The Beast Hand | Blu-ray (Cleopatra Entertainment)

RELEASE DATE: April 15, 2025

On April 15, 2025, Cleopatra Entertainment is releasing a Blu-ray (Region A) for The Beast Hand, a 2024 horror film from director Taichiro Natsume (Love Shark).

Osamu (Takahiro Fukuya), a Japanese day laborer, is forced into a lifestyle of crime. Unfortunately, when he crosses the wrong gangsters, they punish him by Sword, amputating his left hand in the process. Osamu’s ex-girlfriend Koyuki takes him to an underground Doctor deep in the dark bowels of the city to attempt a transplant. But the new hand has a mind of its own, much to the dismay of the gangsters responsible – as Osamu pursues his revenge.

The Beast Hand also stars Misa Wada (Pure Japanese), Yôta Kawase (Demolition Girl), Yûya Continue reading →

964 Pinocchio | Blu-ray (88 Films)

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will release a Blu-ray for 964 Pinocchio (aka Screams of Blasphemy), a 1991 Japanese cyberpunk-horror film directed by Shozin Fukui (Rubber’s Lover).

964 Pinocchio depicts the nightmarishly surreal adventures of an illegally manufactured sex android found abandoned by his former owner and rescued from the scrap heap by a young woman, Himiko. She begins to tutor him in the ways of the world as if he were her own child, but with his original creators closing in, eager to conceal his existence from the authorities, it is not long before Pinocchio goes completely rogue.

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Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell | Blu-ray (88 Films)

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will release a Blu-ray (Region B) for Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell, a 1977 horror film directed by Masaru Konuma (Beach, La Ronde).

Passions are inflamed in an elite school for girls in 1930s Japan in Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell, as two of its students find solace away from the crowd in each other’s company. But can their love flourish amongst the corrupting influence of their parents and the school’s sinister principal, whose actions transform their lives into a living hell on earth?

Directed by one of the most-regarded directors of Nikkatsu’s Roman P*rno erotic line, Masaru Konuma (Flower and Snake, Wife to be Sacrified), this Gothic-styled erotic nightmare adapted from a story by the “unfilmable” literary maestro Yumeno Kyusaku (Dogra Magra) is by turns sensual, surreal, horrific Continue reading →

An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty | Blu-ray (88 Films)

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will be releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty, a 1984 erotic Shaw Brothers thriller from director Eddie Fong Ling-Ching (Cherry Blossoms).

One of the last films produced at Hong Kong’s legendary Shaw Brothers studio, and absolutely one of their finest – a visually ravishing and erotically charged story of a free-spirited female poet Yu (Patricia Ha, Nomad) who, frustrated by the conservative times in which she lives, refuses to behave in the ways nice young ladies are supposed to.

Despite plentiful clothes-off action, this is so much more than a soft-core “romp,” boasting an artistic ambition that Shaw Brothers didn’t always show in their kung fu movies. Directed with intelligence and real style by Eddie Fong Ling-ching, this is one of the Continue reading →

Assault! Jack The Ripper | Blu-ray (88 Films)

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will release a Blu-ray (Region B) for Assault! Jack The Ripper, a 1976 erotic thriller from director Yasuharu Hasebe (Black Tight Killers).

Ken (Yutaka Hayashi), a serious young man working as a cake decorator at an upmarket coffeeshop, finds himself led seriously astray by his feisty waitress coworker Yuri (the unforgettable Tamaki Katsura) after a chance encounter with a disturbed young woman (Yuri Yamashina) fuels their passion for murder and they embark on a vicious killing spree.

Part serial killer slasher movie, part coming-of-age romantic drama, this outrageous sexploitationer by Yasuharu Hasebe (Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) scripted by Chiho Katsura (Hausu) is a standout title in Nikkatsu’s mid-70s ‘Violent P*rno’ subgenre Continue reading →

Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Blu-ray (88 Films)

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will be releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Hong Kong, Hong Kong, a 1983 Shaw Brothers film from director Clifford Choi Kai-Kwong (North South West East).

There’s much more to Hong Kong cinema than kung fu flicks: Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a social realist drama with a huge heart, following two lovers dreaming of a better life: Man Si Sun (Cherie Chung, The Dead and the Deadly) is an illegal immigrant from the mainland while Kong Yuen Sang (Alex Man, Tragic Hero) is looking for glory in the kick-boxing ring.

Showing a world beyond the city’s skyscrapers and millionaires, Clifford Choi’s film won Best Screenplay at the prestigious Golden Horse awards, and was nominated for many others. Long recognised as a classic back home, 88 Films are proud to present Continue reading →

Center Stage | Blu-ray (88 Films)

RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, 88 Films will be releasing the Blu-ray (Region B) for Stanley Kwan’s 1991 film, Center Stage.

Center Stage is set during China’s silent movie era and revolves around the life of the legendary life of a gifted actress, Ruan Ling-yu. With her sensitive portrayal, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (Project A II) took her story abroad and won the best actress award at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.

Directed by Stanley Kwan (Rouge), this 4K remaster has been approved by Kwan. Also starring Tony Ka-Fai Leung (The Raid), Cecilia Yip (Still Human), Carina Lau (Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings) and Waise Lee (The Big Heat).

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