"Director: Takashi"

• Lupin III: The First | DVD | (13/09/2021) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  CGI-anime feature based on the manga series by Monkey Punch. Professional thief Arsene Lupin III (voice of Kanichi Kurita) heads to Paris where he is tasked with uncovering the mystery behind a missing diary that reportedly contains details about vast treasures. However, the diary also attracts the attention of Nazi's who believe the discovery of the treasures will allow them to resurrect the Third Reich. Along the way Lupin III and his team befriend Laetitia (Suzu Hirose), whose knowledge may be crucial in solving the mystery.

• Wise Mans Grand Child: The Complete Series - Blu-ray + Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young man dies in a car accident and is reborn in a magical new world. The old, yet wise Merlin finds the boy, names him Shin, raises him from infancy, and teaches him combat and powerful magic along the way. 15 years later, Shin is ready to travel the globe on his own, but Merlin forgot to teach him something major common sense!

• Lupin III: The First | Blu Ray | (13/09/2021) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  CGI-anime feature based on the manga series by Monkey Punch. Professional thief Arsene Lupin III (voice of Kanichi Kurita) heads to Paris where he is tasked with uncovering the mystery behind a missing diary that reportedly contains details about vast treasures. However, the diary also attracts the attention of Nazi's who believe the discovery of the treasures will allow them to resurrect the Third Reich. Along the way Lupin III and his team befriend Laetitia (Suzu Hirose), whose knowledge may be crucial in solving the mystery.

• First Love | Blu Ray | (02/03/2020) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Blood, gore, severed heads and a tender love story at its heart. Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer) is back! One night in Tokyo and Leo, a young boxer down on his luck meets his first love Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Selling her body to pay a debt. Unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme. Leo and Monica find themselves pursued throughout the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis and a female assassin hired by the Chinese Triads. Prepare for unadulterated mayhem and carnage and fall for FIRST LOVE.

• Space Battleship Yamato | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The legendary STAR BLAZERS is now a live-action movie! In the year 2194, alien marauders, the Gamilons, bombard the Earth with planetary bombs sent from space. Humanity fights back but is defeated and escapes underground. Five years later, those who remain on the devastated planet gather together for one last plan to save the Earth. Armed with mysterious alien technology and an old battleship called the 'Yamato', they embark on a quest to find a device that has the power to save humanity fr...

• Visitor Q | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £15.70   |  Saving you £-0.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'Visitor Q' presents a harrowing absurdist take on the reality TV phenomenon depicting the chilling disintegration of a dysfunctional family and seals Miike's reputation as one of world cinema's most daring and dangerous cinematic visionaries. In Miike Takashi's outrageous taboo-busting satire Vistor Q shamed reporter Kiyoshi Yamazaki visits one of Japan's many comfort houses to make a documentary about sex and violence amongst the nation's youth and is surprised to encounter h

• The Fighter Pilot | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (67.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a young man discovers the person he always called ˜grandfather' is not the blood relative he believed, he embarks on a perilous journey delving into the past to unlock the truth about his real grandfather's legacy. Re-living the darkest hours of the Second World War through the memories of fading veterans, he uncovers that his real grandfather perished in a last-minute Kamikaze mission which devastated the United States Pacific Fleet in a plume of smoke and fire. Now he has no choice but to face a stark battle of his own to overcome the dark shadow cast by a merciless battle Based on the best-selling novel, The Fighter Pilot is the $100m box-office sensation filled with stunning action, heart-wrenching emotion and the questions which lie at the very heart of war.

• 13 Assassins | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £7.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (116.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the era of the Shogun an evil young lord rapes and kills assured of immunity by law. But he didn't count on the Thirteen Assassins. A feared secret force each with their own deadly skill the Assassins undertake a suicide mission to wipe out the Lord. As he embarks on a perilous journey the Assassins close off his escape route and ambush him in a village of death. But little do they know they are outnumbered four to one by the Lord's team of bodyguards. Takashi Miike the director responsible for such uncompromising and unforgettable movies as Audition and Ichi The Killer indelibly stamps his trademark style on the Samurai genre with the ultra-violent all-action blood-spattered epic 13 Assassins.

