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• Three Films by Yasujir? Ozu (2 x Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/10/2023) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This year marks the 120th anniversary of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu's birth. From his early silent films to his final features in the 1960s, Ozu perfected a style that stripped away unnecessary plot mechanics and camera movement. In doing so, he produced a cinema whose surface simplicity belies character studies of depth, warmth and on occasion, humour. This new set features three newly restored films, all presented on Blu-ray in the UK for the first time: Dragnet Girl (1933, 99 mins) Sweet-faced Tokiko is an ordinary typist, but come nightfall she's a fun-loving gangster's moll. When her boyfriend strays, Tokiko is forced to reassess her life. Hugely popular when it was released, Ozu's Dragnet Girl remains one of his most enduring silent films. Record of Tenement Gentleman (1947, 75 mins) Tashiro, a fortune-telling resident in a poor district of Tokyo, has been followed home by a young boy whose father took him to the city but became separated from him. Initially unwilling to look after Kohei, Tashiro gradually warms to the boy. A Hen in the Wind (1948, 84 mins) A soldier returns home at the end of World War II, and refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night to pay off medical bills for their son.

• Hiruko The Goblin | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hordes of demons wait behind the Gates of Hell where a school has been built. Hiruko is sent to Earth to behead students and reassemble their heads on the demon's spider-like bodies.... The Hiruko goblin has escaped and no one is safe as the monster claws it's way into the depths of hell! Humanity's only hope is the archeologist Heida and his nephew Masao as they struggle to find a way to slam the door shut on the hideous beast before it can set free the countless other Hirukos bay

• Black Kiss | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Several producers and models from the entertainment industry are being killed one after another. The methods of murder are extremely atrocious and the dead bodies are decorated in an almost artistic manner. At the scene of each crime the perpetrator leaves a black lip print: who will be the next victim of the slayer in the deep darkness of Shinjuku?