"Actor: Hideo Watanabe"

• Violence at High Noon | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Oshima's most powerful and controversial films. Telling the brutal story of real-life rapist and serial murderer Eisuke (Kei Sato) and his relationship with his protective schoolteacher wife Matsuko (Akiko Koyama) and his only surviving victim Shino (Saeda Kawagushi) Oshima takes the format of the 'real-life crime' drama and uses it as a canvas to lay bare the lost idealism and decay in postwar Japan. Although the action takes place in a seemingly idyllic rural setting Oshima's portrait of humanity is as dark violent and uncompromising as the urban wastes and hellish ghettos of Naked Youth and The Sun's Burial. Never presenting Eisuke as anything less than a monster Oshima goes further to suggest how such deviancy and (specifically male) violence reflects an amoral and corrupt modern society. Part thriller part reaction against the austere Japanese cinematic tradition with avant-garde experimentation and grim social commentary Violence At High Noon is fresh and as fearsome today as when it was first released.

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings | Blu Ray | (15/11/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sengoku Basara drops you directly into the burning battlefields of feudal Japan where rival warlords hack and slash their way to total domination. Each conqueror wields a special attack that boosts their powers of devastation and each commands a horde of relentless warriors. But when a supreme evil - the Demon Lord - threatens the land these fierce generals launch a co-op campaign of annihilation and build an army of armies to obliterate their common foe. As the front line grows crowded with gun-toting mechanized samurai and mystical ninja some will say that war is hell - Sengoku Basara proves it can also be kick ass.

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £18.88   |  Saving you £6.11 (32.36%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the bloody Warring States period of feudal Japan many generals fought in an endless struggle for power but one man proved to be too big a threat - The dark lord Oda Nobunaga. Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune two young warriors from different regions who become heated rivals begin to form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the Devil King.

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings | Blu Ray | (15/11/2010) from £29.68   |  Saving you £0.31 (1.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In the bloody Warring States period of feudal Japan many generals fought in an endless struggle for power but one man proved to be too big a threat - The dark lord Oda Nobunaga. Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune two young warriors from different regions who become heated rivals begin to form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the Devil King.