"Actor: Ken Yoshizawa"

• Sex Rider Wet Highway | Unknown | (07/07/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fasten your seatbelts for Koretsugu Kurahara's beautifully shot early entry in Nikkatsu's brand new Roman Porno line of classy erotic movies, as the studio's delectable top starlet Mari Tanaka (Love Hunter) takes the wheel in a freewheeling navigation of the Eros and Thanatos sex and death drives. Mina is suffering last minute nerves on the eve of her wedding day, but when she is involved in a hit-and-run, she is forced to take a diversion from her road to the altar to a deserted lake among the mountains in an attempt to cover her tracks. However, the body of the victim, a down-and-out named Ryo (Ken Yoshizawa; Ecstasy of Angels, Guts of a Beauty), is far from as cold as she first assumes. HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY PRESENTATION IN 2.35:1 ASPECT RATIO ORIGINAL MONO 2.0 AUDIO WITH NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES AUDIO COMMENTARY BY EARL JACKSON AND JASPER SHARP BRAND NEW FILMED INTRODUCTION BY KEN TERAWAKI STILLS GALLERY TRAILER SEX AT SPEED: BOOKLET ESSAY BY CAITLIN CASIELLO NEWLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY SILVER FEROX

• Night of the Felines | Blu Ray | (07/04/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Roman Porno maestro Noboru Tanaka (Watcher in the Attic, The Oldest Profession) brings his characteristically poetic approach to this vibrant collage of the lives, loves and dreams of a group of sex workers at a ˜soapland' bathhouse massage parlour in Tokyo. Masako (Tomoko Katsura), and her out-of-hours relationship to her next-door neighbour Honda (Ken Yoshizawa; Ecstasy of Angels, Guts of a Beauty) is the focus of this love letter to the vibrant Kabukicho entertainment district in its early 1970s heyday, presented for the very first time in the UK by 88 Films.

• Violent Cop | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £9.94   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Violent Cop ("Sono otoko kyobo ni tsuki") is the first film directed by Takeshi "Beat" Kitano, the Japanese star who began as a stand-up comedian on television. It's a Dirty Harry-type tale of a cop whose overly muscular methods are disapproved of by his superiors. When his partner is killed by the local Mr Big, Azuma (Kitano) goes into action, along with a new sidekick he initiates into the ways of the world. Dismissed from the force, Azuma carries on his one-man campaign, despite his sister's being forcibly drugged and raped by the gang. The violence is graphic, but what's most engaging about the film is Kitano's acting. He's an unlikely hero with his bow-legged walk and the face of a punch-drunk boxer, but his low-key style, a counterpart to the explosive violence, is always cool and it's easy to see why he's such a cult figure.--Ed Buscombe