MISS HOKUSAI (12) 2015 JAPAN HARA, KEIICHI £12.99
Based on the manga series by Hinako Sugiura about a real life artist and his daughter. Set in 1814, about a daughter of an unconventional painter Tetsuzo who encourages her to develop her artistic skills in a conservative Japanese society.
MITSUKO DELIVERS (PG) 2011 JAPAN YÛYA ISHII £14.99
Japanese drama following the fortunes of a young woman who leaves her family to pursue a dream romance in America.
THE MIZOGUCHI COLLECTION (15) JAPAN £29.99
Four films from the celebrated Japanese director. Contains - 'Osaka Elegy' (1936), 'The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum' (1939), 'Sisters of the Gion' (1936) & 'Utamaro and His Five Women' (1946).
MOURNING FOREST - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (12) 2007 JAPAN KAWASE, NAOMI DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £17.99
Young nurse Machiko, who works in a nursing and is grieving over the death of her child. At the home she strikes up a close bond with elderly dementia suffering man and they take a trip out into the countryside together when their car breaks down in a forest. Stranded the two embark upon an unexpected journey through memories and grief, fueled by their strange surroundings.
MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (PG) 1988 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO DVD - £14.99 TWO DISC BLU RAY - £29.99
Two girls move to the country where they meet a wonderous forest spirits who live nearby.
MYSTERIANS (PG) 1957 JAPAN HONDA, ISHIRO £19.99
Explores the danger of the atomic bomb and alien invasions.
NAKED ISLAND (PG) 1960 JAPAN SHINDO, KANETO £19.99
Tale of a family and their subsistence as the only inhabitants of an arid, sun-baked island.
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (PG) 1984 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO DVD - £17.99 TWO DISC BLU RAY - £29.99
Classic Japanese anime feature, set in a distant future after human civilisation has been wiped out in a global war.
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (PG) 1984 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO £17.99
Classic Japanese anime feature, set in a distant future after human civilisation has been wiped out in a global war.
NEW BATTLES WITHOUT HONOUR AND HUMANITY: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY (18) JAPAN FUKASAKU, KINJI DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £59.99
Triple bill of crime films featuring New Battles Without Honour and Humanity (1974), Head of the Boss (1975) and Last Days of the Boss (1976)
NEW DIRECTORS FROM (15) 2013 JAPAN £22.99
Collection of four films showcasing the work of three young directors from Japan. The compilation includes the feature-length film 'And the Mud Ship Sails Away' (2013) directed by Hirobumi Watanabe and three shorts: 'The Lust of Angels' (2014) and 'My Baby' (2011) directed by Nagisa Isogai and 'Buy Bling, Get One Free' (2014) by Kosuke Takaya.
NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (15) 1960 JAPAN OSHIMA, NAGISA £19.99
The film begins with the marriage of a couple who became acquainted during the demonstrations against the ratification of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in the summer of 1960 . Soon the wedding degenerates into a heated discourse among different factions of the student movement.
OBLIVION ISLAND: HURAKA AND THE MAGIC MIRROR (PG) 2009 JAPAN SATO, SHINSUKE £19.99
Coming of age anime in which a 16-year-old girl still grieving for the loss of her mother enters a magical world.
OCEAN WAVES (PG) 1993 JAPAN MOCHIZUKI, TOMOMI DUAL FORMAT DVD - BLU RAY - £24.99
Ghibli studio animated film based on the novel by Saeko Himuro. Taku is travelling to his hometown for his high school reunion. During the trip, he recalls the memories of this school days.
OF FLESH AND BLOOD: THE CINEMA OF HIROKAZU KORE-EDA (12) 1995-2008 JAPAN KORE-EDA, HIROKAZU BLU RAY ONLY £44.99
Contains the films - 'Maborosi' (1995), 'After Life' (1998), 'Nobody Knows' (2004) and 'Still Walking' (2008).
ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (15) 2017 JAPAN UEDA, SHIN'ICHIRÔ DVD - £10.99 BLU RAY - £22.99
Comedy horror in which a low-budget zombie film is being make in an abandoned water filtration plant, when real zombies start attacking the cast.
ONIBABA (15) 1964 JAPAN B/W SHINDO, KANETO £19.99
Kaneto Shindô directs this strange and violent Japanese folk tale, involving samurais, peasants, murder, passion, and revenge. In medieval Japan, a widow (Jitsuko Yoshimura) and her mother-in-law (Noboku Otowa) survive by murdering passing samurai soldiers who are exhausted by the war and selling their armour for rice. However, the arrival of Hachi (Kei Satô) threatens their cosy little arrangement...
ONLY YESTERDAY (PG) 19691 JAPAN TAKAHATA, ISAO £17.99
Classic Japanese anime feature, as 27-year old Taeko reminiscences about her childhood, recalling the major events that took place when she was 15 and that shaped her life into what it is now.
OUR LITTLE SISTER (PG) 2015 JAPAN KOREEDA, HIROKAZU DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Three sisters live together in the quiet coastal town of Kamakura, however idyllic peace is shattered when there mother return after a long absence.
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (18) 2014 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI £15.99
Supernatural horror feature story in which an actors characters begin to spill over into reality with dire consequences.
OZU BOXSET (U) 1949-53 JAPAN OZU, YUSUJIRO £39.99
Contains the following films Tokyo Story, Late Spring and Early Summer
OZU BOXSET TWO (U) 1947-52 JAPAN OZU, YUSUJIRO £39.99
Contains- Record of a Tenement Gentleman and Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice
OZU BOXSET THREE (PG) 1957-59 JAPAN OZU, YUSUJIRO £39.99
Contains- Tokyo Twilight, Equinox Flower and Good Morning.
OZU BOXSET FOUR (PG) 1960-62 JAPAN OZU, YUSUJIRO £39.99
Contains- Late Autumn and An Autumn Afternoon
THE OZU COLLECTION - THREE MELODRAMAS (PG) JAPAN £29.99
Contains Early Spring (1956), Tokyo Twilight (1957) and Woman of Tokyo (1933)
PAPRIKA (15) 2006 JAPAN KON, SATOSHI £9.99
Award winning Japanese anime science fiction set in the near future. A machine is invented that allows therapists to enter the dreams of patients, helping to understand their problems. When the machines are stolen, the line between reality and fantasy is thrown into confusion and chaos as the population begins to lose control.
PERFECT BLUE (18) 1997 JAPAN KON, SATOSHI DVD - £14.99 TWO DISC BLU RAY - £34.99
Fading pop stars grip on reality begins to loosen as she imagines that she has an identical twin who has maintained a singing career.
PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS/STOLEN DESIRE (15) JAPAN 1958/61 IMAMURA, SHÔHEI £24.99
Two films by Japanese New Wave director Shôhei Imamura. 'Pigs and Battleships' (1961) is set in the gangster-ridden underworld of the seaside town of Yokosuka. 'Stolen Desire' (1958), Imamura's directorial debut, tells the riotous tale of a troupe of itinerant actors who routinely spice up their traditional kabuki theatre with striptease shows.
PING PONG (12) 2002 JAPAN SORI, FUMIHIKO £19.99
Japanese box office hit about two child ping-pong players.
PITFALL (15) 1962 JAPAN TESHIGAHARA, HIROSHI £19.99
Beautifully filmed in a coal-mining town, which is populated by wandering miners and ghosts.
THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS/VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR (12) 2004 JAPAN SHINKAI, MAKOTO £17.99
Double bill of Japanese animations from film-maker Makoto Shinkai. In 'The Place Promised in Our Early Days' (2004) three children vow to solve the riddle of the Hokkaido Tower, constructed during World War II and linked to a string of mysterious events. In the short 'Voices of a Distant Star' (2003), an interstellar pilot keeps in touch with his lover back on earth by text messages on her phone, which take longer and longer to arrive as he travels deeper into space.
PLANETES: ANIME LEGENDS (12) JAPAN £24.99
The complete 6 disc Japanese anime series set in the near future, where mankind now regularly travels among the stars.
PLEASURES OF THE FLESH (18) 1965 JAPAN OSHIMA, NAGISA £19.99
Oshima takes the plot of a murderer being blackmailed by a thief and turns it into an exploration and allegory of
post-war materialism, greed and sexual exploitation.
POM POKO (PG) 1994 JAPAN TAKAHATA, ISAO £19.99
Animated film about Marco who lives a happy life as a pilot for hire protecting airships from marauding air-pirates.
PONYO (U) JAPAN 2008 MIYAZAKI, HAYAO £17.99
Animated adventure by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's story.
