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• Kiki's Delivery Service (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2013) from £14.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (92.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's witch meets world as teenage Kiki chooses to live on her own in a new town using her magical powers to get by. But Kiki is poor with potions and second-rate at spells - instead she sets up a courier service using her broomstick to deliver everything from pies to pets. At first with only her sarcastic cat Jiji for company she soon discovers that she has more friends than she ever thought possible. Adapted by Hayao Miyazaki from the children's book by Eiko Kadono Kiki's Delivery Service is one of the best loved animated features in Japan and elsewhere. Featuring the voices of Kirsten Dunst Janeane Garofalo and Debbie Reynolds Kiki's Delivery Service is superb entertainment from start to finish.

• The Sword Of Doom - The Criterion Collection | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Japanese action drama directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Tatsuya Nakadai plays Ryunosuke Tsukue, a sociopathic samurai with no morals or feelings of consequence for what he does. When he kills a man in a fencing match, the brother of the deceased man vows to train with a master fencer and track down Ryunosuke to get his vengeance.

• EVANGELION:3.0+1.11 THRICE UPON A TIME - 4K UHD Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (26/05/2025) from £28.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 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.

• Gate Of Flesh | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the shell-shocked, rubble-strewn wasteland of postwar Tokyo during the Allied Occupation, a group of prostitutes band to together to form a makeshift guild with the aim of pooling their resources to build a dancehall called Paradise. As their independent existence becomes threatened by the hawkish parade of gangsters, black marketeers and would-be pimps all looking for a cut from their flesh-peddling, the discovery of an unexploded bomb in the cavernous burned-out building where they ply their trade throws their dreams into further jeopardy. Hideo Gosha (Violent Streets, Yakuza Wives) brings a fresh eye to this oft-filmed story by Taijiro Tamura, best known from its 1964 adaptation by Seijun Suzuki, resulting in a powerful and compelling drama making its home premiere for the very first time outside of Japan courtesy of 88 Films. HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY PRESENTATION IN 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO ORIGINAL MONO AUDIO WITH NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES AUDIO COMMENTARY BY AMBER T. AND JASPER SHARP BRAND NEW FILMED INTRODUCTION BY EARL JACKSON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TOEI TATTOO ARTIST SEIJI MOURI STILLS GALLERY TRAILER TEASER BOOKLET ESSAYS BY ROBIN GATTO AND IRENE GONZÁLEZ-LÓPEZ ORIGINAL AND NEWLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY ILAN SHEADY

• 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

• Ring | Blu Ray | (18/03/2019) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introducing a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse Arrow Video is proud to present Ring, the film that started it all, restored from the original negative in glorious high definition and supplemented by a wealth of archival and newly created bonus materials. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, approved by director of photography Junichiro Hayashi High definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Lossless Japanese DTS-HD master audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 soundtracks Optional English subtitles New audio commentary by film historian David Kalat The Ring Legacy, a series of new interviews from critics and filmmakers on their memories of the Ring series and its enduring legacy A Vicious Circle, a new video interview with author and critic Kat Ellinger on the career of Hideo Nakata Circumnavigating Ring, a new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ring series Sadako's Video Theatrical trailers Limited edition packaging featuring original and newly commissioned artwork

• Three Films by Yasujir? Ozu (2 x Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/10/2023) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This year marks the 120th anniversary of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu's birth. From his early silent films to his final features in the 1960s, Ozu perfected a style that stripped away unnecessary plot mechanics and camera movement. In doing so, he produced a cinema whose surface simplicity belies character studies of depth, warmth and on occasion, humour. This new set features three newly restored films, all presented on Blu-ray in the UK for the first time: Dragnet Girl (1933, 99 mins) Sweet-faced Tokiko is an ordinary typist, but come nightfall she's a fun-loving gangster's moll. When her boyfriend strays, Tokiko is forced to reassess her life. Hugely popular when it was released, Ozu's Dragnet Girl remains one of his most enduring silent films. Record of Tenement Gentleman (1947, 75 mins) Tashiro, a fortune-telling resident in a poor district of Tokyo, has been followed home by a young boy whose father took him to the city but became separated from him. Initially unwilling to look after Kohei, Tashiro gradually warms to the boy. A Hen in the Wind (1948, 84 mins) A soldier returns home at the end of World War II, and refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night to pay off medical bills for their son.

