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• AKIRA & Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Iconic and game-changing, Akira is the definitive anime masterpiece! Katsuhiro Otomo s landmark cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation and forced the world to look into the future. Akira s arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for movies like The Matrix to be dreamed into brutal reality. Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is being rebuilt post World War III when two high school drop outs, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble across a secret government project to develop a new weapon - telekinetic humans. After Tetsuo is captured by the military and experimented on, he gains psychic abilities and learns about the existence of the project's most powerful subject, Akira. Both dangerous and destructive, Kaneda must take it upon himself to stop both Tetsuo and Akira before things get out of control and the city is destroyed once again. Special Features: Akira Sound Clip (1988), Music for Akira, Director Interview (subtitled), Storyboard Collection, The Writing on the Wall, Original Trailers (subtitled), Original Commercials (subtitled), Restoring Akira, Glossary, U.S. 2013 Trailer, Trailers.

• Millennium Actress | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Millennium Actress has the stylistic sophistication of Perfect Blue with the empathy warmth and truth of Spirited Away. A gorgeous theatrical animation from the makers of anime classic Perfect Blue and last years' adorable Tokyo Godfathers. Millennium Actress begins as a TV crew track down 70 something screen goddess Chiyoko Fujiwara. Chiyoko begins to tell her life story at which point she literally steps into the past dragging the confused crew into her memories - one moment the

• AKIRA Limited Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  AKIRA, the crown jewel of anime and science fiction, returns with remastered 4K visuals and remixed audio. In the future, Kaneda and his motorcycle gang tear through Neo Tokyo, a city divided by growing tensions. But when caught in an accident, Kaneda's friend Tetsuo discovers a secret government project and receives psychic abilities beyond his control. AKIRA 4K LIMITED EDITION INCLUDES: 1x 4K UHD Blu-ray 1x Standard Blu-ray (Feature Film) 1x Standard Blu-ray (Special Features) 1x 40 page booklet featuring: ˜The Energy Of Akira Stimulates The Human Mind' by Ryusuke Hikawa, ˜The Music of Akira Continues to Evolve' by Reiji Asakura, a round table interview with the Japanese cast and sound director, and ˜Timeline of Events in Akira' Bonus Blu-ray special features include: AKIRA sound making 2019, AKIRA soundclip by Geinoh Yamashirogumi, End credits for 1998 theatrical release, Theatrical preview - Trailer collection with English subtitles, Story board collection. All packaged in a rigid collectors box. Special Features: Blu-Ray Disc 1 - MANB8793 Akira Sound Clip (1988) (JPN 2.0 with ENG narration) Music for Akira Kaneda's Theme Exodus Ethnic Meets Hi-Tech Awakening Mutation Requiem Director Interview (JPN 2.0 with ENG subtitles) Storyboard Collection The Writing on the Wall (8 still menus containing translated background text) Original Trailers (2 videos - JPN 2.0 with ENG subtitles) Original Commercials (3 videos - JPN 2.0 with ENG subtitles) Restoring Akira (ENG 2.0) Picture English Voice Over English 5.1 Audio Mix Glossary U.S. Trailer (2013) Blu-ray Disc 2 - MANB8793 AKIRA SOUND MAKING 2019 (Akira4K_CON_Extra_SoundMakingof_QT) AKIRA SOUND CLIP BY GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI (Akira4K_CON_SoundClip_QT) End Credits (From the 1988 theatrical release) (Akira4K_CON_EndingCredits_QT) Trailer Collection PV PV 1 (Akira4K_CON_PV_QT) PV 2 (Akira4K_CON_PV2min_QT) PV 3 (Akira4K_CON_PV30s_01_QT) PV 4 (Akira4K_CON_PV30s_02_QT) PV 5 (Akira4K_CON_PV60s_QT) CM CM 1 (Akira4K_CON_TVspot_QT) Storyboard Collection (Still images)

• Akira | Blu Ray | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Neo-Tokyo 2019. The city is being rebuilt post World War III. Kaneda and Tetsuo two high school drop outs stumble on a secret government project to develop new weapons - telekinetic humans. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his 'peer' Akira the project's most powerful subject and determines to challenge him...

• Akira | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £6.93   |  Saving you £13.06 (188.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Neo-Tokyo 2019. The city is well on the way to rebuilding after World War III. The central characters Kaneda and Tetsuo two high school drop-outs are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. In the opening scene Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans apparently for use as weapons. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his 'peer' Akira the project's most powerful subject and determines to challenge him...