PORCO ROSSO (PG) 1992 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO DVD - £14.99 TWO DISC BLU RAY - £29.99
Animated film about a group of magical shape-shifting raccoons whose habitat is
threatened when human construction workers arrive to build new homes
PREMONITION (18) JAPAN 2004 TSURUTA, NORIO £19.99
Chilling tale of a man who can foresee the future.
PRINCESS ARETE (12) 2001 KATABUCHI, SUNAO JAPAN £17.99
Anime in which young Princess Arete is locked away in an isolated tower under the instruction of her father, the king. He demands that Arete should never have contact with the outside world until she meets a potential suitor for her to marry. However Arete decides to sneakily venture outside of the castle, discovering that there is a world filled with hope and excitement to be explored.
PRINCESS MONONOKE (PG) 1999 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO £19.99
Animated adventure story.
PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS (MASTERS OF CINEMA) (TBA) JAPAN 1968 IMAMURA, SHOHEI BLU RAY ONLY £22.99
Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well — an encounter which leads to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways.
THE PROMISE (15) 2005 JAPAN KAIGE, CHEN £17.9
A sweeping martial arts epic.
PSYCHO-PASS: THE MOVIE (15) 2015 JAPAN MOTOHIRO, K/SHIOTANI, N £34.99
Feature-length spin-off of the Japanese sci-fi series. Set in a future world where systems have been developed that can anticipate crimes in advance.
PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA: THE MOVIE - PART 1: BEGINNINGS (12) 2012 JAPAN SHINBO, AKIYUKI £19.99
First instalment in the anime film franchise based on the television series of the same name.
PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA: THE MOVIE - PART 2: ETERNAL (12) 2012 JAPAN SHINBO, AKIYUKI £19.99
PULSE (18) 2001 JAPAN KUROSAWA, KIYOSHIO £19.99
Well recieved horror movie.
OCEAN WAVES (PG) 1993 JAPAN MOCHIZUKI,TOMOMI £19.99
Taku is travelling to his hometown for his high school reunion. During the trip, he recalls the memories of the days in high school.
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (18) 2014 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI £15.99
Supernatural horror feature story in which an actors characters begin to spill over into reality with dire consequences.
RAINY DOG (18) 1997 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI £19.99
Violent thriller set in the streets of Taiwan.
RAN (15) 1985 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA DVD £19.99 BLU RAY £24.99
This complex, newly restored, Oscar-winning epic is Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear.
RE:BORN (15) 2016 JAPAN SHIMOMURA, YUJI DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99
Ex soldier Toshiro, lives peacefully life but finds it hard to contain his destructive impulses. These impulses are given full reign when hhe joins his former commanding officer in a mission against a group of ruthless assassins.
REINCARNATION (18) JAPAN 2005 SHIMIZU, TAKASHI £19.99
Terrifying ghost story
RING (15) 1999 JAPAN NAKATA, HIDEO £19.99
Highest grossing horror movie in Japanese history.
RING TWO (15) 2000 JAPAN NAKATA, HIDEO £19.99
Sequel to the hit movie.
RING TRILOGY- BOX SET (15) JAPAN 4 DISCS NAKATA, HIDEO £39.99
Features: Ring, Ring 2 & Ring 0
RUROUNI KENSHIN (15) 2012 JAPAN OHTOMO, KEISHI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £22.99
Action drama adapted from the manga written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki.
SAGA OF ANATAHAN - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (15) 1953 JAPAN STERNBERG , JOSEF VON DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £19.99
A group of Second World War Japanese sailors are shipwrecked and stranded on the isolated island of Anatahan. The only inhabitants are the manager of an abandoned plantation and an attractive young Japanese woman.
Stranded for seven years discipline and rationality slowly breaks down and a power struggle for control of the island and the sole woman develops.
SAKE-BOMB (15) JAPAN 2013 SAKINO, JUNYA £14.99
Asian-American comedy about Sebastian (Eugene Kim), who takes his Japanese cousin Naoto (Gaku Hamada) on a journey across California to find his lost love. Along the way, Sebastian, who has successfully integrated himself into the American way of life and grown tired of the stereotypical view Westerners have of Asians, grows frustrated with Naoto, who embodies all the traditional values of his home country.
SAKURAN (15) 2006 JAPAN NINAGAWA, MIKA £17.99
A rebellious young woman whose mother sells her to a brothel.
SANSHO DAYU/ GION BAYASHI (PG) 1953/4 B/W KENJI MIZOGUCHI £17.99
Double bill featuring two classic Japanese movies
SAWAKO DECIDES (12A) 2010 JAPAN ISHII, YÛYA £14.99
Quirky Japanese comedy about a working class woman who decides to change her life through sheer willpower.
SEA IS WATCHING (15) 2001 JAPAN KUMAI, KEN £15.99
Based on a screenplay by the late filmmaking legend Akira Kurosawa, the film follows the lives of women residing and working at a brothel in Edo-era Japan.
SEE YOU TOMORROW, EVERYONE (15) 2013 JAPAN NAKAMURA, YOSHIHIRO £14.99
Satoru Watarai (Gaku Hamada) lives in a government-built apartment complex which she never leaves. As the years progress and relationships come and go, Satoru develop a curiosity for the outside world.
SERPENT'S PATH/EYES OF THE SPIDER (15) 1998 JAPAN KUROSAWA, KIYOSHI £14.99
Both released in the same year, the films are Kurosawa's answer to the question of whether he could make two films in two weeks with the same cast and crew and on a low budget.
SEVEN SAMURAI (PG) 1954 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Classic Samurai story on which the film ‘The Magnificent Seven, was based.
SHALL WE DANCE (PG) 1995 JAPAN SUO, MASAYUKI £19.99
Ballroom dancing comedy
SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (15) 1976 JAPAN FUKASAKU, KINJI £7.99
Prequel to a popular Japanese television series.
SHOPLIFTERS (15) JAPAN 2018 KOREEDA, HIROKAZU £19.99
Osamu Shibata is head of a poor Japanese family which survives by committing petty crimes. One day the family stumbles on a young homeless girl. Taking pity on her they take her home, training her in the ways of shoplifting. Is Osamu doing a good thing fulfilling the function a caring state should provide, or has he taken the girl like all the other items he steals?
SKY HIGH (15) 2003 JAPAN KITAMURA, RYUHEI £19.99
Detective drama about a serial killer.
SONATINE (18) 1990 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
Ruthless gangsters take refuge by a remote beach in this slow, poignant and violent film.
SNAKE OF JUNE (18) JAPAN 2002 TSUKAMOTO, SHINYA £19.99
Shinya Tsukamoto’s award winning film is a surreal journey to the dark side of obsession.
SPIRITED AWAY PG) 2001 JAPAN MIYAZAKI. HAYAO £19.99
Oscar-winning animated film which follows the adventures of young girl trapped in a
fantastical world populated by spirits
STEAMBOY (PG) 2004 JAPAN OTOMO, KATSUHURO £15.99
Animated science-fiction epic set in Victorian England.
STREET OF JOY (18) 1974 JAPAN KUMASHIRO, TATSUMI £19.99
Story of the prostitutes who work on the ‘Street of Joy’.
STILL THE WATER (15) 2014 JAPAN KAWASE, NAOMI £15.99
Romantic drama in which 16-year-old Kyoko and her neighbour Kaito, become romantically involved. While Kyoko worries about her sick mother Kaito finds a dead body washed up on the beach and comes to realise the deceased is linked to his own mother.
STILL WALKING (U) 2008 JAPAN KOREEDA, HIROKAZU £15.99
Japanese family drama adapted by Hirokazu Koreeda from his own novel
THE STORY OF YONOSUKE (15) JAPAN OKITA, SHUICHI
DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
A big hit this year at the International film festivals. 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.
THE STUDENT COMEDIES (PG) 1929-33 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £29.99
Two disc collection contains - DAYS OF YOUTH (Wakaki Hi), I FLUNKED, BUT…(Rakudai Wa Shita Keredo, THE LADY AND THE BEARD (Shukujo To Hige)and WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Seishun No Yume Ima Izuko).
THE SUCCULENT SUCCUBUS (18) 2011 JAPAN WATANABE £12.99
Unlucky Momo has only six months left to live, when she meets Ms. Devil Girl Succubus who proposes to grant her one wish in exchange for her soul.
SUICIDE CLUB (18) 2001 JAPAN SONO, SHION £15.99
Japanese horror in which a trio of detectives try to get to the bottom of an epidemic of mass youth suicides.
