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• To End All Wars | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the book by Captain Ernest Gordon a phenomenal piece of work this is an unforgettable true-life story of extreme endurance survival and redemption set amid the brutal terror of a Japanese POW camp. A story of triumph faith courage and untimely forgiveness. The Times

• All About Lily Chou-Chou | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shunji Iwai's rites of passage movie focuses on the growing pains of a group of schoolchildren whose sole solace in the Japan's pervasive pop cyber culture is in the faceless celebrity singer known only as Lily...

• Gonin | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Takashi Ishii's visually sumptuous gangster movie Gonin ("The Five") is fascinating in its violence, its perversity and its quirkiness, even though its basic plot premise is fairly standard. Disco owner Bandai (Kouichi Sato) owes money to the yakuza boss Ogoshi and decides to rob him rather than pay him--the first part of the film shows him recruiting a crew of the damaged and despairing to help with the job, and disaster follows. Ogoshi hires the more or less unstoppable one-eyed hit man Kyoya ("Beat" Takeshi) and everyone ends up dead--robbers, gangsters and assassins--in an escalating sequence of reprisals. What is different about the film is the odd tangents the plot shoots off at--the sudden sexual attraction between Bandai and the con-man Mitsuya, the truth about the phone calls the desperate sacked salary man Ogiwara keeps making to his family--and its strong visual style. Crucial events take place in the background of shots, the sudden shift from neon-lit back al! leys to sunlight in the last sequence hits you like a blow in the face. Terrifying in its casual violence and impressive in its bleak nihilism, Gonin is one of the most interesting genre films of the 1990s.--Roz Kaveney

• Shadow Master | Blu Ray | (30/01/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Arrested for the massacre of mysterious cultists, the mysterious An is brought into custody to unravel the events that led to it. Hired as a Night Watchman, An started out roaming the halls of an abandoned hospital, supervising the squatters that lived there. But he soon discovers that the squatters are victims of a cult who abuse their social status to kidnap children for their ritualistic purposes. Guided by the spirit of Santa Maria, he attempts to stop the cultists but is soon overwhelmed and left for dead. But An is not ready to give up yet, he strikes a deal with a Death God known as Hanuman where he is given unlimited power and abilities in exchange for a piece of his soul. How far in the darkness will he go, in order to save the children from the Four Horsemen.

• All You've Got | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £10.66   |  Saving you £5.33 (50.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two rival volleyball teams both desperate to assert their superiority in their division discover that they aren't as different from each other as they previously thought when tragedy strikes close to home. The Madonnas and the Phantoms are two volleyball teams with a longstanding grudge. With a bitter rivalry that frequently spills off of the court and into the streets the Madonnas and the Phantoms appear to have nothing in common until fate forces them to break down the social and cultural barriers that bind them. Now determined to keep it together on the court as they make their way to the championships these former rivals are about to find out what true sportsmanship is really all about.

• Gohatto | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gohatto is a critcally acclaimed samurai drama set in an all male Shinsengumi samurai school in Japan circa 1865. Young recruit Kano joins the elite fighting force Shinsengumi and realises that he has become the object of desire amongst his fellow comrades. Whilst the samurai adhere to a strict set of rules the senior members of the militia have a growing concern for the consequences of Kano's effect on their samurai...

• The World God Only Knows: Complete Season 2 | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £15.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (78.63%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The God of Conquests Returns! Every otaku's favourite dating sims champion is back! And Keima still has his adorable lost soul-hunting, demon cutie with him! Together, they continue their pursuit of finding escaped lost souls who are hiding within beautiful, young school girls. But how to release these trapped spirits? Why, they have to get the girls to fall in love of course! And this time when lost souls turn up in everyone from the school's bully to the school's hottest new student teache...

• Hanasaku Iroha PT2 BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £27.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ohana's job at Kissuiso continues. Just when she grows accustomed to her daily tasks as a hot spring inn attendant, Kissuiso's financial stability is called into question. An opportunity to have a movie filmed at Kissuiso causes a big to-do, but will that be enough to revitalise interest in the inn and keep everyone's dream alive?

• Guilty Crown Series 1 Part 1 (Eps 01-11) | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £17.97   |  Saving you £10.01 (66.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Shu's entire world was shattered after a meteorite crashed into Japan unleashing the lethal Apocalypse Virus. The chaos and anarchy born of the outbreak cost Shu his family and reduced him to a timid fearful shell of the boy he'd once been. His life took another unexpected turn after a chance encounter with the stunning pop star Inori. This mysterious beauty introduced Shu to the King's Right Hand: a genetic mutation that allows him to reach into hearts of mortals and turn them into weapons. Shu finds himself caught in the crossfire between those who desperately seek his newfound strength. On one side lurks a clandestine government agency and on the other Inori and the spirited band of rebels known as Funeral Parlor. The choice is Shu's to make - and the world is his to change. Special Features: Commentary for Episodes 2 and 4 Guilty Crown 4-Panel Theater Into the Void: The Creative Vision Episode Previews Textless Opening Songs Textless Ending Songs U.S. Trailer Trailers