• Akira: The Collectors Edition - Triple Play Edition (incl. Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (28/11/2016) from £30.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Artist-writer Katsuhiro Omoto began telling the story of Akira as a comic book series in 1982 but took a break from 1986 to 1988 to write, direct, supervise and design this animated film version. Set in 2019, the film richly imagines the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, which is designed from huge buildings down to the smallest details of passing vehicles or police uniforms. Two disaffected orphan teenagers--slight, resentful Tetsuo and confident, breezy Kanada--run with a biker gang, but trouble grows when Tetsuo start to resent the way Kanada always has to rescue him. Meanwhile, a group of scientists, military men and politicians wonder what to do with a collection of withered children who possess enormous psychic powers, especially the mysterious, rarely seen Akira, whose awakening might well have caused the end of the old world. Tetsuo is visited by the children, who trigger the growth of psychic and physical powers that might make him a superman or a super-monster.As befits a distillation of 1,318 pages of the story so far, Akira is overstuffed with character, incident and detail. However, it piles up astonishing set pieces: the chases and shoot-outs (amazingly kinetic, amazingly bloody) benefit from minute cartoon detail that extends to the surprised or shocked faces of the tiniest extra; the Tetsuo monster alternately looks like a billion-gallon scrotal sac or a Tex Avery mutation of the monster from The Quatermass Experiment; and the finale--which combines flashbacks to more innocent days with a destruction of Neo City and the creation of a new universe--is one of the most mind bending in all sci-fi cinema. --Kim NewmanOn the DVD: as befits this film's status as a Manga classic, Akira has a wide selection of extras spread across two discs, including a "Making of Akira" documentary, a photo gallery, a quiz and a "Make your own trailer" feature, as well as one hidden feature on each disc. The film has been digitally remastered and presented in widescreen format, with Dolby Digital 5.1 for the English-dubbed version, and Dolby Digital 2.0 for the original Japanese language version. The only disappointment of the disc is the animated Scene Selection, where the clips are rendered so small that they can be a bit difficult to decipher. --Rob Burrow

• Akira | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Masterpiece Returns! In 1988 the landmark Anime film Akira by director Katsuhiro Otomo defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards Akira remains a landmark achievement in cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption. Pioneer Entertainment proudly presents this classic film completely restored and digitally re-mastered. Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda's motorcycle gang encounters a military operation to retrieve an escaped experimental subject. The military captures Tetsuo and conducts experiments on him that unleash his latent psychic ability but when these new powers rage out of control Tetsuo lashes out at the world that has oppressed him!

• Akira - (Ultimate Collection) (Two Discs) | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £44.99   |  Saving you £-22.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Artist-writer Katsuhiro Omoto began telling the story of Akira as a comic book series in 1982 but took a break from 1986 to 1988 to write, direct, supervise and design this animated film version. Set in 2019, the film richly imagines the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, which is designed from huge buildings down to the smallest details of passing vehicles or police uniforms. Two disaffected orphan teenagers--slight, resentful Tetsuo and confident, breezy Kanada--run with a biker gang, but trouble grows when Tetsuo start to resent the way Kanada always has to rescue him. Meanwhile, a group of scientists, military men and politicians wonder what to do with a collection of withered children who possess enormous psychic powers, especially the mysterious, rarely seen Akira, whose awakening might well have caused the end of the old world. Tetsuo is visited by the children, who trigger the growth of psychic and physical powers that might make him a superman or a super-monster.As befits a distillation of 1,318 pages of the story so far, Akira is overstuffed with character, incident and detail. However, it piles up astonishing set pieces: the chases and shoot-outs (amazingly kinetic, amazingly bloody) benefit from minute cartoon detail that extends to the surprised or shocked faces of the tiniest extra; the Tetsuo monster alternately looks like a billion-gallon scrotal sac or a Tex Avery mutation of the monster from The Quatermass Experiment; and the finale--which combines flashbacks to more innocent days with a destruction of Neo City and the creation of a new universe--is one of the most mind bending in all sci-fi cinema. --Kim NewmanOn the DVD: as befits this films status as a Manga classic, Akira has a wide selection of extras spread across two discs, including a "Making of Akira" documentary, a photo gallery, a quiz and a "Make your own trailer" feature, as well as one hidden feature on each disc. The film has been digitally remastered and presented in widescreen format, with Dolby Digital 5.1 for the English-dubbed version, and Dolby Digital 2.0 for the original Japanese language version. The only disappointment of the disc is the animated Scene Selection, where the clips are rendered so small that they can be a bit difficult to decipher. --Rob Burrow

• Casshern Sins Complete Series Collection | DVD | (19/12/2011) from £16.05   |  Saving you £33.94 (211.46%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Ruin is the salvation of man and machine!Casshern Sins is a millennial update of a beloved 1970s classic of Japanese animation, which saw a lone cyborg hero opposing a robot empire that threatened to overthrow the Earth. This darker reimagining mixes frantic action with heartfelt humanity, as Casshern fights to survive a bleak dystopian future - little realising that he caused the end of the world!