SUICIDE MANUAL (18) 12003 JAPAN ONUMA, YUUICHI £15.99
In Buddhist beliefs, when a person kills himself, he or she is sent to a certain hell, from which they induce other people to commit suicide. But is this what is really happening?
SUN’S BURIAL (15) 1960 JAPAN OSHIMA, NAGISA £19.99
Set in the postwar slums of Osaka it follows the lives and fates of it inhabitants.
SWORD ART ONLINE: PART 2 (15) 2012 JAPAN ITO, TOMOHIKO £19.99
Anime series following participants in an online game who learn that their lives are dependent on their virtual exploits.
SWEET BEAN - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (PG) 2015 JAPAN KAWASE, NAOMI DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £17.99
Street food vendor Sentaro advertised for an assistant, but when frail 76-year-old
Tokue ask for the job, Sentaro has his doubts. However after he tastes her beautiful sweet red bean paste filling for his Dorayaki, he offers her the job. Their partnership goes well until
Tokue's past cruelly comes back to haunt her.
SWORD OF DOOM (12) 1966 JAPAN OKAMOTO, KIHACHI £19.99
Hard-edged samurai movie.
TAG (15) 2015 JAPAN SONO, SION TWO DISC DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £17.99
Action horror in which introverted high school girl stumbles into alternate realities.
TALES FROM EARTHSEA (PG) 2007 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, GORO £19.99
Animated adapted of the Ursula K. Le Guin’s children’s fantasy book series.
TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (U) 2013 JAPAN TAKAHATA, ISAO DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Japanese anime from Studio Ghibli. A bamboo cutter (voice of Takeo Chii) finds a miniature girl (Aki Asakura) and takes her home to his wife (Nobuko Miyamoto) so they can bring her up as their own daughter.
TANDEM (18) 1994 JAPAN SATO, TOSHIKI £19.99
Two men exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly been seeing the others partners.
TERROR IN RESONANCE (15) 2015 JAPAN WATANABE, SHINICHIRÔ £24.99
All eleven episodes of the Japanese anime set in an alternate Tokyo that has been devastated by a terrorist attack.
TETSOU: THE IRON MAN (18) 1988 JAPAN TSUKAMOTO, SHINYA £19.99
Young man’s gradual mutation into a metal-being liked to the films of Lynch and Cronenberg.
TETSOU II: BODY HAMMER (18) 1992 JAPAN TSUKAMOTO, SHINYA £19.99
Companion piece to Iron Man.
THREE FILMS BY Takeshi Kitano (18) JAPAN £29.99
Features - Takeshis (2005), Zatoichi (2003)and Dolls (2002)
TOKYO DECADENCE (18) 1992 JAPAN MURAKAMI, RYU £9.99
The film is a graphic indictment of excessive materialism and the darker reaches of the Sex trade.
TOKYO DRIFTER (12) 1966 JAPAN SUZUKI, SEIJUN DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
Cult 60 gangster movie. Tetsu is a former hit man who has joined his boss Kurata in going straight. But old rivalries soon lead to outbreaks of violence.
TOKYO FIST (18) JAPAN 1996 TSUKAMOTO, SHINYA DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Tsuda, is the the archetypal Japanese salaryman, a cog in the machine married to polite and compliant Hizuru (Kaori Fujii). Their life is happy, at least on the surface, at least until Tsuda’s friend from the past, Kojima (played by Tsukamoto’s own real life brother, Kôji) shows up on the scene.
TOKYO SONATA (12) 2008 JAPAN KUROSAWA, KIYOSHI. £20.99
A loyal employee is made redundant when his company begins outsourcing to China. Incapable of facing his new reality, he hides his failure from his family and pretends he still has his job. DUAL BLU RAY AND DVD EDITION
TOKYO STORY (U) 1953 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
A beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret. From the simple tale of an elderly husband and wife’s visit to Tokyo to see their grown-up children. Also include
, Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family. 2 disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
TOKYO TRIBE (18) 2014 JAPAN SONO, SHION
DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £14.99
Hybrid Yakuza gang-action movie and hip-hop musical set in a futuristic, alternate-world Tokyo, the city is made up of ghetto slums and nightclub playgrounds where gangs of wayward youths rule the streets
TONY TAKITANI (U) JAPAN 2004 ICHIKAWA, JUN £19.99
Adaption of a story by acclaimed writer Haruki Muraki.
TOSHIAKI TOYODA: THE EARLY YEARS (15) 2013 JAPAN TOYODA, TOSHIAKI £28.99
Triple bill of cult Japanese films - 'Pornostar' (1998) , 'Unchain' (2000) and '9 Souls' (2003).
TURTLES ARE SURPRISINGLY FAST SWIMMERS (12) 2005 JAPAN SATOSHI, MIKI £14.99
Comic tale of a bored housewife's new occupation as a spy. Stuck in domestic purgatory while her businessman husband travels the world, Suzume Katakura dreams of another life. Fate lends a hand one day when she stumbles upon a flyer trying to recruit spies.
TWENTY-FOUR EYES (PG) 1954 JAPAN KINOSHITA, KEISUKE £19.99
Award winning film which has come to redefine Japan’s national identity with its cry for pacifism and its reverence for the innocence of youth.
TWILIGHT SAMURIA (12) JAPAN 2002 SANADA, HIROYUKI £22.99
A low-ranking retainer struggles to keep his family, and maintain his honour without resorting to violence .
UGETSU (12) 1953 MIZOGUCHI, K. BLU RAY £37.99
Set in 16th century Japan, rival warlords battle for supremacy.
UGETSU MONOGATARI & OYU-SAMA (PG) 1951-3 MIZOGUCHI, K. £24.99
First film is a award winning film is set in 16th century Japan, where two peasants go to pursue their own dreams - one for wealth, the other for glory and the second is a dramabout two sisters and their ill-fated relationship with the same man.
UZUMASA LIMELIGHT (15) 2014 JAPAN OCHIAI, KEN £14.99
Older actor Seiichi Kamiyama (Seizo Fukumoto) is struggling to find work within the declining samurai film-making tradition. Having played the part of the Kirareyaku, whose role is to die at the hands of the picture's leading star, he finds new purpose in life by teaching a young actress the art of the kirareyaku along with the elegant art of stage sword fighting.
VENGEANCE IS MINE (18) 1979 JAPAN IMAMURA, SHOHEI £19.99
Imamura uncovers a seedy underbelly of civilized Japanese society.
VERSUS (18) 2000 JAPAN KITAMURA, RYUHEI £19.99
Action thriller.
VIOLENCE AT HIGH NOON (18) 1960 JAPAN OSHIMA, NAGISA £19.99
The film begins with the marriage of a couple who became acquainted during the demonstrations against the
ratification of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in the summer of 1960 . Soon the wedding degenerates into a heated discourse among different factions of the student movement.
VIOLENT COP (18) 1989 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
Rogue cop dispenses his own justice.
VITAL (18) 2004 JAPAN TSUKAMOTO, SHINYA £19.99
Horror movie about a medical students, with amnesia, who finds his memory returning
as he performs an autopsy on the dead girlfriend.
WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE (15) 2001 IMAMURA, SHOHEI £19.99
An unemployed businessman travels to a remote fishing village in search for a house which contains hidden treasure . Once there he discovers that the house is occupied by a beautiful young woman
WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN (15) 2003 TAKITA, YOJIRO £19.99
End-of-an-era Samurai tale which was nominated for 8 Japanese Academy
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (U) 2014 JAPAN YONEBAYASHI, HIROMASA DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY £24.99
Studio Ghibli anime about 12-year-old asthmatic tomboy Anna who is sent to stay with relatives in a seaside town. Here Anna sees an old, abandoned mansion that is in pristine condition and in which a young girl called Marnielives. Anna sets out to discover the truth about the girl and the house.
WHISPER OF THE HEART (PG) 1995 JAPAN KONDO, YOSHIFUMI £17.99
Classic anime feature from Studio Ghibli.
THE WIND RISES (PG) 2013 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Studio Ghibli animation about a young boy dreams of flying a plane but when he learns he will be unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight, he instead decides to be an aircraft designer.
WOLF CHILDREN (PG) 2012 JAPAN HOSODA, MAMORU DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY (3 DISC VERSION) - £34.99
Anime following the growth and development of a pair of wolf children
WOMAN CALLED ABE SADA (18) 1975 JAPAN TANAKA, NOBORU £12.99
This is the earlier version of the same true story used for the highly-acclaimed and
controversial film ‘In the Realm of the Senses.
