RELEASE DATE: March 8, 2022 On March 8, 2022, MVD is releasing a Blu-ray for the 2018 Kaiju flick, The Great Buddha Arrival. The film is directed by Hiroto Yokokawa (Nezura 1964) and stars Kazuma Yoneyama (Nezura 1964), Philip Granger (Shall We Play?), Shelley Sweeney (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II), Akira Takarada (Godzilla Final Wars), Akira Kubo (Gamera: Guardian of the Universe), Yukiko Kobayashi (Space Amoeba), Yukijiro Hotaru (Stacy) and Bin Furuya (King Kong vs. Godzilla). … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 15, 2022 On February 15, 2022, Media Blasters is releasing the 2019 South Korean crime thriller Gang to Blu-ray. The film is directed by Jo Ba-reun (Slate) and stars Cha Ji Hyuk (One Step), Jo Sun Ki (Crime Solving Special Squad), Baek Jae Min (God of Fight: Sirasoni), Kim Dae Han (The Divine Fury), Lee Jae Han (71: Into the Fire) and Maeng Jae Ryul (The Prison). Official details: … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 5, 2022 On April 5, 2022, Unearthed Films is releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Yukihiko Tsutumi’s 2002 cult Japanese film 2LDK (read our review). Read the official details below: Anyone who’s ever had a difficult roommate will relate to this outrageous and violent Japanese comedy. Small town girl Kimi and her glamorous, big city roommate, Lana, share a Tokyo apartment (2 bedroom, living room, dining room, … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 21, 2022 On February 21, 2022, Grasshopper Film is releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Days, a Taiwanese film from critically-acclaimed director Tsai Ming-liang (Vive L’Amour). Read the official details: For decades the great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang has been directing exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation, and the fleeting beauty of human connection featuring his muse Lee Kang-sheng. Days is one of his best, sparest, most intimate … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 22, 2022 On March 22, 2022, Arrow Video is releasing the Blu-ray for To Sleep So as to Dream, the 1986 debut of Kaizo Hayashi (Circus Boys, Zipang). The film stars Morio Agata (Hakodate Coffee), Kenji Endo (The Whispering Star) and Fujiko Fukamizu (Singing Lovebirds). Read on for the details: Two private detectives hunt for an actress trapped within the reel of a silent ninja film in … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022 On January 18, 2021, Well Go USA is releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Escape From Mogadishu (read our review), the latest from action director Ryoo Seung-wan (Veteran, Battleship Island). The film stars Kim Yoon-seok (Chaser, The Yellow Sea), Zo In-Sung (The Great Battle), Heo Jun-Ho (Illang: The Wolf Brigade) and Jeong Man-Sik (The Swordsman). Dramatically constructed based on actual events: when civil war explodes in 1991 between … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 8, 2022 On February 8, 2022, Mondo Macabro is releasing a Special Edition Blu-ray for Shinya Tsukamoto’s 1991 Japanese thriller, Hiruko the Goblin. Read the official details: Hieda (Kenji Sawada, Samurai Reincarnation) is an eccentric archaeologist, disgraced among his peers for his theories on the supernatural. One day he receives a letter from his brother-in-law, Yabe, telling him of an ancient burial mound he has discovered in … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2021 On January 18, 2021, Arrow Video is releasing the Blu-ray for Yasuzo Masumura’s Red Angel. This Japanese film takes an unflinching look at the horror and futility of war through the eyes of a dedicated and selfless young military nurse. Official Details: When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackle field hospital in Tientsin, the frontline of Japan’s war with China, she and her colleagues … Continue reading →