"Director: Takashi"

• Parasyte The Movie: Part 2 | Blu Ray | (06/06/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  THE INVASION BEGINS BASED ON THE WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLING MANGA AND HIT ANIME... Tiny creatures called Parasites have arrived on Earth with the sole purpose of taking over human bodies and preying on mankind. One such Parasite latches on to ordinary high school student, Shinichi Izumi. Fortunately, he is able to fight it off before it reaches his brain. But unfortunately, it is now stuck within his right hand. Shinichi cannot reveal his terrible secret to those around him, but a strange relationship develops between himself and the creature he calls Migi ( Righty ). Before long, they begin to encounter other Parasites which launch savage attacks against them and endanger the life of his childhood friend, Satomi. When Shinichi's beloved mother is killed and taken over by a Parasite, it becomes an all-out war between humanity and the Parasites. But nothing is black and white in this struggle. Why were the Parasites created? Are they here to cull our numbers? The planet needs to be preserved, but we also want to protect our loved ones. Amidst this conflict of values, Shinichi and Migi have no choice but to hurl themselves into the fight against the ever more complex attack of the Parasites.

• For Love's Sake | Blu Ray | (10/06/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Takashi Miike, the director of '13 Assassins', 'Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai' and 'Audition' brings us as Bollywood-style musical action/comedy/love story!

• Shinjuku Triad Society | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The first of three films linked by theme rather than by character or story which form Takashi Miike's acclaimed Triad Society trilogy (followed by 'Rainy Dog' and 'Ley Lines') 'Shinjuku Triad Society' charts the bloody gangland battle for control over Tokyo's seedy Sinjuku district. When the Dragon's Claw gang from Taiwan attempts a take-over of the dope extortion and gay prostitution rackets run by the ruling Japanese Yakuza a lone cop predicts carnage. In a crusade against t

• The Grudge | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £7.92   |  Saving you £12.07 (152.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Takashi Shimizu returns with this a sequel to his own 'Ju-On' movie, expanding the macabre mythology of the ghostly little boy Toshio.

• Yatterman (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Classic seventies anime series Yatterman flies to the silver screen in a brilliant crime-fighting explosion of candy-coloured camp, over-the-top adventure, and pure popcorn entertainment. Directed by legendary cult director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer, Audition) and featuring a brand new plot and re-imaged characters, this live action debut of Yatterman will re-define the robot action adventure genre. Gan, the only son of a toy shop owner, and his girlfriend Ai are just normal teens who like to tinker away with robotic inventions - that is, when they're not out keeping the world safe from evil! Together with their giant robot dog Yatterwoof, and their small incompetent robot Toybotty, Gan & Ai transform into crime-fighting duo Yatterman to fight for world peace. Waging battle against perennial nemesis, the Doronbo gang. Formed by sexy villainess Doronjo and her lackeys Boyacky, and Tonzra, the Doronbo trio will stop at nothing to recover the powerful wish-granting Skull Stone, but they'll have to get past Yatterman first!

• Shana Series 2 Collection | DVD | (04/05/2015) from £22.94   |  Saving you £17.05 (42.60%)   |  RRP £39.99

  All episodes from the second season of the anime adventure about the exploits of a huntress and a teenage boy trying to keep a balance between the human and supernatural worlds. As Shana (voice of Rie Kugimiya) continues to keep supernatural forces at bay during the hours of darkness, by day she has to compete with the advances of a classmate who is keen to capture Yuji (Satoshi Hino)'s heart. The episodes are: 'The Second Time', 'The Beginning of Everything', 'The Suspicious Transfer Student', 'The Distressed Girls', 'The Family Dinner Table', 'Eve of Trouble', 'Hayato Ike, His Day of Glory', 'The Door to the Past', 'The Milestone of Sorrow', 'The Man Who Returned', 'The Promised Pair', 'The Clear Autumn Festival Begins', 'Convergence, Then an Omen', 'Eternal Lovers', 'Awakening', 'Everlasting Love', 'Respective Paths', 'The Intricate Yuji', 'Matters That Could Not Be Said', 'The Scarlet Death Struggle', 'Merging Powers', 'Christmas Eve', 'The Early Movements of Peril' and 'That Which Must Be Protected'.

