sorts of trouble. Limited Edition Contains: The complete series on Blu-ray 32 Page Artbook 6 Art Cards All encased in a rigid box