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• Karakuri Circus S1 - S3 - Standard BD | Blu Ray | (03/03/2025) from £38.91   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Narumi Kato, a martial artist afflicted with the bizarre condition known as Zonapha Syndrome, attempts to rescue a young boy from incredibly powerful attackers, he is stunned to discover that his opponents aren't even human!Pulled into a conflict pitting users of lethal puppets and the self-aware Automatons against each other, Narumi finds himself rescued by an unusual young woman named Shirogane, who has her own puppet, Arlequin, and together they must form an alliance to protect the boy, Masaru, who has recently inherited an incredible fortune. But who is trying to kill Masaru and what is the origin of these incredible animated creations? How is it tied in with Narumi's own affliction?The truth surrounding a 200 year old shadow war unfolds as Narumi, Shirogane, and Masaru battle to survive in KARAKURI CIRCUS!

• Red Angel | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (50.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Japan's most notorious and internationally criminally under-exposed films. Shocking beautiful and moving in equal measure this is one of Masumura's very finest achievements. Set against the Sino-Japanese war in 1939 a young angelic military nurse is raped by her patients and sent to the front line for daring to register a complaint. Posted to a rag-tag demoralised unit she falls in love with an impotent morphine-addicted surgeon. Together the pair seek solace in each othe

• Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Part 1 - Beginnings | Blu Ray | (01/08/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What does it really mean to be a magical girl? Madoka Kaname is an eighth-grader who leads a peaceful, fun-filled life as a student, surrounded by her beloved family and her best friends. One day, a transfer student named Homura Akemi arrives in Madoka's class. She is a dark-haired beauty with a somewhat mysterious disposition. Soon after meeting Madoka for the first time, Homura goes on to issue Madoka a strange warning. Madoka also meets Kyubey, a mysterious looking white creature. He says, Make a contract with me and become a magical girl! To make any wish come true Madoka didn't know the meaning of this miracle nor what its cost may prove to be. An impending loss triggers a drastic change in her destiny...

• Mystery Train | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""One of the year's strongest and most memorable features."" - Boxoffice After the critical triumphs of 'Stranger Than Paradise' and 'Down By Law' director Jim Jarmusch was called ""the most arresting filmmaker to surface in the American cinema"" by The New York Times. Mystery Train is a ""smart and curiously affecting"" (The Nation) comedy that is ""funny and thoroughly satisfying"" (The New York Times)! Named after an Elvis Presley hit Mystery Train interweaves three engrossing sto

• Combatants Will Be Dispatched!:The Complete Season - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (05/09/2022) from £18.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As a chief operative of the villainous Kisaragi Corporation, Sentouin Roku-gou receives orders to help the organization conquer the entire known universe. Tasked with infiltrating the kingdom of Gracea mission that could change the fate of the worldRoku-gou mistakenly believes that his skills as a combatant are superb, fuelling his arrogant attitude. To ensure the success of the mission, Alice Kisaragi, an exceptional android with a youthful appearance named after the company itself, is assigned to be Roku-gou's travel companion.

• Ring 2 | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £7.64   |  Saving you £7.35 (96.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Rachel and her son relocate to Oregon in this horror sequel - but the evil soon follows.

• At The Height Of Summer | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £15.23   |  Saving you £4.76 (31.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the Height of Summer is a film by Vietnam's most prominent director, Tran Anh Hung. It's the story of three sisters in present-day Hanoi: the youngest is just discovering sexuality, the middle one is about to have a baby but suspects her husband is having an affair, and the oldest discovers her husband has a child by a woman who lives in the country. In the course of preparing an elaborate meal on the anniversary of their mother's death, the three women discuss their lives and problems. This is a film of great beauty and sensitivity, immaculately shot and owing nothing to stereotyped Western images of Vietnam. The radiant Tran Nu Yen Khe, star of Tran's first two films, The Scent of Green Papaya and Cyclo offers another great performance. One of the director's trademarks is a virtual obsession with food and its preparation. If you aren't hungry when you start this film, you will be at the end. --Ed Buscombe

• To End All Wars | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the book by Captain Ernest Gordon a phenomenal piece of work this is an unforgettable true-life story of extreme endurance survival and redemption set amid the brutal terror of a Japanese POW camp. A story of triumph faith courage and untimely forgiveness. The Times

• All About Lily Chou-Chou | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shunji Iwai's rites of passage movie focuses on the growing pains of a group of schoolchildren whose sole solace in the Japan's pervasive pop cyber culture is in the faceless celebrity singer known only as Lily...

