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• CURE | Unknown | (12/05/2025) from £21.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• CURE | Blu Ray | (23/04/2018) from £14.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released to critical acclaim in both the East and the West, Cure was a breakthrough film for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a nerve shredding thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in a bleak and decaying Tokyo. A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions. Following the only link a mysterious stranger who had brief contact with each perpetrator and their victim detective Kenichi Takabe (Kôji Yakusho, 13 Assassins, Tokyo Sonata) places his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the wave of inexplicable terror. Described as one of the greatest films of all time by Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Snowpiercer), Cure is a deeply unsettling masterpiece of its genre, and has shockingly been unavailable on home video in the UK until now. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Cure in a special Dual Format edition. Features: Limited Edition O-card [2000 copies First Print Run Only] 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray, with a progressive encode on the DVD Original Japanese Stereo audio (Uncompressed LPCM on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles A new video interview with critic & author Kim Newman An archival interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa Original theatrical trailer A collector's booklet featuring an essay by Tom Mes

• CURE | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £25.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release CURE, the mesmerising and hypnotic psychological thriller from Kiyoshi Kurosawa.Presented on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray for the first time ever in UK, as part of The Masters of Cinema Series. Available from 27 January 2025, in a Limited edition of 2000 copies exclusively featuring an O-card slipcase.A landmark in the history of Japanese cinema, Cure was the breakthrough film for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who would go on to make several further modern masterpieces in Pulse, Creepy and Tokyo Sonata. Released to critical acclaim in both the East and the West, this nerve-shredding thriller charts the hunt for a depraved serial killer in a bleak and decaying Tokyo. A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their actions, many of them having killed friends, co-workers or even their spouse. There are only two links between each crime: an X carved into the neck of each victim, and a mysterious stranger who seems to have had brief contact with the perpetrator a short period of time before each killing. But to follow these leads and end a seemingly inexplicable wave of terror, police detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho, 13 Assassins) will need to put his own sanity on the line and endure a descent into hell. Described as one of the greatest films of all time by Bong Joon-ho, the filmmaker behind Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer and Parasite, Cure is a cerebral and deeply unsettling hybrid of police procedural, serial killer film and horror movie to stand with The Silence of the Lambs and Seven.Having given the film its UK Blu-ray premiere in 2018, the Masters of Cinema series is now proud to present the film on 4K UHD. Limited edition of 2000 copies | Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Time Tomorrow | 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation from a 4K digital restoration, presented in Dolby Vision HDR | Uncompressed original Japanese stereo soundtrack | Two archival interviews with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa from 2003 and 2018 | Kim Newman on Cure Interview with critic and author Kim Newman | Trailers | PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring essays on Cure by Tom Mes

• Chaos / Curse, Death And Spirit | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After the success of Ring Ring 2 and Dark Water this latest DVD release from Hideo Nakata consolidates his growing reputation as one of the best directors currently working in Japan. 'Chaos' begins as a couple - Takayuki (Ken Mitsuishi) and Satomi (Nakata favourite Miki Nakatani) - go out for lunch. Afterwards Satomi disappears and it's not long before Takayuki a businessman begins receiving strange ransom demands. As the relationship between Satomi and her captor Goro (Masat

• Cafe Lumiere | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yoko (Hitoto Yo) is a young Japanese writer researching the life of Taiwanese musician Jiang Wen-ye who was popular in Japan during the 1930s. Raised by her uncle in Yubari but living in Tokyo with her father and stepmother Yoko becomes friends with Hajime (Asano Tadanobu) the owner of a secondhand bookstore. They often meet in her favorite coffee shop making small talk and enjoying the passing scene. He is a train buff who spends his days riding the subway recording the sound of trains public address announcements and the conversations of passengers. Though they are best friends he is startled to find out that she is pregnant by a Taiwanese whom against her strict parents' wishes she does not want to marry... Acutely observed and exquisitely realized Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 16th film is a loving tribute to the great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. The film the first by Hou to be shot in a foreign location pays homage to Ozu by depicting themes repeated in many of his films: relationships between aging parents the marriage plans of a grown child the coming and going of trains and the quiet contemplation of everyday life.

• The Place Promised In Our Early Days | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In school they were best friends. And they shared two passions: the plane they built together christened Bela Cielo and a girl Sayuri. Oblivious to the tense international environment the three form an indelible bond and it seems nothing can ever come between them and their dream. The boys believe that someday they will reach the distant tower - and touch Sayuri's heart - however far away it may be. But time passes. War escalates. Alliances are changed. Friends become enemies. And Sayuri falls into a dreamlike state that seems inexplicably linked to the mysterious tower of their youth. At the brink of a World War Sayuri seems to be the key to a new world peace... or a frightening and bitter end to life as we know it. Come to the place critics the world-over have hailed as a work of new animation genius. A mystical lush and moving masterpiece about the passion of friendship the pain of war and the power of a promise that will touch move and inspire you

• The Cure | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The power of suggestion. Madness. Terror. Murder. In the tradition of Seven and Silence Of The Lambs comes this genuinely spine-tingling horror/thriller from one of Japan's most talked about filmmakers Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Set in and around a bleak decaying Tokyo a series of murders have been committed by average ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions. Following the only link-a mysterious stranger who had brief contact with each perpetrator/victim-detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho places his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the wave of inexplicable terror.