"Director: Keisuke Kinoshita"

• Twenty-Four Eyes | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-Four Eyes - which beat Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai as Kinema Junpo's Best Film of 1954 and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1955 - is one of Japan's most beloved films. In 1999 it was picked by Japanese critics as one of the ten best Japanese films of all time. Both a huge commercial and critical success this deeply affecting anti-war film has according to the critic Sato Tadao ""wrung more tears out of Japanese audiences than

• Ballad of Naryama (Imamura 1983) | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (55.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he/she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.