"Actor: Kô Nishimura"

• 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.

• 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.

• New Battles Without Honour & Humanity | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NEW BATTLES WITHOUT HOUNOUR AND HUMANITY: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY New Battles Without Honour and Humanity New Battles Without Honour and Humanity: The Boss's Head New Battles Without Honour and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss In the early 1970s Kinji Fukasaku's five-film Battles Without Honour and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan and kicked off a boom in realistic modern yakuza films based on true stories. Although Fukasaku had intended to end the series Toei Studio convinced him to return to the director's chair for this unconnected follow-up trilogy of films each starring Battles leading man Bunta Sugawara and telling separate but fictional stories about the yakuza in different locations in Japan. In the first film Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir family member Aoki (Lone Wolf and Cub's Tomisaburo Wakayama) attempts to seize power from the boss and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honourable way out. In the second entry The Boss's Head Sugawara is Kuroda an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki (Tampopo's Tsutomu Yamazaki) goes wrong and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family but when the gang fails to make good on financial promises to him Kuroda targets the family bosses with a ruthless vengeance. And in Last Days of the Boss Sugawara plays Nozaki a labourer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss only to find himself elected his successor after the boss is murdered. Restrained by a gang alliance that forbids retributions against high-level members Nozaki forms a plot to exact revenge on his rivals but a suspicious relationship with his own sister (Chieko Matsubara from Outlaw: Gangster VIP) taints his relationship with his fellow gang members. Making their English-language home video debut in this limited edition set the New Battles Without Honour and Humanity films are important links between the first half of Fukasaku's career and his later exploration of other genres. Each one is also a top-notch crime action thriller: hard-boiled entertaining and distinguished by Fukasaku's directorial genius funky musical scores by composer Toshiaki Tsushima and the onscreen power of Toei's greatest yakuza movie stars. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition digital transfers of all three films High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original uncompressed mono audio New optional English subtitle translation for all three films Beyond the Films: New Battles Without Honour and Humanity a new video appreciation by Fukasaku biographer Sadao Yamane New Stories New Battles and Closing Stories two new interviews with screenwriter Koji Takada about his work on the second and third films in the trilogy Original theatrical trailers for all three films Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist Illustrated collector's book featuring new writing on the films the yakuza genre and Fukasaku's career by Stephen Sarrazin Tom Mes Hayley Scanlon Chris D. and Marc Walkow

• Street Fighter Alpha - The Movie | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £7.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (56.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Street Fighter Alpha is an animated film aimed less at admirers of the comic strip from which it derives than aficionados of the arcade computer game which is the best known embodiment of the material; as such, the narrative line is mostly an excuse for balletic fights in which eyes glare and sides of buildings fall off. Ryu is a brilliant young fighter worried that his technique may yet corrupt him into monstrousness; the boy Shun appears, claiming to be his brother and already well on the way to corruption by the technique known as the Dark Hadou. When Shun is kidnapped by an evil scientist, Ryu goes after him in spite of the possible cost to his own moral status; his friend Ken and Interpol agent Chen go along to help him, and if necessary to kill him to prevent his corruption. This is largely by-the-numbers martial arts anime, but at times exciting or beautiful for all of that; devotees of the game will love it. On the DVD: The DVD is generously stacked with English and Japanese soundtracks and English subtitles. There are interviews with the artists, creators and voice actors, a making-of documentary and various trailers and previews. --Roz Kaveney

• The Bad Sleep Well | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tense re-working of Hamlet (adapted from a novel by Ed McBain) is a biting expos of the corruption and politics of greed at the heart of Japanese business. Beautifully photographed in ravishing black and white Tohoscope this is original Japanese version never before released in Europe. A young man marries the boss's daughter as part of a scheme to take revenge on the influential businessman who forced his father to commit suicide. Leisurely paced bitterly ironic the film emplo

• Criterion Collection: Yojimbo | Blu Ray | (23/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A band of ruthless criminals kidnap and brutalise a lone woman. Incarcerated the women survives only on her desire for revenge and purposefully gets herself pregnant so that her child will become an instrument of vengeance. Unfortunately the woman dies in childbirth and it is her daughter Yuki who is raised as an assassin knowing no family but only killing and revenge... This seminal Japanese gender-bending samurai movie directed by Toshiya Fujita is at heart a hack n' slash

