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• Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami (Limited Edition) | Unknown | (25/08/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of NamiAlone in the Night (1994) - Nami, the wife of a narcotics cop murdered in the line of duty, is surprised to find that her husband has been accused of involvement in organized crime.Angel Guts: Red Flash (1994) - Nami, a magazine designer agrees to substitute the cameraman during the shooting of a porn film. The brutal rape scene unleashes distant, forgotten memories and strange things start happening to her.A Night in Nude (1993) - When the beautiful and mysterious Nami walks into the office of Jiro, a man who will do anything for anyone, he unknowingly gets dragged into her plot to murder her abusive yakuza lover.Original Sin (1992)- Nami, the wife of an estate agent, begins an affair with a 22 year old man that leads to a plot to kill her husband.Limited edition set (2000 copies). Includes a booklet by Jasper SharpDisc 1: Alone in the Night 夜がまた来る (1994). Special Features:Audio commentary by Samm DeighanArchival Interview with Takashi IshiiArchival Interview with Jinpachi NezuArchival Interview with producer Yu OkadaNew Interview with cinematographer Yasushi SasakibaraDisc 2: Angel Guts: Red Flash 天使のはらわた 赤い閃光 (1994). Special Features:Audio commentary by Jasper SharpArchival Takashi Ishii interviewMatthew Carter Video EssayDisc 3: A Night in Nudeヌードの夜 (1993). Special Features:Audio Commentary by Frankie BalboaArchival Interview with Takashi IshiiArchival Interview with Kippei ShiinaArchival Interview with Naoto TakenakaArchival Interview with producer Yu OkadaTheatrical TrailerDisc 4: Original Sin死んでもいい (1992). Special Features:Archival Interview with Takashi IshiiArchival Interview with Shinobu OtakeArchival Interview with producer Yu OkadaTheatrical TrailerTeaser

• Sweet Bean (aka 'an') (2015) (Masters of Cinema) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most acclaimed figures in modern Japanese cinema, Naoimi Kawase followed up her remarkable 2014 Still in the Water with Sweet Bean [AN], a small-town drama of culinary redemption, which opened the prestigious Un Certain Regard strain of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Struggling street food vendor Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) finds himself confronted with Tokue (Kirin Kiki), an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. When he reluctantly accepts, it's not long before Tokue proves to have an extraordinary gift when it comes to making an - the sweet red bean paste filling used in his dorayakis - which starts a relationship that is much more than just street food. With Sweet Bean, Kawase again focuses on people at the periphery of Japanese society and investigates their place in the flow of life itself. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film for the first time in the UK. Special Features: High Definition presentation on the Blu-ray Optional English Subtitles A new, exclusive video interview with Naomi Kawase Theatrical trailer A 32-page booklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic Philip Kemp; an interview and statement from Kawase, and production images Click Images to Enlarge

• Mystery Train | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A sleazy downtown motel in Memphis, Tennessee provides the stopping off point for three very different groups of people: a rock'n'roll obsessed Japanese couple paying a visit to Elvis' home, Graceland; a beautiful Italian widow who has a surprise encounter with the 'King' himself; and an inept gang of thugs seeking refuge in the hotel after a liquor store robbery. Cult director Jim Jarmusch links their stories together by the comic antics of the night clerk and bellboy, played by Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Spike Lee's brother Cinque.

• The Box Man (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/06/2025) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gakuryu Ishii, director of such cult classics as Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family takes on the 1973 novel The Box Man by Kōbō Abe, an adaptation 40 years in the making! A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo. Peering at the world through a peephole, he incessantly writes down in a notebook what he can see. The photographer Myself spots the man and is fascinated. He decides to do the same thing and become a box man himself. But his path to get there is not easy; countless challenges and dangers lie in wait. They include a fake doctor who wants to rob him of his box-man identity; a military man who seeks to use him for the perfect crime; and a mysterious woman who does everything she can to seduce him. Can Myself achieve his dream of becoming a box man?Feature length audio commentary by Tom MesCast and Crew talk eventCast comments from inside the BoxDirector Q&A at the Japan SocietyTrailersSlipcase Edition (Limited to 2000 copies)

• Suicide Club | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer which isn't as simple as one could hope.

