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• Thirst | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £14.82   |  Saving you £10.17 (68.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Following its hugely successful theatrical release in October, Park Chan-wook's "Thirst" comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 25th January 2009.

• Memories of Murder / Barking Dogs Never Bite | Blu Ray | (23/11/2020) from £19.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Memories of Murder - A big-city detective helps two inept small-town cops investigate a serial killer. Barking Dogs Never Bite - An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.

• Bong Joon Ho Collection | Blu Ray | (19/04/2021) from £29.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Contains Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), Memories of Murder (2003), The Host (2006), Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), Parasite (2020) and Parasite B&W (2020). Special Features: PARASITE - Extra 1 Making of - Extra 2 Deleted Scenes - Extra 3 Director Q&A - Extra 4 HOH & Audio description

• The Vengeance Trilogy | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £22.79   |  Saving you £27.20 (119.35%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Sympathy For Mr Vengeance (2002): A deaf mute worker saves all his money for his sister who requires a kidney transplant. He has the wrong blood type to be able to donate one of his kidneys so he arranges a trade with a group of organ dealers: one of his kidneys and 10 million won in return for their finding a kidney for his sister. They renege but a legitimate kidney becomes available for transplant. Unfortunately he no longer has the 10 million won required for the hospital to perform the operation. He and his girlfriend a terrorist seeking to change how the poor are treated in Korea kidnap his former boss's daughter. But events spiral quickly out of control... Oldboy (2003): Taken without reason. Imprisoned for 15 years. Released without reason. 5 days to seek the truth... One day in 1988 ordinary white collar worker Oh Dae-soo (Choi Min-sik) is kidnapped and incarcerated in a private makeshift prison cell dressed up like a cheap hotel room. With only a TV for company Dae-soo makes numerous attempts to escape and to commit suicide but they all end up in failure. All the while Dae-soo asks himself what made a man hate him so much enough to imprison him in solitary confinement with no explanation. While suffering from his near-madness Dae-soo becomes shocked when he watches the news and hears that his beloved wife was brutally murdered. At this very moment Dae-soo swears to take revenge on the man who destroyed his happy life. 15 years on and without a word of warning Dae-soo is released. Given a new set of clothes a mobile phone and the attentions of curious sushi waitress Mido Dae-soo begins to track down his enemy only to find he may be the pawn in a much bigger game which is only just beginning. Taunting Dae-soo the culprit gives him just 5 days to catch and kill his captor or Mido will die... Based on Japanese manga of the same name by Minegishi Nobuaki and Tsuchiya Garon winner of the Jury Grand Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and winner of 5 Grand Bell awards in Korea (including Best Film for Park Chan-wook and Best Actor for Choi Min-sik) Old Boy is a masterfully inventive revenge thriller complete with blackly comedic moments. Lady Vengeance (2005): The cinematic flair and narrative surprises that marked Park Chan-Wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy continue in this third and concluding part of the director's thematically-linked trilogy of revenge. Intense and inventive the film follows the progress of beautiful impassive Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-Ae) after she's released from prison having served 13 years for the kidnap and murder of a young boy. Once on the outside she hooks up with some former cellmates a preacher who thinks she's an angel the detective who originally arrested her and the daughter she gave up for adoption gathering around her all the people needed to carry out an elaborate plan of revenge. Her target is kindergarten teacher Mr. Baek (Oldboy star Choi Min-Sik) while her weapon(s)-of-choice are unexpected and highly personal. This is striking and ghoulishly entertaining stuff a highwire act poised between horror tragedy comedy and exploitation. With the aid of Oldboy Director of Photography Jeong Joeng-Hun who employs some neat tricks and brings a vibrant beauty to the dark proceedings Park ensures there's never a dull moment.

• The Host | Blu Ray | (19/11/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This fantasy monster movie sees a family battling to save their little girl from a terrifying creature.

• The Host | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £6.10   |  Saving you £9.89 (162.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This fantasy monster movie sees a family battling to save their little girl from a terrifying creature.

