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Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Okane, a beautiful girl from a poor family, must serve as a mistress to a much older rich man. When he and her father die, the young woman returns with her mother to their native village. The locals despise them because of Okane’s past, the young woman meets them with arrogance and haughty behavior. But then everything changes when her mother dies and the handsome Seisaku, a young man who is regarded as a model soldier and the son-in-law of their dreams by the villagers, helps her in this difficult situation. The two fall in love and marry against the spite of the whole village (their passionate sexual relationship is emphasized during the whole film), but then Seisaku has to go to war against the Russians and their world falls apart…

Anamorphic Widescreen Remastered
Japanese Audio / English Subtitles

(Screenshots soon)

Father John (Van Cleef) is killed by Clayton’s (Palance) gang, and his protege little Johnny (Garrett) goes down to Mexico to retrieve Lewis, aka Diamante Lobo, his brother, to come north and settle the score. As it turns out, of course, the matter becomes a little more complicated and turns highly violent as the little town struggles against Clayton’s gang.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

A landowner hires gunman Stark to bring his stepson Fidel back, who ran away and joined a band of outlaws. Stark develops a strategy to lure Fidel away from the gang and trick everyone, but Fidel doesn’t even want to get back to his stepfather, and a cat and mouse game unfolds.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane’’s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor’’s wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband imprisons her by day in their home. It is Shane’s chance encounter with this woman that triggers an event so cataclysmic and shocking it might just lead him to rediscover the tranquility he seeks to restore for himself and his new bride.
Starring Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo.

Anamorphic Widescreen
French and English audio
English subtitles (for French scenes)

Fourteen years ago, a maid was cruelly cut throat and murdered at Setagaya, Tokyo. Hoshino a police detective is investgating this case though the statute of limitations runs out soon. Hoshino meets a fascinating woman Miyoko Rozmberk who had been an employer of the victim. Miyoko tells him that the murderer is Kuronuma Ukyou who is a young important figure. Hoshino steals in Kuronuma’s house and witness that Kuronuma cut a woman’s throat. Hoshino is about to be killed by Kuronuma’s man and be fatally injured., But Miyoko’s girl Brigitte saves and takes him to Miyoko’s house. In fact, Miyoko ia a vampire. Hoshino recieves blood baptism what Kuronuma have done formerly

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Subtitles

Four  girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young girls… Nevertheless it has a happy ending.  Starring Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine.

ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN
ENGLISH AUDIO 2.0

(Based on a true story) In 1965, Rudy, a Midwestern high-school kid, moves to Albuquerque; lonely and friendless, he’s attracted to Kit, slightly older, with a car, his own apartment, and spending money. Kit loves Elvis and loves the ladies; plus, he’s a complete phony: his tan is fake, he wears lifts, he lies to girls, and he pretends to care about Rudy. Kit also shares a dark secret with two other devoted followers, Jimmy and Martha. He meets his match in Kirsten, a spoiled rich girl who gives as good as she gets. When she and a younger cousin disappear, Rudy must choose between loneliness and the law. Starring Balthazar Getty and Natasha Gregson Wagner (from David Lynch’s Lost Highway)

Full Screen (Remastered)
English Audio 2.0

REGION 0

The third-class actor Guido Guidi and the Padre Albino get caught in the turmoil of the revolution, mainly due to Giudi’s impertinent behaviour. Despite being often at odds, they become friends and unintentionally foil the plans of General Herrero.

ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN
ENGLISH AUDIO 2.0

(SCREENSHOT COMPARISON  – CULTCINE VS. ZDD VISUAL MEDIA)

Twilight of the Cockroaches is a 1987 anime film written and directed by Hiroaki Yoshida that combines live-action footage with animation. The plot concerns a society of cockroaches who live peacefully in the apartment of a bachelor named Saito until a woman moves in and the humans begin to exterminate the cockroaches. The cockroaches are depicted through animation, and the humans are depicted through live-action footage. Famed Japanese illustrator Yoshitaka Amano worked on the film as an art director and character designer.

Director Yoshida has stated that the film is “about Japan” and that the “concept of a ‘hated’ species is not unlike the racial and cultural enmity with which Japan is perceived.”
ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN
ENGLISH DUB/ JAPANESE AUDIO/ENGLISH SUBTITLED
EXTRAS : TRAILER

Gianni Garko and Claudio Camaso are half-brothers on opposite sides of the law. One, a bounty hunter, the other, a deserter turned outlaw. The one thing they have in common is their shared hatred of each other which reaches back to their family background. John was in prison after being falsely accused by Clint for killing his father.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

Shanghai Joe is a Chinese immigrant, seeking a new, peaceful life in America. He lands in Texas, where he is not exactly welcomed with open arms, but finds employment as a cowboy, and soon finds it is not cattle the ranch inhabitants are moving, but Mexican slaves.

(Remastered) Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

Luke Perry in the role he didn’t want you to see.
Perry stars as a spoiled rich druggie in this “Less Than Zero” knock-off. Perry and childhood pal Owen grow up sharing everything–lacrosse, girlfriends, and drugs. However, their friendship is really put to the test when a beautiful new girl (Chandler) moves to town just before graduation. Release was delayed, but obviously they wanted to capitalize on Perry’s popularity on 90210.

Full Screen (DVD quality transfer)
English Audio 2.0

A murderer is running loose through the streets of London, hunting down men dressed as Santa and killing them all in different, and extremely violent, fashions. Inspector Harris has decided to take on the unenviable task of tracking down the psychopath, but he’s going to have his work cut out for him. Only the suspicious reporter, Giles, seems to offer the Inspector any promising leads.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio
Uncut

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a french contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do his job, a slaying occurs inside the household of the mob boss supposed to employ him. Suspicion is deliberately cast against Trintignant from within that very family. From that moment on, Trintignant is on the run from the police, and the minions of two different mob families. What makes his escape hazardous is that the real murderer shares all the information known about him to aid in his capture and death.
This version is longer and uses alternate scenes and footage.
It’s very different from the American edit.
We resynced the film using the original English audio track.
The print we had was dubbed in French.
Because this version was only meant to be shown in France
some of Jean-Louis Trintignant scenes were re-shot with him
speaking French . So sometimes the english audio  does not match up with his mouth movements. This happens occasionally through the film. I’m guessing they did re-shoots so when this was shown in France it wouldn’t look so strange (A french actor speaking english being dubbed in french).
There are a few scenes that were never dubbed in English.
So English subtitles will display at the bottom of your screen
during these scenes.  ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (Remastered)
ENGLISH AUDIO 2.0
ENGLISH SUBTITLES
(For scenes that are in French)

