"Director: Hsiao hsien Hou"

• The Assassin | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £6.48   |  Saving you £13.51 (208.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  9th century China.¨10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised - a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings. A slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.

• The Assassin | Blu Ray | (23/05/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  9th century China.¨10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised - a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings. A slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.

• Three Times | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hou Hsiao- Hsien's Three Times is a lyrical exploration on the different expressions of love in different times. Set in three different eras 1966 1911 and 2005 Shu Qi and Chang Chen play different characters in each period and explore the central theme of Hsien's work in different circumstances. Episode 1 1966 Kaohsiung - A Time For Love ('Lian'ai meng'): Chen (Chang Chen) meets May (Shu Qi) who works at his favourite pool-hall. They play pool together soon after he enlists for national service. On a day-release from the army Chen comes to visit her but he finds out that she has quit her job and no one knows where she's gone... Episode 2 1911 Dadaocheng - A Time For Freedom (`Ziyou meng'): The owner of a tea plantation and his son discuss buying out a young courtesan's contract. Finding out that the son has got her pregnant Mr Chang (Chang Chen) steps in to hasten ne- gotiations: the courtesan is now the father's concubine...Mr Chang leaves for Japan to join a Chinese revolutionary who fled to escape persecution during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Episode 3 2005 Taipei - A Time For Youth (Qingchun meng'): Epileptic and losing sight in her right eye Jing (Shu Qi) is a singer in present day Taipei and lives with her mother and grandmother and also has a woman lover: Micky. Zhen (Chen Chang) works in a digital photo shop and lives with his girlfriend Blue. When Blue finds out that Zhen has fallen for Jing she hits the roof...Where can the four of them go from here? None of them will find happiness this side of the grave...

• Cafe Lumiere | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yoko (Hitoto Yo) is a young Japanese writer researching the life of Taiwanese musician Jiang Wen-ye who was popular in Japan during the 1930s. Raised by her uncle in Yubari but living in Tokyo with her father and stepmother Yoko becomes friends with Hajime (Asano Tadanobu) the owner of a secondhand bookstore. They often meet in her favorite coffee shop making small talk and enjoying the passing scene. He is a train buff who spends his days riding the subway recording the sound of trains public address announcements and the conversations of passengers. Though they are best friends he is startled to find out that she is pregnant by a Taiwanese whom against her strict parents' wishes she does not want to marry... Acutely observed and exquisitely realized Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 16th film is a loving tribute to the great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. The film the first by Hou to be shot in a foreign location pays homage to Ozu by depicting themes repeated in many of his films: relationships between aging parents the marriage plans of a grown child the coming and going of trains and the quiet contemplation of everyday life.

• Flight Of The Red Balloon | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.