"Actor: Makiko Esumi"

• Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda (blu-ray boxset) | Blu Ray | (12/08/2019) from £43.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda (Blu-ray) Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda This new Blu-ray collection combines four career-defining titles by Palme d'Or winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda one of Japanese cinema's most celebrated auteurs. The set features his austerely beautiful debut Maborosi and lyrical fantasy After Life, alongside Nobody Knows and Still Walking, films that cemented Kore-eda's reputation as an heir to Ozu and a chronicler of the modern Japanese family. Available on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK, the four films included in Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda celebrate the richness, diversity, beauty and humanity of the director's work and essential viewing for fans of contemporary world cinema. Special features: Q&A with Hirokazu Kore-eda (2019): a newly filmed interview with the director, recorded at the BFI Southbank during its major retrospective of his work New feature-length audio commentary on Maborosi by Jasper Sharp New feature-length audio commentary on After Life by Tara Judah New feature-length audio commentary on Nobody Knows by Kenta McGrath New feature-length audio commentary on Still Walking by Alexander Jacoby Maborosi trailer (2019) Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the films and full film credits Other extras TBC

• Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda | Blu Ray | (25/11/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This Blu-ray collection combines four career-defining titles by Palme d'Or winning director Hirokazu Koreeda one of Japanese cinema's most celebrated auteurs. The set features his austerely beautiful debut Maborosi and lyrical fantasy After Life, alongside Nobody Knows and Still Walking, films that cemented Koreeda's reputation as an heir to Ozu and a chronicler of the modern Japanese family. Available on Blu-ray, the four films included in Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda celebrate the richness, diversity, beauty and humanity of the director's work and essential viewing for fans of contemporary world cinema.

• Maborosi (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/07/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Yumiko is troubled by the notion that she brings death to people close to her. Following the loss of her grandmother and husband, she remarries and begins to find happiness anew. But on a return to her old home for her brother's wedding, a flood of troubling memories begins to haunt her. The debut fiction feature from the Palme d'Orwinning director of Shoplifters, Hirokazu Koreeda, Maborosi is an exquisite meditation on uncertainty and coming to terms with the past, which garnered awards at the Venice Film Festival and brought both the director and cinematographer Masao Nakabori to international stardom. Features: Birthplace (2003, 30 mins): Makiko Esumi takes the viewer on a tour of the locations of Maborosi in this short film featuring behindthescenes stills and onset footage Audio commentary by filmmaker and writer Jasper Sharp (2019) Reissue trailer (2019): produced for the BFI's 2019 rerelease of Maborosi Flesh and Blood Trailer (2019): trailer specially produced for the BFI Southbank retrospective of the cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda

• Mushishi | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £7.22   |  Saving you £8.77 (121.47%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A traveling mystical doctor a Bugmaster' passes through remote regions of Japan curing the ill effects of supernatural creatures the Mushi who spread plague.