• Full Metal Panic - Vol. 1 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the surface Kaname Chidori appears to be a normal popular high school student. The problem is she doesn't realize just how popular she is. Unbeknownst to her a group of terrorists believe she possesses the special powers of ""the Whispered "" and they're out to kidnap her. Enter Sousuke Sagara a young hotshot agent from the stealthy anti-terrorist organization Mithril. Will he be able to protect Kaname without her finding out what's really going on? Or will he just drive he

• Sword Of Doom | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tatsue (Nakadai) a man brought up to recognise only the way of the sword as the way of life finds that the art of killing is a pleasure. Ranged against him is Shimada (Mifune) who regards the use made of the sword as the manifestation of a man's spiritual state and vows to end Tatsue's spree in an era without values...

• 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

• Tokyo Babylon | DVD | (10/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  1 : It is possible for one person to be so lucky? Shinji Nagumo seems to lead a charmed life amidst the inherent dangers of building a skyscraper. Unfortunately everyone around Nagumo has been rather unlucky - fatally so. It's up to Subaru Sumeragi the most powerful medium in Japan to piece together the clues before there's another death. Are the accidents due to just bad luck and random chance or is something more sinister at work? Subaru will have to work fast because the lucky Mr Nagumo has made many enemies. And one of them is ready to sacrifice everything to create a creature that will end Nagumo's lucky streak - permanently! 2 : Terror is stalking the subways. Women were once safe but now each morning's train carries another brutally butchered body. Without a motive the police are helpless against this psychotic killer. With nowhere else to turn Mirei Hidaka a psychic postcognitive is called in. Using her sense of touch Mirei can feel the currents of the past and has the ability to witness murders hours or days after they've been committed. But just as the threads are slowly starting to come together. Mirei's own life is in jeopardy! It's now up to Subaru Sumeragi to save the day. But this case won't be solved until the separate strands of destiny have been re-woven into a new pattern - one the binds Subaru Mirei and a psychotic murderer.

• Full Metal Panic - Mission 4 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £7.94   |  Saving you £12.05 (60.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When tempers flare between Sergeant-Major Mao and Captain Testarossa there's only one way to settle the score: an AS duel. The stakes are high the price of failure a fate worse than death; a lap around the track on the Mithrill base naked! However the summer fun grinds to a halt when Sousuke is called away for a top-secret mission at his old stomping ground where painful memories threaten to bury him alongside his fallen comrades. Will he make it out alive? Don't miss a minu

• Full Metal Panic - Mission 5 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £12.97   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's never easy being the new guy. Ask Sousuke. Proving himself to a squad of team mates at least ten years his senior will be an uphill battle. But when the mission drops them deep behind enemy lines with no support it's going to take everyone's cooperation just to stay alive. Suffice to say not everyone cooperates. Nor does everyone who dies actually stay dead. And speaking of things that won't die the rivalry between Kaname and Tessa finds new life on Tessa'a home turf. It's

• Full Metal Panic - Mission 7 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Action and adventure abound in volume 7 thrilling final installment of Full Metal Panic! A rogue US Navy Captain out for revenge targets the Tuatha de Danaan and Mithril's Lt. Commander Kalinin must struggle to stop the attack. On the de Danaan Sousuke and Kurz fight to restore order to the ship when the chain of command becomes unclear and Kaname uses all her abilities as a Whispered to help make things right!

• 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

• Full Metal Panic - Mission 6 | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  We open on a hot bath with three hot babes: Sergeant Major Mao Captain Testarossa and Kaname. The lovely Sergeant Major exposes her past (and then some!) when she tells the story of how she first met Kurz and Sousuke. Funny how little has changed since then... Meanwhile the Tuatha de Danaan is racing full steam ahead to the Pacific island of Berildaobu. Terrorists have taken over a U.S. chemical weapons dismantling facility and taken the island residents hostage. Mithril's entire Special Response Team and the de Danaan are committed to the mission but sudden shifts in the power structure threaten to tear the crew and the ship apart. With hidden agendas and splintering loyalties at work can Mithril pull together and get the job done? There's more than a few curves coming your way as Full Metal Panic launches into its sixth exhilarating volume!

• 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?

• The Wind Rises | Blu Ray | (22/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A