larger image		 The Bird People In China
$19.95
A Japanese businessman is sent to China in search of jade that his company can exploit. He travels many days by boat and foot through stunning scenery with his guide and a loud yakuza, but instead of finding jade they come across a tribe of bird people�. According to legend the people had the ability to float among the nearby peaks on light wooden wings, but it seems they have long since forgotten how to fly. The men soon discover more than they expected on their journey, not least about themselves. A definite departure from the director of Ichi the Killer, the film really does show Takashi Miike�s absolute solid skills as a director. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Blues Harp
$19.95
When an ambitious yakuza�s life is saved by a harmonica-playing bartender, the two soon become friends despite the fact that the bartender moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Trouble is soon on the horizon though when the yakuza member conspires to replace his boss and a bodyguard becomes murderously jealous of his homo love of the bartender. In yet another Takashi Miike gem, these criminal characters are portrayed with what seems like genuine affection while never glorifying the Yakuza lifestyle. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Cops vs. Thugs
$19.95
The last two remaining gangs in Kurashima City, Ohara and Kawade, are in tatters with the Ohara boss in prison. Sensing the opportunity to strike their enemies while their leader is incarcerated, the Kawade gang decide to stage a raid on a club owned by their rivals. The temporary boss of the Ohara gang soon discovers that his childhood friend is now a police detective assigned to clean up the underworld. With and epic showdown looming, loyalties become strained and honour pushes the boundaries of the law in this amazing Yakuza film from Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale). Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Dark Water
$19.95
A mother tries to make a new start after winning a custody battle for her daughter. The apartment she moves into seems perfect at first but strange things soon begin happening. Huge water stains appear on the ceiling and drip constantly and liquid oozes into their rooms every day. A childs red bag starts showing up in odd places and soon the child herself starts appearing. It is not long until the mother discovers the origin of the ghost. More creepiness from director Hideo Nakata, director of Ringu and Ringu 2. Letterboxed. In Japanese with English Subtitles.


larger image		 Graveyard Of Honour - 2002
$19.95
This is Takashi Miike's remake of Kinji Fukasaku's 1975 film of the same name. A man is propelled into a relatively high ranking position in the Yakuza after saving the head of the family�s life. His violent personality makes him feared and respected, but he eventually pisses off the family so bad that not even giving up his little finger would get him off the hook. Next thing you know, the stage is then set for a small scale gang war. The hefty doses of violence in this film are definitely more raw and real, reminiscent of the classic Yakuza flicks than a usual Miike film. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Hiruko The Goblin
$19.95
Shinya Tsukamoto's tale concerns the awakening of an ancient demon intent on mass slaughter. Some really crazy ideas (such as each subsequent victim's profile being emblazoned as a scarred portrait into the flesh of one character) populate this Raimi influenced flick. Also known as Yokai Hanta - Hiruko. Japanese with English Subtitles. Letterboxed.


larger image		 Japan Organised Crime Boss
$19.95
The Yakuza is in turmoil when Osaka's ruthless Danno Organisation has ambitions to take over and control the entire Japanese underworld. An alliance is formed between the remaining Yakuza clans to take on the might of the Danno Organisation and Tsukamoto is released from prison after eight years, hoping to lead a quiet life away from the gang's activities. When Danno's men assassinate Tsukamoto�s boss, he is forced to lead his gang in the territorial war and soon learns that things have changed while he was in prison and the new ruthless breed of criminal lives and fights without honour! Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Kairo
$19.95
Strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents after one of their friends commits suicide. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall while another's computer keeps bringing up strange ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on? Filled with genuinely disturbing visuals and sounds that disturb, creep and scare, this film builds a sense of dread that will haunt the viewer long after the final credits have rolled. Also known as Pulse. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Ley Lines
$19.95
Ley Lines is the last part of Miike Takashi's Triad Society trilogy, but it (and the other parts) can be seen out of order as they contain no recurring characters or storylines. Three Japanese teenagers, born from Chinese parents, decide to leave their hometown where they feel they don't fit for Tokyo. There, they meet a drug maker, his African mate, a Chinese born prostitute and a yakuza boss. The film shows the difficulties that these people have for integration in Japanese society, and their search for an identity. Being one of Miike�s best films, it is a technical masterpiece that is full of typical outlandish characters, plenty of action scenes and genuinely emotional performances. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Modern Yakuza Street Mobster
$19.95
This is a bloody violent view of a renegade street punk that loves fighting and never backs down from a fight, no matter how suicidal. The film follows him as he talks about his youth, his incarceration and picks up with getting his old gang back together. When he starts taking over the town, things go sour and he decides to start a guerrilla war between the rival gangs with deadly consequences for all. More great Yakuza action from Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale). Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.

Naked Blood
$19.95
A young genius develops a new drug which turns pain into pleasure. He mixes his serum with an experimental product that his mother is giving to three girls at the local hospital. Soon the girls start to hurt and mutilate themselves and are filled with a strange pleasure while doing it. This is the most extreme hardcore gorefest to come out of Japan since the Guinea Pig series. The scene where one of the girls slowly eats her own nipple and gouges her own eye out with a fork has to be seen to be believed. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Rainy Dog
$19.95
Rainy Dog is the second part of Miike Takashi's Triad Society trilogy, but it (and the other parts) can be seen out of order as they contain no recurring characters or storylines. A yakuza on the run relocates to Taipei, Taiwan where he ends up working as hitman for a local boss. A woman shows up at his doorstep and leaves a mute boy with him, whom she claims is his. Not really acknowledging the boy, the hitman simply goes about his business of killing people while the boy follows him everywhere. The hitman eventually develops a relationship with a prostitute, and along with the boy the three slowly grow closer into a family. Avoiding the extreme, unusual and shocking elements for which his work is known, Miike makes an artful gangster movie that is gently paced and philosophical. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Ring 0
$19.95
The video curse which struck in the previous instalments of Ring was not the first incarnation of the fatal power possessed by Sadako. With a death toll reaching back as far as the 1950s, the evil legacy has been more widespread than anyone could have imagined. When a reporter is struck down during a demonstration of parapsychological power, one by one every single journalist present at the event is struck down. As the 1960s draw to a close, the fianc� of the first man to die is determined to find whoever, or whatever, is responsible and take her revenge. Leterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Ring 2
$19.95
After losing her boyfriend to the deadly virus, a journalist decides to conduct her own investigation into the powers of the gruesome effects wrought upon those who have been exposed to it, until eventually her investigation leads her deeper into the dark world of Sadako. Director Hideo Nakata�s follow up to his own, highly acclaimed �Ring�, is an atmospheric and disturbing tale which combines elements of the supernatural and the technological to produce a chilling effect. Letterboxed. Japanese with English subtitles.


larger image		 Sister Street Fighter
$19.95
A martial-arts champion helps the cops and goes undercover to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and imprisoned, the police pressure his sister to help them locate and free him. She gets the help of her brother�s martial-arts school for an ultimate battle royale with the drug gang that has masters of many different 'schools' of fighting. Forget the full frame versions that are floating around, this is the 2.35 1 ACTIONSCOPE aspect ratio version. Letterboxed.


larger image		 Yakuza Graveyard
$19.95
A brooding, misfit cop develops a bond with a local crime-lord which leads him on the trail of a group of corrupt money-laundering cops. When a rival gang assassinates the mobster and the detective falls in love with the man's sister, he ultimately becomes involved in the turbulent underworld that he was investigating. Hard-hitting, controversial crime film filled with strong statements of social criticism from Fukasaku Kinji (Battle Royale). Letterboxed. Japanese with English Subtitles.

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