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• 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.

• Karakuri Circus S1 - S3 - Standard BD | Blu Ray | (03/03/2025) from £43.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Narumi Kato, a martial artist afflicted with the bizarre condition known as Zonapha Syndrome, attempts to rescue a young boy from incredibly powerful attackers, he is stunned to discover that his opponents aren't even human!Pulled into a conflict pitting users of lethal puppets and the self-aware Automatons against each other, Narumi finds himself rescued by an unusual young woman named Shirogane, who has her own puppet, Arlequin, and together they must form an alliance to protect the boy, Masaru, who has recently inherited an incredible fortune. But who is trying to kill Masaru and what is the origin of these incredible animated creations? How is it tied in with Narumi's own affliction?The truth surrounding a 200 year old shadow war unfolds as Narumi, Shirogane, and Masaru battle to survive in KARAKURI CIRCUS!

• 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.

• B: The Beginning Succession (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (02/09/2024) from £21.72   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! - Season 2 - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (10/06/2024) from £45.49   |  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!

• 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 £36.98   |  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

• 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

• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (23/09/2024) from £28.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 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?

• Yohane the Parhelion - SUNSHINE in the MIRROR (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/11/2024) from £34.59   |  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.

• The Human Race | DVD | (03/03/2014) from £3.04   |  Saving you £11.71 (914.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you are lapped you die. If you step off the path you die. 80 start only 1 will finish.

• Lowlife Love (Dual Format BLURAY & DVD) | Blu Ray | (21/11/2016) from £12.47   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tetsuo is a lowlife. As a film director, he had an indie hit many years back, but refuses to go against his artistic integrity. One day, two new students come to his school: Minami, a naive girl from the countryside who wants to be an actress, and Ken, a scriptwriter. Tetsuo thinks Minami could be a real star, and Ken has a brilliant script that could relaunch his career as a director. With the help of an unsavory film producer, they strive to turn this project into something tangible, but Minami's ability starts to impress others, and Tetsuo's world soon falls apart.

• Bubblegum Crisis - Vol. 2 | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• My Science Project | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In order to graduate two laid-back high school students must put together a science project. On an old USAF dump they find a device from an old UFO. During experiments with it they unleash a phenomenal power which brings them face to face with sights beyond their wildest dreams...

• New Dominion Tank Police | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Follow-up to the original series in which the slightly psychotic officers of the Tank Police employ their heavy weaponry at every opportunity! Newport City 2010. An overcrowded urban sprawl choking from pollution of unregulated technology. In a desperate attempt to stop the swelling tide of rampant crime and urban terrorism plaguing the city the government forms a special task force - The Tank Police. The Tank Police are assigned to restore order but their ruthless methods in comb

• Steins;Gate 0 - Part One - Collector's Limited Edition Boxset DVD & BD | Blu Ray | (29/07/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steins;Gate 0 Part 1 Limited Edition contains anime episodes 1-12 and 23ß directed by Kenichi Kawamura and also includes a smartphone stand, cellphone strap, art book and art cards housed in a rigid chipboard box. Okabe couldn't save her. Plagued by the guilt, his only solace lies with academia and with his friends who have been by his side from the start. But nothing's ever easy. While Okabe struggles to leave his traumas in the past, he meets a familiar-faced AI that re-opens old wounds and could lead to a terrifying new future. Special Features: Episode 2 Video Commentary, Episode 8 Commentary, Promo Video, Textless Songs Please Note This edition has space to include part 2 when the filler box is removed.