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• Flowers Of Shanghai (1998) (Criterion Collection) UK Only - Hai Shang Hua (Original Title) | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by HOU HSIAO-HSIEN (The Assassin) traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai flower houses, where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendour but forced to work to buy back their freedom. Among the regular clients is the taciturn Master Wang (In the Mood for Love's TONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI), whose relationship with his long time mistress (The Mystery of Rampo's MICHIKO HADA) is roiled by a perceived act of betrayal. Composed in a languorous procession of entrancing long takes, Flowers of Shanghai evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty, an insular universe where much of the dramatic action remains tantalizingly offscreeneven as its emotional fallout registers with quiet devastation. Special Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Hou Hsiao-hsien and director of photography Mark Lee Ping-bing, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New introduction by critic Tony Rayns Beautified Realism, a new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Lee, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Huang Wen-ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih Excerpts from a 2015 interview with Hou, recorded for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oral History Project Trailer English subtitle translation by Rayns PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jean Ma and a 2009 interview with Hou conducted by scholar Michael Berry

• Reincarnation | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Reincarnation is a mysterious thriller that explores the complicated relationship between past and present directed by Takashi Shimizu the director of Ju-On: The Grudge. An ominous sense of fear and mystery spook a film crew producing a movie about a real-life murder. However the events of the past loom large over the set and may be connected to the curse over the production.

• Infection | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £13.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (9.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In a dark isolated hospital one nurse's mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. The night crew decides to cover up the incident hiding the evidence deep in the bowels of the institution. Soon the hospital is visited by another person dying of some exceedingly unnatural symptoms; that death triggers a bizarre infection that only seems to affect those involved in the initial crime. As the infection spreads so does the terror...