RELEASE DATE: October 28, 2024 On October 28, 2024, Arrow is releasing the J-Horror Rising collection on Blu-ray, which will include 1999’s Shikoku, 2000’s Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, 2000’s Persona, 2001’s Inugami, 2001’s St. John’s Wort (aka Otogirisou), 2005’s Noroi: The Curse and

RELEASE DATE: October 8, 2024 On October 8, 2024, 88 Films is releasing a Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Facets of Love, an erotic Shaw Brothers classic directed by Li Han-Hsiang (Hsi Shih Beauty of Beauties, The Enchanting Shadow, The Magnificent Concubine). The film stars Lily Ho Li-Li (14 Amazons), Yueh Hua (The Water Margin), Hu Chin (The Ghost Story), Teresa Ha Ping (Lucky Stars Go Places), Cheng Kang-Yeh (Daggers 8), … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2024 On October 15, 2024, Criterion is releasing 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray for Demon Pond, a 1979 film from  Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda (Ballad of Orin), who transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yamazaki) stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 28, 2024 On October 28, 2024, Radiance Films is releasing the 3-Film Blu-ray (Region A/B) set for Daiei Gothic – Japanese Ghost Stories, which includes 1959’s The Ghost of Yotsuya, 1968’s The Snow Woman, and 1968’s The Bride from Hades. A collection of three of Japan’s most famous ghost stories that have haunted people for centuries. Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub) directs The Ghost of Yotsuya, in … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 23, 2024 On September 23, 2024, Arrow Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Kinji Fukasaku’s The Threat, a gritty crime drama in the vein of Kurosawa’s High and Low, set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising Japan that has left many of its citizens behind. Misawa (Rentarō Mikuni, Kwaidan, Fugitive from the Past, Vengeance is Mine) appears to lead a charmed life, the very … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 23, 2024 On September 23, 2024, 88 Films is releasing Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu’s Gaira’s Guts Trilogy, a 3-movie set that will include Guts of a Beauty, Guts of a Virgin and Rusted Body. Discover the visceral world of Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu with the definitive trilogy boxset: Guts of a Beauty, Guts of a Virgin, and Rusted Body. Renowned for his bold storytelling and uncompromising vision, Gaira delves … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 22, 2024 On October 22, 2024, Unearthed Films will release a Blu-ray for Village of Doom, 1983 thriller – based on real events of the 1938 Tsuyama massacre – from cult director Noboru Tanaka (Rape and Death of a Housewife) An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 23, 2024 On September 23, 2024, Radiance Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Tattooed Life, a 1965 Yakuza flick from director Seijun Suzuki (Pistol Opera, Branded to Kill). Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Haunted Samurai), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and … Continue reading →