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• Premonition | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £6.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (117.56%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hideki Satomi (Mikami) his wife Ayaka (Sakai) and their young daughter Nana (Inoue) are driving blissfully through the countryside when the workaholic Satomi stops at a roadside phone booth to send an e-mail from his laptop. In the booth he discovers a smudged scrap of newsprint with Nana's picture on it -- and an article describing her death in a traffic accident. Three years later Satomi has not recovered from his failure to prevent the accident while his marriage has also ended

• Apartment Wife: Affair in the Afternoon | Blu Ray | (09/12/2024) from £19.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lost In Translation | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £5.65   |  Saving you £14.34 (253.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two Americans meet in Tokyo and spark off a surprising friendship which will lead both to discover a new belief in life's possibilities.

• Kikujiro | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (41.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) is a nine-year-old boy who is desperate to locate his long-lost biological mother. Abandoned by all of his friends for the summer holidays and with no one to accompany him on his quest Masao is left in the care of layabout yakuza goon Kikujiro (Kitano) who doesn't like children at all least of all demanding nine-year-old boys. Over time man and boy develop a fondness for one another embarking on an adventure of sorts through the Japanese countryside to find the long-lost mother... Japanese actor/writer/director Takeshi Kitano is perhaps best known to international audiences for his violent and stylish crime flicks Violent Cop and Sonatine. For this film he takes a change of pace to write direct and star in a comic road movie about a magical friendship between a middle-aged man and a little boy.

• Hanzo The Razor (3 DVD Special Edition Box Set) (UNCUT) | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Love samurai films? Wish they were... dirtier? Welcome to Hanzo the Razor'sderanged world of crazy swordplay and sexploitation set to a 1970s funk soundtrack. Uncut for the first time ever in the UK this cult 1970s Japanese pinku trilogy was seemingly influenced by Dirty Harry and Shaft but there's no doubt who has the 'longer arm of the law'! Shintaro Katsu (best known as the blind swordsman in the original Zatoichi) stars as Hanzo - a rebellious yet obsessively moral samurai police officer who slashes his way through the backbone of crime uncovers corruption at higher levels and tortures relentlessly using his own unique techniques. Shocking audiences even today the hardest man in Edo regularly unleashes his special weapon in the form of his oversized penis which he uses to 'interrogate' female suspects into pleasured compliance. Despite the knuckle-biting graphic violence there is an underlying social commentary testifying to the noble honour of the samurai and emphasising Hanzo's status as the people's champion. In Sword of Justice Hanzo overturns his own gutless superiors; in The Snare he breaks into a temple used by local magistrates for the sadistic torture of young girls. In Who's Got the Gold? the shogunate treasury is being looted by its own officials. From the creator of the Lone Wolf and Cub series (used as the basis for Shogun Assassin and a direct influence on Tarantino's Kill Bill) the Hanzo the Razor trilogy is presented here for the first time in the UK complete and uncut.

• Nightwish - from Wishes to Eternity | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  At last the opera metal gods of Finland release a full-length concert DVD. The concert part of the DVD features 15 songs of full opera metal mayhem filmed in the front of 1500 Finnish fans at the sold-out Pakkahuone club Tampere Finland on the 29th of December 2000. The extra features include 27 minutes of off-stage footage filmed on their Wishmaster world tour 2000 around Europe and in Canada. As an extra bonus you will get the two promo videos the carpenter and the magnificent sleeping sun (from the Oceanborn album) plus two live promo videos: Kinslayer (live in Buenos Aires Argentina"") and walking in the air (live in Montreal Canada). On top of that interviews with both Tarja and Tuomas plus a nightwish discography and a Nightwish photo gallery with 50 images most of them totally unseen before ! Tracklisting: Kinslayer She Is My Skin Deep Silent Complete The Pharo Sails To Orion Come Over Me Wanderlust Crimson Tide/Deep Blue Sea Swanheart Elvenpath Fantasmic Part 3 Dead Boy's Poem Walking In The Air Beauty And The Beast Wishmaster

• Panda Go Panda! | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £6.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (131.33%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Panda Go Panda

• Lost In Translation / Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lost In Translation (Dir. Sofia Coppola 2003): Sofia Coppola's second feature-length film focuses on two guests at a Tokyo hotel--Bob (Bill Murray) a middle-aged actor in town to film whiskey commercials and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) the young wife of a trendy photographer (Giovanni Ribisi) who is always out on a shoot. When Bob isn't on the job taking fragmented direction from the Japanese crew he's receiving faxes on home decorating from his emotionally distant wife

• Pokemon 4Ever | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (140.76%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Best friends. Better heroes! All your favourite Pokemon characters are back and are joined for the first time by the legendary Pokemon Celebis and Suicune in this latest exciting Pokemon adventure! In order to escape a greedy Pokemon hunter Celebi must use the last of its energy to travel through time to the present day. Celebi brings along Sammy a boy who had been trying to protect it. Along with Ash Pikachu and the rest of the gang Sammy and Celebi encounter an enemy

• Empire of Passion - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In feudal Japan a young soldier begins an intense affair with an older married woman. Driven by passion, obsession and jealousy they decide to violently murder her husband and dispose of the body in a nearby well. Claiming her husband is working away from home the couple carry on their affair in secret. Three years later her husband returns from the dead to haunt the illicit couple, feeding off their guilt and pushing them deeper into the dark realms of insanity.With films such as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Gohatto and the infamous In The Realm Of The Senses, director Nagisa Oshima is one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in Japanese cinema. Made in 1978, Empire Of Passion is an atmospheric, unsettling and unforgettable experience. A huge influence on contemporary Asian horror it has lost none of its beguiling power.