• Dolls | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £9.32   |  Saving you £10.67 (114.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dolls is a film of extraordinary beauty and tenderness from a filmmaker chiefly associated with grave mayhem and deadpan humor. That is to say, this is not one more Takeshi Kitano movie focused on stoical cops or gangsters. The title refers most directly, but not exclusively, to the theatrical tradition of Bunraku, enacted by half-life-size dolls and their visible but shrouded onstage manipulators. Such a performance--a drama of doomed lovers--occupies the first five minutes of the film, striking a keynote that resonates as flesh-and-blood characters take up the action. The film-proper is dominated by the all-but-wordless odyssey of a susceptible yuppie and the jilted fiancée driven mad by his desertion to marry the boss's daughter. Bound by a blood-red cord, they move hypnotically through a landscape variously urban and natural, stylized only by the breathtaking purity of light, angle, color, and formal movement imposed by Kitano's compositional eye and rigorous, fragmentary editing. Along the way we also pick up the story of an elderly gangster, haunted by memories of the lover he deserted three decades earlier and generations of "brothers" for whose deaths he was, in the accepted order of things, responsible. Another strand is added to the imagistic weave via a doll-like pop singer and a groupie blinded by devotion to her. This is a film in which character, morality, metaphysics, and destiny are all expressed through visual rhyme and startling adjustments of perspective. It sounds abstract--and it is--but it's also heartbreaking and thrilling to behold. Kitano isn't in it, but as an artist he's all over it. His finest film, and for all its exoticism, his most accessible. --Richard T. Jameson

• Hanasaku Iroha Pt 1 BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £27.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hanasaku Iroha Part1 When Ohana's mother flees with her boyfriend to avoid paying his debts, Ohana is sent off to live with her grandmother, who owns the hot spring inn, Kissuiso. Upon arriving, Ohana is put to work at the inn. Thrust into a life where the customers always come first, she struggles to find her place at the inn and fit in with her coworkers.

• Ambush At Blood Pass | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yojimbo a ronin (Mifune) is secretly commissioned to travel to Sanshu Pass. This once crucial thoroughfare in the time of the warlords is now just a backroad used by outcasts. There he is to wait until an undisclosed event occurs. On his journey he rescues a woman from her violent husband and takes her away with him. They arrive at an inn run by an old man and his granddaughter. This place has become home to a bunch of misfits including a one-time physician (Katsu) a wandering gambler and an officer of the law together with his prisoner. A dramatic chain of events unfolds forcing the once hostile and untrusting characters to unite in a common cause: their own survival. Ambush At Blood Pass examines the complex nature of the human condition under pressure.

• Pacific Battleship Yamato | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Real Girl Collection Blu-ray Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (07/02/2022) from £37.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hikari Tsutsui's never been popular, his one real friend is an even worse otaku than he is, and the only girls he's known are the two-dimensional women from his manga and video games. Until, that is, he's sent to help clean the pool as punishment and is partnered with the school's resident bad girl, the very real, very three dimensional Iroha Igarashi. Brash, beautiful, and known for her promiscuous behaviour, Iroha is loathed by other girls but loved by the guys. And yet, inexplicably, she not only seems to be interested in Hikari, but proposes that they enter into a relationship! Unable to resist, Hikari agrees, but there's one big catchIroha's moving away in six months, so no matter what happens between them, in half a year Hikari's guaranteed to lose his REAL GIRL!

• Scandal | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £5.54   |  Saving you £14.45 (72.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On holiday in the snow-covered mountains young painter Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune) has a chance meeting with the popular singer Miyako Saijo (Shirley Yamaguchi). After giving her a ride back to the hotel where they are both staying Ichiro is photographed with Miyako by paparazzi. A magazine creates an expos of their 'secret romance' based around this photograph and the brooding Ichiro ignites a bitter and dirty libel case in order to restore their honour... Akira Kurosawa's

• Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! - Season 2 - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (10/06/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the summer, Uzaki and Sakurai are closer than ever, so everyone's asking the same question-why aren't they dating? Prodded on by their eccentric friends and families, the pair's true feelings start to bubble to the surface. But not without a fight!

• Agitator | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £7.05   |  Saving you £7.94 (112.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this epic of Yakuza honour betrayal and bloodshed maverick director Takashi Miike creates uncompromisingly original take on the Japanese gangster movie... When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon inter-family retaliation follows resulting in the death of a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and as bloody vi

• Horizon In The Middle Of Nowhere | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  When humans came down from the sky they brought with them the Testament the guide to the path they must follow if they wish to return to the skies again. Now in a strange world where only the islands of Japan are inhabitable the nations of the world vie for power and protect the portions of Japan that they have claimed. And each is armed with its own ultimate weapon: a Roysmoi Opro an Armour of Deadly Sins. But there may be a far greater threat to mankind than the Roysomi Opro for the Testament ends abruptly and it is now the last year. Is this the end of humanity or can Tori Aoi and his fellow students from the aerial metropolitan ship Musashi somehow affect the course of destiny? Who and what is the Horizon In The Middle Of Nowhere?

• B: The Beginning Succession (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (02/09/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sherlock Hound | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) during his time at Japan's largest animation studio TMS. Before he went on to create Totoro and Studio Ghibli Miyazaki captured a whole generation of childrens' imaginations with his retelling of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries using a loveable cast of canines. For the first time ever in the UK all 26 episodes of the cult toon classic are collected into one deluxe box set Sherlock Hound. released as either Famous Detective Holmes or Detective Holmes in Japan is an anime based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series where all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic animals the majority dogs though Holmes is a fox and his enemy Professor Moriarty is a wolf. The show featured regular appearances of Jules Verne-steampunk style technology adding a 19th-century science-fiction atmosphere to the series.