In this  Spaghetti western, Ringo (Giuliano Gemma) helps a wealthy Texas family fend off a group of Mexican bandits led by the portly villain Fernando (Fernando Sancho). He protects the wealthy aristocrat (Antonio Casas) and his two pretty daughters Ruby (Lorelia De Luca) and Delores (Nieves Navarro) from the evil desires of the bad men. George Martin plays the local sheriff. Film score is provided by the celebrated composer Ennio Morricone.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota (Lee Van Cleef) kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured, sentenced, and is about to be hanged – and he never profitted from Wang’s death, has he buried him with the photographs of his four widows, and a few worthless papers. Meanwhile, Ho (Lieh Lo) comes to America in search of his uncle’s fortune, and must get Dakota free, as he his the only man who can lead him to Wang’s tomb. They open the tomb, retaking the pictures of Wang’s widows. It happens he reads the papers and knows that Wang had one quarter of a map tattooed in each of his women’s buttocks. Now, the difficult part will really start…

Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35)
English Audio 2.0

UNCUT

Brenda (Linda Blair) is a rough-hewn teenager from the mean streets of L.A. But beneath her cold exterior, she dotes on her deaf-mute kid sister Heather (Linnea Quigley). When a prank against a gang of drug-dealing punks goes sour, Heather and Brenda’s best friend Francine pay the price. Out for revenge, Brenda delivers her own brand of justice against the thugs.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

In 1963, thirteen-year-old Anne and fifteen-year-old Frederique are two Jewish sisters whose parents are separated. They live in Paris with their mom and spend their summer holidays at the beach with their father, around whom they both feel awkward. They attend a strict school.

Anne is on the threshold of adolescence, and not much of an achiever and anti-social. She tries to find out what is going on around her by eavesdropping on her mother and sister. Her school grades are terrible and she has to deal with unfair teachers; on one occasion she is caught plagiarising an essay her sister wrote a year before. She also has her first period and is learning to talk to boys, and to sort things out with her mom after getting in trouble.

By contrast, Frederique is much more outgoing, is starting to become politically involved, especially in the Algerian question and banning the bomb. She has a crush on someone much older than herself, and is beginning to feel the first serious pangs of love. She also experiences her first friend who runs away, and her first loss of friendship over values.

Anamorphic Widescreen
French Audio 2.0 / English Subtitles
Extras : Trailer

An honest forest officer, Vikram, is in love with Angela, and soon both get married. Their marriage and bliss is shattered when dacait Kehar Singh kills Angela. When Vikram sets out to avenge her death, he himself is framed and sentenced to prison. When he completes his sentence, he comes out only to be a suspect again, this time in the eyes of Neeta, who thinks he killed her dad.
Anamorphic Widescreen
Hindi Audio/English Subtitles

Philipp Wermeer has been framed for the murder of a powerful figure known as The Patriarch. Wermeer escapes, but the three Saxon brothers, sons of The Patriarch, have arranged for a large bounty on Wermeer’s head. Clayton is a grizzled ex-sheriff stripped of his office in Jefferson after refusing to acknowledge Wermeer’s guilt. During a series of fire-fights, Clayton contrives to help Wermeer escape from attacks of bounty-hunters. Together, the two make their way to Jefferson, where they can confront the three powerful Saxon brothers, and reveal the surprising truth about who killed The Patriarch.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

Stan, screeplay writer, had his time of glory in Hollywood. Today, alcoholic with a certain envy for suicide, his only link to life is his daughter, Charlotte.

Remastered Anamorphic Widescreen
French Audio 2.0
English Subtitles
We are the only site anywhere with this film with English subtitles.

Django gets decieved by his friend who steals a gold shipment Django is transfering. In the process Djangos wife gets killed so it turns out to be a tale of revenge. Django is hiring men to help him by saving them from being hanged. Until the final “Django style” graveyard scene there has been a lot of deceiving, killing and more deceiving.

ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN
REMASTERED
ENGLISH AUDIO 2.0

Yankee, (played by Philippe Leroy in his first western) is a bounty killer who decides to take on a bandit chief and his henchmen when he realises the prices on all their heads adds up to a tidy sum. The bandit, El Grande Concho, is lord of the entire region and resides like a king at court in an abandoned church surrounded by his entourage of philosopher, painter, fortune teller and soldiers; robbing and murdering anyone who ventures into his territory. Add to this a shipment of gold big enough to make them all rich beyond their dreams and the stage is set for gunplay, intrigue and cruelty as the lone gunman sets his wits and skills against the might of the megalomaniac leader

NEW REMASTERED PRINT
ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN
ENGLISH AUDIO 2.0

Breaking the Waves tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil rig worker Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. Bess is somewhat simple and childlike, and has difficulty living without Jan when he is away on the oil platform. She prays for his return, and when he returns paralyzed after an industrial accident, she believes it is her fault. No longer able to make love, and mentally affected by the accident, Jan urges her to sleep with other men, and then tell him the details. Bess slowly begins to believe that what she is doing is the wish of God.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

This romantic fantasy was unique in that it told the story through the viewpoint of the children in the story, the adults playing only supporting roles. Daniel Lattimer (Mark Lester) befriends the troublesome Ornshaw (Jack Wild). One day, Daniel falls in love with Melody Perkins (Tracy Hyde) and announce to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future, but now. However, the adults, parents and teachers alike try to dissuade them. Ornshaw also doesn´t like this because he feels that Melody is taking away his friend. But later on, Ornshaw and their classmates are determined to go ahead with their plans for the young couple. They reunite in a far place to marry the couple but their parents follow them and try to stop it. The children go wild and make a car explode. While Melody and Daniel ran away in a hand-car down the railway line with Ornshaw´s help.

Anamorphic Widescreen (Remastered)
English Audio 2.0

CAST:
Luke Askew
Luigi Pistilli
Magda Konopka

Directed by
Giulio Petroni

Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen
with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his
inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for having murdered his own son by
mistake, who is chosen for the task… decides to take the defense of the poor
child! The greedy members of the band manage to eliminate one another, but Luke
has the satisfaction of personally shooting the worst of them all… the cruel
and vicious Hernandez!

English Audio 2.0
Anamorphic Widescreen

New Remastered Print – We’ve discontinued the old version.
This is the best looking version available on DVD.