• Akira - Collector's Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is well on the way to rebuilding after World War III. The central characters, Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop-outs, are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. In the opening scene, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans, apparently for use as weapons. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his 'peer' Akira, the project's most powerful subject, and determines to challenge him...This super limited Collector’s Edition pack comes with the new rematered edition of AKIRA on Blu-ray and bonus DVD disc along with a specially produced 40-page booklet exclusive to the UK and packaged inside a goregous steelbook case.

• Casshern Sins - Part 2 | Blu Ray | (18/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Casshern – a cybernetic assassin with no memory of his past – awakens in a corrosive wasteland where nothing survives for long. A plague known as the Ruin sweeps across this once-vibrant world, reducing everything in its path to rubble and scattering any chance for salvation. Robots and humans alike – or what little remains of them – seek vengeance against Casshern for the life he took and the role he played in their Ruin. A machine built to kill, Casshern murdered the last hope for this world, but now, lost in a future he does not recognize, he will fight to save the dying.

• Appleseed | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £11.01   |  Saving you £8.98 (81.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Violence, nudity, terrorism and swearing are not the usual cartoon fare, but with Appleseed we find ourselves firmly in the cyberpunk territory of Manga cinema. Based on the comic series by Masamune Shirow, the film's story takes place in a post-World War III future, in particular within the mega city of Olympus. With the city administered by the Biodroids (a race of perfect half-human, half-robot hybrids), there begins a human resistance to a society that offers little in the way of real freedoms. As with most of the Manga genre, the deceptively simple animation (reminiscent of Pokemon) conceal more than a few complex issues. Appleseed proves to be a thought provoking, if a little confusing, examination of the "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" argument, particularly as it somewhat blurs the moral borders by instilling both sides in the conflict with a degree of sympathy. Definitely one for Manga fans, but also recommended for SF buffs and those curious to try something a little different. On the DVD: Appleseed on disc has various language options, with the possibility of watching the film in either the original Japanese or dubbed English. The picture is bright and clear, as is the soundtrack. Highly recommended is the audio commentary from voice actress Larissa Murray and Manga expert Jonathon Clements, which not only fills in many of the gaps left by Shirow's original film but also provides an invaluable and often humorous insight into the genre as a whole. --Phil Udell

• Riding Bean | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In Chicago ace courier Bean Bandit rules the road and operates on both sides of the law. If a cargo has to absolutely positively be there now Bean's your man - for a price. Want to make sure that the getaway from your next heist goes smoothly? No problem - but it will cost you. Bean's latest cargo is a ten year old girl worth 50 grand when delivered home. What he doesn't know is that she has already been kidnapped and he's about to be framed for the snatch. Meanwhile the real

• Casshern Sins - Part 2 | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £7.98   |  Saving you £17.01 (68.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Casshern – a cybernetic assassin with no memory of his past – awakens in a corrosive wasteland where nothing survives for long. A plague known as the Ruin sweeps across this once-vibrant world, reducing everything in its path to rubble and scattering any chance for salvation. Robots and humans alike – or what little remains of them – seek vengeance against Casshern for the life he took and the role he played in their Ruin. A machine built to kill, Casshern murdered the last hope for this world, but now, lost in a future he does not recognize, he will fight to save the dying.

• Casshern Sins Vol.1 | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £22.65   |  Saving you £2.34 (9.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Casshern - a cybernetic assassin with no memory of his past - awakens in a corrosive wasteland where nothing survives for long. A plague known as the Ruin sweeps across this once-vibrant world reducing everything in its path to rubble and scattering any chance for salvation. Robots and humans alike - or what little remains of them - seek vengeance against Casshern for the life he took and the role he played in their Ruin. A machine built to kill Casshern murdered the last hope for this world but now lost in a future he does not recognize he will fight to save the dying.

• Casshern Sins Vol. 1 | Blu Ray | (09/05/2011) from £25.63   |  Saving you £14.36 (56.03%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Ruin is the salvation of man and machine! Casshern: Sins is a millennial update of a beloved 1970s classic of Japanese animation which saw a lone cyborg hero opposing a robot empire that threatened to overthrow the Earth. This darker reimagining mixes frantic action with heartfelt humanity as Casshern fights to survive a bleak dystopian future - little realising that he caused the end of the world!

• Black Lagoon - The Second Barrage Box-set | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Rokuro Okajima is meek, mundane and metropolitan. His business trip to South East Asia turns from pleasure cruise to festival of pain when modern day pirates board the ship and take him hostage.