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• Tokyo Raiders | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tokyo Raiders stars Tony Leung (well known from such Hong Kong action movies as Hard-Boiled and Bullet in the Head) along with pop stars Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen. When Macy (Chen) gets jilted at the altar in Las Vegas, she returns to Hong Kong to find her fiancé has disappeared--but in his apartment she finds Yung (Cheng), an interior decorator with surprising kung fu skills. Together they go to Japan, where they meet up with Lin (Leung), a private detective with an entourage of kung fu babes and stories that don't quite add up. From there, the plot gets more and more incomprehensible. It has something to do with counterfeit yen and a twisty series of double-crosses, but Tokyo Raiders is really about hip clothes and martial arts razzle-dazzle, all framed by the worst dubbed dialogue you've ever heard--sort of a Hong Kong version of The Mod Squad. Leung has demonstrated his acting chops in films like Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love, but he can't make this silliness sound sensible. Still, the actors are sexy, the fight scenes are splashy (if a little confusing), and the movie never wastes too much time getting from one action sequence to the next. A chase that starts out on a motorised skateboard and ends up on a trailer truck hauling new cars is particularly entertaining. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Black Angel 2 | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (66.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Takashi Ishii continues to explore the dark side of Tokyo in this sequel to Black Angel. This time Yuki Amami plays Mayu an assasin who becomes involved in a tangled web of friendship and revenge that can only end in despair. Ishii's direction makes for a dark gritty and intense move using violence as an expression of anguish.

• Bodyguard Kiba | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bodyguard Kiba is another comic book adaptation by maverick director Takashi Miike. In addition to his karate dojo Tetsu daito runs God Hand a company through which his apprentice Naoto Kiba hires himself out as a bodyguard in order to earn money to support the dojo. Though Kiba has often heard his master say that no one would come to God Hand with a dangerous assignment he is constantly in danger. This time he agrees to guard a beautiful woman in Hong Kong think

• Tokyo Bullet Reloaded - Black Angel 2 / Score 2 / Gonin 2 Subtitled) | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £18.39   |  Saving you £6.60 (35.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Some of the finest examples of Japanese action cinema available in one box set. Features: The Black Angel 2: Takashi Ishii continues to explore the dark side of Tokyo in this sequel to Black Angel. This time Yuki Amami plays Mayu an assasin who becomes involved in a tangled web of friendship and revenge that can only end in despair. Ishii's direction makes for a dark gritty and intense move using violence as an expression of anguish. Gonin 2: Takashi Ishii's sequel

• Gun Crazy | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £24.65   |  Saving you £-4.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Atsushi Muroga's female-action-hero movie series 'Gun Crazy' tweaks the standard spaghetti-western formula by transposing the action to Japan and centering each of the shootout adventures on a different female gunslinger. In the first movie of the series 'A Woman From Nowhere' Japanese supermodel Ryoko Yonekura stars as the gun-toting heroine Saki who travels the countryside on her motorcycle seeking vengeance on a violent crime syndicate led by the ruthless Tojo (Shingo Tsurumi). The police won't arrest him and the military won't go near him but Saki knows you don't send a man to do a woman's job!