RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2025 On March 3, 2025, 88 Films is releasing a Blu-ray (Region A/B) release for 1970’s Play it Cool, a little-seen gem by one of Japan’s most highly regarded directors of the 1960s, Yasuzō Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi), a filmmaker known for his social satires and powerful portrayals of women. Play it Cool is a chic and erotically charged drama starring popular Japanese singer of … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 15, 2025 On April 15, 2025, Cleopatra Entertainment is releasing a Blu-ray (Region A) for The Beast Hand, a 2024 horror film from director Taichiro Natsume (Love Shark). Osamu (Takahiro Fukuya), a Japanese day laborer, is forced into a lifestyle of crime. Unfortunately, when he crosses the wrong gangsters, they punish him by Sword, amputating his left hand in the process. Osamu’s ex-girlfriend Koyuki takes him to … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025 On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will release a Blu-ray for 964 Pinocchio (aka Screams of Blasphemy), a 1991 Japanese cyberpunk-horror film directed by Shozin Fukui (Rubber’s Lover). 964 Pinocchio depicts the nightmarishly surreal adventures of an illegally manufactured sex android found abandoned by his former owner and rescued from the scrap heap by a young woman, Himiko. She begins to tutor him in the … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025 On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will release a Blu-ray (Region B) for Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell, a 1977 horror film directed by Masaru Konuma (Beach, La Ronde). Passions are inflamed in an elite school for girls in 1930s Japan in Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell, as two of its students find solace away from the crowd in each other’s company. But can their love flourish … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025 On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will be releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty, a 1984 erotic Shaw Brothers thriller from director Eddie Fong Ling-Ching (Cherry Blossoms). One of the last films produced at Hong Kong’s legendary Shaw Brothers studio, and absolutely one of their finest – a visually ravishing and erotically charged story of a free-spirited female poet … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025 On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will release a Blu-ray (Region B) for Assault! Jack The Ripper, a 1976 erotic thriller from director Yasuharu Hasebe (Black Tight Killers). Ken (Yutaka Hayashi), a serious young man working as a cake decorator at an upmarket coffeeshop, finds himself led seriously astray by his feisty waitress coworker Yuri (the unforgettable Tamaki Katsura) after a chance encounter with a … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025 On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will be releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Hong Kong, Hong Kong, a 1983 Shaw Brothers film from director Clifford Choi Kai-Kwong (North South West East). There’s much more to Hong Kong cinema than kung fu flicks: Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a social realist drama with a huge heart, following two lovers dreaming of a better life: Man … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025 On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will be releasing the Blu-ray (Region B) for Stanley Kwan’s 1991 film, Center Stage. Center Stage is set during China’s silent movie era and revolves around the life of the legendary life of a gifted actress, Ruan Ling-yu. With her sensitive portrayal, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (Project A II) took her story abroad and won the best actress award at … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 10, 2025 On February 10, 2025, Arrow Video is releasing 1967’s A Certain Killer/A Killer’s Key on Blu-ray (Region A/B), two Yakuza crime thrillers directed by Kazuo Mori (Samurai Vendetta) and co-scripted by the director Yasuzō Masumura (Giants and Toys, Blind Beast). Anticipating the cool aesthetic of Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and based on a crime novel by Shinji Fujiwara, the author of the original material … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 17, 2025 On February 17, 2025, Third Window Films is releasing a Blu-ray for Mermaid Legend, a 1984 revenge thriller from Toshiharu Ikeda (Evil Dead Trap) that stars Mari Shirato and Jun Etō. When a fisherman is killed by greedy land developers for standing in the way of their expansion plans, his pearl-diver wife Migiwa moves into unforgiving

RELEASE DATE: February 17, 2025 On February 17, 2025, Third Window Films is releasing a Blu-ray for Bumpkin Soup, a 1985 “sex comedy” from Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse) that stars Yoriko Doguchi (Love Exposure). In the film, a country girl (Doguchi) visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory

RELEASE DATE: February 17, 2025 On February 17, 2025, Third Window Films is releasing a Blu-ray for Scent of a Spell, a 1985 thriller from Toshiharu Ikeda (Evil Dead Trap) that stars Johnny Okura (Boiling Point) and Mari Amachi (Aitte nandaro). While a young man (Johnny Okura) is on his way home from a bar in a torrential downpour, he comes across a woman (Mari Amachi) trying to kill herself … Continue reading →