Check here for a screenshot comparison.
 

Ben (Glenn Plummer) is a small-time criminal who gets a shot at a big pay day when he’s asked to escort a bag of drugs to a meeting with a buyer. When he and his bored buddies party away the stash, however, Ben may not have the brains and experience to get out of a big-time jam. Rae Dawn Chong, Jeff Fahey, Patrick Cupo (who also wrote the script), Ernie Reyes, Darren McGavin and James Russo costar in this comic crime caper.

FULL SCREEN
ENGLISH AUDIO 2.0

10/23/1992 – Camden Town Hall, London  

01 Slide Away
02 Staring Stranger
03 South Pacific
04 Man Called Sun
05 Already There
06 All In The Mind
07 Gravity Grave
08 She’s A Superstar
09 The Sun, The Sea
 

FULL SCREEN
STEREO 2.0

Excellent quality from master tape

A striking and harrowing documentary about fame, drugs, pop culture, and celebrity, Nico Icon casts a harsh light on the underground world of pop art and music in the 1960s and 1970s through the prism of a girl who lived too hard and died too young. The German-born Nico is presented as someone who never fit in, no matter what she was doing, from her career as a fashion model in the 1950s (including an appearance in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita) to her tenure in the 1960s as one of the cast of characters in artist Andy Warhol’s “Factory” to her stint as a backup singer for Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. Most of the film concentrates on her sordid relationship with her son with French actor Alain Delon and her decline into heroin addiction and obscurity. This visually innovative and challenging documentary doesn’t judge her but uses her life to illustrate the excesses of the world around her. Nico Icon will be a revelation for those interested in the world it depicts.

FULL SCREEN
ENGLISH 2.0

DISC 1
03/27/1992 – Brixton Academy, London, UK

Leave Them All Behind
Taste
Not Fazed
Unfamiliar
Like A Daydream
OX4
Perfect Time
Twisterella
Drive Blind
Making Judy Smile
Nowhere
Vapour Trail
Chrome Waves
Mouse Trap
Dreams Burn Down
Time Of Her Time
Chelsea Girl

Anamorphic Widescreen
Stereo 2.0

DISC 2
TODAY FOREVER – Promo Video
Chelsea Girl
Taste
Unfamiliar
Sennen
Beneath
Today
Vapour Trail
Full Screen
Stereo 2.0
(Excellent quality for both discs, source is from the Japanese Laserdisc)
 
 

A mysterious, vengeful stranger rides into town and creates all sorts of havoc in this spaghetti western. It seems there are a number of people on his list and the day before he kills each one, he places a cross with that person’s name on it in the middle of the street. After exacting his final revenge, the stranger leaves the town as mysteriously as he came.

Anamorphic Widescren 2:35
English Audio 2.0

Umberto Lenzi’s Poliziesco classic ‘Rome Armed To The Teeth’ starring Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian.

Inspector Leonardo Tanzi is a tough detective working the dangerous streets of Rome. His violent method of dealing with criminals is brutal but very effective. He becomes enraged that most of the criminals he catches are released within only a few hours, only to repeat their crimes shortly afterward. Soon Tanzi is taken off the gang-control squad and placed at a desk job by his boss who is not happy with Tanzi’s violent procedures. Consequently, with Tanzi off the streets the gangsters start a wild crime wave, causing widespread corruption and anarchy in the streets. Banks are robbed, children are kidnapped, people are killed, and it’s all up to Tanzi to set things straight.

ITALIAN AUDIO
ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN
ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Lots of guns, gals and blood the Italian Crime Cinema way. Marco (Boxer Carlos Monzon) hitchhikes into town carrying a music box with pictures of two women and a single, small, white rose. Once in town,  he proceeds to pit the two big crime families of the Manzettis and the Belmondos against one another. His only motivation is revenge and the price for payment is blood; lots of blood.

Anamorphic Widescreen (Remastered)
English Audio / Italian Audio
English Subtitles

Angela Russo, a teenager is found dead in a river. Inspector Di Salva (Fabio Testi) is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa’s, the exclusive school where Angela boarded. Three of the murdered girl’s classmates, Franca, Paola and Virginia (who call themselves “The Inseparables”), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name “Nemesis”.

Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio

Antichrist is a 2009 horror film written and directed by Lars von Trier, about a couple who, after the death of their child, retreat to a cabin in the woods where they encounter strange and terrifying occurrences.
The film stars only two actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe.

English Audio

Anamorphic Widescreen

Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left her without a word of explanation. When she finds him back, he brutally rejects her and Zingarina is terribly upset. She leaves her two companions and having become a wreck she hardly survives by following a wandering little girl. Her destiny changes for the best when she meets Tchangalo, a traveling trader…

Disc 1
(The Film)
Anamorphic Widescreen
French | Romanian | English | Hungarian | Italian (spoken throughout the film)
English Subtitles

Disc 2
Making of
Q/A with Cast

In this thriller, an ambassador’s wife (Edwige French) suspects that one of the men closest to her is a murderer. A cult favorite among fans of Italian horror, this 1970 film doesn’t stint in its use of graphic violence and nudity, a prime example of the giallo genre that fashioned itself after lurid Italian pulp novels. Despite those elements, the movie carries a certain air of sophistication. Conchita Airoldi co-stars. Sergio Martino directs.

Remastered Anamorphic Widescreen
Italian Audio / English Subtitles

A sadistic killer is terrorising Turin. Posing as a taxi driver, he abducts, tortures and murders young women – tourists, loners, those who are unlikely to be missed. Fearing that her sister Celine (Elsa Pataky) has been kidnapped by the maniac, flight attendant Linda (Emmanuelle Seigner) enlists the aid of Enzo Avolfi (Adrien Brody), a quirky, haunted cop who has been working on the case alone. Avolfi, by his own admission, is the ideal person to crack the case, because he understands how the killer’s mind works. Nick-named “Yellow” as a result of a rare skin condition, the killer has already proven that he means business; but will Linda and Avolfi succeed in tracking him down before he can do to Celine what he has already done to several other women?

ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN
ENGLISH AUDIO 2.0

DVD SCREENSHOT COMPARISON HERE

Stanley Kubrik has said that his visual and sonic ideas for “A Clockwork Orange” were inspired by this film.

Funeral Parade of Roses comes to us from a moment when cinema set itself to test, and even eradicate, the boundaries between fiction and reality, desire and experience; consequently, the film shares a kinship with such other 1969 works as Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide and Ingmar Bergman’s A Passion [The Passion of Anna]. Yet Matsumoto achieves a zig-zag modulation between pathos and hilarity that makes his picture utterly unique: a filmic howl in the face of social, moral, and artistic convention.