• Wise Mans Grand Child: The Complete Series - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £N/A   |  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!

• The Black Angel | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £12.90   |  Saving you £-2.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Takashi Ishi's visually stylish The Black Angel is a fascinating cross between Japanese gangster film and Jacobean revenge tragedy. Sent away to the US after the slaughter of her parents by rivals led by her half-sister Chaiko, Ikko (Riona Hazuki) returns determined to reclaim her yakuza kingdom. Ikko is obsessed with childish memories of Mayo the hitwoman, the original Black Angel, entrusted with getting her out of the country. The intervening 14 years have been hard on Mayo--being the Black Angel is tough on the nerves--and she is hired to kill Ikko, not realising they have met before. This is a tragic film in which three strong women are destined to destroy each other through the trickery of male betrayal; from the beginning, as a child is smuggled away and a mother told the infant is dead, it is clear that we are in a land of myth, with no happy endings. A night time Tokyo of bright lights and dark shadows, of dead-end corridors and escalators that lead you only to your death, is provided as a moody backdrop. Takashi's inventive set pieces of mood and action include a shootout in a strip club set to Verdi's Requiem. On the DVD: The Black Angel is presented on disc in widescreen, while the moody, atmospheric score is done full justice by the Dolby Digital soundtrack. The only special features are filmographies and biographies, production stills and the theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• The Grudge 1&2 Box Set | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Ju-On: The Grudge (2003) A volunteer home care worker Rika enters the home of a bed-ridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door sealed with duct tape. Her discovery unleashes a horrible evil which baffles police investigators who find that a whole series of people have gone missing from this particular house. Further investigation leads to Toyama a former detective who handled the case of a man who murdered his wife in the house but whose son was never found. But when the angry ""Ju-On"" spirit of vengeance that has infected the house reaches beyond its boundaries Rika realises that the horror is spreading... Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003) Takashi Shimizu returns to writing and directing a sequel to his own 'Ju-On' movie expanding the macabre mythology of the ghostly little boy Toshio who has a few more spine-tingling surprises in store...

• Rainy Dog | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.95   |  Saving you £10.03 (202.22%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Poetic hitman film noir from controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike. Yuuji is an outsider. As a Japanese mobster holed up in Taipei working as a hitman for a Triad boss he is far from his roots. Added to this complicated existence is the fact that his ex-wife has just dumped a young boy - probably their child - on his doorstep. A hazardous burden in this world of sly manouvers and quick-fire shoot-outs the boy is neglected and unloved. As Yuuji continues to do business as

• Heidi | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £14.22   |  Saving you £-3.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Heidi is the spirited little girl whose sweet disposition wins the hearts of everyone around her. Heidi lives with her Grandfather in the beautiful mountains of Switzerland where she loves playing with her shepherd friend Peter and frolicking in the meadow with the goats. She is such a bright and happy girl that she even manages to turn her grandfather from a bitter old hermit into a kind and loving man. Then one day Heidi's aunt takes her away from the mountains to live in the c

• The Dark Myth - Parts 1 And 2 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £11.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a twisted tale of reincarnation a pre-destined battle between two gods (one good one evil) will determine the fate of religious life in Japan... A discerning thinking man's anime from the pen of Daijiro Oboshi.

• The Grudge 2 (Ju-On) | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £15.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (13.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV show film on location at the Ju-On house they immediately get the chills and the eerie feeling that something or someone is watching them. As they depart from the shoot strange things begin to happen... Acclaimed filmmaker Shimizu Takashi returns with the original Japanese sequel to Ju-On: The Grudge (a curse born of a grudge held by someone who dies in the grip of powerful anger). This psychological horror is more disturbing than ever and will take your fear to new heights as the curse renews itself with one blood-curdling vignette after another.