• Three Extremes Twin Pack | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £19.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (3.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three Extremes: This anthology offers three inventively chilling tales from three masters of Asian terror. Takashi Miike's Box presents us with a troubled writer haunted by the memory of her sisters death. Park Chan-wook's Cut delights in more revenge with a film extra deciding to torture a director and his wife. And the final terror tale is Fruit Chan's bite-size version of Dumplings. Three Extremes 2: Three Extremes took you to the edge; now Three Extremes II pushes you over with three more nightmarish tales of terror from Kim Jee-Woon Nonzee Nimiburr and Peter Ho-Sun Chan. Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory and wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her while her husband cannot remember why she left him...then discovers a mutilated body hidden in his car. The Wheel: Extravagant cursed puppets cause fires death physical pain and a little girl to be possessed. Going Home: A father in search of his missing son is abducted by a man who keeps his dead wife in his apartment under the impression she will wake up.

• Terra Formars | Blu Ray | (01/04/2019) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The ever-prolific Takashi Miike, the director behind the likes of Audition, the Dead or Alive trilogy and Blade of the Immortal, returns with this intergalactic epic in which a team of space explorers find themselves pitched against a horde of oversized anthropomorphic cockroaches. In the mid-21st century, humankind has been forced to look to colonising other planets as a means of combating overcrowding on Earth their first stop, Mars. With a population of cockroaches having been introduced on Mars some 500 years prior to help prepare the way for human colonization, a manned mission sets out to the red planet with the aim of clearing away the bugs. Upon arrival, however, they discover that the roaches have evolved to huge, vicious creatures capable of wielding weapons. Based on the popular Manga series of the same name, Terra Formars is an action-packed space adventure brought to life by one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary filmmakers. Special Edition Contents: High-Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed Stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD MA options Newly-translated English subtitles The Making of Terra Formars - feature-length documentary on the film's production featuring a host of cast and crew interviews and behind-the-scenes footage Extended cast interviews Footage from the 2016 Japanese premiere Outtakes Image Gallery Theatrical and teaser trailers Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork options FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Fully illustrated collector's booklet with new writing on the film by Tom Mes

• Ichi The Killer | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Explore your fear Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku and the Home of Kakihara a sadistic Yakuaza killer. He relentlessly tears apart the underworld searching for the man who killed his boss. The mastermind behind the plot is Jijii an ex-cop bent on turning the gangsters of Japan against one another. His trump card is a physically powerful child-like lunatic who is constantly on the verge of snapping. This madman is Ichi the Killer and between him and Kakihara the streets will run red with blood.

• 13 Assassins | Blu Ray | (05/09/2011) from £11.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (73.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the era of the Shogun an evil young lord rapes and kills assured of immunity by law. But he didn't count on the Thirteen Assassins. A feared secret force each with their own deadly skill the Assassins undertake a suicide mission to wipe out the Lord. As he embarks on a perilous journey the Assassins close off his escape route and ambush him in a village of death. But little do they know they are outnumbered four to one by the Lord's team of bodyguards. Takashi Miike the director responsible for such uncompromising and unforgettable movies as Audition and Ichi The Killer indelibly stamps his trademark style on the Samurai genre with the ultra-violent all-action blood-spattered epic 13 Assassins.

• The Happiness Of The Katakuris | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including Audition and Ichi the Killer comes The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead ! The Katakuri family run a peaceful country inn at the foot of Mount Fuji. A little more peaceful than anticipated, their only visitors arrive in a series of suicides, murders, and inexplicale deaths. In order not to ruin their reputation, the Katakuris decide to bury the bodies, but will the coverups come back to haunt them... The Happiness of the Katakuris combines scenes of grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers, and zombies to make one the finest horror-comedies ever made.