• Okkos Inn | DVD | (07/10/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Feature-length anime based on the novels by Hirokko Reijo. After the death of her parents, Okko (voice of Seiran Kobayashi) goes to live with her grandmother who runs a countryside inn. When she sees the ghost of a young boy who tells her she must take over the running of the inn after her grandmother, Okko throws herself into learning the ropes, even when she finds it difficult.

• Okkos Inn Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (07/10/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Feature-length anime based on the novels by Hirokko Reijo. After the death of her parents, Okko (voice of Seiran Kobayashi) goes to live with her grandmother who runs a countryside inn. When she sees the ghost of a young boy who tells her she must take over the running of the inn after her grandmother, Okko throws herself into learning the ropes, even when she finds it difficult.

• 47 Ronin | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keanu Reeves makes an explosive return to action-adventure in 47 Ronin. After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honour to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (Reeves)- a half-breed they once rejected - as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors. As this exiled enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon he will transform into the hero who inspires this band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity. Helmed by director Carl Rinsch (The Gift) 47 Ronin is produced by Pamela Abdy (Identity Thief upcoming Endless Love) and Eric McLeod (Mr. and Mrs. Smith Austin Powers series).

• Taxi 2 | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This action caper, once again written and produced by Luc Besson (who directed "The Fifth Element"), is a follow up to the 1998 original, and follows a demon taxi driver who helps the polic rescue a kidnapped ambassador.

• 47 Ronin | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £8.24   |  Saving you £16.75 (203.28%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Keanu Reeves makes an explosive return to action-adventure in 47 Ronin. After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honour to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (Reeves)- a half-breed they once rejected - as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors. As this exiled enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon he will transform into the hero who inspires this band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity. Helmed by director Carl Rinsch (The Gift) 47 Ronin is produced by Pamela Abdy (Identity Thief upcoming Endless Love) and Eric McLeod (Mr. and Mrs. Smith Austin Powers series). Special Features: Deleted Scenes: Mika Regrets Her Love for Kai Mika Attempts to Poison Lord Kira Oishi Attempts to Buy Kai from the Dutch Captain Isogai is Entranced by the Witch Re-forging the Legend Keanu and Kai Steel Fury: The Fights of 47 Ronin Myths Magic and Monsters: The FX of 47 Ronin

• Sunset Warriors / Heroes Shed No Tears | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An overlooked classic from an action master! Made by John Woo just before the game-changing A Better Tomorrow, Sunset Warriors was hacked about by the studio and eventually released as Heroes Shed No Tears. For years, Woo's original cut has been a holy grail for action fans. Now finally you can see it for yourself. An explosive story of mercenaries battling drug lords, Sunset Warriors is a war movie such as only John Woo could make. Now restored to the director's original vision, it can stand alongside The Killer and Bullet in the Head as one of his essential films. 88 Films are thrilled to present the UK blu-ray premier of a resurrected masterpiece!

• Akira Kurosawa - The Samurai Collection | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £34.43   |  Saving you £5.56 (16.15%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Akira Kurosawa: The Samurai Collection (5 Discs)

• Mad Detective | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  2007's largest grossing film at the Hong Kong box office - the smash-hit Mad Detective - is one of the freshest and most satisfying films from that country in a decade. The traditional Hong Kong police film is turned on its head: the imaginative twist being our hero - Detective Bun (a role created for Lau Ching Wan) - who has the ability to 'see' people's inner personalities or hidden ghosts. Breaking new ground and establishing new cinematic rules, Johnnie To's latest giddily entertaining collaboration with Wai Ka Fai radically raises the level of storytelling in modern film. This ingenious realisation of a supernaturally gifted copper is fast-paced and furious, yet also complex and disturbingly funny.Detective Bun (Lau Ching Wan) was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer as a gift at his chief's farewell party. Branded as 'mad' and discharged from the force, he has lived in seclusion with his beloved wife May (Kelly Lin) ever since. Strangely, Bun has the ability to 'see' a person's inner personality, their subconscious desires, emotions, and mental state. When a missing police gun is linked to several heists and murders, hotshot Inspector Ho (Andy On) calls on the valuable skills of his former mentor Bun to help unlock the killer's identity. However, Bun's unorthodox methods point to a fellow detective and take a schizophrenic turn for the worse...

