Category Archives: DVD/Blu-ray New Releases

New & upcoming 4K UHD/Blu-ray releases of films we think cityonfire.com visitors should know about. Asian, martial arts, cult, classic and other popular titles. Please click on the Amazon.com affiliate links to support this site.

The Black House DVD (Tokyo Shock)

RELEASE DATE: July 24, 2012 Tokyo Shock presents the DVD for The Black House. Jun-oh is a geeky insurance investigator who answers a call to a family s dilapidated home, where he discovers the young son hanged in his room. As Jun-oh investigates further, strange accidents begin to happen. Check out the trailer.

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Gamera the Brave Blu-ray (Tokyo Shock)

RELEASE DATE: September 25, 2012 Tokyo Shock presents 2006’s Gamera the Brave on Blu-ray! Gamera the Brave contrasts the strained relationship between a father and his son with the strong bond of a boy and a young monster growing up together. The film is set in the world in which we live, with one glaring exception it is also a world inhabited by giant monsters! Check out the trailer.

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Spellbound DVD (CJ Entertainment)

RELEASE DATE: October 16, 2012 CJ Entertainment presents the DVD for Spellbound. A young street magician meets a miserable girl during one of his Performances. She soon winds up in his “Horror magic show” and they becomes a smash. However, the girl holds a dark secret. Check out the trailer.

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Tazza: The High Rollers DVD aka The War of Flower (Bayview Entertainment)

RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2012 Bayview Entertainment presents the DVD for Tazza: The High Rollers (aka The War of Flower). After losing his entire savings in an illegal, backroom card game, Goni (Cho Seung-woo, The Sword with No Name) discovers it was all a set up – he was swindled by professional gamblers. Enraged and desperate, he sets out to get his money back by any means necessary. Check out … Continue reading

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Helpless DVD (CJ Entertainment)

RELEASE DATE: November 6, 2012 CJ Entertainment presents the DVD for Helpless. The story follows a detective who is approached by a man to help locate his missing fiance’. As the detective looks into the beautiful girl’s disappearance, he soon learns nothing about her is as it seems. Helpless is directed by Byeon Yeong-joo (Flying Boys, Aldor). Check out the trailer and read our review.

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Double Feature: The Image of Bruce Lee & The Snake, The Tiger, The Crane DVD (Screen Magic Films)

RELEASE DATE: August 21, 2012 Screen Magic Films presents two “classics” in this martial arts Double Feature: In The Image Of Bruce Lee, detective Bruce Li teams up with another undercover agent known as Moustache in an effort to apprehend a ring of counterfeiters. In The Snake, The Tiger, The Crane, The kingdom of the Ming Emperor is being over run and is killed, but his daughter escapes and plots … Continue reading

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Red Eye DVD (Tokyo Shock)

RELEASE DATE: July 24, 2012 Tokyo Shock presents the DVD for Red Eye. It’s Mi-sun s first day as a rail attendant. Her assignment is an overnight trip through Korea, and she s understandably nervous. But it’s not the motley group of passengers that has her feeling uneasy, it s the train itself. Some of the cars on the train were involved in a devastating crash 16 years earlier, in … Continue reading

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Starship Troopers: Invasion Blu-ray & DVD (Sony Pictures)

RELEASE DATE: August 28, 2012 Sony Pictures presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Starship Troopers: Invasion, directed by Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina). This CG/Anime-style continuation to Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 cult classic promises to be “A fast-paced thrill ride that tops the original,” according to Movieweb.com. Check out the trailer.

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Karate-Robo Zaborgar Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

RELEASE DATE: September 11, 2012 Well Go USA presents the DVD and Blu-ray for Karate-Robo Zaborgar. From the director of Robo-Geisha and The Machine Girl comes this action-packed tale of a police officer and a robot created by his father. The robot, known as Zaborgar, is an expert in martial arts and has the ability to transform into a motorcycle. Check out the trailer.

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Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures Blu-ray Collection (Paramount)

RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2012 Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures comes to Blu-ray Disc from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Paramount. The set will include Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, plus a load of extra features!

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The Raid: Redemption Blu-ray & DVD (Sony Pictures)

RELEASE DATE: August 14, 2012 Sony Pictures presents the Blu-ray & DVD for The Raid: Redemption. It’s a rookie member (Iko Uwais) and a special forces team vs. every killer, gangster and thief in a fifteen-story apartment block building. This groundbreaking martial arts spectacular is already considered one of the best action movies of our time. Check out the trailer.

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Love Exposure Blu-ray (Olive Films)

RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2012 Olive Films presents the Blu-ray for Love Exposure (see our review). Four hours of love, family, lust, religion and the art of upskirt photography. Love Exposure is written and directed by Sion Sono (Cold Fish) and stars Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima and Sakura Ando. DVD currently available. Check out the NSFW trailer.

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Safe Blu-ray & DVD (Lionsgate)

RELEASE DATE: September 4, 2012 Lionsgate present the Blu-ray & DVD for Safe, starring Jason Statham. When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for. Check out the trailer.

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MegaForce DVD (Hen’s Tooth Video)

RELEASE DATE: September 4, 2012 Hen’s Tooth Video presents the DVD for 1982’s MegaForce, a U.S.-made action film that Golden Harvest produced in the 1980′s. Directed by The Cannonball Run’s Hal Needham, MegaForce stars Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Edward Mulhare, Evan C. Kim, Ralph Wilcox and Henry Silva. Check out the trailer.

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Judge Dredd Blu-ray (Disney/Buena Vista)

RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2012 Disney/Buena Vista presents the Blu-ray for Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Rob Schneider and Max von Sydow. In The Future…One Man Is Judge, Jury and Executioner! In a time when all-powerful and coldly efficient “Judges” act with the supreme authority of both the police force and legal system, Judge Dredd is the most feared law enforcer of them all. Check out the trailer.

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