"Actor: Koji"

• The Woodsman & the Rain | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Katsu (Internationally acclaimed actor Koji Yakusho from Shall We Dance and 13 Assassins) plays a 60 year-old lumberjack who lives in a small, tranquil village in the mountains. When a film crew suddenly arrives to shoot a zombie movie, Katsu finds himself unwittingly roped into assisting the production and is increasing frustrated by the pushy crew, especially the young, seemingly spineless director Koichi (Shun Oguri (star of Crows 0, Sukiyaki Western Django and Space Brothers). However, a...

• The Sun's Burial | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the post-war slums of Osaka The Sun's Burial follows the lives and fates of the denizens of this hellish ghetto. Pimps prostitutes drug addicts vagrants hustlers and gangsters struggle to survive amidst the poverty and decay of 1950's Japan. Unflinching in it's portrayal of life in these slums the film goes beyond a documentary-style realism to achieve a garish lurid Cinemascope aesthetic that is at once repulsive and yet mesmerising. It's a pitiless and dispassionate portrait of a living hell that lurks behind the facade of a prosperous new Japan a place where everything - food sex even blood - is simply a commodity to be stolen and sold.

• The Woodsman & the Rain | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Katsu (Internationally acclaimed actor Koji Yakusho from Shall We Dance and 13 Assassins) plays a 60 year-old lumberjack who lives in a small, tranquil village in the mountains. When a film crew suddenly arrives to shoot a zombie movie, Katsu finds himself unwittingly roped into assisting the production and is increasing frustrated by the pushy crew, especially the young, seemingly spineless director Koichi (Shun Oguri (star of Crows 0, Sukiyaki Western Django and Space Brothers). However, an improbable friendship soon develops between Katsu and Koichi, as Katsu comes to see joy in the filmmaking process, and gradually helps Koichi to recover his sense of self. Soon, their bond inspires an unusual collaboration between the villagers and the film crew. Special Features: Includes Interviews with Cast and Crew. Deleted Scenes. Theatrical Trailer.

• Gate of Flesh | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gate of Flesh is one of the earliest examples of the sado-masochistic films called pinku eiga which galvanized Japanese Cinema during the 1970s. Directed by Seijun Suzuki considered one of the most important and influential voices in Japanese Cinema the film is set amidst the black markets and urban decay of Tokyo shortly after World War II had ended. Maya (Yumiko Nogawa) a young girl from a remote village with nowhere to go finds refuge with a gang of hookers living in a derelict building. The Women maintain order by adhering to a strict code the most important 'no sex without payment'. Those who break the code run the risk of enuring appalling punishment mostly at the hands of the gang's ringleader Komasa Sen (Satoko Kasai). The harmony of the group s broken when a violent ex-soldier on the run from the police Ibuki (Joe Shishido) seeks refuge in the building. All the women are drawn to Ibuki especially Maya resulting in trouble for both of them.

• The Admiral | Blu Ray | (24/09/2012) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Japan, 1941: With war raging in Europe, Japan's imperial command sees an opportunity to advance their nation's standing in the world.The plan to attack Pearl Harbor was drawn up, and one man was tasked with it's implementation: Admiral Yamamoto. Opposed to the plan, Yamamoto must nevertheless carry out his orders and commit one of the biggest military mistakes in history.The Admiral is a $10.5 million budgeted, action packed masterpiece that explores one man's, and by reflection one nation's, turmoil: what must be sacrificed for country and for duty.

• Branded To Kill | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Generally agreed upon to be Suzuki's finest work the film charts the progress of 'Number 3 Killer' Hanado an ice-cool Japanese hitman who get more than he bargained for when he agrees to make a hit for a beautiful girl. On the run and in danger from all sides Hanado must ultimately face the 'No.1 Killer'... A surreal and stunning fusion of '60's pop-aesthetic yakuza thriller raucous sex perverse desires staggering violence and delirious nightmare Branded To Kill is a unique thriller and a towering work of Art. Nikkatsu the studio that financed the film found the film was so intense and incomprehensible that Suzuki was immediately fired! Today it is regarded as his masterpiece.