• Massacre Gun | Blu Ray | (14/08/2017) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Genre icon Jô Shishido stars in this tense and violent yakuza yarn from genre stalwart and Seijun Suzuki s former assistant, Yasuharu Hasebe (Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 s Grudge Song). Shishido stars as Kuroda, a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji, In the Realm of the Senses) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki, Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious. Strikingly violent for the period and gorgeously photographed in monochrome like genre siblings Branded to Kill and A Colt is My Passport (Shishido s other films from 1967), Massacre Gun is a bold iteration on the genre featuring some stunning compositions and the assured direction of Hasebe.

• Hana-Bi | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £13.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (47.09%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ideal starter movie for those who wish to familiarise themselves with the work of the paradoxical Japanese auteur, Hana-Bi (the word means "fireworks" in Japanese) is an echt example of "Beat"'s Takeshi Kitano's distinctive brand of existential crime thrillers. Like Violent Cop, Boiling Point, Sonatine or his LA-set Brother, Hana-Bi juxtaposes shocking bursts of violence with reflective moments of lyricism, setting up a slap-caress-slap rhythm that's as disquieting as it is addictive. Kitano himself plays weary Tokyo cop Nishi, an impassive-faced detective in hock to yakuza mobsters, toughened by a career in violence (at one point he takes out an attacker's eye with a chopstick, an assault so swiftly edited one barely has time to register it). Nishi's Achilles-heel is his love for his wife Miyuki (Kayoko Kishimoto) who is dying of cancer, following their late daughter to the grave. When Nishi leaves a stakeout to attend to her in hospital, a colleague, Horibe (Ren Osugi) is paralysed in the ensuing shootout. Nishi, guilt-stricken, goes on the run with Miyuki, taking her to beauty spots to enjoy simple pleasures like kite-flying and picnics before she dies, although the yakuza are never far behind. Meanwhile, Horibe takes up painting, and discovers in the process a calming new vocation (the na&239;ve, disturbing and strangely beautiful images are by Kitano himself, painted after he had his own near-fatal experience in a motorcycle accident). The cumulative effect is a profoundly moving and enigmatic movie, one that discreetly withholds many of the narrative crutches--backstory, motivation--you would expect from a conventional Hollywood movie with the same story. It's not surprising Kitano is so drawn to characters teeming with contradictions, given that his own career seems so bi-polar on paper: he started out a television presenting clown, and his move into glowering policiers represented an image volte-face as surprising to Japanese audiences as it would be if Dale Winton had started making Scorsese-style gangster movies. His comic sensibility shines through in spots in Hana-Bi, even more so in the broad comedy Kikujiro. Considered by many critics Kitano's best film, Hana-Bi^'s power is augmented by Hideo Yamamoto's lapidary cinematography, and Jo Hisaishi's lush, string-laden score. --Leslie Felperin

• High School DxD HERO (Season 4) | DVD | (10/08/2020) from £12.31   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High School DxD HERO Season 4 contains episodes 0-12 of the anime directed by Yoshifumi Sueda. Issei is suddenly attacked in Kyoto by a mysterious fox yokai whose mother is missing and it looks like the Chaos Brigade is behind it! Only the Grabbing Dragon and his voluptuous vixens are prepared to face them and get the fox yokai s mother back.

• Sansho The Bailiff (1954) | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £32.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually separated by vicious slave traders. Under the dazzling direction of KENJI MIZOGUCHI (Ugetsu), this classic Japanese story became one of cinema's greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil. Blu-Ray Special Edition Features Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary by Japanese-literature professor Jeffrey Angles Video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka, and legendary actress Kyoko Kagawa, on the making of the film and its lasting importance PLUS: A book featuring an essay by film writer Mark Le Fanu and two versions of the story on which the film was based: Ogai Mori's 1915 Sansho Dayu and a written form of an earlier oral variation