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• Monkey: The Complete Series (Restored) | DVD | (05/10/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. But the phoenix can only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed.Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the sun and the moon . All worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named Thought . Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, With our thoughts, we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch.From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!

• Monkey! - The Complete Series | DVD | (09/04/2015) from £74.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (33.34%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Born from an egg on a mountain top The punkiest Monkey that ever popped He knew every magic trick under the sun To tease the gods and everyone can have some fun. Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic! A box set collecting together all 52 episodes from the two Monkey! series with the previously undubbed episodes. Series 1: 1. Monkey Goes Wild About Heaven 2. Monkey Turns Nursemaid 3. The Gr

• 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...

• Lady Snowblood / Lady Snowblood 2 | Blu Ray | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the original manga by Kasuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub) and the main inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Lady Snowblood is a blood spattered Samurai masterpiece from the golden age of Japanese cult cinema!Kidnapped and abused by samurai a woman who finds herself in jail plots revenge by getting pregnant to raise an instrument of death! The child, Yuki, is raised with the single purpose of cutting down the four beasts that brutalised her mother, dismembering every down, dirty lowlife that stands in her way.

• Perfect Blue - Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (02/02/2015) from £15.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (13.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the most ambitious animated films to come out of Japan (or anywhere, for that matter), Perfect Blue is an adult psycho-thriller that uses the freedom of the animated image to create the subjective reality of a young actress haunted by the ghost of her past identity. Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress in a violent television series, a career move that angers her fans, who prefer to see her as the pert, squeaky-clean pop idol. Plagued by self-doubt and tormented by humiliating compromises, she begins to be stalked, in her waking and sleeping moments, by an accusing alter ego who claims to be "the real Mima", until she collapses into madness as her co-workers are brutally slain around her. Director Satoshi Kon, adapting the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, shows us the world from her schizophrenic perspective: days blur, dreams cross over into the waking world, the TV show blends into her real life, until her life merges with her part and she can't separate the ghosts from the real-life stalkers. Though the pat ending sweeps the psychosis and anxiety away with nary an emotional scar, it remains a smart, stylish thriller and one of the most intelligent and compelling uses of animation in recent years. Though tame by the extreme standards of "adult anime", there is nudity and a few sexually provocative scenes, and the animation is detailed and stylised (if somewhat stiff and jerky by Disney standards). --Sean Axmaker

• Perfect Blue | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (75.09%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.

• Monkey! - Episodes 1-3 | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £8.35   |  Saving you £11.64 (139.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A loose (very loose) Japanese TV adaptation of Wu Ch'eng-en's 16th-century collection of Chinese fables, Monkey! was re-dubbed into English in the early 1980s and became required viewing for a whole generation of school children. The titular monkey (played with great enthusiasm, not to mention athleticism by Japanese comic actor and former rock star Masaaki Sakai) accompanies boy-monk Tripitaka (confusingly, a pretty actress called Masako Natsume) on his/her quest for the Indian Sutras. They pick up Sandy (Shiro Kishibe), Pigsy (Toshiyuki Nishida) and a dragon that becomes a horse along the way. The appeal of Monkey! is easier to experience than explain. It's an occasionally surreal blend of Oriental fable, knock-about martial arts, pop Buddhism and slapstick comedy. The frequent comic fight scenes are accompanied by a 70s disco-fusion soundtrack, and a narrator (English voice: Frank Duncan) uses gaps in the action to deliver inscrutable snippets of wisdom ("Even a starving camel is still bigger than a horse", "Does love mean labour even for the carp-hearted?"). Best of all, though, is the dialogue: without regard to any lip-synch niceties the English script (by David Weir) is full of idiomatic delights, jokes and double entendres. All are delivered by British actors in hilarious cod-Japanese accents (distinguished thesp Miriam Margolyes is the voice of Tripitaka). Bad special effects crown the show's cheesy, retro appeal. On the DVD: Monkey! volume 1 on DVD features the same first three episodes as the VHS incarnation--"Monkey Goes Wild About Heaven", "Monkey Turns Nursemaid" and "The Great Journey Begins"--but also a bonus previously unseen episode from the second season, "You Win Some You Lose Some", which is subtitled not dubbed, so if nothing else is an opportunity to hear the actors' real voices. Extra features are a stills gallery, text pieces on the principal cast, characters and episodes, Weblinks, trailers for The Water Margin and Blake's Seven and a pop-video version of the show's irrepressible main title song.----Mark Walker

• Monkey! - Thirteen Re-Dubbed Episodes | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Amazingly after 25 years the original dubbing cast for Monkey regrouped to finish off the 13 un-dubbed missing original episodes. With the show celebrating it's 25th anniversary since its' first BBC TV broadcast and 2004 being The Chinese New Year of The Monkey' Fabulous Films has completed this massive task. Now for the first time everyone can enjoy the prosperity and fortune with these DVDs in this The Year of the Monkey. ""Born from an egg on a mountain top The punkiest Monkey

• Monkey: The Complete Series (Restored) Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (05/10/2020) from £75.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE WORLDWIDE BLU-RAY PREMIERE! In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. But the phoenix can only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed.Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the sun and the moon . All worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named Thought . Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, With our thoughts, we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch.From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!

