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Superlative adventure film in which seven warriors defend a village from ferocious bandits. With comedy, pathos, tension and some of the finest action sequences ever filmed, this is simply magnificent cinema. It was of course later remade as 'The Ma... Directed by Akira Kurosawa Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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It is a testament to director Oshima that the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Corrida) was distributed at all. An explicit study of sex and death, the subject matter was so controversial in Japan that cans of film were smuggled to France to be processed.... Directed by Nagisa Oshima Our Price: £8.99 DVD | Available | Save £11.00 (55%)
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'Beat' Takeshi takes on one of Japan's most popular cultural heroes - the blind swordsman Zatoichi. Injecting the hero with his own inimitable flavour he delivers a martial arts epic filled with distinctive good humour, fabulous music and a showstop... Directed by Takeshi Kitano Our Price: £25.49 DVD | Available | Save £4.50 (15%)
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Hayao Miyazaki continues his tradition of remarkable, captivating animated films with his most successful feature to date. An unhappy ten year-old, Chihiro, must enter a bath-house inhabited by spirits in order to save her gluttonous parents who hav... Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Our Price: £13.99 DVD | Available | Save £2.00 (12%)
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Aka The Bodyguard. The story of a lone Samurai who appears one day in a feuding gamblers' town as a mercenary for sale, widely considered to be one of the best action/adventure movies ever made. Later remade by Leone as A Fistful of Dollars. Directed by Akira Kurosawa Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Returning to a field explored in Throne of Blood, Kurosawa, at the age of 75, adapted Shakespeare's King Lear to the story of ageing warlord Hidetora who, in an attempt to restore peace, divides his kingdom between his three sons and retires from hi... Directed by Akira Kurosawa Our Price: £8.49 DVD | In Stock | Save £11.50 (57%)
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Returning to a field explored in Throne of Blood, Kurosawa, at the age of 75, adapted Shakespeare's King Lear to the story of ageing warlord Hidetora who, in an attempt to restore peace, divides his kingdom between his three sons and retires from ... Director: Akira Kurosawa
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You will find no poetry in Throne of Blood's sparse dialogue, and little subtlety in its characterisation, but its pace, atmosphere and imagery have a power that is absolutely Shakespearean. The Bard's evocation of tenth-century Scotland is brillian... Directed by Akira Kurosawa Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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The director's cut of Teshigahara's best known work. Out in the sand dunes a woman lives alone at the bottom of a pit. Local villagers bring her a man. He can't escape, but gradually they are drawn to each other. An atmospheric, highly charged and r... Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Totoro is a forest spirit that little Mei, and later her older sister Satsuki, encounter in a giant camphor tree near their new home in the countryside. Although their father, a university professor, is with them when they move, their mother is in t... Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Set during a period of civil war, combat-weary samurai are drawn towards the tall grass fields to hide and rest themselves, whereupon they are ambushed and murdered by a ruthless mother and daughter-in-law team, who then barter their armour and weap... Directed by Kaneto Shindo Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Although not as well-known as Japanese masters Ozu, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse remains one of Japanese cinema's great talents, and his work eagerly awaits discovery. This collection brings together three of his finest works Repast (1951), ... Directed by Mikio Naruse Our Price: £43.49 DVD | Available | Save £6.50 (13%)
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A collection of three of Mikio Naruse's finest films. Features When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), an elegant black and white Cinemascope melodrama in which a bar hostess attempts to escape her lot; Floating Clouds (1955) and Late Chrysanthe... Directed by Mikio Naruse Our Price: £38.49 DVD | In Stock | Save £6.50 (14%)
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A tragic riches-to-rags fable set in 17th century Kyoto documenting a young noblewoman's fall from grace. With unflinching realism and atmospheric detail, this film established Mizoguchi as one of Japan's greatest directors. Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Famed for its period reconstructions and powerful imagery, often through the director's trademark long takes, Sansho Dayu is one of the most critically revered of all of Mizoguchi's films, and a classic of world cinema, often cropping up in lists of... Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi Our Price: £21.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £2.00 (8%)
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Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Rain and Moon) is a masterwork of Japanese cinema. Based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari, the film's release continued Mizoguchi's introduction to the West, where it was nominated f... Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi Our Price: £22.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £2.00 (8%)
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