WOMAN OF THE DUNES (15) 1964 JAPAN TESHIGAHARA, HIROSHI £19.99
An entomologist is attracted to a young widow living at the bottom of a sandpit.
YAKUZA TRIPLE PACK (18) 1973, 1976 JAPAN FUKASAKU, KINJI £19.99
Features The Yakuza Papers, Yakuza Graveyard and Street Mobster.
YASUJIRÔ OZU: THE GANGSTER FILMS (15) 1933 JAPAN £29.99
Collection of three silents films directed by Yasujirô Ozu. In 'Walk Cheerfully' (1930) a thief attempts to reform for the sake of the woman he loves. In 'That Night's Wife' (1930) a father becomes a criminal in order to afford his sick daughter's medical treatment.
In 'Dragnet Girl' (1933) a typist re-evaluates her life when her gangster boyfriend becomes acquainted with another woman.
YOUR NAME (12) 2016 JAPAN SHINKAI, MAKOTO £17.99
Animated film in which a comet falls to earth and two children begin to feel bonded through their dreams, even though they have never met.
YOUTH OF THE BEAST (15) 1963 JAPAN SUZUKI, SEIJUN £17.99
When the underground world of Japan's yakuza gangs is disturbed by a mysterious stranger and chaos ensues. Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition based on their new HD master.
ZATOICHI (18) JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
A thrilling tale of swordplay and adventure set in 19th Century Japan.
ZIPANG (18) 1992 JAPAN HAYASHI, KAIZO £19.99
A band of renegades discover the key to a magical kingdom.
MIRAI (PG) 2018 JAPAN HOSODA, MAMORU DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £17.99
Anime about four-year-old Kun, who finds a mysterious garden behind his house in which is located a portal that transports him back in time to when his mother was a child.
MIKI SATOSHI COLLECTION (15) JAPAN £19.99
Triple bill features 'Adrift in Tokyo' (2007), 'Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers' (2005) & 'Instant Swamp' (2009)
MIKIO NARUSE BOX SET (12) 1951-56 JAPAN NARUSE, MIKIO £49.99
Contains - Repast, Sound Of The Mountain and Flowing.
MIKIO NARUSE COLLECTION 3 DISC BOX SET (12) JAPAN 1958-60 £44.99
Contains - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs , Floating Clouds and Late Chrysanthemums (1958).
MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI (PG) 2015 OKAZAKI, STEVEN £19.99
Biographical documentary chronicling the life of Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune.
MEMORIES OF MATSUKO (15) 2006 JAPAN NAKASHIMA, TETSUYA £14.99
When the body of a female tramp is found in the park, her nephew is called upon to clean out her abandoned apartment. In doing so, he unwittingly embarks upon a surprising journey through the extraordinary life of his aunt.
MAKEUP ROOM (18) 2015 JAPAN MORIKAWA, KEI £12.99
Drama about a make-up artist working in a chaotic adult movie company.
MASSACRE GUN (15) 1967 JAPAN HASEBE , YASUHARU £12.99
After being forced to kill his lover, hitman Kuroda turns on his crime bosses
KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (U) 1989 JAPAN MIYAZAKI. HAYAO £19.99
Animation tale of young witch who embarks on an independent life running an air courier service.
KIKUJIRO (12) 1998 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
A retired Yakuza is forced to help a young boy to find his mother.
THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS (PG) 2013 JAPAN £19.99
Documentary about Japanese film company Studio Ghibli and three of the men behind its success - directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki.
KNOWBODY KNOWS (12) 2004 JAPAN HIROKAZU, KORE-EDA £19.99
This tough yet tender film follows the lives of four children left to fend for themselves
KWAIDAN (PG) 1964 JAPAN KOBAYSHI, MASAKI £19.99
Collection of four Ghost stories.
KURONEKO (18) 1968 JAPANSHINDO, KANETO £19.99
A classic ghost story based on an old folk tale.
LADY OF MUSASHINO (PG) 1951 JAPAN MIZOGUCHI, KENJI £19.99
Set in post-war Japan, the film tells the story of Michiko, a disllusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
LADY SNOWBLOOD: BLIZZARD FROM THE NETHERWORLD/LOVE SONG OF...(18) 1974 JAPAN FUJITA, TOSHIYA £29.99
Double bill of blood-soaked Samurai masterpiece from the golden age of Japanese cult cinema. This double-bill contains Blizzard from the Netherworld (1973) and Love Song of Vengeance (1974).
THE LAND OF HOPE (15) 2012 JAPAN SONO, SHION DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Post-disaster drama which shows the Japanese character while dealing with the disaster and the effects it has on the community as a whole.
LAPUTA - CASTLE IN THE SKY (PG) 1986 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO £17.99
Japanese animated film about treasure and secret powers.
LAST EXILE - FAM, THE SILVER WING: PART 1(12) 2012 JAPAN £24.99
Episodes 1-12 of the anime spin-off series set on Earth two years after 'Last Exile'.
LAST EXILE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (12) 2000 JAPAN CHIGIRA, KOICHI £39.99
All 26 episodes of the anime series set in the steampunk world of Prestale
LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (15) 2003 RATANARUANG, PEN-EK £19.99
Ratanaruang skilfully fuses a variety of genres to create a unique, dreamily stylish drama.
LATE MIZOGUCHI - EIGHT FILMS 1951-1956 (12) £48.99
A collection of eight films from the last decade in the career of celebrated Japanese auteur Kenji Mizoguchi. 'Oyu-Sama (Miss Oyu)' (1951), 'Ugetsu Monogatari' (1953), . 'Gion Bayashi (A Geisha)' (1953), 'Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)' (1954), 'Uwasa No Onna (The Woman in the Rumour)' (1954), 'Chikamatsu Monogatari ('The Crucified Lovers)' (1954), . 'Yokihi' (1955) and 'Akasen Chitai (Street of Shame)' (1956).
LATE SRING (BAKUSHÛ) (U) 1949 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
Late Spring is a tender meditation on family politics, sacrifice and the status quo., Also includes The Only Son, a powerful tale of sacrifice and hope. 2 disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
LESSON OF EVIL (18) 2012 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Harvard graduate Hasumi (Itô) teaches English at an elite Japanese high school. His friendliness and good looks help him become a trusted member of the school's faculty.However, in actuality, Hasumi is a deeply troubled man and calculated killer.
LIFE OF OHARU (18) 1958 JAPAN B/W MIZOGUCHI, KENJI £19.99
This award winning film charts the decline of a woman from the Imperial Palace through exile to prostitution.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) 2013 JAPAN KOREEDA, HIROKAZU £19.99
Successful businessman life is turned upside down when he finds out that the child he thought was his was actually accidentally switched with another baby when he was born.
LITTLE NORSE PRINCE (U) 1968 JAPAN TAKAHATA, ISAO £17.99
Classic Japanese animated film, following the adventures of young Horus, who recovers the Sword of the Sun from the evil rock giant Moog.
LOVE & PEACE (15) 2015 JAPAN SONO, SION £14.99
Comedy drama about shy bullied office worker who is forced to flush his pet turtle down the toilet, but when it reappears from the sewers with magic powers it transform his owner's dreams into reality.
LOVE EXPOSURE (18) 2008 JAPAN SONO, SION £14.99
Black-comedy drama which captures a year in the life of a 17
LOVE, ELECTION AND CHOCOLATE: COLLECTION (12) 2012 JAPAN KITAHATA, TORU £29.99
Complete collection of the anime based on the visual novel by Sprite.
LU OVER THE WALL (PG) 2017 JAPAN YUASA, MASAAKI £17.99
Middle school pupils Kai, meets a mermaid named Lu in this anime movie.
LUPIN THE 3RD: THE WOMAN CALLED FUJIKO MINE (15) 2012 JAPAN £24.99
All episodes from the anime series about master thief Arsène Lupin III, grandson of Arsène Lupin, the character created by French author Maurice Leblanc.
KIJU YOSHIDA: LOVE AND ANARCHISM (15) 1973 JAPAN YOSHIDA, YOSHISHIGE DUAL FORMAT BLU RAY-DVD £54.99
Collection of three works from the late sixties and early seventies, a loose trilogy united by their radical politics. EROS + MASSACRE (1969) tells the parallel stories of early 20th-century anarchist. HEROIC PURGATORY(1970) presents a bleak but dreamlike investigation into the political discourses taking place in early seventies Japan. COUP D’ÉTAT (1973) is a biopic of Ikki Kita, the right-wing extremist who sought to overthrow the government in 1936.
BOILING POINT (15) 1990 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
When dim-witted gas station attendant Masaki disrespects a customer who turns out to be a local yakuza he brings trouble for his boss.