• The Good, The Bad And The Weird | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £5.79   |  Saving you £14.20 (245.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three outlaws. One map. No prisoners. Set in the 1930's Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. Do-Won (Jung Woo-sung) is a bounty hunter who tracks down dangerous criminals. Chang- yi (Lee Byung-hun) is the leader of a group of tough-as- nails bandits. Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho) is a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable escalating battle for the map who will stand as the winner in the end?

• Thirst | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £18.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (8.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following its hugely successful theatrical release in October, Park Chan-wook's "Thirst" comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 25th January 2009.

• The Host | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £7.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (55.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This fantasy monster movie sees a family battling to save their little girl from a terrifying creature.

• The Host | HD DVD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Park family seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life; well maybe a little poorer than the average Seoul citizens. Park Hee-bong (played by Byun Hee-bong) is a man in his late 60s running a small snack bar on the banks of the Seoul's Han River and living with his two sons daughter and granddaughter. Hee-bong's elder son Gang-du ( Song Gang-ho) is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il (by Park Hae-il) is the youngest son an unemployed grumbler and daughter Nam-joo (by Bae Du-na) is an archery medallist and member of the national team. What the three generations of the Park clan doesn't know is that a bloodthirsty mutant of indeterminate origin is about to rise up unannounced from the Han River. When the creature abducts the granddaughter and the dysfunctional remnants of the group decide to come together to save her so begins a terrifying lesson of a new concept of family...

• Sympathy For Mr Vengeance | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £21.63   |  Saving you £5.12 (25.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A deaf mute worker saves all his money for his sister who requires a kidney transplant. He has the wrong blood type to be able to donate one of his kidneys so he arranges a trade with a group of organ dealers: one of his kidneys and 10 million won in return for their finding a kidney for his sister. They renege but a legitimate kidney becomes available for transplant. Unfortunately he no longer has the 10 million won required for the hospital to perform the operation. He and his girlfriend a terrorist seeking to change how the poor are treated in Korea kidnap his former boss's daughter. But events spiral quickly out of control...

• Shiri | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A dazzling action movie from South Korea, Shiri follows two South Korean government agents, Ryu and Lee, as they pursue a female super-assassin from North Korea. Meanwhile, an elite paramilitary squad from North Korea has stolen a shipment of CTX, an undetectable liquid explosive of enormous power, which they've planted all over the city of Seoul. As their investigations are successively foiled, Ryu and Lee begin to suspect that there is a mole within the ranks of the agency--and it may be one of them. Both hyperstylish and hyperrealistic, Shiri rips along as a smooth fusion of Hong Kong and American action movies. Ryu's troubled romance with his alcoholic fiancée adds a striking emotional counterpoint to the blazing gunfights and high-speed chases; the ending is unexpectedly moving. It's not surprising that this film beat Titanic's box-office records in Korea. --Bret Fetzer

• Sympathy For Mr Vengeance | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £9.31   |  Saving you £8.67 (137.18%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A deaf mute worker saves all his money for his sister who requires a kidney transplant. He has the wrong blood type to be able to donate one of his kidneys so he arranges a trade with a group of organ dealers: one of his kidneys and 10 million won in return for their finding a kidney for his sister. They renege but a legitimate kidney becomes available for transplant. Unfortunately he no longer has the 10 million won required for the hospital to perform the operation. He and his

• The Good, The Bad And The Weird | Blu Ray | (15/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Three outlaws. One map. No prisoners. Set in the 1930's Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. Do-Won (Jung Woo-sung) is a bounty hunter who tracks down dangerous criminals. Chang- yi (Lee Byung-hun) is the leader of a group of tough-as- nails bandits. Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho) is a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable escalating battle for the map who will stand as the winner in the end?

• Thirst | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A priest becomes a vampire…another man’s wife is coveted…a deadly seduction triggers murder. Thirst is the new film from director Park Chan-wook (Old Boy Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) and already a box-office smash in Korea Continuing his explorations of human existence in extreme circumstances the director spins a tale that he conceived and then developed over several years with co-screenwriter Chung Seo-kyung inspired by Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin. Sang-hyun (played by top Korean star Song Kang-ho of The Good The Bad The Weird The Host and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance) is a priest who cherishes life; so much so that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest and a blood transfusion is urgently ordered up for him. The blood he receives is infected so Sang-hyun lives - but now exists as a vampire.

