"Director: Takashi"

• Masters of Horror - Series 1 Volume 2 | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £14.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (67.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Thirteen of the most acclaimed directors of horror and suspense have gathered from around the worldto tell their darkest dreams in their own distinctive styles. Each film is a stand-alone exercise in terror made by the creative talent behind some of the most horrifying and groundbreaking cinema of all time... They share a mission: To send a chill up your spine. They are the Masters of Horror This Second Volume of Series 1 contains the final 6 films together with more than 16 hours of Special Features. Film List: Dario Argento - Jenifer Tobe Hooper - Dance Of The Dead Takashi Miike - Imprint Larry Cohen - Pick Me Up William Malone - Fair Haired Child John McNaughton - Haeckel's Tale

• New Fist Of The North Star - Vol. 1 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A twist to the classic favourite that begins in the aftermath of the great apocalypse across a barren Earth chaos is the rule and order the exception with bandits and enterprising overlords terrorizing the survivors of the holocaust. Will a hero rise from the ashes and cut a swath of justice across the Earth's ruined landscape? In the aftermath of Kenshiro's attack on the citadel of Last Land the boy known as Lord Doha falls deathly ill. Sara's prognosis is dire: it will be only

• The Grudge (Ju-On) | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £7.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (148.14%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the famous Japanese Legend of the Ju-On (a curse generated by someone who dies in the grip of powerful anger) this disturbing psychological horror follows the chilling exploits of five young women terrorized by a powerful and vengeful spirit. From acclaimed filmmaker Shimizu Takashi comes one of the most unique and horrifying cinematic experiences of recent times. Matchless visual theatre and genuinely terrifying content have made 'The Grudge' one of the talked-about horror films of the year! The Grudge phenomenon has inspired a Hollywood re-make produced by Spiderman director Sam Raimi and starring Buffy icon Sarah Michelle Gellar. Now experience the celebrated terrifying original inspiration for yourself!

• Project Itoh: Harmony - Collector's | Blu Ray | (07/11/2016) from £21.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (37.20%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In a future ruled by an unwavering dedication to good health, three high school girls led by the defiant Miach Mihie attempt suicide as the ultimate act of rebellion. Tuan Kirie survives, but can't shake the hatred she has for the perfect world she lives in. . Years later, a simultaneous mass suicide rocks the globe and sends society into a state of shock. A small group stands up to take credit for the event, claiming they've hijacked the consciousness of every person on the planet. Everything about the terrorists' message sounds too familiar to Tuan. She suspects her old friend Miach might be involved, but how could that be when she'd supposedly killed herself years earlier? Desperate for answers, Tuan launches an investigation that takes her across the globe chasing the ghost of her old friend. But what is Miach's end game? Will she finally wake the world from its monotonous slumber? Or, end it all for good? . Contains the Film on Blu-Ray and DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Presented in collectors packaging with booklet.

• The Grudge | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £4.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (110.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The deadly supernatural force returns in this sequel to the chilling 2005 horror.

• Agitator | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £7.05   |  Saving you £7.94 (112.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this epic of Yakuza honour betrayal and bloodshed maverick director Takashi Miike creates uncompromisingly original take on the Japanese gangster movie... When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon inter-family retaliation follows resulting in the death of a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and as bloody vi

• Shakugan No Shana Collection | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £29.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (33.52%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Yuji Sakai is about to learn that there is more to the world than going to school and finding a girlfriend when he meets a sword-wielding girl with fiery red eyes and flame coloured hair. Denizens of the Crimson Realm are invading our world and it's up to the Flame Haze - Shana - to slay them. However when Yuji gets in the way of her sword he learns that death is much more different than he imagined it would be. All 24 episodes of the anime adventure series. Episodes are: 'The End of Everything the One Beginning' 'The Lit Flame' 'The Torch and the Flame Haze' 'The Confused Flame Haze' 'Respective Feelings' 'Complication - Invocation - Confrontation' 'The Two Flame Hazes' 'Lovely Goblet' 'The Poolside of Love and Desire' 'Entwined Feelings' 'Yuji Shana and Kisses' 'Flowers Bloom in the Cradle' 'The Declaration of War Behind the School Building' 'A Remarkable Person' 'The Day When the Flame Was Born' 'The Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Hunter' 'Respective Paths' 'The Intricate Yuji' 'Matters That Could Not Be Said' 'The Scarlet Death Struggle' 'Diverging Feelings' 'The Flickering Flame' 'Battle at the Dawn Star Temple' and 'Crimson Thoughts'.

