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• 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.

• Seeing Heaven | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dark and twisted Seeing Heaven is a psycho-sexual thriller set in the world of pornography and escorting. Handsome but troubled Paul (Alexander Bracq) is desired by everyone but lost to himself. He is obsessed with finding his twin brother whom he has not seen since childhood. Paul's vivid visions of him are unconsciously transferred during sex to his unsuspected sexual partners. His role in an adult film triggers his quest a journey which takes him into the murky dangerous sexual underworld of London - replete with drugs and associations with characters whose motives are hard to ascertain. Stylishly directed by newcomer Ian Powell this is a sexy atmospheric tale expertly weaving dreams nightmares and reality.

• Wagner - Gotterdammerung (Boulez, Altmeyer, Jones) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £9.93   |  Saving you £16.32 (188.24%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1976 French director Patrice Chereau's centenary staging of Wagner's Ring cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history but by the end of its last performances in 1980 this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause.

• New Directors from Japan - Dual Format DVD/Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Trilogy - One / Two / Three | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £15.19   |  Saving you £14.80 (97.43%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Three films in different genres based around the same set of characters. Each film stands alone but once viewed as a whole the scale and skill of Belvaux's cinematic triple vision is revealed. One: A hard-boiled film-noir and a dramatic start to Lucas Belvaux's trilogy. After a bloody escape from prison political terrorist Bruno (played by the director himself) attempts to resume his campaign of bombings and assassinations. But his colleagues have now comfortably settled into a bourgeois lifestyle so he's forced to go it alone stopping at nothing to achieve his goals... Two: Afraid that he might be dying Alain conceals the truth from Cecil the woman he loves. Despite her instincts she suspects he's lying and prefers to imagine he's having an affair. Yet is it possible everyone is in on the conspiracy including best friend Agnes? Three: Manise is equally devoted to his wife Agns and his job as a cop. He has done deals with the local crime boss too. However his troubles are triplefold: he is trying to capture Bruno dealing with the local crime boss and dealing with his wife's addiction to morphine. All these events are threatening to collide with tragic consequences... This is a powerful cinema experience and presented on four DVDs in a specially designed box set Lucas Belvaux's achievements are more evident since they offer the chance to watch simultaneously three different scenes which take place at the same moment in time. Comparisons have been made to Kieslowski's classic 'Three Colours' trilogy but 'One Two And Three' form a trilogy of outstanding achievement.

• Big Order (Collector's Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (06/09/2021) from £38.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ten years ago, Eiji Hoshimiya destroyed the world. Or close enough, anyway. Eiji is what they call an Order: someone whose wish, their innermost desire, has been given form. Money, immortality--whatever it might be, an Order has the power to make it real. And the most terrifying part? Orders look like any normal human, with no way to tell one from the other. Yet, as the destroyer of the world, that's how Eiji has managed to live since the disaster, alone but safe, and terrified to use his power again. But he might not have a choice when his class gets a new transfer student, one who has too keen an interest in a supposedly anti-social boy like him. Special Features 16-Page Book Interactive OVA Textless Opening Song Textless Closing Song

• The Taste of Money | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £6.93   |  Saving you £11.06 (61.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of South Korea's richest families, controlled with a vice-like grip by Geum-ok (Yoon Yeo-jeong), wife of the prominent but disillusioned family-business President, Yoon (Baek Yun-shik), is in the throes of crisis.

• I Due Foscari | DVD | (20/08/2004) from £9.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (8.71%)   |  RRP £9.99

  I due FoscariGiuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)Renato Bruson takes the role of the Venetian Doge - Francesco Foscari - in Verdi's dark three-act tragedy based on a drama by Lord Byron set in 15th century Venice. Giandrea Gavazzeni directs the 1988 La Scala production of a work that is hailed among the best of Verdi's early operas and that led him to a career of operatic immortality. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.

• The Story of Yonosuke | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £5.89   |  Saving you £9.10 (60.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Story Of Yonosuke is Okita Shuichi's follow up to The Woodsman and the Rain is one of the biggest hits this year at International film festivals; its touching characters and story make it easy to understand why. Yonosuke takes pleasure in life's simplest things and his positivity touches and alters everyone around him from his college friends to his work colleagues in later life. Through the recounting of the friends experiences of Yonosuke we start to build-up his story his character piecing everything together about him and where he is today. Without a doubt a 'dream-team' of creative talent in director Okita Shuichi author Yoshida Shuichi (Villain) screen-writer Maeda Shiro (Isn't Anyone Alive?) and rising star Kora Kengo (Fish Story) coming together to make a film which you'll love more and more with each watch.

• Vicky Donor | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £12.24   |  Saving you £3.75 (30.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Coup De Torchon | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Coup De Torchon stars Philippe Noiret as Lucien Cordier an ieffectual local constable. The townsfolk and his adulterous wife alike view him with contempt - however he realises that he can use his position to gain revenge and vengeance on those who don't respect him!

