"Director: Shinya Tsukamoto"

• Tsukamoto: Killing / Haze / Denchu - Kozo Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £18.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A limited edition set of 3 works by cult Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto. Killing - In exchange for board and lodging, lightning-fast samurai Mokunoshi is helping out in the everyday lives of a couple of local farmers. To keep in shape, he trains with bright farmer s son Ichisuke, while sister Yu furtively watches them. When the ronin Sawamura (played by director Tsukamoto) suddenly appears, asking Mokunoshi to go on a mission in Edo, and at the same time a bunch of bandits are lurking on the edge of the village, the peaceful existence of the three comes under threat. Haze - A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he s there, or why he s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally zones out of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes. Adventures of Electric Rod Boy - Hikari is a boy who is bullied at school because he has an electricity pole growing out of his back. One of his classmates named Momo comes to his rescue and he thanks her by sharing his secret possession with her: a time machine. Activating the time machine transports him 25 years into a dark, dystopian, world of the future. There he encounters members of the Shinsengumi Vampire Gang who are hunting a woman named Dr. Sariba who is revealed to be Momo s future self. He and he alone must save the world Limited Edition Contents Disc 1 Killing feature Audio Commentary by Tom Mes Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto Trailer Disc 2 The Adventures of Denchu Kozo (45min) Haze (48min) Audio commentaries on both films by Tom Mes Limited to 1,000 copies

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo II: Body Hammer | Blu Ray | (16/07/2018) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tetsuo 1: A strange man known only as the metal fetishist , who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese salaryman , out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation. Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer - Sequel to Tetsuo this time has the Iron Man transforming into cyberkinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. When the skinheads capture him, they begin to experiment on him...speeding up the mutative process! BLU-RAY CONTENTS: Both films TETSUO: THE IRON MAN and TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER presented in new digital remasters supervised by director Shinya Tsukamoto

• A Snake of June | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £19.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (3.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa from Cold Fish) and Shigehiko (novelist Yuji Kotari) are a strange couple whose physical mismatch (she a lithe beauty he an overweight balding obsessive-compulsive neurotic) is reflected in the complete lack of intimacy between them. They connect as human beings but they live more like friends than as lovers and lead nearly independent lives. Both seem comfortable with this coexistence but the desires that lurk beneath its surface are brought out with the introduction of a third element into the equation. When Rinko receives a package of candid photographs of herself masturbating and the sender (played by Tsukamoto himself) contacts her with the threat of exposing them to her husband she submits herself to the anonymous voyeur's sexual games. If she wishes to get hold of all the negatives and prints Rinko is to comply with a set of assignments that place her constantly on the borderline between humiliation and pleasure - the voyeur knows exactly what Rinko's personal erotic fantasies are and makes her act them out one by one. 

• Kotoko | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kotoko (pop star Cocco in her first starring role) is a young mother struggling to raise her young son Daijiro. Her grip on reality is shaky at best. Through her narration we quickly learn she see's double of everyone, one good and one evil. The problem is she can't tell which one is real, and is constantly moving from apartment to apartment as she assaults neighbours she fears are out to harm her or her baby. Every moment of her life devolves in to paranoid induced state, where she worries w...

• Bullet Ballet | Blu Ray | (30/12/2013) from £17.76   |  Saving you £3.49 (21.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office drinks after work an equally busy girlfriend Kiriko that he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that Kiriko has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws on the books not only is Goda left with the yawning black why behind Kiriko's suicide but also a whole other set of mysterious hows wheres and whos. How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life.

• Fires on the Plain (Dual Format DVD/Bluray) | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the final stages of WWII, the occupying Japanese army in the Philippines is rapidly losing ground, facing local resistance combined with an American offensive. The final few Japanese survivors, having almost been wiped out, have crossed the threshold into a realm where there are no friends, no enemies and no God. Special Features: Dual format DVD & BLURAY 1 hour extensive making of New audio commentary by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto First 1000 copies come with LIMITED EDITION slipcase

• Tokyo Fist | Blu Ray | (25/11/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tsuda is an archetypal Japanese salaryman, married to polite and compliant Hizuru, the dictionary definition of an ideal Japanese wife. Their life is happy, at least on the surface, at least until Kojima, a friend from his past, shows up on the scene.

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer - Double Disc Set | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  For the first time on blu-ray, Shinya Tsukamoto's cult classics have been digitally restored from their original negatives to be presented in high definition in this double-disc set featuring brand new exclusive extras as well as Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' prototype short-film 'The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy' Tetsuo 1: A strange man known only as the 'metal fetishist', who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japan...

• Kotoko | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £5.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (63.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Kotoko (pop star Cocco in her first starring role) is a young mother struggling to raise her young son Daijiro. Her grip on reality is shaky at best. Through her narration we quickly learn she see's double of everyone, one good and one evil. The problem is she can't tell which one is real, and is constantly moving from apartment to apartment as she assaults neighbours she fears are out to harm her or her baby. Every moment of her life devolves in to paranoid induced state, where she worries w...

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer - Double Disc Set | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For the first time on remastered DVD, Shinya Tsukamoto's cult classics have been digitally restored from their original negatives to be presented in high definition in this double-disc set featuring brand new exclusive extras as well as Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' prototype short-film 'The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy' Tetsuo 1: A strange man known only as the 'metal fetishist', who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by ...

• Tokyo Fist | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £8.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tsuda is an archetypal Japanese salaryman, married to polite and compliant Hizuru, the dictionary definition of an ideal Japanese wife. Their life is happy, at least on the surface, at least until Kojima, a friend from his past, shows up on the scene.

• Bullet Ballet | DVD | (30/12/2013) from £5.89   |  Saving you £9.10 (60.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office drinks after work an equally busy girlfriend Kiriko that he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that Kiriko has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws on the books not only is Goda left with the yawning black why behind Kiriko's suicide but also a whole other set of mysterious hows wheres and whos. How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life.

• Haze | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A man wakes to find himself locked in a tiny concrete room. Why is he there and where did he come from? A terrible stomach injury means that he is slowly bleeding to death. He begins to explore the narrow confines of his prison and crawls around the maze-like room only to see a horrible vision of hell waiting for him at each end of the room. Finally he gives up on the struggle and collapses in exhaustion. Then he begins to remember images from his past. Clinging to these images he

• Shinya Tsukamoto Box Set | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The most radical filmmaker in Japan dials down the noise and turns up the emotion in these two radical philosophical dramas like nothing else in cinema but each other. Titles Comprise: A Snake Of June / Vital