• Dead or Alive Trilogy | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £8.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike's unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director's most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramatically moving scenes. Made between 1999 and 2002, the Dead or Alive films cemented Miike's reputation overseas as one of the most provocative enfants terrible of Japanese cinema, yet also one of its most talented and innovative filmmakers. In Dead or Alive, tough gangster Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) and his ethnically Chinese gang make a play to take over the drug trade in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by massacring the competition. But he meets his match in detective Jojima (Show Aikawa), who will do everything to stop them. Dead or Alive 2: Birds casts Aikawa and Takeuchi together again, but as new characters, a pair of rival yakuza assassins who turn out to be childhood friends; after a botched hit, they flee together to the island where they grew up, and decide to devote their deadly skills to a more humanitarian cause. And in Dead or Alive: Final, Takeuchi and Aikawa are catapulted into a future Yokohama ruled by multilingual gangs and cyborg soldiers, where they once again butt heads in the action-packed and cyberpunk-tinged finale to the trilogy. Each of them unique in theme and tone, the Dead or Alive films showcase Miike at the peak of his strengths, creating three very distinct movies connected only by their two popular main actors, each film a separate yet superb example of crime drama, character study, and action filmmaking. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition digital transfers of all three films Original stereo audio Optional English subtitles for all three films New interview with actor Riki Takeuchi New interview with actor Sho Aikawa New interview with producer and screenwriter Toshiki Kimura New audio commentary for Dead or Alive by Miike biographer Tom Mes Archive interviews with cast and crew Archive making-of featurettes for DOA2: Birds and DOA: Final Original theatrical trailers for all three films Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Orlando Arocena FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by Kat Ellinger

• Slayers Collection | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In a land of fantasy and fairytale magic rules and one can prosper by the point of a sword. But somewhere between the realms of good and evil a band of misfits stumble upon an artifact which could prove the undoing of all... Meet Lina Inverse a spunky sorceress with a penchant for fire who enjoys nothing more than liberating the unearned from those less deserving. Teamed up with Gourry a dashing swordsman of unrivaled skill and unrivaled stupidity they must take on the forces of the demon lord and his countless servants seeking to save the world and hoping for fame and fortune along the way.

• Yokai Monsters Collection | Blu Ray | (18/10/2021) from £51.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the makers of Daimajin comes a trilogy of terror ripped from the pages of Japanese folklore, with ghosts and monsters from ancient myths and legends brought to life through stunning special effects, alongside an epic, big-budget reboot of the series from a modern-day master of the macabre, now available together on Blu-ray for the first time. In the first film in the trilogy, 100 Monsters, a greedy slumlord's attempts to forcefully evict his tenants invite the wrath of the titular spirits when a cleansing ritual is botched, with terrifying results. The second film, Spook Warfare, tells the tale of an evil Babylonian vampire inadvertently awoken by treasure hunters, and a brave samurai that teams with the yokai to defeat the bloodthirsty demon. In the final film, Along with Ghosts (released only 12 months after 100 Monsters), the yokai are roused to defend a young girl on the run from deadly yakuza. Decades later, none other than Takashi Miike (Audition) helmed The Great Yokai War, a loose remake of Spook Warfare that used cutting-edge digital effects to renew the franchise for a new generation. In it, a young boy is given a grave responsibility: to band together with a group of yokai to defend humanity against a vengeful and powerful demon that has sworn retribution against modern-day Japan. Special Contents High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all four films Optional English subtitles on all four films Illustrated 60-page collectors' book featuring new writing on the series by Stuart Galbraith IV, Raffael Coronelli and Jolyon Yates Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jolyon Yates Postcards featuring newly commissioned artwork for each film by Jolyon Yates Foldout ˜yokai guide' poster illustrated by Jolyon Yates Disc One - 100 Monsters Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio Hiding in Plain Sight, a brand new documentary giving a primer on yokai for Western audiences, featuring interviews with experts Matt Alt, Zack Davisson, Kim Newman, Lynda E. Rucker and Hiroko Yoda Theatrical trailer US re-release trailer Image gallery Disc Two Spook Warfare / Along With Ghosts Brand new 4K restoration of Spook Warfare by Kadokawa Pictures Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio for both films Theatrical trailers for both films US re-release trailers for both films Image galleries for both films Disc Three The Great Yokai War DTS-HD MA 5.1 original Japanese and dubbed English audio Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes Archive interviews with the cast and crew, including Takashi Miike Short Drama of Yokai, two shorts detailing the further adventures of the yokai Another Story of Kawataro, two shorts featuring the continuing story of the kappa character in the film World Yokai Conference, a publicity event where Miike speaks about the film Promotional Events, video of the press conference to announce the start and completion of filming, as well as the premiere in Tokyo Documentary on the film's young star, Ryunosuki Kamiki, and his experience making the film Theatrical trailer Image gallery

