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• Greatful Dead | Blu Ray | (26/01/2015) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nami (Kumi Takiuchi) is a young woman with numerous hang-ups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests many of which are highly abnormal. For example Nami loves to spy on people who not unlike herself have gone crazy from loneliness. She calls these people solitarians. Perhaps due to a father fixation her favourite spying targets are old men with stiff boners. One fateful day Nami spies on an elderly gentleman (Takashi Sasano) watching porn DVDs at home. She soon transitions from a peeping tom into a full-fledged stalker. Special Features: Interviews with Director and Cast

• Greatful Dead | DVD | (26/01/2015) from £5.89   |  Saving you £9.10 (60.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Nami (Kumi Takiuchi) is a young woman with numerous hang-ups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests many of which are highly abnormal. For example Nami loves to spy on people who not unlike herself have gone crazy from loneliness. She calls these people solitarians. Perhaps due to a father fixation her favourite spying targets are old men with stiff boners. One fateful day Nami spies on an elderly gentleman (Takashi Sasano) watching porn DVDs at home. She soon transitions from a peeping tom into a full-fledged stalker. Special Features: Interviews with Director and Cast

• Love And Honor | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An award winning masterpiece of sacrifice and devotion Love and Honour weaves a timeless tale set in the waning days of feudal Japan. Directed by Academy Award'' nominee Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai) and starring Takuya Kimura (2046) Love and Honour depicts the emotional intensity of an age when respect was more valuable than riches and love cut more truly than any sword. Shinnojo Mimura is a samurai sharing a hand to mouth existence with his beautiful wife Kayo. Frustrated by his lowly status within the castle ranks Shinnojo dreams of better days instructing children in the way of the sword. But destiny it would seem has other plans... A freak accident takes the warrior's sight leaving Shinnojo cursed. Losing his status and pride his hopes and dreams and even himself to this life of eternal darkness only one path lies open for Shinnojo: That of the true and noble samurai. Love and Honour - Tale of the fallen samurai..

• Bright Future | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £7.09   |  Saving you £12.90 (181.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Friends Mamoru and Yuji are aimless young men stuck in dead-end jobs in a dreary factory in Tokyo. Mamoru the more antisocial of the two is obsessed with his pet project of acclimating a poisonous jellyfish to fresh water by gradually changing the water in its tank. One night he inexplicably murders his boss' family and is sentenced to death. Yuji left to continue the jellyfish experiment befriends Mamoru's estranged father and the two form a bond. But Yuji's attachment to the j

• The Geisha House | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A moving and entrancing exploration of a culture that has fascinated the Western world for centuries, Kinji Fukasaki's Geisha House was released in 1998, presaging a flurry of literature and memoirs that have helped to broaden our understanding of the geisha's role in Japanese society. Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukusaki's film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses. On the DVD: Geisha House is presented with subtitles in widescreen anamorphic format. The string-laden Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack is occasionally overpowering. The only extra is a short, text biography of Fukusaki. --Piers Ford