REMASTERED (FULL SCREEN) original aspect ratio
ENGLISH SUBTITLES

A police officer, Nicola, violently argues with his rich wife, Sarah, because of her affair with a man, and goes to his female friend, Anne, a psychologist/ professor. But Sarah was murdered in the bathroom of the house, and most parts of the police think Nicola is the primary suspect, except Piero, an inspector of the case, who realises that what the still-unknown-murderer really wants is his daughter, Carol who is one of the students of Anne.

Anamorphic Widescreen
Italian Audio 2.0
English Subtitles

Each disc is English Subtitled
Remastered Video
Japanese audio 2.0

(Disc 1) Affair in the Snow – 1967 – B/W 16×9

Yuriko, owner of a barbershop in Sapporo, takes a trip with Sugino, her lover. When they enjoy themselves in the cold and the snow, Yuriko tells him that she has come with the intention to break up with him. Convinced that there is another man, eaten up by jealousy, Sugino decides to kill her at the lake Shikotsuko. But Yuriko tells him that she’s pregnant…

(Disc 2) Flame and Women (1967) B/W 16×9

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination. «It is a film about artificial insemination with pretenses of science-fiction. If we consider the human being not as a substance but as a relational concept, sex, held to be our deepest origin, losts suddenly its place and seems to float in surface. I started this film questioning how to overcome life in that instant of stagnation.

(Disc 3) Farewell to summer light (1968) Color 16×9

Before going to university, Kawamura goes on holiday in Europe. In Lissabon he encounters Naoko, who sells furniture and art objects. Kawamura is obsessed by a sketch of a European church he saw in Nagasaki. He came to Europe to see that church with his own eyes. Naoko lost her parents during the bombing of Nagasaki, and tries to forget Japan… A story of attraction and repulsion begins.

Each disc is English Subtitled
Remastered Video
Japanese audio 2.0

(Disc 1) Woman of the lake – 1966 – B/W 16×9

Eight years into her marriage, Miyako Mizuki (Mariko Okada) looks happy on the outside, but in fact she is not satisfied with her husband, Yuzo (Shinsuke Ashida), who cares about nothing but his career. Miyako has been having an affair with a young interior designer named Kitano (Tamotsu Hayakawa), who in turn has a fiancée named Machie (Keiko Natsu). One night in a hotel, Miyako lets Kitano takes some nude photos of her. On her way back, she is followed by a stranger (Shigeru Tsuyuguchi), and loses her handbag with the film negatives inside while trying to escape. Later at home, Miyako receives a call from the stranger. He uses the negatives to threaten her to follow his instructions and take a train to the north. The stranger is named Ginpei. He was a teacher in a girls’ school, but was expelled because of a scandal with one of his students. As Miyako meets up with Ginpei, she develops a strange attraction towards him.

(Disc 2) The Affair (1963) B/W 16×9

Beautiful young Oriko (Mariko Okada) has an unhappy marriage. Her husband Takashi (Tadahiko Sugano), owner of a securities company, has been having an affair and comes home only once in a week at most. In a poetry party, Oriko meets sculptor Mitsuharu (Isao Kimura), who was one of the lovers of Oriko’s deceased poetess mother. Oriko has been ashamed of her mother’s decadent morality but she now has a strange intimate feeling for Mitsuharu. One day, Oriko goes to the seaside with her sister-in-law Yuko (Shigako Shimegi) and her friends. In the evening, Oriko witnesses Yuko being violated by a construction worker. Yuko first resists the man’s advances but later enjoys in bliss, which in turn ignites Oriko’s suppressed desire. A few days later, Oriko visits the construction worker and tries to persuade him to leave Yuko, only to be violated by the worker herself. However, Oriko doesn’t have the pleasure she expected, but instead sees herself as decadent as her mother. Oriko tells her strange encounters to Mitsuharu, who advises Oriko to have a divorce. The two meet from time to time and develop a Platonic relationship. One day, when Oriko visits Mitsuharu in a hotel room, Takashi suddenly appears and accuses his wife of being unfaithful. Oriko pleads for a divorce but is rejected. However, when Oriko confesses her encounter with the construction worker, her embittered husband promptly agrees to divorce. After that, Oriko makes love to Mitsuharu for the first time. Later, Mitsuharu is crushed by his own giant stone sculpture and suffers from severe injuries, and may be impotent for life. Nevertheless, Oriko insists on taking care of him out of faith and love.

(Disc 3) A Story written with Water (1965) B/W 16×9

The film focuses on Shizuka’s relationship to her son, Shizuo. Shizuka, a widow, is the mistress of Hashimoto Oenzo, a well-to-do banker, while Shizuo is married to his daughter, Yumiko. Shizuka’s relationship to Denzo provides her with no sexual satisfaction, while Shizuo’s relations with Yumiko are similarly unsatisfactory. Mother and son are seen to share the most profound erotic compulsion toward each other, which manifests itself first in a series of flashbacks. Shizuo remembers bathing with his mother; playing by a stream with friends when his mother calls him from a bridge; following his mother to the small house where she carries on her liaison with Denzo (thus telling us that this affair began before his father’s death from tuberculosis); his parents kissing in his father’s hospital bed. Shizuka remembers many of these scenes as well, in addition to her memory of her husband’s final moments; He lay in bed as she removed her clothes give him one final kiss before he died . The erotic compulsion felt by mother and son climaxes when Shizuo goes into his mother’s bedroom carrying a bottle of sleeping pills and talks to her of shinju, lovers’ suicide. He lays his head on her breast; she throws her head back in a swoon of ecstasy, the camera rocking back and forth like a pendulum. A fade to black hides the next activity (including the possibility of incest and then double suicide). The next morning we see that mother and son did not commit suicide as Shizuka and Denzo take a drive to the country in his car. The car is discovered later, crashed into a tree, Denzo dead at the wheel. Shizuka has drowned in the lake, her shoes and umbrella floating on the surface of the water. Shizuo, meanwhile, following the (implied) incest with his mother, has drawn closer to Yumiko. The film’s final shot shows Shizuo clinging tight to Yumiko as they search for Shizuka’s body.

Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) with help of assistant Gnaghi in charge of the Buffalora cemetery. It appears that dead are coming back to life eight days after being buried. Now Francesco has his hands full trying to keep the recently deceased dead and buried. To makes matter even worse Francesco has fallen in love with a widower whose husband has recently been buried at the Buffalora cemetery. Francesco is slowly loosing grip on reality continues to crumble as each new day brings more problems.

New remastered print
Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

DVD comparison to the R1 release here.

Starring :
Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla, Crista Linder.
This is a film you don’t want to miss!!!

In fact, it’s considered by some critics to be one of the greatest spaghetti westerns ever. A seasoned gunfighter teaches a young orphan the ways of the gun. As fate would have it though, they eventually wind up in a showdown with each other at the film’s rousing climax–the crafty teacher vs. the strong-headed student.
Directed by Euro-western master, Tonino Valerii.

 Even though this title is remastered and far superior image wise to the Wild East DVD, there is a small 2min scene between Scott and the old man that is not present in this version.

New Remastered Print
Anamorphic Widescreen
English Audio 2.0

Django, bounty killer, hunter and repentant bandit (Anthony De Teffe, a.k.a. Anthony Steffen) wants to start a new life. No more bullets and blood after years of killing and horror. Django wants to replace the sheriff and restore law and order to a lawless land, but faces the history and bloodshed of his own past.

Helped by the love of the daughter of a bandit (Gloria Osuna) Django can finally bring his life of violence to an end and spend his days in peace… If he can live that long! Directed by Leon Klimovsky (Night of the Walking Dead).

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Lyn Vaus (Lyn Vaus playing himself) sits on a small bench alongside Boston’s lovely Charles River, takes a slug of Jim Beam, a long drag from his Lucky Strike and casts his jaundiced eye upon the world:

I don’t want to be told I have to commit to anything. I don’t think anyone I know wants that dictated to them. I think everyone I know is looking for something to be committed to. But that word “commitment” – I keep seeing mental institutions. I mean, it is a big word. It’s got a lot of syllables. It has that hard kind of sound at the end of it, like a door slamming – “commit-MENT!”…

So begins the shaggy dog tale The Darien Gap, a deeply personal, richly entertaining account of one man’s search for true love…and giant sloths.

Lyn is broke, homeless, alone – eager to run away from his troubled past and start anew. His sole possession, a video camera, has become his salvation. Or so he thinks. With it he hopes to hitch down the Pan-American Highway to Argentina where he has learned there exists a rare creature, a legendary creature that is so reclusive, so exotic, so… slow, that it surely must have been created for him and him alone to find – the South American Giant Sloth. Lyn figures he can safely get some footage of this thing with his camera, sell it to some tabloid, make a little nest egg for himself…

When Lyn learns about the Darien Gap, a treacherous swamp in Panama that blocks the highway and thereby his escape route to paradise, he is unfazed. He’s gotten over bigger obstacles before, hasn’t he? He’s always been a survivor – just like his father. “When things get shitty, walk away,” his father used to say. And so he will. Just like his father before him. What could possibly stop him running now?

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Django (Gianni Garko) is a bounty killer, and a particularly ruthless and mercenary one at that. He is only interested in the money and he always brings his men in dead. Recently released convict Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso) raises his interest as he goes on a crime spree but, in a show of extreme cynicism, Django opts to wait before going after him as he believes he will commit more crimes and therefore be worth more money if given a little more time. At the story’s outset Vasquez is worth only $3,000. Django sets his target at $10,000. Then, and only then, will he make his move. This price is eventually reached after Vasquez kidnaps the daughter of local rancher Mendoza and the old patron offers to double the $5000 reward being offered by the state. This comes at the same time that Django is on the verge of quitting the profession and leaving with the lovely saloon owner Mijanou (Loredana Nusciak). He succumbs to his greed and, despite her telling him she will be gone in six days, he leaves her in search of Vasquez. After a number of twists during which Django teams up with Vasquez in pursuit of even more money, the bounty killer and prey have their final and inevitable showdown in a desolate and windswept ghost town.
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When a band of notorious outlaws kills Django’s beloved wife, the vengeful gunslinger heads west to draw some blood. As his quest for revenge leads him on a wild adventure across the desert sands, Django rescues a horse thief who is about to be hanged. Upon discovering that the man whom he has rescued knows the identity of the man who committed the heinous crime, Django and the thankful thief set their sites on the gang’s Western hideout.

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Directed and written by Giallo director Sergio Martino (under the name of George Raminto in this movie)
Martino takes a different turn this time directing a low budget film noir style thriller.

Summary:
Mark (Steve Bond) he’s a hitman who badly troubled by his past as a corrupt Miami cop and who is still haunted by the deaths of his wife and son. He is hired to do a job in Buenas Ares, the people that hired him set him up with an aparment to stay at till he has to do his hit.

He starts getting interested in his troubled next door neighbor (Deborah Caprioglio)
Marina.  They both fall for eachother and Mark soon thinks he can help her out of her situation.
But things aren’t exactly what Marina says they are.

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(Disc 1) Akitsu Springs [Akitsu onsen]- 1962 – color 16×9

A haunting tale of unrequited love, The Affair at Akitsu is one of the most beloved Japanese melodramas of the postwar studio era. Yoshida’s first adapted screenplay uses the vivid background of war-torn Japan to suggest its archetypal characters of the spirited, selfless woman – mesmerizingly embodied by Mariko Okada – and the cynical intellectual drawn to her beauty as twin figures for the hope and resignation simultaneously born of Japan’s inevitable defeat. A deeply affecting and exquisitely beautiful film, Yoshida and Okada’s first collaboration announced the abiding interest in resilient heroines and pointedly feminist ideas that would remain a constant across the many films made throughout their long partnership.
This marks Yoshishige Yoshida’s first collaboration with his future wife, legendary Japanese actress ‘Mariko Okada’.

(Disc 2) 18 Roughs – [Arashi o yobu juhachi-nin] (1963) B/W 16×9

The last of Yoshida’s taiyozoku films focuses on a gang of proletariat ruffians enraged with a world that offers them no means to advance except though violence. Pitted against the destructive gang is an idealistic youth determined to stop them from wrecking his town—and to protect the young waitress he has come to love. Exemplary of the Shochiku New Wave is the film’s use of stark black and white widescreen cinematography as a means to deliberately aestheticize and distanciate its sordid, violent story and underscore the urgent social problem message contained within it. “Laborers considered as ‘things’ that simply, not even respected as workers. The absurdity of their presence, and of us who allow this state of affairs. It seemed opportune to me to describe this without offering any clear explanations. A critical essay addressed to the social cinema of the time.”