• Xxxholic - Series 1 Part 2 | DVD | (16/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  xxxHolic: Season 1 - Part 2 (3 Disc)

• Vengeance Is Mine | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the true story of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) and his murderous rampage which sparked a 78-day nationwide manhunt Shohei Imamura's disturbing gem won every major award in Japan on the year of its release. Both seducing and repelling with its unusual story and grisly humour Imamura uncovers a seedy underbelly of civilised Japanese society. Unfolding through multiple flashbacks Ogata delivers a career-defining performance as a day-labourer and smalltime con-artist who after

• Lady Snowblood 2 - Love Song Of Vengeance | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Love Song of Vengeance, Shurayuki-hime--a.k.a. Lady Snowblood, "Yuki" for short (played by Meiko Kaji)--continues her advertures in the female samurai saga that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. In Lady Snowblood, Yuki avenged her family by slaying the four criminals that killed her father, raped her mother, and predestined her to the life of a justice-seeking assassin. Love Song of Vengeance picks up where Lady Snowblood let off, not so much as a sequel like Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, but a continuation of the lone assassin's adventures (similar to Zaitochi). Sentenced to death for her crimes of murder, Yuki is given pardon by Kikui, a secret government police agent. In return for her freedom, Kikui wants Yuki to assassinate anarchist Ransui and obtain a secret document he is hiding. While carrying out her orders, Yuki discovers the document in question is actually a letter incriminating agent Kikui. Always one to be on the side of justice, Lady Snowblood switches sides, joining anarchist Rasui to face off, expose, and destroy the crooked agent. The blood may not flow like geysers and there may be a lot less samurai action than in the first installment. However, Love Song of Vengeance is well-paced, nicely shot, and a well thought-out continuation of the heroine's adventures. Sadly, they ended with this installment. --Rob Bracco

• Empire Of Passion | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Very much a companion piece to Nagisa Oshima's classic In The Realm Of The Senses Empire of Passion is part ghost story part love story - a tale of murder guilt and revenge laced with a provocative air of eroticism. Set in rural Japan at the end of the 19th Century the plot is based on the true story of a housewife Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) who embarks on a torrid affair with a younger man Toyoji (Tatsuya Fuji) a soldier recently returned from the war. Following a passionate enc

• Urusei Yatsura - Movie 1 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It isn't easy being a guy - especially if you're Ataru Moroboshi the luckless lecher loved by Lum the aviating Alien Princess with a very short temper. Lum doesn't need much assistance going ballistic when everyone in Tomobiki gets an invitation to Ataru's wedding and she's not listed as the bride! Seems some 11 years ago Ataru played 'Shadow Tag' with a young girl named Elle and won; unfortunately Elle was another Alien Princess and on her planet if a boy steps on a girl's s

• Urusei Yatsura - Movie 6 - Always My Darling | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lupica another one of the legion of space princesses who all seem to have found out about Earth in some tour book appears and abducts Ataru. Needless to say Lum assisted by her friends Oyuki and Benten gives chase. Also needless to say Lupica isn't after Ataru for his great looks or charming personality (because he doesn't have either!). Lupica's goal you see is the greatest love-potion in the galaxy which she intends to use to induce her sweetheart to tie the knot. To get

• Sure Death Revenge | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A gang of wild samurai start terrorising the local peasants and Mondo Nakamura and his band of assassins must team up with eccentric top spinning avenger Bunshichi (Sonny Chiba) to stop them. But the samurai are only the start of the corruption that may lead all the way to the Shogun himself!

• Urusei Yatsura - Movie 3 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the first Urusei Yatsura movie Ataru found himself a reluctant bridegroom trapped between two Alien pricesses. In the second Urusei Yatsura Movie he found himself trapped in a dream of Lum's making. Those were just warmups: This time he finds himself...herbivorous?? When Lum was born a postal screwup caused a witchy friend of the family not to get an invitation to the celebration. Believing herself snubbed she lays a curse on Lum - that she will never be happy with her True

• Urusei Yatsura - Movie 4 - Lum The Forever | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The most bizarre of the URUSEI YATSURA movies mere summary really does this one very little justice. So some of the more prominent elements of the plot concern a film that the gang are making which stars Ataru and some very animated props. Later Lum discovers that her powers have been greatly diminished and cannot even muster enough energy to electrocute Ataru when chases after some cute girls at school. However these plot points are really just jumping-off points for the surreal

• Urusei Yatsura - Movie 5 - The Final Chapter | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lupa yet another one of Lum's fiancs arrives on the scene and Lum and Ataru have to repeat their game of tag in order to prevent the Earth from being destroyed. All Ataru has to do to win is say ""I Love You"" the three words he has steadfastly refused to say to Lum. Will he admit his true feelings and save the Earth or will his pride doom it to destruction?