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• Cruel Story of Youth (1960) | Blu Ray | (17/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eureka Entertainment to release Japanese Director Nagisa Oshima’s landmark film CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH a shocking tale of youthful delinquency in post-Hiroshima Japan on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in a Dual Format edition available from 17 August 2015. This second feature by the Japanese cinema-insurgent Nagisa Ôshima (In the Realm of the Senses Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) galvanised its home-turf with its topsy-turvy directorial dexterity and stinging castigation of an indolent self-indulgent youth culture reposing on the eve of the turbulent 1960s. When high-schooler Makoto is saved from the advances of a lecherous middle-aged man by uni student Kiyoshi the pair embark on a fits-and-starts affair that finally settles into a sexually extortionary mutually exploitative dependency that promises to spell their relationship’s doom. Ôshima’s breakthrough portrait of alienated youth comes courtesy of the 2014 Shochiku 4K scan that resurrected the film’s glorious colour palette recently described by critic and programmer James Quandt as “running riot with retro: pulsing neon turquoise telephones hair teased into shellacked grandeur.” The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Cruel Story of Youth in a Dual Format edition for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. Feature: Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray from the 2014 4K Shochiku restoration Optional English subtitles New video interview with film critic Tony Rayns Original theatrical trailer 36-page booklet containing an essay interview material and rare archival imagery

• Dance In The Vampire Bund | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £11.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (110.18%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The World's Not Ready For Her Reign!When Mina Tepes - queen of the vampires - suddenly appears in Japan to establish a colony for her blood-sucking brethren, Akira Kaburagi's world will never be the same. As a boy, Akira vowed to serve the ruler of the night, and now he must fulfill his destiny by protecting Mina from those who would dethrone her!

• Night And Fog In Japan | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £6.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (203.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nagisa Oshima's most personal film is a reflection by the director on his own disillusionment with the revolutionary student movement of the 1950's and the failure of political radicalism. Taking it's title (as a reference or homage) from Alain Resnais' pivotal 1956 documentary Night and Fog the film has a group of former student revolutionaries who meet again years later at the wedding of one of their classmates. Old feelings rivalaries and grudges gradually erupt to the surface as the one-time friends recall the various treacheries by which their cause was defeated. Cutting between times past and the present and unfolding the action from each of his characters viewpoints Oshima creates an abstract and yet engrossing study of passions past and principles eroded. Controversial upon release - the film's producers pulled the film from distribution after only a few days in cinemas - Night & Fog in Japan retains both its power to shock and its ability to engage the viewer in it's radical form and themes.

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings | Blu Ray | (15/11/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sengoku Basara drops you directly into the burning battlefields of feudal Japan where rival warlords hack and slash their way to total domination. Each conqueror wields a special attack that boosts their powers of devastation and each commands a horde of relentless warriors. But when a supreme evil - the Demon Lord - threatens the land these fierce generals launch a co-op campaign of annihilation and build an army of armies to obliterate their common foe. As the front line grows crowded with gun-toting mechanized samurai and mystical ninja some will say that war is hell - Sengoku Basara proves it can also be kick ass.

• Naked Youth | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £11.48   |  Saving you £10.50 (110.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oshima's second feature is a shocking tale of youthful delinquency in post Hiroshima japan. Conveying the pent up sexuality and disillusionment among Japan's post war generation it tells the story of teenage lovers Makato and Kiyoshi. She's a good girl gone bad dropping out of school and out of home; he's a violent hoodlum gambler and hustler. Making a living by performing shakedowns and attempting blackmail on unsuspecting middle aged men the film affords a bleak nihilistic take to the 'taiyo-zako' (Japanese cinema's 'delinquent youth' films). Often billed as Japan's Rebel Without A Cause but whereas Jame Dean's Jim Stark had the proverbial heart of gold Kawazu's Kiyoshi is filled only with rage and disgust. All of life's harsh realities await Makoto and Kiyoshi - this is no morality lesson or cautionary tale just a window into a terrible vision of humanity.

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £18.88   |  Saving you £6.11 (32.36%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the bloody Warring States period of feudal Japan many generals fought in an endless struggle for power but one man proved to be too big a threat - The dark lord Oda Nobunaga. Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune two young warriors from different regions who become heated rivals begin to form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the Devil King.

• Ninja Wars | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £9.70   |  Saving you £-3.71 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The ruthless Lord Danjo is determined to rule Japan and learns of a prophecy that whoever wins the love of Princess Ukio shall succeed in that task. Enlisting the help of an evil wizard and his five monk warriors Danjo seeks a way of seducing Ukio through diabolical magic. Enter Jotaro in love with Ukio's twin who is captured and killed by the monks. Jotaro now seeks to put an end to Danjo's sinister plot but he can't do it alone--he needs the help of samurai swordsman Muneyoshi

• Hypnosis | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £22.96   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned the words 'green monkey' before they died...

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings | Blu Ray | (15/11/2010) from £29.68   |  Saving you £0.31 (1.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In the bloody Warring States period of feudal Japan many generals fought in an endless struggle for power but one man proved to be too big a threat - The dark lord Oda Nobunaga. Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune two young warriors from different regions who become heated rivals begin to form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the Devil King.