"Actor: Takako Matsu"

• 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.

• Confessions | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £29.62   |  Saving you £-14.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Takako Matsu (K-20: Legend Of The Mask) plays a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead. Shattered she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter's murder. No one believes her and she may very well be wrong but she decides nevertheless that it's time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty and must be punished. Brilliantly building the psychological tension from the film's very start before pulling out all the stops for a devastating and explosive finale Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls) has produced what is arguably his most mature and impressive work to date. A superb script excellent performances from a fine cast and a perfectly pitched soundtrack (that includes tracks by Radiohead acclaimed Japanese experimental rock band Boris and this year's Mercury Prize winners The XX) make Confessions one of the most original and impressive films of the year.

• Confessions | Blu Ray | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Takako Matsu (K-20: Legend Of The Mask) plays a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead. Shattered she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter's murder. No one believes her and she may very well be wrong but she decides nevertheless that it's time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty and must be punished. Brilliantly building the psychological tension from the film's very start before pulling out all the stops for a devastating and explosive finale Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls) has produced what is arguably his most mature and impressive work to date. A superb script excellent performances from a fine cast and a perfectly pitched soundtrack (that includes tracks by Radiohead acclaimed Japanese experimental rock band Boris and this year's Mercury Prize winners The XX) make Confessions one of the most original and impressive films of the year.

• Brave Story | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £7.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (51.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world he jumps at the chance. But on his quest to find the Tower of Fortune and be granted any wish he must conjure up all his bravery to battle a world of demons his own friends and ultimately himself.

• The Grudge 1&2 Box Set | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Ju-On: The Grudge (2003) A volunteer home care worker Rika enters the home of a bed-ridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door sealed with duct tape. Her discovery unleashes a horrible evil which baffles police investigators who find that a whole series of people have gone missing from this particular house. Further investigation leads to Toyama a former detective who handled the case of a man who murdered his wife in the house but whose son was never found. But when the angry ""Ju-On"" spirit of vengeance that has infected the house reaches beyond its boundaries Rika realises that the horror is spreading... Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003) Takashi Shimizu returns to writing and directing a sequel to his own 'Ju-On' movie expanding the macabre mythology of the ghostly little boy Toshio who has a few more spine-tingling surprises in store...

• K-20 - The Legend Of The Black Mask | DVD | (10/01/2011) from £7.27   |  Saving you £8.72 (119.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china while the poor die in the gutters. K-20 the Fiend with Twenty Faces steals from the rich and gives to himself. But now on the eve of the marriage between society princess Yoko Hashiba and chief of police Kogoro Akechi the fiend frames simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes and the poor sap is arrested and sentenced to death. But he escapes at the last minute and assumes the guise of K-20 in order to clear his good name.

• 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.