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• Perfect Blue | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (75.09%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.

• Perfect Blue | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  One of the most ambitious animated films to come out of Japan (or anywhere, for that matter), Perfect Blue is an adult psycho-thriller that uses the freedom of the animated image to create the subjective reality of a young actress haunted by the ghost of her past identity. Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress in a violent television series, a career move that angers her fans, who prefer to see her as the pert, squeaky-clean pop idol. Plagued by self-doubt and tormented by humiliating compromises, she begins to be stalked, in her waking and sleeping moments, by an accusing alter ego who claims to be "the real Mima", until she collapses into madness as her co-workers are brutally slain around her. Director Satoshi Kon, adapting the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, shows us the world from her schizophrenic perspective: days blur, dreams cross over into the waking world, the TV show blends into her real life, until her life merges with her part and she can't separate the ghosts from the real-life stalkers. Though the pat ending sweeps the psychosis and anxiety away with nary an emotional scar, it remains a smart, stylish thriller and one of the most intelligent and compelling uses of animation in recent years. Though tame by the extreme standards of "adult anime", there is nudity and a few sexually provocative scenes, and the animation is detailed and stylised (if somewhat stiff and jerky by Disney standards). --Sean Axmaker

• Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card - Part One DVD/BD Combo | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £27.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The power of the Clow is back with a brand-new adventure! Join Cardcaptor Sakura as she faces a new power, new friends, and reunites with some familiar faces. As Sakura settles into a normal routine, she prepares to face her newest challenge junior high! While her classes are challenging, things start looking up when Syaoran reappears and says he'll be staying for good. But when she has a strange dream about a mysterious figure and wakes to find her Clow Cards completely clear, she must return to her duty as Cardcaptor. Ready to take on these cards with a new key and new wand, Sakura will face this mystery with the help of her friends and seriously cute outfits!

• X | DVD | (31/12/2000) from £9.11   |  Saving you £8.88 (97.48%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tokyo is the city where the final battle between the Dragon of Earth and the Dragon of Heaven will take place in the Japanese anime film X, directed by Taro Rin and written by the all-woman writing team Clamp. The Dragon of Earth wants to wipe out humankind because of the damage people have inflicted on the Earth, while the Dragon of Heaven is fighting to protect civilisation. At the centre of all this is Kamui, the chosen one, who must pick a dragon to fight for.Full of dreams and flashbacks that pop up out of nowhere, the structure of X could be considered confusing and needlessly complex if the story weren't so simple. Obviously, we are supposed to root for the Dragon of Heaven to win and save mankind, but the funny thing is, the Dragon of Earth has the better argument. If it were a debate, humanity would lose. But it's not a debate, it's an action film, and many of Tokyo's most famous buildings get destroyed in the battles. As with most anime, the women are either girlishly cute or slutty, but luckily in X, there are no graphic rapes; the love interest is merely crucified three or four times. It may not be the greatest anime film out there, but at least it's never boring. --Andy Spletzer

• Perfect Blue - Collectors Edition Combi pack | Blu Ray | (27/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.

• Samurai X - The Collection | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Samurai X - The Motion Picture: The war against Tokugawa Shogunate ended two years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and family get slashed down in the name of freedom and prosperity. Now he and a band of desperate rebels have sworn to settle one final score. Only one man stands in their way... Rurouni Kenshin. Will the former assassin take up his sword and fight again? When Shigure discovers Kenshin's true identity and his fight becomes a personal vendetta the young hero will have no choice... Samurai X - Trust: Kenshin is a young orphan whose fighting skills where honed by the great swordsman Hiko. But Kenshin's soul is embattled just like the battlefields of Japan his hopes for a new world peace at odds with his life of blood and killing. His world is thrown into further confusion by the arrival of a mysterious woman named Tomoe. Her kindness and attention show him a kind of life he didn't know existed. Can she help the assassin become a real man? Or does she hide a secret that could destroy everything he has come to depend on? Join Kenshin and discover the enemy within. Samurai X - Betrayal: After the great fire in Edo Kenshin and Tomoe are sent into exile on a small farm. They experience peace and quiet for the first time in their turbulent lives. The rebellion wounded after the events in Edo is slowly rebuilding far away from Kenshin and Tomoe. Their only link to the outside world is Lizuka who brings them dire news from the city. Samurai X - Reflection: Known throughout all Japan as the Hitokiri Battousai (sword-bearing master assassin) Rurouni Kenshin is now a lost soul cursed to seek atonement for his bloody past. Even the peace that now exists as a result of Kenshin's sword brings him no solace driving him to wander far from those he loves. His wife Kaoru steadfastly awaits his return as she mourns his absence. Will Kenshin come home before she dies of grief?

• Samurai X - Complete Collection | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Samurai X - The Motion Picture: The war against Tokugawa Shogunate ended two years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and family get slashed down in the name of freedom and prosperity. Now he and a band of desperate rebels have sworn to settle one final score. Only one man stands in their way... Rurouni Kenshin. Will the former assassin take up his sword and fight again? When Shigure discovers Kenshin's true identity and his fight becomes a personal vendetta the young hero will have no choice... Samurai X - Trust: Kenshin is a young orphan whose fighting skills where honed by the great swordsman Hiko. But Kenshin's soul is embattled just like the battlefields of Japan his hopes for a new world peace at odds with his life of blood and killing. His world is thrown into further confusion by the arrival of a mysterious woman named Tomoe. Her kindness and attention show him a kind of life he didn't know existed. Can she help the assassin become a real man? Or does she hide a secret that could destroy everything he has come to depend on? Join Kenshin and discover the enemy within. Samurai X - Betrayal: After the great fire in Edo Kenshin and Tomoe are sent into exile on a small farm. They experience peace and quiet for the first time in their turbulent lives. The rebellion wounded after the events in Edo is slowly rebuilding far away from Kenshin and Tomoe. Their only link to the outside world is Lizuka who brings them dire news from the city. Samurai X - Reflection: Known throughout all Japan as the Hitokiri Battousai (sword-bearing master assassin) Rurouni Kenshin is now a lost soul cursed to seek atonement for his bloody past. Even the peace that now exists as a result of Kenshin's sword brings him no solace driving him to wander far from those he loves. His wife Kaoru steadfastly awaits his return as she mourns his absence. Will Kenshin come home before she dies of grief?

• Psycho Diver - Soul Siren | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (49.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a dark world of private terror Yuki a beautiful pop star is haunted by violent memories and discovers psychic powers she cannot control. It is up to Bosujima a Pscho Diver with exceptional talents to descend into her turbulent soul and set things right before the inner demon triumphs. What he doesn't know is that there are other who will stop at nothing to control Yuki's fate and that he is stepping into a power struggle he will probably not survive... A mind-bendingly origin

• My Actress/Perfect Blue | DVD | (01/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Millennium Actress has the stylistic sophistication of Perfect Blue with the empathy warmth and truth of Spirited Away. A gorgeous theatrical animation from the makers of anime classic Perfect Blue and last years' adorable Tokyo Godfathers. Millennium Actress begins as a TV crew track down 70 something screen goddess Chiyoko Fujiwara. Chiyoko begins to tell her life story at which point she literally steps into the past dragging the confused crew into her memories - one moment they're discussing dramatic art the next dodging bullets in the midst of a movie as the boundaries between film memory fact and fiction become a breathless blur. Perfect Blue: Mima was a pop idol worshiped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her ailing career she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. She begins to feel reality slip slowly that her life is not her own. She discovers [imagines] her identical twin a mirror image that hasn't given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a mysterious figure stalks her from the shadows. Her friends and associates are threatened [and killed] as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from fiction in order to stay alive.