Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada. Director Ishiro Honda's Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the... more
Eight-disc set includes "Godzilla," "Godzilla Raids Again," "King Kong vs. Godzilla," "Mothra vs. Godzilla," "Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster," "Invasion of Astro-Monster," "Ebirah, Horror of the... more
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more
Genuinely scary fantasy set in feudal Japan, where a widowed peasant woman and her mother-in-law survive by luring soldiers away from their comrades and slaying them for their armor, until a man... more
As he struggled through his shoot in an abandoned utility, the martinet director of a low-end zombie film was fuming over the stilted performances and shoddy effects. He'd get a burst of renewed... more
Blu-ray. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (The Human Condition) shifted gears dramatically for this... more
During the plague-ravaged years of the early-16th-century Joseon dynasty, King Jung Joon (Park Hee-Soon) looked to quell rumors that the rising death toll in the countryside was in fact attributable... more
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more
In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to... more
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
Yumiko Shaku, Shin Takuma. Godzilla battles a relentless mechanical double. In Japanese with English audio & subtitles. 2002/color/84 min/NR/widescreen.
A sexually rapacious Asian goddess known as the "Queen of the South Sea," possesses the body of a young female skin diver. Armed with an AK47 and an endless supply of bullets, this murderous Lady... more
Misato Tanaka. As Japanese scientists test their new plan to finally destroy Godzilla, an insect trapped in it mutates and becomes a 50-meter giant dragonfly queen, who in turn produces gargantuan... more
In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to... more
Featuring Japanese punk/rock band Guitar Wolf. Ace thinks he's really cool, but en route to see his favorite band, strange happenings entangle Ace and the band in an alien invasion with gun-toting... more
Saeko Kizuki, Naomi Hagio. Horny photographers and their models are shooting in the woods when a dense fog suddenly rolls in. But when they take refuge in an abandoned house nearby, they encounter a... 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
A camping trip will turn into a nightmare for sisters Akane and Kozue when they become trapped by five men who abuse and torture them. Kozue is brutally murdered but her sister manages to escape Now,... more
Kazuhiro Sano, Megumi Ozawa, Ken Yoshizawa. A gore-fest from Gaira follows up Entrails of a Virgin. A psychologist infiltrates a gang whose modus operandi is to brutally rape and drug their female... more
For unfortunate priest Joong-Soo (Bae Sung-Woo), the public fallout from a botched exorcism was so severe that his brother Gang-Goo (Sung Dong-Il) was compelled to pack up his family and relocate.... more
Two horrific and blood-drenched stories intertwine in this graphically violent feature film from Kei Fujiwara (star of Tetsuo). a Tokyo police officer falls victim to a Yakuza body-parts selling... 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
French Indochina, 1953: Desperate for shelter, young refugee Linh (Kate Nhung) stumbled onto the rubber plantation owned by widowed Sebastien Laurent (Jean-Michel Richaud). Offered a domestic's... more