One of the most shocking J-horror films ever made, Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film would catapult Miike to the... more
Starring the iconic and beautiful Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock) in a role that came to define her career, the four-film Female Prisoner Scorpion series charts the vengeance of Nami... more
Eiji Okada, Yumeji Tsukioka, Yoshi Katô. A powerful human drama unfolds here depicting the aftermath of the city in ruins after the first atomic bomb was dropped on it during the final days of WWII... more
This collection brings together Women is the Future of Man and Tale of Cinema, the fifth and sixth films by Hong Sangsoo, the masterful South Korean filmmaker who has been favorably compared to that... more
Japanese cinema cult action heroine Meiko Kaji made her initial rep with this series of troubled-youth exploitationers from the Nikkatsu studio. A lady biker (Akiko Wada) and her crew square off with... more
An iconic trilogy of J-horror films comes to Blu-ray for the first time! Tapping into the same brand of terror as the Ring and Grudge movies, visionary director Takashi Miike (Audition, Blade of the... more
Director Seijun Suzuki's acclaimed trilogy opens with the haunting "Zigeunerweisen" (1980), in which a professor (Toshiya Fujita) reunites with a former classmate (Yoshio Harada), a suspected serial... more
With Earth slowly dying, scientists launched a probe to Mars-bearing algae and cockroaches-in order to render the Red Planet habitable. Five hundred years later, their gambit had paid off... except... more
From the outrageous imagination of cult director Teruo Ishii (Orgies of Edo, Horrors of Malformed Men) comes this infamous omnibus of three shocking tales of crime and punishment based on true-life... more
In stark contrast to the monochrome naturalism of his earlier masterwork Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, visionary master director Tomu Uchida took inspiration from Bunraku and kabuki theater for... more
Writer/director Teruo Ishii adapts some of celebrated horror author Edogawa Rampo's most deranged stories to produce this controversial and disturbing film. A young medical student searches for his... more
War, madness, sex, and body horror are explored in this brutal drama from Japan, set in the late 1930s during the Sino-Japanese War. While enduring horrifying physical and emotional trauma as she... more
Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) helms a bitingly satirical espionage thriller set in the heart of the Japanese auto industry in his 1962 landmark Black Test Car, which... more
Akio Jissôji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in Japan's film and television industries. For some, he is best-known for his science-fiction: the 1960s TV series... more
As they journeyed to Edo, the two fiercely loyal retainers (Chiezō Kataoka, Daisuke Katō) of a minor samurai (Eijirō Kataoka) had to stay mindful of their master's weakness for strong drink. Their... more
When reporter Akira Inugami (Sonny Chiba) tumbled upon a bizarre conspiracy involving bikers, corrupt politicians, and an unseen force that tears it's victims apart, you'd think he'd be in over his... more
Finally released outside Japan for the very first time, these unique riffs on H.G. Wells' classic character (though undoubtedly also indebted to Universal's iconic film series) are two of the... more
The first Japanese science fiction film to be made in color, Koji Shima's Warning From Space features eye-popping special effects from the same team at Daiei Studios that would bring Gamera to life a... more
Jeong Jae-yeong, Jung Ga-ram, Kim Nam-gil. A Korean pharmaceutical company, while conducting illegal human experiments, accidentally creates a zombie. The zombie escapes to a gas station owned by the... more
Director Teruo Ishii (Blind Woman s Curse, Horrors of Malformed Men), the Godfather of J-sploitation, presents Yakuza Law (AKA Yakuza s Law: Lynching) a gruelling anthology of torture, spanning three... more
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and... more
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and... more