BRAVE STORY (PG) 2006 JAPAN CHIGIRA, KOICHI £17.99
Japanese animated adventure in which an eleven year old boy gets a chance to change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world.
BULLET BALLET (15) 1998 JAPAN TSUKAMOTO, SHINYA DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker, who on discovering that his girlfriend has used a gun to committed suicide, goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo to try and find answers
BULLET TRAIN (PG) 1975 JAPAN SATO, JUNYA £12.99
A bomb on the Tokyo to Hataka bullet train will detonate if the train drops to below 80 kilometres per hour and its a races against time to disarm it.
CAFE LUMIERE (18) 2003 JAPAN HOU, HSIAO-HSIEN £19.99
Film about an independent young woman must deal with both the concerns of her parents and the pressures of her modern life.
CASSHERN (PG) 2004 JAPAN KIRIYA, KAZUAKI £19.99
A visually stunning science-fiction epic based on the anime series from 1973.
CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO (PG) 1980 JAPAN MIYAZAKI, HAYAO £19.99
A hugely influential piece of Japanese Anime about a pair of modern day Robin Hoods.
CAT RETURNS (PG) 1980 JAPAN MORITA, HIROYUKI £17.99
Anime film about an unruly young Haru saves a cat from being run over on her way back from school, little realising that the cat is the son of the Cat King.
CHAOS/CURSE, DEATH AND SPIRIT (15) 2004 JAPAN NAKATA, HIDEO £19.99
Psychological thriller in which a woman stages her own kidnapping.
CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI AND UWASA NO ONNA (12) 1954 JAPAN MIZOGUCHI, KENJI £17.99
The first film is as hauntingly tragic story of a forbidden love affair and the second a contrasting portrait of attitudes and mores concerning love and relationships.
CITY OF LOST SOULS (18) 2000 JAPAN TAKASHI, MIKE £19.99
Explosive and stylish thriller.
COLD FISH (18) 2010 JAPAN SHION, SONO £14.99
Japanese thriller which focuses on tropical fish seller Mr. Shamoto who unwittingly goes into business with an elderly psychopath.
THE COMPLEX (15) 2013 JAPAN NAKATA, HIDEO £12.99
Japanese horror about a girl kept awake at night by muffled scratching noises from her neighbour's room.
CONFESSIONS OF A DOG (15) 2006 JAPAN TAKAHASHI, GEN £14.99
Political crime drama delineating set within the Japanese police force.
CHROME SHELLED REGIOS: COLLECTION 1 (15) 2009 JAPAN KAWASAKI, ITSURO £24.99
First collection of episodes from the Japanese anime set in a future dystopian world.
CREEPY - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (15) 2016 JAPAN KUROSAWA, KIYOSHI DUEL FORMAT BLU-RAY/DVD £19.99
A retired detective takes a new job as a criminology lecturer and is convinced by a former colleague to reopen a six-year-old, unsolved case in which three members of the same family disappeared without a trace.
CURE (18) 1997 JAPAN KUROSAWA, KIYOSHI DUAL FORMAT DVD & BLU RAY£15.99
A series of murders have been committed across Tokyo, with a distinguishing mark that connects them: a bloody 'x' carved into the neck of each victim. The murders all turn out to be committed by ordinary citizens who claim they had no control over their actions, and have each had previous interactions with the same mysterious man.
CURSED (18) JAPAN 2004 HOSHINO, YOSHIHIRO £9.99
Supernatural tale centred around a convenience store.
DEAD OR ALIVE (18) J 1999 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI £19.99
Relentless action thriller.
DEAD SUSHI (18) 2012 JAPAN IGUCHI, NOBORU DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £14.99
Surreal Japanese comedy horror .
DEATH NOTE (15) 2006 JAPAN KANEKO, SHUSUKE £12.99
Live action film based on the manga comic of the same name.
DEPARTURES (12 JAPAN 2008 TAKITA, YOJIRO £17.99
Japanese comedy drama starring Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi, a professional cellist who loses his job when his orchestra disbands. BLU RAY - £24.99
DOLLS (12) 2002 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99
Three touching tradition Bunraku stories about undying love.
DARK WATER (15) 2002 JAPAN NAKATA, HIDEO £19.99
Horror movie from the director of the Ring.
DRAGON BALL GT: SEASON 1(PG) 1997 JAPAN OKAZAKI, MINORU £34.99
All 34 episodes from the first series of the Japanese anime continuing the adventures of Goku and his search for the elusive dragon balls.
EARLY SUMMER (BAKUSHÛ) (U) 1951 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
When family, friends and colleagues pressure Noriko to marry they provoke a surprising decision with wide-reaching consequences.Also includes What Did the Lady Forget?, Ozu's pre-war comic classic. 2 disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
THE EEL (18) 1997 JAPAN IMAMURA, SHOHEI £15.99
Award-winning drama about a released murderer who moves to a quiet town, and is content to spend the rest of his life alone. However his routine is disturbed by a young woman who has her own demons to battle. The film won the Cannes Palme d'Or in 1997.
THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (EX) 1987 JAPAN HARA, KAZUO DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Documentary about Japanese war veteran Kenzo Okuzaki as he travels around Japan on a quest to expose Emperor Hirohito and his men who killed two Japanese soldiers during World War II.
THE EMPIRE OF CORPSES (15) 2015 JAPAN MAKIHARA, RYOUTAROU £34.99
Sci-fi anime feature based on the novel by Project Itoh and Tô Enjo. Set in 19th-century London, new technology has allowed human corpses to be reanimated and used as labourers for Europe's industrial advancement.
EMPIRE OF PASSION (18) 1979 JAPAN OSHIMA, NAGISA £19.99
The film is dominated by theme’s of guilt, repression and censorship.
END OF SUMMER (PG) 1961 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
An intimate portrayal of Japanese family life, as traditional values are breaking down in the face of post-war progress.
EQUINOX FLOWER (U) 1958 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
Japanese comedy drama. 2 disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
EUREKA (15) 2000 JAPAN AOYAMA, SHINJI £19.99
Three people haunted by their past take a long bus journey across Japan. The trip turns into a cathartic odyssey of spiritual self-discovery.
FACE OF ANOTHER (15) 1966 TESHIGAHARA, HIROSHI £19.99
Facially disfigured man has lifelike mask modelled on a complete stranger. He successfully seduces his own wife but then becomes angry at her falling for him.
FAMILY ONE AND TWO (18) 2001 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI £19.99
Story of Japan’s Yakuza Families.
FAMILY VALUES: THREE FILMS BY HIROKAZU KOREEDA (PG) 206 JAPAN BLU RAY ONLY £45.99
Contains - I Wish (2011), Like Father, Like Son' (2013) and After the Storm (2016).
FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (18) JAPAN ITO,S/HASEBE, Y £79.99
Collection of Japanese thrillers starring Meiko Kaji. Contains 'Female Prisoner #701 - Scorpion' (1972), 'Female Prisoner #701 - Scorpion: Jailhouse 41' (1972), 'Female Prisoner #701 - Scorpion: Beast Stable' (1973) and 'Female Prisoner Scorpion #701's Grudge Song' (1973).
THE FIGHTER PILOT (12) 2013 JAPAN YAMAZAKI, TAKASHI £15.99
Second World War war drama about family members trying to find out what their grandfather did in the war and discovering he was a Kamikaze pilot.
FIGHTING ELEGY (18) 1966 JAPAN SUZUKI, SEIJUN £19.99
Insightful look at Japan’s undercurrent of militaristic violence as young Kiroku fights his way from the school playgrounds of the 1930s to the political revolution in the 1950s.
FIREFLY DREAMS (15) JAPAN £17.99
Naomi a teenagers who spends more time thinking about her possessions than the people in her life. When her mother leaves the family, however, her father decides to take her to the country, to work in her aunt and uncle's restaurant.
FLOATING WEEDS (PG) 1959 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
Restrained and bittersweet melodrama
FOR LOVE'S SAKE (15) 2012 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Japanese musical comedy.
FREE!: ETERNAL SUMMER (PG) 2014 JAPAN UTSUMI, HIROKO £24.99
All 13 episodes of the Japanese anime about the members of a high school swimming team.
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (U) 2011 JAPAN MIYAZAKI , GORO DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £29.99
Studio Ghibli animation set in 1964 Yokohama, 16-year-old orphan Umi sets out to save the 'Quartier Latin', an old and dilapidated building housing school's clubs, which is being threatened with demolition in the country's drive for post-war modernisation.