• Electric Dragon 80000V | Blu Ray | (06/03/2023) from £23.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As a child, Dragon Eye Morrison undergoes electro-shock treatment for his aggressive behavior. The levels of sheer energy absorbed by his body over the years allow him to channel and conduct electricity. Now an adult, Morrison works in the city as a reptile investigator and has learned to channel his rage through the performance of aggressive guitar-based noise. Meanwhile, Thunderbolt Buddha, a TV repair man turned vigilante, who has the same electro-conductive powers after a childhood accident, goes after crime bosses and gangsters. When both men learn of each other's existence, Thunderbolt Buddha challenges Morrison to a final showdown on the rooftops of Tokyo. Director Sogo Ishii, musician Hiroyuki Onogawa and producer Takenori Sento Stage Greeting Tadanobu Asano Stage Greeting Masatoshi Nagase Stage Greeting Premiere Stage Greetings Producer Takenori Sento Interview Music Creator Hiroyuki Onogawa interview Synthesized Images with Commentary Storyboards Trailer Slipcase with illustrated artwork by Ian MacEwan Reversible Sleeve Limited to 1500 copies

• The Hidden Blade | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £20.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (5.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A low-ranking Samurai finds himself caught up in the nostalgic end to the feudal epoch of Japan.

• Katsuhito Ishii Collection | Blu Ray | (17/07/2023) from £54.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cold Fever | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shamed by his grandfather Japanese businessman Hirata cancels his golfing trip to Hawaii and instead travels to Iceland to perform a traditional ritual at the scene of his parent's death several years earlier. So begins one bizarre encounter after another as the reluctant Hirata treks across the frozen landscape... Breathtaking visuals and surreal comedy combine to make Cold Fever a unique and unforgettable experience.

• Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers! | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Aspiring, but cash-strapped, actress Sumika (Eriko Sato) returns home to the village of Ishikawa to attend her parents' funeral and renews her feud with younger sister Kiyomi (Aimi Satsukawa), who previously damaged Sumika's reputation by portraying her as an underhand character in her popular manga comic. Hoping to inherit a sizeable sum, Sumika is forced to stick around when brother Shinji (Masatoshi Nagase) tells her of lengthy legal delays. As Sumika settles back into her old room, a series of flashbacks brings to life the family's previously eccentric life, contrasting it against the calm and peaceful setting of rural Japan.

• Mystery Train | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""One of the year's strongest and most memorable features."" - Boxoffice After the critical triumphs of 'Stranger Than Paradise' and 'Down By Law' director Jim Jarmusch was called ""the most arresting filmmaker to surface in the American cinema"" by The New York Times. Mystery Train is a ""smart and curiously affecting"" (The Nation) comedy that is ""funny and thoroughly satisfying"" (The New York Times)! Named after an Elvis Presley hit Mystery Train interweaves three engrossing sto

• Mystery Train | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sleazy downtown motel in Memphis, Tennessee provides the stopping off point for three very different groups of people: a rock'n'roll obsessed Japanese couple paying a visit to Elvis' home, Graceland; a beautiful Italian widow who has a surprise encounter with the 'King' himself; and an inept gang of thugs seeking refuge in the hotel after a liquor store robbery. Cult director Jim Jarmusch links their stories together by the comic antics of the night clerk and bellboy, played by Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Spike Lee's brother Cinque.

• The Sea Is Watching | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £7.79   |  Saving you £12.20 (156.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Period drama based on a script from legendary director Akira Kurosawa which focuses on the lives of a group of geisha women gathered together in a poor city district. A beautiful young geisha O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno) who harbors a samurai (Hidetaka Yoshioka) seeking refuge. Falling in love with O-Shin the samurai hopes to cleanse her of the sins of her profession. But fate and fortune conspire to keep the lovers apart and when another young man (Masatoshi Nagase) appears a thund

• Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £11.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (33.24%)   |  RRP £14.99

  And you thought your family had issues..."Funuke" delves into one family's particular dysfunction with relish in this subversive drama

• Pistol Opera | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Killing With Style!!! Stray Cat is number three. She wants to be number one. Pistol Opera is an extreme tale of a female assassin's surreal rise up the ranks of the criminal underworld. Legendary director Seijun Suzuki reworks his own Branded to Kill thirty-three years later into a totally new jaw-dropping experience!

• Gojoe | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""With the deterioration of the aristocracy and the rise of the warrior class began a brutal era. Long wars between the Heike and Genji clans ended with the Heike ruling the land. The people hoped for a lasting peace but found only pestilence and disaster. And when began the nightly slaughter of Heike warriors at Kyoto's Gojoe Bridge there rose the fear that the capital's festering misfortune had awoken a demon..."" Following his conversion to Buddhism Musahibo Benkei a mast

• The Hidden Blade | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Japanese period samurai drama. Munezo Katagiri (Masatoshi Nagase) is a samurai in 19th century Japan who finds himself torn between the love he feels for a lowly farm girl and his fidelity to a dying tradition. Unable to marry the girl because of their differing social status Munezo's conflict over his position is comes to a head when he is ordered to kill a traitor - who turns out to be his oldest friend.