(Disc 3) Escape from Japan [Nihon dasshutsu] (1964) Color 16×9

Yoshida’s last film with Shochiku.
It’s the story of a roadie whose ambition is to migrate to America and study singing, an examination of the Americanized youth of the 1960s who longed for the United States, their idealized land of riches and freedom.

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(Disc 1) Good For Nothing [Rokudenashi]- 1960 – B/W 16×9

Yoshida was propelled into the forefront of Shochiku’s directorial ranks by his energetic first feature, a brisk and angry entry in the studio’s highly popular cycle of taiyozoku films which focused, for the most part, on frustrated juvenile delinquents. Yoshida’s original script is centered on a group of listless middle-class high school students whose fantasies of sex and violence exert an unhealthy hold upon their imagination. The stakes of the boys’ depraved playacting rise dangerously, spiraling into a deadly roulette of crime and betrayal. A stylistically assured and striking debut film with overt nods to early Godard, Good for Nothing’s dynamic black and white cinematography announced the non-conventional mise-en-scène and fluid, expressive camera movement which would become an important signature of Yoshida’s later films.

(Disc 2) Blood is Dry [Chi wa kawaiteru](1960) B/W 16×9

Yoshida’s second Shochiku assignment turned away from the studio’s dominant focus on troubled youth and generational conflict in order to paint a darker and more despairing portrait of society in a state of moral collapse. Taking sharp aim at Japan’s harshly competitive corporate culture, Blood Thirsty follows a hapless salaryman whose desperate gesture to prevent the mass layoff of his colleagues is ruthlessly and absurdly exploited by his company for a deeply ironic advertising campaign. Based on one of Yoshida’s original stories, Blood Thirsty is a formally daring and edgy film whose withering critique of corporate capitalism and the alienation of the working force remains particularly urgent today.

(Disc 3) Bitter End to a Sweet Night (1961) B/W 16×9

Yoshida’s third film is the story Jiro is a sales clerk at a department store.
He’s pretty dedicated and goes on doing his daily duties diligently until he meets Harumi (Teruyo Yamagami) a waitress in a small hole in a wall restaurant. Jiro frequents a bar that’s run by Soko (Michiko Saga) the daughter of the owner of the department store he works in. Soko is looking for a charismatic hostess to work at her bar, and Jiro out of kindness introduces Harumi to Soko. Harumi comes to shack with Jiro but she won’t let him touch her. She’s just free loading off of him until she meets Hondo (Osamu Takizawa) a wealthy owner of a chemical plant. Hondo offers her a place to live in an apartment. Jiro also meets Oka (Takamaru Sasaki), also a chemical plant owner who’s business is going downhill. He meets his widowed daughter Masae (Hiroko Sugita). Now circulating among the rich set, Jiro feels inferior about his status and decides to climb up the social ladder by going to bed first with Masae, and then Soko, but he still has something going with Harumi.

DVD INFO 
Director: Robert Hossein
Region 0
Actors: Robert Hossein, Michele Mercier,
Daniele Vargas, Serge Marquand, Benito Stefanelli, Lee Burton
16×9 Anamorphic: Yes 
Screen Ratio: 1.66
Audio:  English: DD Mono
Runtime : 90min 

Ruthlessly pursued by the Rogers family following a dispute over cattle, Ben Caine (Benito Stefanelli) is chased back to the Caine Ranch. Despite his wife Maria’s (Michèle Mercier) desperate pleading, the Rogers family hangs Ben Caine, forcing Maria to watch. Consumed with revenge but finding her two brothers-in-law reluctant to assist, Maria enlists the help of Manuel (Robert Hossein). Manual, presumably preoccupied with the past, wears a single black glove and lives alone in a ghost town. Manuel agrees to Maria’s plan with reluctance, in part because of his deep feelings/attraction to her. Manuel finds employment as foreman at the Rogers’ ranch and surreptitiously kidnaps Pa Rogers’ (Daniele Vargas) only daughter Johanna (Anne-Marie Balin). With Johanna as the bait, Maria will be in the perfect position to exact her revenge on the Rogers but things don’t turn out quite as planned.

Also known as:
Cemetery Without Crosses (U.S.A.) | The Rope and the Colt | Death Valley Gunfighters | Cimitero senza croci (Italy) | Una cuerda, un colt (Spain) | Friedhof ohne Kreuze (Germany) | Haudat vailla nimeä (Finland) | Cemitério Sem Cruzes (Brazil) | Kato apo ton ourano tou Texas (Greece).

Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find his family decimated, his property taken over by a family of Mexican bandits and his fiancee about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. Bent on revenge, he goes undercover disguised as a Mexican and discovers he has a daughter!

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The gunmen who killed five defenseless people made one big mistake. They should have killed six! John Phillip Law lives for one purpose – to avenge the massacre of his family by the four bandits who occupy positions of authority in the new “civilised” West. Now, fifteen years later, he learns that one of the gang (Lee Van Cleef) is being released from prison and is seeking the men who framed him. Together they form an unholy alliance – a dynamic duo combining raw, untamed youth and the experience only a master gun-fighter can offer in the Wild West.

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The year is 1915 and the story of The Mercenary takes place in the middle of the Mexican revolution. Paco (Tony Musante), is disguised as a clown as he performs for an audience. The Mercenary opens and closes is a similar fashion like Corbucci’s Compañeros where the first scene of the movie is the last scene that dissolves into a flashback that comes full circle at the end of the film. Paco is a dimwitted peasant who with the help of his comrades they try to over throw the Mexican Government. Kowalski (Franco Nero), is a Polish gunfighter that Paco hires to help him in his quest. Along the way Paco clashes with Ricciolo (Jack Palance), who is hell bent on exacting his revenge against Paco. Things start to go wrong for Paco and Kowalski when they clash over strategies and beautiful Columba (Giovanna Ralli), who has plans of her own.

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This film starring Gianni Garko has a ‘Sartana’ in its name, even though it has little to nothing to do with the popular “Sartana” series that Garko is most famous for.