• Ley Lines | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £11.33   |  Saving you £6.65 (79.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A troupe of bored small town delinquents travel to Tokyo only to find themselves outclassed by the big city criminals... This brutal exploration of Japan's criminal fraternity displays Miike Takashi's celebrated flare for kinetic action and stylish innovation and should not be missed.

• Happy - The Littlest Bunny | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £4.05   |  Saving you £3.94 (97.28%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Happy is the littlest bunny in the forest and he hates it. Because of his size Happy is always being picked on by his brothers Patch and Moosey and is left out of the forest animal games. With the help of his mischievous friend Chicky the Chipmunk Happy plots revenge and plays a practical joke on his brothers. He then starts to believe that the only way to get respect is by becoming mean tough and nasty. However one day one of ""Scrappy's"" rotten tricks goes horribly wrong and h

• Project Itoh: Harmony | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £16.37   |  Saving you £3.62 (18.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a future ruled by an unwavering dedication to good health, three high school girls led by the defiant Miach Mihie attempt suicide as the ultimate act of rebellion. Tuan Kirie survives, but can't shake the hatred she has for the perfect world she lives in. Years later, a simultaneous mass suicide rocks the globe and sends society into a state of shock. A small group stands up to take credit for the event, claiming they've hijacked the consciousness of every person on the planet. Everything about the terrorists' message sounds too familiar to Tuan. She suspects her old friend Miach might be involved, but how could that be when she'd supposedly killed herself years earlier? Desperate for answers, Tuan launches an investigation that takes her across the globe chasing the ghost of her old friend. But what is Miach's end game? Will she finally wake the world from its monotonous slumber? Or, end it all for good? Contains the Film on DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.

• For Love's Sake | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Takashi Miike, the director of '13 Assassins', 'Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai' and 'Audition' brings us as Bollywood-style musical action/comedy/love story!

• Dead Or Alive 2 | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £8.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (43.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An off-the-cuff Japanese gangster movie with an absurdist streak that shades into surrealism, Dead or Alive 2 isn't thrown by its brief to sequelise a film that ended not only with the deaths of its lead characters but the destruction of Japan. Takashi Miike--the prolific auteur whose best-known film is the atypically considered Audition--brings back his lead actors in different roles and spins off another strange shaggy dog tale. The film starts out with a Yakuza vs Triads gang war in the offing, then sidesteps into "'Beat"' Miike territory as a couple of hit-men who meet when they turn up for the same assassination turn out to be childhood friends and enjoy a nostalgic wallow as they return to the orphanage where they met, re-encounter other old pals and even stand in for some injured actors putting on a play for the children. White-suited and terminally ill Sawada (Riki Takeuchi) and bleached blond and Hawaiian-shirted Otamoko (Sho Aikawa) get back to gunplay, committing contract murders and funnelling the profits into third world charities, which earns them occasional angel-wings or transformations back into innocent children. In constant danger of collapse, the film keeps pulling surprises: txt msg-addicted killers, an animated diagram of bullet trajectories through an unfortunate dwarf's brain. The first film blew up the country because it couldn't think of an ending, and this also has a lot of trouble signing off, with protracted deaths and redemptions for the heroes. Miike alternates clumsiness and confusion with exciting and powerful cinema. --Kim Newman

• 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.

• Dark Tales Of Japan | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A bus hurtles down a pitch-black road at midnight stopping momentarily to pick up a solitary female passenger. She asks ""Want to hear a scary tale?"" and in hushed tones begins her morbid monologue... In this portemanteau of chilling stories five of Japan's best horror directors including Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On: The Grudge) and Norio Tsuruta (Ring 0) race to reach the outer limits of fear! In The Spiderwoman an urban legend proves to be more grounded in