RELEASE DATE: November 13, 2018 On November 13, 2018, Film Movement will be releasing the Blu-ray for the award-winning thriller, Third Murder (read our review), from director Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters). In Third Murder, Tomoaki Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama of John Woo’s Manhunt) is a lawyer tasked with defending a client (Koji Yakusho of The World of Kanako), who faces the death penalty if found guilty, in a murder trial. Misumi has previous convictions for … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: December 11, 2018 On December 11, 2018, Unearthed Films is releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Takashi Hirose’s Brutal. The film stars Katrina Grey (Hard Target 2), Takashi Nishina (Osaka Badass: Snake of Violence), Ayano (Flower) and Butch (Karate Kill). A savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. We are all … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 30, 2018 On October 30, 2018, Well Go USA will be releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Believer (read our review), the South Korean remake of Johnnie To’s highly successful crime thriller, Drug War.  Much like the original – which was also distributed by Well Go USA back in 2013 – Believer follows a drug dealer who conspires with a dangerously ambitious cop to bring down a major cartel’s psychotic kingpin in this electric crime thriller. … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: November 6, 2018 On October 2, 2018, Well Go USA will be releasing the DVD for Barbara Wong’s Girls vs. Gangsters (aka Girls 2). The film stars Fiona Sit (The Midnight After), Yihan Chen (Spider Lilies), Ning Chang (Black & White: The Dawn of Justice) and a special appearance from Mike Tyson (Ip Man 3, Kickboxer: Retaliation and China Salesman). After a drinking contest with some questionable local spirits, five friends wake naked on a … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: December 4, 2018 On December 4, 2018, Switchblade Pictures will be releasing the Blu-ray for 2017’s Corpse Prison: Part 2, the second of a two part movie series directed by Hideo Jojo (Siren X). They thought they were coming to study a mysterious town hidden in the mountains of Japan. Instead, they’ve discovered that their Professor brought them to Yasaka for a much darker purpose. Now Mikoto and the other girls are … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2018 On September 18, 2018, Well Go USA will be releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (read our review), a South Korean horror film directed by Jung Bum-Sik (The Epitaph, Horror Stories I-II). Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum follows the crew of a horror web show who plan to stream live from inside the asylum. To attract more viewers, the show’s host arranges some scares for the team, but as they … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 9, 2018 On October 9, 2018, Altered Innocence is releasing the DVD for The Poet and the Boy, the debut feature from filmmaker Kim Yang-hee. The film stars Yang Ik-June (Breathless), actress Jeon Hye-Jin (The Throne) plus young Korean heart-throb and rising star Jung Ga-Ram. The Poet and The Boy is the story of a struggling poet in his late 30s, who has spent all his life living off his hard … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: October 2, 2018 On October 2, 2018, Switchblade Pictures will be releasing the Blu-ray for 2017’s Corpse Prison: Part 1, the first of a two part movie series directed by Hideo Jojo (Siren X). Corpse Prison: Part 1 stars Moemi Katayamax (Gun), Anna Tachibana (Skirt Gang), Shin’ichi Wago (Lady Ninja: A Blue Shadow), Nagomi, Reimi Fujishiro and Ren Fukusaki. From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there … Continue reading →