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Battle Royale

Battle Royale (2 discs) (2000)

  • 70
  • from 26,283 members
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school ... Read more
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Certificate: 18
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Format: DVD
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Battle Royale

Battle Royale (2000)

  • 80
  • from 2591 members
It's the dawn of the 21st century and Japan is in a state of near collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high and violence among youngsters is out of control. When school kids boycott class and ... Read more
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Certificate: 18
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Available on: DVD & BLU-RAY
Yojimbo

Yojimbo (1961)

  • 70
  • from 10,237 members
In director Akira Kurosawa's comedic YOJIMBO, a masterless samurai, Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), wanders into a town divided by two warring clans. After displaying his formidable swordsmanship before ... Read more
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Azumi

Azumi (2003)

  • 70
  • from 6087 members
AZUMI is a young Japanese orphan who is a ruthless trained assassin. It is 19th Century Japan, torn-apart by war. Along with nine others she has been taught deadly martial arts skills by Master ... Read more
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
Death Note

Death Note (2006)

  • 70
  • from 4638 members
A battle between the world's 2 greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals. Live action version of the ... Read more
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
High And Low

High And Low (1963)

  • 70
  • from 1556 members
Based on King's Ransom, an 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who ... Read more
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD
Battle Royale - Blu-ray

Battle Royale - Blu-ray (3 discs) (2000)

  • 80
  • from 1154 members
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school ... Read more
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Certificate: 18
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Format: BLU-RAY
Available on: DVD & LOVEFiLM Instant
Onibaba

Onibaba (1964)

  • 70
  • from 1617 members
A mother and daughter-in-law scrape a living in 16th Century Japan by killing warriors and selling their armour.
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Audition

Audition (1999)

  • 70
  • from 1676 members
In this art-house, cult horror a widower sits in on an audition to choose an actress with his TV producer friend. Falling for one woman, he asks her out. But when he proves too slow in his wooing she ... Read more
Director: Mike Takashi
Certificate: 18
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Available on: DVD
Violent Cop

Violent Cop (1989)

  • 70
  • from 2982 members
In his directorial debut, famed Japanese screen personality Takeshi Kitano (acting under the alias Beat Takeshi) plays Azuma, a brutal but honorable cop at the end of his rope. Azuma's trying daily ... Read more
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD

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