• Fashion Victims | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Karsten and his father Wolfgang are at loggerheads. Karsten wants to go on a school trip abroad, but Wolfgang insists he stay behind and help him with his dreary job supplying dowdy clothes to local fashion outlets. When spunky and devious workaholic Steven shows up, he plans to undercut Wolfgang's prices and steal all his customers with a spiffy range of upmarket garments. Wolfgang and Steven go to battle, attempting to woo as many clothes shops as they can to stay in the business, but when Karsten and Steven fall in love, and Wolfgang's wife Erika discovers his financial mismanagement, all hell breaks loose.

• War | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £7.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A British actor and his girlfriend are captured along with several Russian soldiers by Chechen rebels while on tour in Georgia. They are thrown into a hole in a remote village where the horrors of war are horrifyingly apparent. Held for ransom that doesn't materialize one of the actors is released to raise cash in Britain. Upon his return he meets a conscript who is also desperate to save another captive. The two join forces and head back to the Chechen village to wage a two –man assault that will soon become an all- out war! From the award winning writer director Aleksei Balabnov of the Brother gangster Films Comes an intense and uncompromising look at the atrocities faced during wartime. Explosive gritty and controversial this powerful film features extreme and realistic action sequences that reveal a brutal vision of a war the world would rather forget.

• Boomerang Family | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £8.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In-mo (Park Hae-Il) is an unsuccessful film director with nothing going for him in life. He's been out of work since his film flopped at the box office and he was abandoned by his wife. Just when things can't get any worse and he can't make rent his nonchalant mother (Youn Yuh-Jung) extends a helping hand. She offers him a place to live and In-mo is glad to take her up on it. In-mo's older brother Han-mo (Yoon Je-Moon) a former gangster and five-time convict has already settled in comfortably as a jobless couch potato and soon their twice-divorced adulterous sister Mi-yeon (Kong Hyo-Jin) joins them with her pre-teen daughter Min-gyeong (Jin Ji-Hee). At home once again the grown-up siblings are forced to learn to live with each other once again but under very different circumstances.

• Persona 4 The Animation - Box 1 - Double Play | DVD | (24/12/2012) from £36.43   |  Saving you £-6.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Persona 4: The Animation revolves around a high school student who after acquiring mysterious powers called Persona embarks on a journey with his new friends to uncover the truth behind a bizarre series of murders involving the distorted TV World.

• Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 2001 on the last day of the G8 summit in Genoa just before midnight more than 300 police officers stormed the Diaz school looking for black bloc demonstrators. Inside the school were 90 activists mostly students from around Europe along with a handful of foreign journalists preparing to bunk down for the night on the school's floors. As the police burst in the young demonstrators raised their hands to surrender. Undeterred and unmoved the officers unleashed a calculated frenzy of violence beating both young and old male and female indiscriminately. Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood reconstructs the events of those terrible days from the viewpoints of the police the protesters the victims and the journalists who were caught up in the tragedy to analyse how frustration can explode into raw uncontrollable violence. Vicari's visceral dynamic filmmaking drops the viewer into the dark heart of politics and reminds you through the inclusion of original footage taken at the scene that this may be a movie but it is not fiction.

• The Saragossa Manuscript | DVD | (26/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  At last Mr Bongo Films presents the full-length masterpiece of this incredible film. Martin Scorses, Francis Ford Coppola, Luis Bunuel and Jerry Garcai have at various times described The Saragossa Manuscript as their favorite film. Based on the book by the highly-esteemed Count Jan Potocki, the film version is reputedly a respectful, mostly faithful adaptation of this literary cat s cradle set in the weird fantasy landscapes of arid 17th-century Spain. The films creates a magical, sometimes disturbing, world of the supernatural so it s no surprise that this was a counterculture classic and Jerry Garcia s favourite. He, along with Martin Scorsese, put up part of the money to have it restored to its full length. Besides the convoluted structure, characters pop in and out of each other s stories with the random logic of a trip. The characters includes sexy ghost princeses, demon-possesions and many a corpse. The intruiging stylistic flourishes sit against the wonderful soundtrack, which was composed by Krzyszt Penderecki, famous for the scores of The Shining and Wild At Heart.

• Mardock Scramble - The First Compression | Blu Ray | (16/04/2012) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In a futuristic society, a 15-year-old prostitute named Rune Balot is rescued after being nearly killed. She is subconsciously given the choice to continue living due to an emergency ordinance to preserve life called Mardock Scramble 09. Turned into a cyborg, Balot is then given the choice of assisting the investigations against the man who tried to terminate her. He is part of the powerful October corporation that is stealthily conducting illegal activities.

• My American Uncle | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Prof. Henri Laborit (played by himself) uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival combat rewards and punishment and anxiety. Rene (Gerard Depardieu) is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine (Nicole Garcia) is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean (Roger-Pierre) is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

• Spiral - Vol.1 | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £18.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-18.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""I'm going to pursue the mystery of the Blade Children."" With these words Kiyotaka Narumi vanished without a trace. Two years later Kiyotaka's disappearance still haunts his younger brother Ayumu. The wheel of fate turned when Kiyotaka Narumi vanished. On that night Kiyotaka's younger brother Ayumu was forever changed. Ayumu found himself thrust into the baffling mystery of the Blade Children. Who are they? What have they done to deserve their fate? Why do they believe Ayumu is the key to their salvation? Only one thing is certain: the Blade Children will stop at nothing to complete their destiny. And only Ayumu stands in their way....