"Actor: Yoshinori Okada"

• Tekkonkinkreet | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the creators of Animatrix comes this visually-stunning new anime film based on a popular Japanese manga written by Taiyo Matsumoto. In Treasure Town where the moon smiles and young boys can fly life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes Black and White two street urchins who watch over the city doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. Tekkonkinkreet is a dynamic tale of brotherh

• Tekkonkinkreet | Blu Ray | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tekkonkinkreet is a landmark in the increasing cross-pollination between Japanese and American animation: Based on a manga by Taiyo Matsumoto, the film was made in Japan at Studio 4C, but directed by American Michael Arrias. The story unfolds in Treasure Town, a scabrous metropolitan slum so gritty it makes the viewer want to clean under his fingernails. Orphans White and Black share an existence at the fringes of an already marginalized subculture. White seems naive, if not learning disabled: at 11, he can't tie his shoes or dress himself. But he has an uncanny sixth sense about what's happening in Treasure Town. Older, streetwise Black looks after White and receives the emotional support he needs in return: they're two halves of a damaged whole. The arrival of a murderous yakuza boss who wants to demolish Treasure Town and build an amusement park draws Black and White into an escalating spiral of physical and emotional violence. Although the ending of Tekkonkinkreet feels needlessly obscure, it's a striking and often powerful film from a first-time director. (Contains violence, grotesque imagery, brief nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon, Amazon.com

• Fine, Totally Fine | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Teruo the eldest son of a used bookstore owner has a dream: to build the world scariest haunted house. About to reach his 30th birthday Teruo is still idling away his life. One day through the introduction of childhood friend Hisanobu an extremely clumsy painter/artist comes to work at the bookstore. Meet Akari. A cute attractive girl that both Teruo and Hisanobu soon fall for. This small bookstore could be in any town and becomes a refuge for these individuals that have fallen out of the mainstream society. 'Fine Totally Fine' is an eagerly awaited hilarious film that portrays an easy-going comical and heat-warming story that unfolds in a bookstore.

• Dark Tales Of Japan | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A bus hurtles down a pitch-black road at midnight stopping momentarily to pick up a solitary female passenger. She asks ""Want to hear a scary tale?"" and in hushed tones begins her morbid monologue... In this portemanteau of chilling stories five of Japan's best horror directors including Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On: The Grudge) and Norio Tsuruta (Ring 0) race to reach the outer limits of fear! In The Spiderwoman an urban legend proves to be more grounded in