RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2024 On October 15, 2024, Criterion is releasing 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray for Demon Pond, a 1979 film from  Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda (Ballad of Orin), who transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yamazaki) stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 28, 2024 On October 28, 2024, Radiance Films is releasing the 3-Film Blu-ray (Region A/B) set for Daiei Gothic – Japanese Ghost Stories, which includes 1959’s The Ghost of Yotsuya, 1968’s The Snow Woman, and 1968’s The Bride from Hades. A collection of three of Japan’s most famous ghost stories that have haunted people for centuries. Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub) directs The Ghost of Yotsuya, in … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 23, 2024 On September 23, 2024, Arrow Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Kinji Fukasaku’s The Threat, a gritty crime drama in the vein of Kurosawa’s High and Low, set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising Japan that has left many of its citizens behind. Misawa (Rentarō Mikuni, Kwaidan, Fugitive from the Past, Vengeance is Mine) appears to lead a charmed life, the very … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 23, 2024 On September 23, 2024, 88 Films is releasing Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu’s Gaira’s Guts Trilogy, a 3-movie set that will include Guts of a Beauty, Guts of a Virgin and Rusted Body. Discover the visceral world of Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu with the definitive trilogy boxset: Guts of a Beauty, Guts of a Virgin, and Rusted Body. Renowned for his bold storytelling and uncompromising vision, Gaira delves … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 22, 2024 On October 22, 2024, Unearthed Films will release a Blu-ray for Village of Doom, 1983 thriller – based on real events of the 1938 Tsuyama massacre – from cult director Noboru Tanaka (Rape and Death of a Housewife) An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 23, 2024 On September 23, 2024, Radiance Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Tattooed Life, a 1965 Yakuza flick from director Seijun Suzuki (Pistol Opera, Branded to Kill). Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Haunted Samurai), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: August 19, 2024 On August 19, 2024, Eureka is releasing a Blu-ray (Region B) for Wolves, Pigs and Men, a 1974 yakuza film directed by a master of the genre in Kinji Fukasaku (The Green Slime, Battles Without Honour and Humanity). Wolves, Pigs and Men is an uncompromising treatise on brutality and brotherhood starring Rentaro Mikuni (Kwaidan), Kinya Kitaoji (Battles Without Honour and Humanity: Final Episode) and the … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 On July 30, 2024, Discotek Media is releasing the Blu-ray for the 1989-1990 Toei TV series, Mobile Cop Jiban, which will include all 52 episodes — presented in standard definition with the original Japanese language and English subtitles! This 8th entry in the Metal Hero Series series was influenced by 1987’s Robocop, as well as the 1980s 1970s tokusatsu, Robot Detective. The wicked Doctor Giba … Continue reading →