• Happiness Of The Katakuris | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £7.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (92.43%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get more complicated when their second guest a famous sumo ringer dies while having sex with his matress and the Katakuri's problems are just beginning... Filled with surreal musical numbers disturbed animated characters killer zombies and an array of gruesome deaths this delirious b

• The Grudge | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.03   |  Saving you £5.96 (147.89%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The deadly supernatural force returns in this sequel to the chilling 2005 horror.

• Blade Of The Immortal | Blu Ray | (02/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine...

• Graveyards of Honor | Blu Ray | (07/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two peerless masters of Japanese cinema Kinji Fukasaku (Battles without Honor and Humanity, Battle Royale) and Takashi Miike (Dead or Alive, Audition) present their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita's gangster novel Graveyard of Honor, each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period of Japanese history. Set during the turbulent post-war years, Fukasaku's original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa (Tetsuya Watari, Outlaw Gangster VIP). Shot through with the same stark realism and quasi-documentarian approach as Fukasaku's earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Fukasaku nonetheless breaks new ground through his portrayal of a gangster utterly without honor or ethics, surviving by any means necessary in a world of brutal criminality. Meanwhile, Miike's 2002 retelling transplants the story to Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. Less a direct remake of Fukasku's film than a radical reimagining of the same overarching premise, Miike's film captures both the hedonism and nihilism of the modern Japanese crime scene in deliriously stylish fashion, resulting in a fascinating companion piece to the original that nonetheless stands as its own entity. With both films making their High Definition debut in a sumptuous limited edition packed with new and archival bonus content, Arrow Video is proud to present these two intertwined but unique crime thrillers from two celebrated filmmakers at the peak of their creative powers. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Exclusive two-disc set featuring two different versions of Graveyard of Honor: the 1975 film by Kinji Fukasaku and the 2002 film by Takashi Miike Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ian MacEwan Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on both films by Jasper Sharp DISC ONE GRAVEYARD OF HONOR (1975) High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original lossless Japanese PCM 1.0 mono soundtrack Optional English subtitles New audio commentary by author and critic Mark Schilling Like a Balloon: The Life of a Yakuza, a new visual essay by critic and Projection Booth podcast host Mike White A Portrait of Rage, an archival appreciation of Fukasaku and his films, featuring interviews with filmmakers, scholars, and friends of the director On the Set with Fukasaku, an archival interview with assistant director Kenichi Oguri Theatrical trailer Imagery gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ian MacEwan DISC TWO GRAVEYARD OF HONOR (2002) High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original lossless Japanese PCM 2.0 stereo soundtrack Optional English subtitles New audio commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mes New visual essay by author and critic Kat Ellinger Archival interview special featuring Miike and cast members Goro Kishitani and Narimi Arimori Archival making-of featurette Archival making-of teaser Archival press release interviews featuring Miike, Kishitani and Arimori Archival premiere special featuring Miike, Kishitani and Arimori Theatrical trailer Imagery gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ian MacEwan