• Slayers Revolution: Season 4 Pt. 1 | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Slayers Revolution: Season 4 Part 1 (2 Discs)

• City Of Lost Souls | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £12.67   |  Saving you £5.31 (54.86%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A stylised and violent thriller, prolific director Miike Takashi's The City Of Lost Souls (2000) is set in the ganglands of Tokyo and pays homage to Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and, in a daft, animated cockfighting sequence, The Matrix. Mario (Teah) is the Japanese-Brazilian gunslinger fresh out jail who, in a hilariously audacious action sequence, hijacks a helicopter to save his Chinese girlfriend Kei (Michelle Reis) from deportation. He must then secure 18 million yen to secure fake passports for both of them to make a new life for themselves in Australia. In a misconceived operation, Mario arrives at the lair of the intriguing Ko, Kei's ex-boyfriend--a self-assured, effeminate young exchange student--who is somehow head of a vicious gang of Triads. He is on the point of buying a consignment of cocaine from decadent, cold-blooded Yakuza gangster Fushimi when Mario's arrival triggers a shootout, with Mario escaping with the wrong suitcase. Now, in time-honoured True Romancefashion, Mario and Kei are on the run from the mob. Although visually tricksy with some strong set-pieces, The City of Lost Souls is rather hazy when it comes to story and characterisation. We get little sense of the runaway couple as people. A young blind girl is introduced into the tale and there are romantic moments between Mario and Kei but these feel like sugary palliatives to the bloodshed rather than touching moments. Better perhaps to check out Takashi's Audition, a brilliantly gruesome satire on male Japanese attitudes towards womanhood. This is a flashier, faster but less artistically satisfying affair. On the DVD: The City of Lost Souls is presented in video aspect ratio 1.85:1, with reasonable clarity and sharpness. However, the English subtitles are a little pidgin and slapdash in places, none of which improves the main special feature, a rather dull and vague interview with director Takashi. --David Stubbs

• 13 Assassins - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (20.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook. Directed by the enfant terrible of Japanese cinema Miike Takashi who has made over 80 films in the past 20 years 13 Assassins is in the words of Little White Lies By turns exciting horrific funny and always thrilling - but mostly intense and always spectacular. Set in 1844 Japan a clan leader has committed seppuku in protest to the wanton misbehaviour of the Shogun's younger brother Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira who has been terrorizing the country with apparent impunity. As such the shogun's justice minister secretly hires Shinzaemon a samuri who had served under the previous shogunite in order to assassinate Naritsugu. Shinzaemon will gather 12 more noble samurai in order to take on the 200-strong army of Narigatsu and bring order to Japan in this stunning and brutal remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film 'Jusan-nin no shikaku'.

• Ichi The Killer | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ichi The Killer

• Crows Zero II | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £5.69   |  Saving you £10.30 (64.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.'

• Ichi the Killer - 3 Disc Special Collectors Box | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A bumper box set featuring the live action feature film and the anime spin-off adventure. Ichi The Killer Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with 100 million yen. His loyal gang members led by Kakihara start a search but their aggressive methods worry the other yakuza gangs. Kakihara's most scary counterpart is the mysterious Ichi a psychopathic killer with a dark childhood secret... Ichi The Killer (Anime): Bullied at school by day and psychologically tormented by th