• Gonin | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-15.01 (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

• Shadow Master | Blu Ray | (30/01/2023) from £9.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Arrested for the massacre of mysterious cultists, the mysterious An is brought into custody to unravel the events that led to it. Hired as a Night Watchman, An started out roaming the halls of an abandoned hospital, supervising the squatters that lived there. But he soon discovers that the squatters are victims of a cult who abuse their social status to kidnap children for their ritualistic purposes. Guided by the spirit of Santa Maria, he attempts to stop the cultists but is soon overwhelmed and left for dead. But An is not ready to give up yet, he strikes a deal with a Death God known as Hanuman where he is given unlimited power and abilities in exchange for a piece of his soul. How far in the darkness will he go, in order to save the children from the Four Horsemen.

• All You've Got | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £7.93   |  Saving you £8.06 (101.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two rival volleyball teams both desperate to assert their superiority in their division discover that they aren't as different from each other as they previously thought when tragedy strikes close to home. The Madonnas and the Phantoms are two volleyball teams with a longstanding grudge. With a bitter rivalry that frequently spills off of the court and into the streets the Madonnas and the Phantoms appear to have nothing in common until fate forces them to break down the social and cultural barriers that bind them. Now determined to keep it together on the court as they make their way to the championships these former rivals are about to find out what true sportsmanship is really all about.

• 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...

• The World God Only Knows: Complete Season 2 | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £15.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (78.63%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The God of Conquests Returns! Every otaku's favourite dating sims champion is back! And Keima still has his adorable lost soul-hunting, demon cutie with him! Together, they continue their pursuit of finding escaped lost souls who are hiding within beautiful, young school girls. But how to release these trapped spirits? Why, they have to get the girls to fall in love of course! And this time when lost souls turn up in everyone from the school's bully to the school's hottest new student teache...

• Hanasaku Iroha PT2 BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £27.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ohana's job at Kissuiso continues. Just when she grows accustomed to her daily tasks as a hot spring inn attendant, Kissuiso's financial stability is called into question. An opportunity to have a movie filmed at Kissuiso causes a big to-do, but will that be enough to revitalise interest in the inn and keep everyone's dream alive?

• Guilty Crown Series 1 Part 1 (Eps 01-11) | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £17.97   |  Saving you £10.01 (66.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Shu's entire world was shattered after a meteorite crashed into Japan unleashing the lethal Apocalypse Virus. The chaos and anarchy born of the outbreak cost Shu his family and reduced him to a timid fearful shell of the boy he'd once been. His life took another unexpected turn after a chance encounter with the stunning pop star Inori. This mysterious beauty introduced Shu to the King's Right Hand: a genetic mutation that allows him to reach into hearts of mortals and turn them into weapons. Shu finds himself caught in the crossfire between those who desperately seek his newfound strength. On one side lurks a clandestine government agency and on the other Inori and the spirited band of rebels known as Funeral Parlor. The choice is Shu's to make - and the world is his to change. Special Features: Commentary for Episodes 2 and 4 Guilty Crown 4-Panel Theater Into the Void: The Creative Vision Episode Previews Textless Opening Songs Textless Ending Songs U.S. Trailer Trailers

• 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

• Hanasaku Iroha Pt 1 BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £27.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hanasaku Iroha Part1 When Ohana's mother flees with her boyfriend to avoid paying his debts, Ohana is sent off 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.

• Ambush At Blood Pass | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yojimbo a ronin (Mifune) is secretly commissioned to travel to Sanshu Pass. This once crucial thoroughfare in the time of the warlords is now just a backroad used by outcasts. There he is to wait until an undisclosed event occurs. On his journey he rescues a woman from her violent husband and takes her away with him. They arrive at an inn run by an old man and his granddaughter. This place has become home to a bunch of misfits including a one-time physician (Katsu) a wandering gambler and an officer of the law together with his prisoner. A dramatic chain of events unfolds forcing the once hostile and untrusting characters to unite in a common cause: their own survival. Ambush At Blood Pass examines the complex nature of the human condition under pressure.

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

  Pacific Battleship Yamato