RELEASE DATE: May 18, 2021 On May 18, 2021, Criterion Collection will be releasing the Blu-ray for Flowers of Shanghai, a 1998 period drama from director Hou Hsiao-hsien (The Assassin). The film stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Chungking Express), Carina Lau Kar Ling (The Eagle Shooting Heroes), Annie Shizuka Inoh (My Kingdom), Michiko Hada (Tokuso 9), Michelle Reis (Bodyguards and Assassins) and Jack Kao (Island on Fire). Read the official details below: An … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 6, 2021 On April 6, 2021, Media Blasters will be releasing the Blu-ray for Hansel and Gretel, a 2007 South Korean horror film from director Yim Pil-Sung (Doomsday Book, Antarctic Journal). Hansel and Gretel stars Chun Jung-Myung (The Faceless Boss), Eun Won-Jae (Marrying the Mafia), Shim Eun-Kyung (Psychokinesis), and Jin Ji-Hee (Doomsday Book). When Eun-soo s car is disabled in the country, he meets a mysterious girl … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 13, 2021 On April 13, 2021, MPI Home Video will be relaxing the Blu-ray for Fukushima 50, a 2020 disaster film directed by Setsuro Wakamatsu (The Unbroken) and starring Ken Watanabe (Rage, Shanghai) and Koichi Sato (Samurai Resurrection). This edition will feature two audio track options: English Dub and Japanese with English subtitles. March 11, 2011 – 2:46 PM – Japan’s Tohoku Region: at a magnitude of 9.0, the … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 6, 2021 On April 6, 2021, Screen Media will release the Blu-ray for Skyfire, a 2020 disaster film directed by Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Expendables 2). This special effects driven thriller stars Hannah Quinlivan (S.M.A.R.T. Chase), Jason Isaacs (Hotel Mumbai), Wang Xueqi (Monk Comes Down the Mountain) and Shawn Dou (Nightfall). A young scientist (Quinlivan) invents a cutting-edge volcanic warning system and returns to … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 20, 2021 On April 20, 2021, Criterion Collection is releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Memories of Murder, a 2003 thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer) that stars Song Kang Ho (The Drug King) and Kim Sang Kyung (Tale of Cinema). Read the official details below: In his breakthrough second feature, Bong Joon Ho explodes the conventions of the policier with thrillingly subversive, genre-defying results. Based … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 23, 2021 On March 23, 2021, Arrow Films is releasing the Blu-ray for 1949’s The Invisible Man Appears and 1957’s The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly, which will appear on one Blu-ray disc as a double feature with a reversible inner-sleeve. Read the full details below: Finally released outside Japan for the very first time, these unique riffs on H.G. Wells’ classic character (though undoubtedly also … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 9, 2021 On February 9, 2021, Impulse Pictures is releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for 1979’s Zoom Up: Murder Site. The film is the first entry in Nikkatsu’s famous Zoom Up adult series, Zoom Up: Murder Site is a dark, violent film that’s described as …a collection of staggeringly repulsive murders, perhaps the most sadistic ever generated on film…The words misogynist and mean-spirited can barely describe the atrocities on … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 16, 2021 On March 16, 2021, Impulse Pictures is releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for 1974’s Flower and Snake. Based on Oniroku Dan’s famous Japanese novel, the film is the first Nikkatsu erotic film to deal with the subject of sadomasochism (Sir Paul Bramhall recently reviewed a newer rendition of the film). Makoto (Yasuhiko Ishizu) is a sexually suppressed man living with his mother Miyo (Hiroko Fuji) who owns … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: January 26, 2021 On January 26, 2021, Image Entertainment and Shudder is releasing the Blu-ray for 2019’s Impetigore, an Indonesian thriller from director Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, Gundala). Impetigore stars Tara Basro (Killers), Ario Bayu (Java Heat), Marissa Anita (Gundala), Christine Hakim (Merantau) and Asmara Abigail (Abracadabra). After surviving a murder attempt in the city, Maya, a down-on-her-luck young woman, learns that she may inherit a house in her … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: December 15, 2020 On December 15, 2020, Media Blasters will release the Blu-ray & DVD for Devilman, is a live-action film directed by Hiroyuki Nasu (Be-Bop High School), based on the manga of the same name by Go Nagai. Read the official details below: First time on blu-ray! Best friends Akira and Ryo (played by real life twins Hisato and Yusuke Izaki) are your average high school students, … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: January 25, 2021 On January 25, 2021, Arrow Video is releasing the Blu-ray 4-disc set for the Gamera: Showa Era collection, which includes Camera: The Giant Monster, Gamera vs. Barugon, Gamera vs. Gyaos, Gamera vs. Viras, Gamera vs. Guiron, Gamera Vs. Jiger, Gamera Vs. Zigra and Gamera: The Super Monster. Read the official details below: As giant monsters rampaged through the Japanese cinematic landscape during the “kaiju boom” of … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: January 25, 2021 On January 25, 2021, Arrow Video is releasing the Blu-ray 4-disc set for the Gamera: Heisei Era collection, which includes Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris and Gamera the Brave (don’t miss our review for the actual films here). Read the official details below: After laying dormant for fifteen years, Gamera was rebooted for the big screen … Continue reading →