Sartana and Mike are the terror of the Green City country – and the best of friends. Together with Fred and Rocky Burton they pull off a very rewarding bank robbery. But, sad to say, they get caught and languish under lock and key in Sheriff Laughton’s jailhouse. Sartana isn’t the man to put up for long with such a setback and he breaks out, leaving Mike behind. Mike, too, is soon free thanks to the abetment of Deputy Sheriff Smitty – a reasonably minded fellow. As a matter of course they end up back in Sartana’s company to rendezvous with Rocky Morgan in Piedra Negras. Here they discover that their booty is in Fred’s hands – and he has lit out on the stage. But someone else is wise to what’s afoot – Richard Kirby and his sons. Mercilessly killing all the passengers, including Fred, they take over the stagecoach and the loot. In the meantime, Mike, Santana and Maria, a girl who has attached herself to them, shake off Deputy Smitty and ride to Denver to wait for the Kirby gang.

Also known as (Un par de asesinos)

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After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.

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After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks a murderous double-crosses leaves the coach’s strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.

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In “Light The Fuse… Sartana Is Coming”, Sartana (Garko) is on the hunt for half a million dollars in gold and 2 million dollars of counterfeit money. Sartana is not the only one who is keen on the gold, of course, a gunslinger named Grand Full (Piero Lulli), a beautiful but sneaky widow (Nieves Navarro) and the slightly insane General Monk (José Jaspe) are just three out of many folks who are after the gold.

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Susan Scott plays a dancer. In conjunction with the murder of her father (an apparent diamond thief), she is stalked by a killer in a ski mask with bright blue eyes. Suspicion falls on her live-in boyfriend (Simon Andreu) when blue contact lenses are found in their medicine cabinet. Desperate to leave town, she turns to infatuated nightclub patron Dr. Robert Matthews (Frank Wolff), a wealthy British surgeon who takes her to his home in the English countryside. But she doesn’t elude her pursuer so easily, and the seaside setting has more than its fair share of eccentric suspects as a number of murders ensue.

Also known as:
Death Walks On High Heels
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The town of Tombstone is at the mercy of five brothers, the dreaded O’Hares. An expert gunslinger, Burt (Fred Robsham), arrives on the scene and is immediately persuaded to take on the duties of sheriff. A mysterious lawyer (Klaus Kinski), lurking mostly in the background, occasionally joins in the action with his deadly law books.

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The “bad guys” are smuggling illegal immigrants over the Mexican border for cheap labour. They all have a price on their head and that draws the attention of bounty hunters. Namely Brandon and Murdock. Lots of dubble crossing and plot twists leads us through the movie filled with gunfights and death.  
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“DEADLOCK is fantastic.  A bizarre, glowing film.” – Alejandro Jodorowsky
Director:
Roland Klick
 

Starring:
Mario Adorf, Marquard Bohm, Anthony Dawson

 
 
 
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”Sonny & Jed” aka ”Bandera Bandits”, ”J & S: Criminal Story of an Outlaw Couple”, ”J. and S. – storia criminale del far west” starring Tomas Milian, Susan George, Telly Savalas and Eduardo Fajardo. Directed by Sergio Corbucci. Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.



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The experimetal image works of Toshio Matsumoto feature the following Films

Disc 1

The Weavers of Nishijin (1961)
Ths Song of Stone (1963)
Mothers (1967)

Disc 2

For the Damaged Right Eye (1968)
Ecstasis (1969)
Metastasis (1971)
Mona Lisa (1973)
Phantom (1975)
Art of Man (1974)
White Hole (1979)
Ki or Breathing (1980)

Disc 3

Expansion (1972)
Andy Warhol – Reproduction (1974)
Everything Visible is Empty (1975)
Enigma (1978)
Connection (1981)
Banquet (1982)
Shift (1982)
Sway (1985)
Engram (1987)

Ichi (Haruka Ayase) is a blind minstrel wandering from town to town in feudal Japan. She is spurred on by the search for one man the blind warrior who trained her in martial arts as a child. When she is threatened by a group of bandits, she is saved by Toma (Takao Osawa), an incompetent samurai who is unable to draw his sword. Rescuing her rescuer, she continues her journey, only to discover that the locals now think that Toma is a superb swordsman. The townsfolk want him as a lawman, the bandits want him dead, and none of them realise that it is Toma s blind associate who is the true martial artist. Reluctantly, Ichi becomes embroiled in a battle between two gangs for the mastery of the town. However, Ichi s initial feelings about her involvement change when she discovers that the gang leader Banki (Shido Nakamura) may know the whereabouts of the man she is seeking.
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When a young girl’s apparent suicide uncovers more to it than meets the eye, that leads the police to believe the girl was murdered. Inspector’s Silvestri (Claudio Cassinelli) teams up with assistant district attorney Vittoria Stori (Giovanna Ralli) to uncover the truth. The killer dressed in black motorcycle attire stalks Vittoria as she gets closer to the truth. Will Inspector’s Silvestri and Vittoria unravel the mystery before they become the next victim?

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A bandit-General, Ramirez (Roberto Camardiel), employs a gun for hire, Halleluja (George Hilton), to track down and steal the valuable jewels of the Usurpator Maximilian so that they can be used to finance the Mexican Revolution. In the course of finding the jewels, Halleluja has to compete with and outsmart a chapter of fake monks, Krantz (Andrea Bosic) the villainous arms dealer, the Mexican army, Sister Anna Lee (Agata Flori) the duplicitous nun and Alexij (Charles Southwood) the crazy balalaika playing Cossack Colonel.

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This is a new transfer from the original negatives.

All of Terayama Shuji’s experimental films from 1962 – 1977
Also includes the full length Director’s cut version of “Emperor Tomato Ketchup”.

All films are English Subtitled.
   Disc 1:

The Cage
1962-1969

Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Short Version
1970

The War of Jan Ken Pon
1971
Butterfly
1974
Laura
1974
 
 

Disc 2:
Movie Guide for Young People
1974
A Tale of Labyrinth
1975
 
 

A Tale of Smallpox
1975

Der Prozess
1975

Disc 3:

The Rubber
1974

Les Chants De Maldoror
1977

Issun Bosi Wo Kujutusuro Kokoromi
1977

Shadow Film : A Woman with 2 Heads
1977

The Reading Machine
1977

Father
1977
Disc 4:
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Director’s Cut – Full length version)
1970
 
 

The film follows the exploits of a Japanese biker gang, the Black Emperors. 1970s Japan saw the rise of biker gangs, known as B?s?zoku, which drew the interest of the media. The movie follows a member of the bike gang and his interaction with his parents, after he gets in trouble with the police. The orchestral post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s name is derived from the film’s title.