• Monkey! - Episodes 1 To 13 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £20.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (90.52%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Monkey! is a loose (very loose) Japanese TV adaptation of Wu Ch'eng-en's 16th-century collection of Chinese fables, which was re-dubbed into English in the early 1980s and became required viewing for a whole generation of schoolchildren. The titular monkey (played with great enthusiasm, not to mention athleticism by Japanese comic actor and former rock star Masaaki Sakai) accompanies boy-monk Tripitaka (confusingly, a pretty actress called Masako Natsume) on his/her quest for the Indian Sutras. They pick up Sandy (Shiro Kishibe), Pigsy (Toshiyuki Nishida) and a dragon that becomes a horse along the way. The appeal of Monkey! is easier to experience than explain. It's an occasionally surreal blend of Oriental fable, knock-about martial arts, pop Buddhism and slapstick comedy. The frequent comic fight scenes are accompanied by a 70s disco-fusion soundtrack, and a narrator (English voice: Frank Duncan) uses gaps in the action to deliver inscrutable snippets of wisdom ("Even a starving camel is still bigger than a horse", "Does love mean labour even for the carp-hearted?"). Best of all, though, is the dialogue: without regard to any lip-synch niceties, the English script (by David Weir) is full of idiomatic delights, jokes and double entendres ("I can use it as well", boasts Monkey of his staff that grows from a tiny stick into a big pole. "Ooh, I never doubted it, passionate primate", purrs the Dragon Princess into his ear, "go on, make it bigger"). All are delivered by British actors in hilariously cod-Japanese accents (distinguished thesp Miriam Margolyes is the voice of Tripitaka). Bad special effects crown the show's cheesy, retro appeal. ----Mark Walker

• How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom - Part 1 | Blu Ray | (17/10/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to the princess, Kazuya Souma is crowned the new king. Unlike the royalty before him, he won't be using swords and magic to rule; will administrative reform really get this kingdom back on track?

• Monkey! - Episodes 19-21 | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £5.89   |  Saving you £14.10 (239.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Contains the episodes... Vampire Master The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Buddha's Law invites Tripitaka and his disciples to stay as his honoured guests. He tells them of the difficulty in controlling the black magicians shape-changers and bandits who live in the nearby mountains. Tragedy strikes when Tripitaka becomes critically ill with Tibetan Fever. Meanwhile Pigsy leads the guards in a search for the vampire responsible for a girl's murder. He makes a shocking dis

• Monkey! - Episodes 22-24 | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Village Of The Undead In a deserted village the evil male demon Wun-Lung and three beautiful witches await the arrival of Tripitaka Monkey Pigsy and Sandy. If they can make the four travellers believe in them they'll be brought to life. They plan to capture Tripitaka and his disciples one by one and convince them of their existence by killing them. Who'll be the first pilgrim to fall into the trap? Two Little Blessings Forty years before the pilgrims' journey to

• 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

• Monkey! - Episodes 34-36 | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £6.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (187.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keep On Dancing: A young goblin Yung-Hu is desperately in love with a married human woman called I-Ling. I-Ling and her husband Kwo-Fong are excited that the pilgrims are approaching because they want to learn about Buddha. Tripitaka is deeply offended by I-Ling's awful Buddhist dance and the pilgrims leave. The goblin father disguises himself as a priest and convinces Kwo-Fong to join Tripitaka's pilgrimage to India to become a Buddhist. With Kwo-Fong out of the way Yu

• How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom - Part 1 | DVD | (17/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to the princess, Kazuya Souma is crowned the new king. Unlike the royalty before him, he won't be using swords and magic to rule; will administrative reform really get this kingdom back on track?

• Space Dandy - Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2) | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £41.45   |  Saving you £8.54 (20.60%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it's first come first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe! Contains Seasons 1 & 2 of Space Dandy (Episodes 1-26) with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Extras: Clean opening Clean closing Trailer collection Digital art gallery

• Monkey! - Episodes 1 To 13 | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Born from an egg on a mountain top The punkiest Monkey that ever popped He knew every magic trick under the sun To tease the gods and everyone can have some fun. Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic Monkey magic!

• Monkey! - Episodes 16-18 | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £10.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (91.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Monkey' a television programme that defies description but we'll give it a go: a bizarre combination of spectacular acrobatics and martial arts; tacky special effects; magic tricks; 70's disco music; hilarious dubbing; crazy storylines; the odd bit of Buddhist philosophy thrown in for good measure and an unforgettable theme song. The Most Monstrous Monster: Desperate to please Chun-Shou the woman he hopes to marry the unhappy King of Unicorns promises to find a new toy f