FUKASAKU COLLECTION (15) 1970 JAPAN FUKASAKU £19.99
Three highly-rated early films from the director of Battle Royale.
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (18) 1969 JAPAN MATSUMOTO, TOSHIO £19.99
Ground breaking portrayal of the Japanese gay subculture.
GANKUTSUOU (15) 2004 JAPAN KOUYAMA, SHUICH £59.99
All 24 episodes of the Japanese anime series loosely based on 'The Count of Monte Cristo'. But set in the year 5053.
THE GARDEN OF SINNERS MOVIE COLLECTION (18) JAPAN £79.99
Collection of eight anime films adapted from the light novels by Kinoko Nasu. The films are: 'Thanatos' (2007), ', And Nothing Heart' (2007), 'Every Cry, Never Life' (2008), 'Garan-No-Dou' (2008), 'Paradox Paradigm' (2008), 'Fairy Tale' (2008), '...Not Nothing Heart' (2009) and 'The Garden of Sinners' (2013).
GATE OF FLESH (18)] 1964 JAPAN SUZUKI, SEIJUN £19.99
Film about a group of Tokyo prostitutes who work from a derelict building.
GATE OF HELL (PG) 1953 JAPAN KINUGASA, TEINOSUKE £19.99
Celebrated 1950s Japanese film that won praise for its use of colour photography and the dramatic tension of its storyline. When samurai warrior Morit (Kazuo Hasegawa)'s quick thinking saves the life of the ruling empress during an attempted coup he is offered his choice of reward. Morit declares that he desires only the hand in marriage of one of the court's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Kesa (Machiko Kyô), who helped him execute the plan.
Morit is told that Lady Kesa is already married but this doesn't prevent him from pursuing her with a relentlessness that threatens to end in disaster for all concerned.
GENGHIS KHAN-TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH AND SEA (18)] 2007 JAPAN SAWAI, SHINICHIRO £19.99
Big-budget epic that traces the rise of the legendary Mongolian emperor.
GETTING ANY? (15) 1995 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
Hilariously surreal farce follows the exploits of Asao, a guy who is desperate for a girl and comes up with one crazed scheme after another in the hope of achieving his goal.
GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (12 ) 2006 JAPAN HOSODA, MAMORU £17.99
Animated film in which a 17-year-old girl has the ability to leap backwards through time.
GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME. VOLUME 2 (12 ) 2009 JAPAN HOSODA, MAMORU £29.99
Nine more episodes of the Japanese animated series following Akiha Shihido as she undertakes a mission in space.
GIRLS UND PANZER: DER FILM (12) 2015 JAPAN MIZUSHIMA, TSUTOMU £18.99
Animated film which follows a group of schoolgirls who take part in Sensha-do, a sport where competitors do battle using World War Two era tanks.
GODZILLA (PG) 1954 JAPAN HONDA, ISHIRO £19.99
Complete uncut original which was Japan’s first foray into big budget feature films.
GOHATTO (15) 1999 JAPAN OSHIMA, NAGISA £19.99
Samurai drama set in an all-male school in 1865.
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (12) 1988 JAPAN TAKAHATA, ISAO £24.99
Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Akiyuki Nosaka, this haunting Japanese anime tells the story of two children, 14-year-old Seita (voice of J. Robert Spencer) and his four-year-old sister Setsuko (Rhoda Chrosite), who are struggling to survive in 1940s war-torn Japan
HANA-BI (18) 1997 JAPAN TAKESHI KITANO BLU RAY ONLY £19.99
Award winning tale of guilt, death and loyalty.
HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS(15) 2001 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI £19.99
Musical full of claymation and dancing zombies.
HARMONIUM - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (15) 2016 JAPAN FUKADA, KÔJI DUAL FORMAT EDITION £19.99
Yasaka is released from prison and seeks out his old friends Toshio, who welcomes him into his family and gives him a job in his workshop.
However, the close Toshio family starts to fall apart as Yasaka oversteps his welcome and the past he shares with Toshio begins to come to light.
HELLISH LOVE (18) 1972 JAPAN SONE , CHUSEI £19.99
Sexually charges ghost story.
HORIZON ON THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE: SEASON 1 AND 2 (15) 2012 ONO, MANABU £39.99
The first two seasons of the Japanese anime set in the distant future where nations battle for control on a barely inhabitable Earth
HIMIZU (18) 2011 JAPAN SONO, SHION £14.99
The film follows two teenagers' attempts to survive the aftermath of Japan's 2011 tsunami. BLU RAY - £19.99
HOUSE (MASTERS OF CINEMA) (15) JAPAN 1977 OBAYASHI, NOBUHIKO £17.99
This deranged fairy tale is startling debut feature by Nobuhiko Obayashi.
HOWLS MOVING CASTLE PG) 2005 JAPAN MIYAZAKI. HAYAO DVD - £14.99 TWO DISC BLU RAY - £29.99
Animation tale set in a magical world of wizard and spells.
THE HUMAN CONDITION TRILOGY (18) 1961 JAPAN KOBAYASHI, MASAKI DUAL FORMAT BLU RAY /DVD £69.99
Wartime trilogy based on Junpei Gomikawa’s novel which followings the journey of pacifist Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) from naïve labour camp supervisor to Imperial soldier and eventually to Soviet prisoner of war. Features - No Greater Love (1959), Road to Eternity (1959) and A Soldier's Prayer (1961).
HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOONS (PG) 1937 YAMANAKA, SADAO £19.99
The film show life in feudal Japan for those at the foot of the social ladder.
I WISH (PG) 2011 JAPAN KOREEDA, HIROKAZU £15.99
Family-based drama in which two brothers torn apart by their parents' divorce and living in separate towns dream of reuniting their family
IMMORTAL LOVE (18) 1972 JAPAN SONE, CHUSEI £12.99
Beautifully filmed erotic ghost story
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (18) 1976 JAPAN NAGISA OSHIMA £19.99
Dark sexually graphic tale described as a Japanese ‘Last Tango in Paris’.
IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD (PG) 2016 JAPAN KATABUCHI, SUNAO £13.99
Based on a manga by Fumiyo Kono, this animated film is set in WW2 Hiroshima, where newly married 18-year-old Suzu finds herself with a hungry family to feed, as well as fending of accusations of spying.
INFECTION (18) 2004 JAPAN OCHIAI, MASAYUKI £19.99
A patient in a hospital dies due to malpractice and in panic the doctors responsible stage a cover-up.
THE INSECT WOMAN (15) 1963 JAPAN IMAMURA, SHOHEI £23.99
Classic Japanese drama following the life of a working-class woman who attempts to overcome the poverty of her childhood.
INSTANT SWAMP (12) JAPAN 2009 MIKI, SATOSHI £14.99
Young woman sets out to retrieve some lost possessions, a quest which reacquaints her with her estranged father, now a hippie working at a junk shop.
IREZUMI (18) JAPAN 2006 MASUMURA, YASUZO £19.99
This ‘Pinku Eiga’ (pink cinema) classic deals with a young woman abused by male society who exacts a gruesome revenge.
KAMIKAZE GIRLS (12) 2004 JAPAN NAKASHIMA, TETSUYA £14.99
Charming, unique, and very funny film based on the hit Japanese novel Shimotsuma Story by Novala Takemoto.
KAKERA - A PIECE OF OUR LIFE (15) JAPAN 2009 ANDO, MOMOKO £14.99
Momoko Ando's debut film is a modern coming-of-age drama based on the manga series 'Love Vibes' by Erika Sakurazawa.
KIDS RETURN (15) 1996 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99
Two trouble-making, teenage bullies drop-out of school to try and become successful in the real world. One becomes a small-time boxer and the other joins the Yakuza gang.
BLUE SPRING (15) 2019 JAPAN BLU-RAY / WITH DVD - DOUBLE PLAY £19.99
Based on a manga by Taiyo Matsumoto, a group of school children take over a school.
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BATTLE ROYALE (18) 2001 JAPAN KITANO TAKESHI LIMITED EDITION 5 DISC BLU RAY BOX SET £64.99
Unemployment and school rebellion leads the Government to send a group of children to a desert island to fight to the death in this will received film likened to A Clockwork Orange.
Now in a brand new 4K restoration of the classic cult shocker adapted from the controversial novel by Koushun Takami
KAGEMUSHA (PG) 1980 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA BLU RAY £24.99
A warlord, who has a stand in to take his places in battles, dies, the impersonator take over the roll as warlord. Kurosawa epic samurai film plays with the notion of illusion and reality and is a meditation on the nature of power.
