RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2016 Criterion Collection presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life. In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s unconscious, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic visions: a young boy stumbles on … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2016 Film Movement Classics presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Violent Cop, a 1989 crime/thriller directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano (Beyond Outrage). Azuma is a cop who plays by his own rules: He batters suspects, beats confessions from criminals, and plants evidence. He’s a vigilante force the department quietly supports as long as he gets results, but when a volatile drug case results in the death … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2016 Film Movement Classics presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Boiling Point, a 1990 crime/thriller directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano (Outrage). Boiling Point is the story of a passive gas station attendant and benchwarming minor-league baseball player Masaki (Masahiko Ono), who finally rebels against the yakuza. When the local crime boss embarks on a campaign of beatings aimed at Masaki’s coworkers and baseball teammates, Masaki buys a … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 4, 2016 Funimation presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Shinji Higuchi’s live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan. Attack on Titan (read our reviews for Part I and Part II) takes place in a strange, quasi-medieval world in which giant humanoid creatures named Titans appear and threaten the lives of everyday people. Civilization’s only line of defense against the Titans are teenage soldiers who traverse the Titans’ massive bodies using … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2016 Just in time for Halloween! Arrow Video is releasing Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water to Blu-ray & DVD on October 11, 2016. This 2-disc, special edition is jam-packed with extra features that include new interviews with the film’s writer, director and much more. After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2016 Park Hoon-jeong, the director of The New World, is back with Well Go USA’s Blu-ray & DVD for The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale, which stars Choi Min-sik (The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Old Boy). The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale (read our review) is set in the final days of the Joseon era, when Korea was under Japanese rule. Min-sik will play a local hunter who’s given the … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2016 Section 23 presents the DVD for Masafumi Yamada’s Corpse Party, a live action movie adaptation of a survival horror video game series originally created by Makoto Kedoin and developed by Team GrisGris. On the last day of a high school festival, students are locked up at Tenjin Elementary School, where a horrific murder once took place. Corpse Party stars Rina Ikoma, Ryousuke Ikeoka, Nozomi Maeda, Jun, … Continue reading →