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Jin, an antagonistic youth, tries to take over a motorcycle gang once its leader, Ken, announces he’s going to retire and settle down with his girlfriend. But things aren’t so easy for Jin. The other gangs have united, and decide that Jin’s reckless ways are a thing of the past, so they band together to take him and his four followers out. Add in a group of militaristic “Ultra-Righters,” and you have what amounts to a Japanese version of “Mad Max,” with a bit of “A Clockwork Orange” and a whole lot of boredom thrown in.

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Beautifully realized, this film tells the story of four boys who experience the adolescent birth pangs of romantic love, sexual awareness and jealousy. Left behind at boarding school during their vacation, the teenagers’ summer idyll is disrupted by the arrival of another youth who seems to reincarnate a dead friend. Delicate and provocative, Kaneko’s film creates a haunting image of youth suspended between innocence and experience, androgyny and sexual maturity.

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Terayama’s first feature film is a scream for contestation, so radical in its ideology, narration, mode of expression, and even in its choice of music, that it seems to anticipate the punk movement by a few years. The opening shot shows an empty box ring, thus setting the scene for an painful confrontation with the demons of the director’s past, namely the oppressing role of family and the passing of time, destroyers of all hopes and dreams of genuine freedom for a young man running from disillusion to disenchantment. This work is also a means for him to express his position with regards to the crushing American presence in the country and the nation’s passivity and retrograde politics inherited from the 1945 defeat.

1971, 137 min., English Subtitled, color. Written and directed by Shuji Terayama. With Hideaki Sasaki, Masaharu Saito and Yukiko Kobayashi. (Also known as : Throw away your books, rally in the streets)

History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett’s outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new ‘efficient’ ruthlessness.

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Starring : Tomas Milian and Gian Maria Volontè.

Also known as : Faccia a Faccia
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Adapting a revolutionary approach to narrative filmmaking like his contemporary Ôshima Nagisa, Yoshida refuses to tell Kitas story through the linearity that has functioned in Japanese cinema as a thinly veiled substitute for the benshi, the live commentator who explained the plot to silent-film audiences in Japan. During the silent era, the benshi, each with the embellishments reflecting his own personal style, would duplicate in words the action of the film. Then came the traditional, didactic historical film, full of explanations conveyed through subtitles or voice-over narration. This is the style employed by Horikawa and other directors of the pedestrian historical film. The audience, spoon-fed, is prevented from actively participating in the experience of the film.
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Matsutani, a local bank clerk, has engaged himself to Yumiko. But he has one serious problem which makes him hesitant to marry her. Yumiko’s father has a mistress, who is none other than his beautiful mother…
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Bart (Corradi Pani) is saved from the hangman’s noose by a gang of hired Mexican bandits but, rather than pay them for a job well done, he shoots them in the back as they head for home. He meets up with his outlaw partners, Phil (Luis Davila) and Ted (Antonio Salines), and the trio relocate to a hideout in a remote ghost town. When the hippie-like gang’s fourth member Mary (Claudia Gravy) shows up with supplies, the quartet begins plotting a brutal army payroll robbery.

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Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Starring :

Gastone Moschin

Barbara Bouchet

Mario Adorf

Frank Wolff

Luigi Pistilli

Ivo Garrani

Philippe Leroy

Lionel Stander

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Paris, 1900. As a little girl, Sonia witnesses the slaughter of her parents by a mysterious man with a steel arm. Years later in Rome, she is hired as a dressmaker at a wax museum owned by Volkoff, a sinister artist who recreates perfect replicas of famous crime scenes. A series of strange deaths in the area has led a young journalist, Andrea, to investigate the mysterious vaults of the museum. Curiously, the workshop in which Volkoff’s wax statues are created seems more like a scientific laboratory than a sculptor’s den. Andrea and Sonia are soon plunged into a nightmare as they both learn the secret behind Volkoff’s statues and the connection he bears to the steel-armed murderer of Sonia’s parents.

Produced by Italian horror master Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red), this blood-chilling remake of the classic House Of Wax was to have been directed by the late Lucio Fulci (Zombie, The Beyond), who died shortly before production began. Using Fulci’s script, adapted from an original story Argento, makeup and special effects master Sergio Stivaletti instead makes an auspicious directorial debut, combining Gothic atmosphere with modern-day mechanical and makeup effects. Wax Mask (Maschera Di Cera) is a gory shocker that puts a new twist on the tale of the spooky wax museum.

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Pulgasari (or Pulgasary) is a North Korean-Japanese co-produced feature film produced in 1985, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla. It was produced by South Korean director Shin Sang-ok, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then ruling Kim Il-sung.Teruyoshi Nakano and staff from Japan’s Toho company, which is responsible for the Godzilla series, participated in creating the film’s special effects. Kenpachiro Satsuma—then-current man in the “Godzilla” suit—played Pulgasari, and when the film was released in Japan in 1998, he was quoted as saying he preferred Pulgasari to the CGI American Godzilla (1998).The film is about a doll made of rice by a prisoner, which on coming into contact with blood, grows to become a giant metal-eating monster. Jonathan Ross stated that the film is intended to be a propaganda metaphor for the effects of unchecked capitalism and the power of the collective.Full ScreenKorean Audio / English Subtitles

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.

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The first film directed by Shinya (Tetsuo) Tsukamoto; a cyberpunk extravaganza; a boy with a rod growing out of his back is thrust into an alternate universe controlled by a vampire.

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Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that he must wait for a girl “just like his mother”. Meanwhile, girls are “running away” (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found.

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A beautiful and strong-headed young woman from a middle-class merchant family is abducted into geisha work and forcibly tattooed with the image of a fearsome spider. Hell-bent on avenging herself on every man who makes a play for her, she takes advantage of her situation to wreak bloody vengeance… (Much like a spider.)

Garish and perverse and gleefully proud of it, and striking in its linking of sexuality and violence, the film is also infused with wonderful black humour and a visual style and beauty that is astonishing. Adapted by Kaneto Shindo from the acclaimed 1910 short story by Junichiro Tanizaki. Starring Masumura regular Ayako Wakao (RED ANGEL, MANJI). A dazzling tale of love, lust and the extremes of desire, this is another twisted masterpiece from the director of Blind Beast, Manji and Red Angel.
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The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.
This is like watching a fast paced comic book modern day Spaghetti Western.
Don’t miss out on this.
Starring:
Vincent Cassel
Tchéky Karyo
Monica Bellucci
Antoine Basler
Dominique Bettenfeld
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Anamorphic Widescreen
Newly Translated English Subtitles
Fully Uncut
French Audio 5.1

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