• Higanjima | Blu Ray | (04/10/2010) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Higanjima is a Japanese-Korean co-produced horror movie directed by Tae-gyun Kim. Based on a Koji Matsumoto manga which was originally serialized in Young Magazine. The film stars Hideo Ishiguro as a teenager named Akira who travels to a vampire-infested island with a group of friends to find his missing brother.

• 13 Assassins - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (20.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook. Directed by the enfant terrible of Japanese cinema Miike Takashi who has made over 80 films in the past 20 years 13 Assassins is in the words of Little White Lies By turns exciting horrific funny and always thrilling - but mostly intense and always spectacular. Set in 1844 Japan a clan leader has committed seppuku in protest to the wanton misbehaviour of the Shogun's younger brother Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira who has been terrorizing the country with apparent impunity. As such the shogun's justice minister secretly hires Shinzaemon a samuri who had served under the previous shogunite in order to assassinate Naritsugu. Shinzaemon will gather 12 more noble samurai in order to take on the 200-strong army of Narigatsu and bring order to Japan in this stunning and brutal remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film 'Jusan-nin no shikaku'.

• The Eel | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After an eight-year prison sentence for murder Tajuro chooses to start a new life as a barber in a small town which offers perfect isolation from his fears. As a favour to the town priest he agrees to help a young woman with a troubled past by offering her job as his assistant. However when he least expects it her past is about to colllide with his. Winner of the 1997 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Tokyo Fist | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £8.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tsuda is an archetypal Japanese salaryman, married to polite and compliant Hizuru, the dictionary definition of an ideal Japanese wife. Their life is happy, at least on the surface, at least until Kojima, a friend from his past, shows up on the scene.

• Floating Weeds | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Floating Weeds is one of the final films directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. A remake of one of his own silent features it tells the story of a travelling Kabuki acting troupe led by Komajuro who arrive in a small coastal town. There Komajuro is reunited with his former lover Oyoshi and their illegitimate son who is unaware that the itinerant actor is his father. But the reunion provokes the jealousy of Sumiko Komanjuro's current mistress who plots a devas

• Higanjima | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Higanjima is a Japanese-Korean co-produced horror movie directed by Tae-gyun Kim. Based on a Koji Matsumoto manga which was originally serialized in Young Magazine. The film stars Hideo Ishiguro as a teenager named Akira who travels to a vampire-infested island with a group of friends to find his missing brother.

• Gate Of Flesh | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in Tokyo just after the war 'Gate of Flesh' is the story of a group of prostitutes who live and work in a derelict building. Now recognised as a classic of Japanese cinema the film is a shocking sometimes brutal yet always compelling experience.

• The Last Bullet | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £6.36   |  Saving you £-2.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Borneo jungle 1945: during the last days of the war an isolated Australian soldier and his Japanese enemy face a psychological battle to survive...

• Samurai Commando | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Does history disappear or do we? Based on the novel Timeslips by Ryo Hanmura and the original Sonny Chiba flick of the same name Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 brings the story right up to date. Well sort of! What would happen if a modern-day self-defence force unit slipped back in time and faced a large army under one of history's most famous generals? 460 years in the past modern day soldiers with the latest in weaponry unite with a medieval army to take

• Death Notice - Ikigami | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the million selling series of books and reminiscent of 'Logan's Run' this dark and disturbing film explores an all too possible future.

• Sword of Desperation | Blu Ray | (18/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ashura | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £5.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (235.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In bustling 19th-century Edo demons lurk in the shadows disguised in human form. They are loathe to show their true faces for even in disguise they can easily be spotted and slain by the arrogant Demon Wardens. But then Bizan the beautiful leader of the demons appears to Kuninari the captain of the Demon Wardens and smugly tells him that the rebirth of Ashura the Queen of the Demons has been foretold and that man's reign over the world will soon end. This visually rich an

• Bullet Train - SteelBook (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fighting Delinquents | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £11.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (42.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This rarely seen gem from the master Suzuki casts teenage heart-throb Koji Wada as young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. This is the DVD premiere of Suzuki's first colour feature. Lean mean and stylish as always this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernisation. Also released under the title Go To Hell Hoodlums! this is a melodrama as colourful shocking and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.