KWAIDAN - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (PG) 1964 JAPAN KOBAYSHI, MASAKI BLU RAY - £19.99
Collection of four Ghost stories in which people find themselves caught up with strange supernatural forces beyond their comprehension.
The individual stories are: 'Black Hair', 'The Woman of the Snow', 'Hoichi the Earless' and 'In a Cup of Tea'.
SURVIVOR BALLADS - THREE FILMS BY SHÔHEI IMAMURA (15) 1983-89 JAPAN BLU RAY BOXSET £59.99
Features the films - The Ballad of Narayama, Zegen and Black Rain.
The Ballad of Narayama (1983) - based on an ancient folktale, an extended farming family eking out their existence in the mountainous north of Japan against the backdrop of the changing seasons before village lore decrees they make the sacrifice of abandoning their aged mother on the top of a nearby mountain when she reaches her seventieth year.
Zegen (1987) takes a satirical look at Japan’s prewar colonial expansion through the unscrupulous eyes of its flesh-peddler antihero as he establishes a prostitution enterprise across Southeast Asia.
Black Rain (1989) details the precarious existence of a household of atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima.
TOKYO DRAGON CHEF (15) 2020 JAPAN NISHIMURA, YOSHIHIRO £12.99
Action comedy in which released prisoner opens a successful Ramen restaurant. However his criminal past catches up with him as a rival restaurant threatens his success .
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THE FLAVOUR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE (U) JAPAN 1957 OZU, YASUJIRÔ DOUBLE PLAY DVD AND BLU RAY £17.99
A marriage quietly becomes undone in this beautiful domestic sagas of secrets and deceptions that strain an already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle aged couple.
FIRST LOVE (15) 2019 JAPAN MIIKE, TAKASHI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY £17.99
Action comedy. Young boxer Leo and call girl Monica becoming caught up in a bloody and violent conflict between rival drug gangs.
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (18) JAPAN 1969 MATSUMOTO, TOSHIO BLU RAY £19.99
A celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience, Funeral Parade of Roses is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece and one of the most intoxicating films of the 60s
LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS (15) 1985 JAPAN TEZUKA, MACOTO £23.99
Cult Japanese film about singers Shingo and Kan, who dream of one day being famous. When they meet Minami , a mysterious promoter who promises them fame and fortune, they can't believe their luck.
Rebranding Shingo and Kan as The Stardust Brothers, they quickly become celebrities, but is it all too good to be true?
MABOROSI (12) JAPAN 1995 KOREEDA, HIROKAZU BLU RAY £17.99
Yumiko is troubled by the notion that she brings death to people close to her. Following the loss of her grandmother and husband, she remarries and begins to find happiness anew. But on a return to her old home for her brother’s wedding, a flood of troubling memories begins to haunt her.
MY NEIGHBOURS THE YAMADAS (PG) 1999 JAPAN TAKAHATA, ISAO DUAL FORMAT BLU RAY/DVD £19.99
Classic Studio Ghibli anime about the adventures of the eccentric Yamada family in modern-day Tokyo. Takashi and Matsuko Yamada negotiate life, love and work, while dealing with their sharp-tongued grandmother, their morose teenage son, and their boisterous young daughter.
PINK FILMS VOL. 1 & 2 (18) 1967 JAPAN YAMATOYA, ATSUSHI BLU-RAY / WITH DVD - DOUBLE PLAY £19.99
INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS
Meeting in a blasted, barren wilderness, the hitman Shô is engaged by wealthy real estate agent Naka to track down his kidnapped lover.
GUSHING PRAYER
The most cryptic and formally radical pink film from the most politically radical director ever to work in the field, deploying actual suicide notes and a haunting guitar refrain by folk musician Minami Masato to express the spiritual and political left vacuum in the wake of the failed student movements of the 1960s.
PINK FILMS VOL. 3 & 4 (18) 1969/1984 JAPAN SUO, M/MUKAI, K BLU-RAY / WITH DVD - DOUBLE PLAY £19.99
ABNORMAL FAMILY (1984)
Suo’s only ever pink film is a bawdy pastiche of the works of Ozu Yasujirô, presenting this far-from-typical family through idiosyncratic editing and compositional.
BLUE FILM WOMAN (1969)
feverish mishmash of horror, blackmail sexploitation and trippy nightclub sequences revolving around the daughter of a stockbroker who is brought to his knees by an unexpected financial crash.
TAKESHI KITANO COLLECTION (18) 1993 JAPAN BLU RAY £35.99
Featured films:
VIOLENT COP
Detective Azuma (‘Beat' Takeshi) is a renegade cop who frequently resorts to violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend and colleague is supplying drugs from within the police force. After his colleague is murdered and his sister is kidnapped, he breaks all the rules to dish out his particular form of justice.
BOILING POINT
When the mild mannered Masaki (Yûrei Yanagi) falls foul of the Yakuza he decides to buy a gun to defend himself. He heads to Okinawa where he forms an unlikely partnership with Uehara (‘Beat’ Takeshi) who has his own reasons for wanting revenge.
SONATINE
Murakawa (‘Beat' Takeshi), an established and ruthless gangster, is sent to intervene in a gang war on the island of Okinawa. When the situation takes a turn for the worse, Murakawa and his men are forced to retreat into hiding, but it’s not long before their enemies track them down. A final and breathtaking showdown becomes inevitable.
TOKYO STORY (U) 1953 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO BLU-RAY/ DVD - DOUBLE PLAY £19.99
A beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret. From the simple tale of an elderly husband and wife’s visit to Tokyo to see their grown-up children.
TSUKAMOTO - KILLING/HAZE/THE ADVENTURE OF DENCHU-KOZO (18) JAPAN TSUKAMOTO, SHIN'YA BLU RAY £23.99
Collection of Japanese horrors from director Shin-ya Tsukamoto. The films are 'Killing' (2018), 'Haze' (2005) and 'The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo' (1987).
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
BAD SLEEP WELL (PG) 1960 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
This stylish crime thriller delves into corporate corruption, Japanese style.
BRIGHT FUTURE (15) 2003 JAPAN KUROSAWA, KIYOSHI £19.99
Award winning study of urban disillusionment and disaffected youth.
CLASSIC KUROSAWA BOX SET (15) 1980 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA £59.99
Contains ‘Throne of Blood’ (1957), ‘Red Beard (aka Akahige)’ (1965), ‘Stray Dog’ (1949), ‘Ikiru’ (1952) and ‘I Live in Fear’ (1955).
DERSU UZALA (U) RUSSIA 1975. KUROSAWA, AKIRA £22.99
Filmed on the Pacific seaboard of the former USSR, the film explores the relationship between an ageing hunter and a soldier-explorer.
DRUNKEN ANGEL (PG) 1948 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Odd mix of soap opera and street crime and the cultural chaos of Postwar Japan.
EARLY KUROSAWA (12) 1943-7 JAPAN £39.99
Contains - Sanshiro Sugata (Sugata Sanshiro), Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (Zoku Sugata Sanshiro), The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku), Who Step on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi), No Regrets For Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi), One Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki nichiyobi).
HIDDEN FOREST (PG) 1958 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Kurosawa’s thrilling mixture of fairy-tale and Samurai movie.
HIGH AND LOW (12) 1963 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Kurosawa’s thriller based on a novel by Ed. McBain.
I LIVE IN FEAR (PG) 1955 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Set during the Cold War the film deals with the threat of nuclear annihilation.
IDIOT (PG) 1951 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel.
IKIRU (PG) 1952 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
A man dying of cancer suddenly discovers a zest for life.
KAGEMUSHA (PG) 1980 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Visually impressive epic.
KUROSAWA CLASSIC COLLECTION (15) JAPAN £49.99
Contains - 'Ikiru' (1952) , 'Red Beard' (1965), 'The Lower Depths' (1957),'I Live in Fear' (1955) and 'Dodes'ka-den' (1970).
KUROSAWA CRIME COLLECTION (12) JAPAN £39.99
Collection of four crime dramas from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.'Drunken Angel' (1948), 'Stray Dog' (1949), 'The Bad Sleep Well' (1960) and 'High and Low' (1963).
KUROSAWA SAMURAI COLLECTION (12) JAPAN £39.99
Features - SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), THE HIDDEN
FORTRESS (1958), YOJIMBO (1961), SANJURO (1962)
MADADAYO (15) 1993 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
The film is based on the life of a Japanese academic and author, Hyakken Uchida.
RAN (15) 1985 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA DVD £19.99 BLU RAY £24.99
This complex, newly restored, Oscar-winning epic is Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear.