• Magic Gift of the Snowman | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The miracle of Christmas comes to life when a snowman brings a very special gift to a little girl and her family. Emery Elizabeth's illness seems to make her weaker every day but her brother Landon believes he can help her find the will to get better. Landon tells her stories about the coolest guy on the planet - Snowden the Snowman - who lives in an enchanted kingdom where there are no growns-ups where beds are made from marshmallows and lullaby birds sing children to sleep ... an

• Heavy Object: Season 1 - Part 2 | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the future, the world is divided into hundreds of warring nations that fight with advanced technology known as Objects. With the capacity to annihilate an opposing militia in seconds, these massive weapons have turned battles between men into warfare between machines. The world is locked in an arms race that is until two rookie soldiers, Qwenthur Barbotage and Havia Winchell, manage to take down an enemy Object with nothing more than their wits. But their achievement earns no rest. Now the government wants to deploy them around the world on more impossible missions! Fortunately, they won't go at it alone. On their side is a first-generation Object piloted by the beautiful Milinda Brantini, and their fiery commanding officer, Frolaytia Capistrano. While Havia avoids discipline from Frolaytia's heeled boots, Qwenther finds himself rescuing Milinda from a tight spot or two. Together, their team takes on unforeseen enemies including those among their ranks. Contains episodes 13 to 24 on Blu-Ray with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.

• Sukiyaki Western Django | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Paying homage to the spaghetti western world renowned director Takeshi Miike (Ichi the Killer Audition) has invented a uniquely stylish Japanese action western set during the Genpei clan civil wars of the 12th century and shot in English

• Parasyte The Movie: Part 2 | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £8.00   |  Saving you £11.99 (149.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  THE INVASION BEGINS BASED ON THE WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLING MANGA AND HIT ANIME... Tiny creatures called Parasites have arrived on Earth with the sole purpose of taking over human bodies and preying on mankind. One such Parasite latches on to ordinary high school student, Shinichi Izumi. Fortunately, he is able to fight it off before it reaches his brain. But unfortunately, it is now stuck within his right hand. Shinichi cannot reveal his terrible secret to those around him, but a strange relationship develops between himself and the creature he calls Migi ( Righty ). Before long, they begin to encounter other Parasites which launch savage attacks against them and endanger the life of his childhood friend, Satomi. When Shinichi's beloved mother is killed and taken over by a Parasite, it becomes an all-out war between humanity and the Parasites. But nothing is black and white in this struggle. Why were the Parasites created? Are they here to cull our numbers? The planet needs to be preserved, but we also want to protect our loved ones. Amidst this conflict of values, Shinichi and Migi have no choice but to hurl themselves into the fight against the ever more complex attack of the Parasites.

• Parasyte The Movie: Part 1 | Blu Ray | (11/04/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  THE INVASION BEGINS THIS WINTER! BASED ON THE WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLING MANGA AND HIT ANIME... A series of grizzly murders are occuring around the world. Dubbed the Mincemeat Murders by the press the authorities have no idea who or what is responsible. Meanwhile! Average Japanese high school student Izumi Shinichi discovers an alien parasite living in his right hand. Shinichi calls the parasite Migi which now has an eye and a mouth and is a sentient being in his own right. Accepting the fact that they now have a symbiotic relationship and that if one of them dies the other will also die they join forces against the other parasites invading the earth.

• Crows Zero | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £9.66   |  Saving you £6.33 (65.53%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Welcome to Suzuran High: the worst achieving, most violent school in Japan where the students or 'Crows' can only make the grade by battling each other for influence and power.

• Parasyte The Movie: Part 1 | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  THE INVASION BEGINS THIS WINTER! BASED ON THE WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLING MANGA AND HIT ANIME... A series of grizzly murders are occuring around the world. Dubbed the Mincemeat Murders by the press the authorities have no idea who or what is responsible. Meanwhile! Average Japanese high school student Izumi Shinichi discovers an alien parasite living in his right hand. Shinichi calls the parasite Migi which now has an eye and a mouth and is a sentient being in his own right. Accepting the fact that they now have a symbiotic relationship and that if one of them dies the other will also die they join forces against the other parasites invading the earth.