• Joint Security Area | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A firefight occurs at the 'Bridge Of No Return' in the Korean DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) where two North Korean soldiers are killed. The North claims that the incident was a flagrant attack by the South Koreans while the South claims that one of their soldiers was kidnapped. The only events that both sides confirm are that after a shoot-out and a wounded soldier stumbled out of a guard post in the pouring rain three North Korean soldiers have been struck down; two are dead the oth

• Joint Security Area | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £12.13   |  Saving you £3.86 (31.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A firefight occurs at the 'Bridge Of No Return' in the Korean DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) where two North Korean soldiers are killed. The North claims that the incident was a flagrant attack by the South Koreans while the South claims that one of their soldiers was kidnapped. The only events that both sides confirm are that after a shoot-out and a wounded soldier stumbled out of a guard post in the pouring rain three North Korean soldiers have been struck down; two are dead the other wounded. All point the finger at South Korean Sergeant Lee (Lee Byung-heon). In order to solve the dispute the NNSC (Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission) dispatches half-Korean half-Swiss Army Intelligence Bureau officer Major Sophie E. Jean (Lee Young-ae). With no cooperation from either side the case appears to be unsolvable. However Major Jean discovers that the number of bullets fired from the pistols and the number found at the scene differ and she begins to dig deeper into the backgrounds of the soldiers involved. Subsequently she finds out about a previous encounter involving the same two North Korean soldiers (Song Kang-ho Shin Ha-kyun) and their South Korean opponent Lee. With secrets from Major Jean's own past coming to the fore the story begins to unravel... Winner of 4 awards at the 21st Chongryong Film Festival including Best Film Best Photography Award Best Director (Park Chan-wook) and Best Supporting Actor (Shin Ha-kyun).

• Jsa (Joint Security Area) | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the award winning director of Oldboy comes a thrilling a tale of deceit misunderstanding and the ultimate futility of war. On the hyper-militarized border between North and South Korea shots ring out and a wounded South Korean soldier stumbles back across no-mans land leaving two North Korean soldiers dead. The South Korean Army praises him as a hero but was the soldier's actions far less courageous? Is only part of the tale being told? Tough brutal and fiercely intelligent this powerful film from one of the world's most critically acclaimed new directors stars leading actors Kang-ho Song (Shiri and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance) and He-kyun Shin (Save the Green planet and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance).

• The Quiet Family | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Times are hard and work is scarce. Nevertheless a family opens a mountain villa fully buoyed up preparing to welcome guests. Time passes and no one comes. Just as they become tired of waiting for guests the first client knocks on the door. By the next morning however the first guest becomes a cold body! Rather than face a police investigation into their struggling establishment and seeing that the man is carrying no identity the family decides to dispose of the body. Once again looking forward to running their hotel the family are shocked to discover that the second guests are all of people a couple who choose this villa to commit suicide together! Because they don't want to make a fuss the family bury the couple too. However as the man of the couple who committed suicide unexpectedly and rather suddenly revives from death the family come to kill him out of fear. In their bewilderment and as a way of saving their home they come to get used to the murder and burial of their guests until one unfortunate visitor turns out to be a policeman... Riotous black comedy from writer/director Kim Ji-woon (which provided the inspiration for Takashi Miike similarly funny semi-remake 'Happniess Of The Katakuris') winner of Best Director and Best Film at the 2000 Malaga Film Festival.

• Sympathy For Mr Vengeance | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun -Lady Vengeance JSA Save The Green Planet) turns to the black market to sell his own organs only to end up cheated of his life savings. His girlfriend (Bae Doo-na - The Host Barking Dogs Never Bite Linda Linda Linda) urges Ryu to kidnap the daughter of wealthy industrialist Dong-jin (Song Kang-ho - Lady Vengeance The Host JSA The Foul King) who recently laid him off. Ryu agrees but unforeseen tragedies turn an innocent con into a merciless quest for revenge...