RED BEARD 15) 1965 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Set in 18th Century Japan about an arrogant student who turns into a caring doctor.
RASHOMON (12) 1950 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Intriguing story and strong performances.
RHAPSODY IN AUGUST (U) 1990 JAPAN AKIRA KUROSAWA £9.99
Nagasaki survivor tells his story to his grandchildren.
SANJURO (12) 1962 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Sequel to Yojimbo.
SCANDAL (PG) 1950 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Akira Kurosawa’s pointed attack on the rising power of the press and their practices in the newly-Americanised postwar Japan of 1950.
SEVEN SAMURAI (PG) 1954 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Classic Samurai story on which the film ‘The Magnificent Seven, was based.
SILENT DUEL (15) 1949 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £17.99
An army doctor copes with a case of syphilis contracted from one of his patients during an operation. Based on a stage play by Kazuo Kikuta.
STRAY DOG (PG) 1949 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set in occupied Tokyo.
THRONE OF BLOOD (PG) 1957 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Japanese version of Macbeth.
YOJIMBO (PG) 1961 JAPAN B/W KUROSAWA, AKIRA £19.99
Kurosawa’s classic Samurai film.
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2001 NIGHTS (15) 2009 JAPAN SORI, FUMIHIKO £19.99
Double bill of Japanese sci-fi anime fables 'Elliptical Orbit' and 'Symbiotic Planet' .
47 RONIN (15) 1994 JAPAN ICHIKAWA, KON £15.99
Samurai film based on the tale about the revenge of the 47 Ronin.warriors
5 CENTIMETRES PER SECOND (U) 2007 JAPAN MAKOTO SHINKAI DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Japanese Anime feature, told in three segments, about the unrequited love between two school friends.
A LETTER TO MOMO (PG) 2011 JAPAN OKIURA, HIROYUKI £19.99
Japanese amine. After the death of her father 11-year-old Momo moves with her mother to the remote island of Shio. Her Moon, overcome with grief, tries to find meaning behind an unfinished letter her father left her containing only two words, 'Dear Momo'.
A MAN VANISHES (E) 1967 JAPAN IMAMURA, SHÔHEI £19.99
Seminal Japanese film that uses the story of a man's disappearance to ask questions about the nature of reality itself.
A SCENE AT THE SEA (U) 1992 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99
Shigeru, a hearing-impaired sanitation worker, finds a broken surf board in a pile of rubbish . He decides to mend the board and hit the beach. Shigeru anxiously attempts to catch a wave, unaware of the local's heckles and laughter.
ADRIFT IN TOKYO (PG) 2007 JAPAN MIKI, SATOSHI £14.99
Offbeat Japanese comedy following the unusual bond that develops between a demotivated student and a debt collector for the loan shark he owes money to.
AFTER LIFE (PG) JAPAN 1998 HIROKAZU, KORE-EDA £19.99
A group of dead people have a week to find the moment in their lives that meant the most to them.
AFTER THE STORM (PG) 2016 JAPAN KOREEDA , HIROKAZU DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Former writer and now private detective, Shinoda Ryota, is addicted to gambling and his life is spiralling out of control. However when a storm traps him in his mother's house with his ex-wife and son, Shinoda is given an unexpected second chance to reconnect with his family.
AGITATOR (18) 2001 JAPAN MIIKI, TASASKI £19.99
Dark gangster movie.
AIR DOLL (18) 2009 JAPAN KOREEDA, HIROKAZU £15.99
Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human.
AKASEN CHITAI AND YOKIHI(12) 1955-56 JAPAN MIZOGUCHI, KENJI £17.99
The first film tells the story of the lives of 5 prostitutes in 1950s Japan and the second is a drama set in eighth century China.
AKIO JISSÔJI: THE BUDDHIST TRILOGY (18) JAPAN JISSOJI, AKIO BLU RAY ONLY £59.99
Features This Transient Life (1970), Mandara (1971) and Poem (1972).
AKIRA (15) 1987 JAPAN OTOMO, KATSUHIRO £19.99
The year is 2019 and Tokyo is on the brink of absolute destruction. BLU RAY - £27.99
ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU (15) 2002 JAPAN IVAI, SHUNJI £19.99
Film about a teenage boy in love with a pop star.
AMBIGUOUS (18) 2003 JAPAN UENO, TOSHIYA £14.99
Five suicidal people meet on the Internet and form a ‘suicide group.’ They all have reasons for which they want to terminate their lives. They arrange to meet at one of the member’s homes to spend their last hours together.
AN ACTOR’S REVENGE (PG) 1963 JAPAN ICHIKAWA, KON £19.99
Kabuki actor plans revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide.
AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (U) 1962 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRÔ £19.99
Drama following the tender story of a widower with a young daughter.
ANTHEM OF THE HEART (12) 2015 JAPAN NAGAI, TATSUYUK £19.99
Animated film in which Jun has been cursed to live a life of silence after a fairy closes her mouth following her parents' divorce. At school, Jun tries to find her voice again by joining the school production of a musical.
ASSASSINATION (12) 1964 JAPAN SHINODA, MASAHIRO £19.99
Film about an ambitious samurai, Which is regarded as Shinoda’s finest achievement.
ARRIETTY (U) 2010 JAPAN YONEBAYASHI, HIROMASA £19.99
Animated feature from Studio Ghibli, based on the 1952 children's novel 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton.
ASHURA (18) 2005 JAPAN TAKITA, YOJIRO £19.99
Spectacular fantasy epic of a war between humans and demons
AUDITION (18) 2000 JAPAN TAKASHI, MIKE £19.99
Horror film in which a man falls for a young woman who shatters his romantic dreams
BAKUMATSU TAIYÔ-DEN 1957 JAPAN KAWASHIMA, YUZO £17.99
Classic Japanese comedy follows man-about-town Saheiji who finds himself unable to pay for a bill at a brothel and is forced to remain there to work off his debt in this multi-levelled portrait of Japanese society.
THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (MASTERS OF CINEMA) (TBA) 1983 JAPAN IMAMURA, SHÔHEI £23.99
Drama set in a 19th century village where it is tradition for anyone approaching the age of 70 to go to a mountain top to die of starvation.
BAREFOOT GEN / BAREFOOT GEN 2 (12) 1983/86 JAPAN HIRATA, T. / MASAKI, M. £19.99
Animated films based on writer Keiji Nakazawa’s true life experiences in the aftermath
of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
BATTLE ROYALE (18) 2001 JAPAN KITANO TAKESHI £19.99
Unemployment and school rebellion leads the Government to send a group of children to a desert island to fight to the death in this will received film likened to A Clockwork Orange.
BATTLE ROYALE TWO: REQUIEM (18) 2003 JAPAN KINJI FUKASAKU / KENTA FUKASAKU £19.99
Sequel to the popular first film.
BATTLE ROYALE TWO: ReVENGE (18) 2003 JAPAN KINJI FUKASAKU / KENTA FUKASAKU £29.99
An extended version of Battle Royale II
BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC (15) 2011 JAPAN HIRAYAM, HIDEYUKI £12.99
Adaptation of the novel by World War Two veteran Don Jones about the Japanese defence of the island of Saipan.
BE MY BABY (15) 2013 JAPAN OHNE, HITOSHI £12.99
Japanese comedy which explores the intertwined love lives of nine twenty-somethings
BLACK KISS (18) 2004 JAPAN TEZUKA, MAKOTO £19.99
Crime thriller in the tradition of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and SEVEN
THE BLACK SOCIETY TRILOGY (18) MIIKE, TAKASHI £24.99
Features - 'Shinjuku Triad Society' (1995), in which a policeman has to stop a gang war between the Japanese Yakuza and the Taiwanese Dragon's Claw gang.
'Rainy Dog' (1997) follows a Japanese mobster holed up in Taipei working as a hitman for a Triad boss. 'Ley Lines' (1999), three boys attracted by the excitement of Tokyo city find themselves caught up in the notorious Shinjuku district and a gangster lifestyle they can't escape.
BLAME! (12) 2017 JAPAN SESHITA, HIROYUKI £219.99
Anime movie in which the human race faces extinction following the Earth's occupation by rogue artificial intelligence. When a virus takes hold of computer systems around the world, catastrophic consequences ensue as they set out to eradicate human life and create a multi-level megastructure.
BLOOD BLOCKADE BATTLEFRONT (15) 2015 JAPAN MATSUMOTO, RIE £29.99
All 12 episodes of the Japanese anime about monsters that have broken through a portal from their world and are now causing havoc in the city formerly known as New York.
ALL FILMS ARE IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.
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