Format: DVD
Release Date: October 11, 2011
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Naruto Shippuden Uncut Set 8
Format: DVD
Release Date: October 11, 2011
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Darker Than Black: The Complete Season Two [Blu-ray]
Tensai Okamura (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
(4)Release Date: October 18, 2011
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The intrigue and danger continues in Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor. Hei - aka the masked killer, BK-201 - encounters Suo, a young Russian girl whose life changed the night a meteor fell to Earth. With Contractors attacking from all sides, and the mysterious organization Section 3 closing in, Hei must fight to keep Suo alive. Read more
Monday, August 29, 2011
RoboGeisha [Blu-ray]
Aya Kiguchi (Actor), Hitomi Hasebe (Actor), Noboru Iguchi (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
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The twisted geniuses behind The Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police present a tale of sibling rivalry, chainsaw faces, machine gun boobs, and butt blades.
Kikuke is a geisha known for her glamour and grace. Yoshie is her abused sister, banished to the shadows. When a mysterious corporation transforms their soft bodies into murderous machines, the rival vixens rush toward an ultraviolent final confrontation. Read more
ICHI [Blu-ray]
Takao Osawa (Actor), Shido Nakamura (Actor), Fumihiko Sori (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
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Ichi honors the classic tale of the blind samurai while casting the legend in breathtaking new light. In a role traditionally played by men, award-winning actress Haruka Ayase is both tender and brutal.
Beautiful Ichi wanders blindly from village to village, searching for the sightless swordsman who long ago taught her to kill. Her technique is exquisite and explosive, her defenses as impenetrable as the darkness in which she moves. Many along her solitary path are touched – some by the sound of her delicate music, others by the edge of her lethal blade.This visually stunning Japanese swordplay drama is an attempt at revising the venerable and exciting Zatoichi films and television series, which concern a blind masseur whose lowbrow nature concealed his deadly prowess with a blade. Here, the sightless hero is a woman (Ayase Haruka) in search of another blind man (the original Zatoichi, it is assumed) who taught her to defend herself before disappearing from her life. Unfortunately, the gender switch is the only real deviation from the tried and true Zatoichi format, which star and occasional director Shintaro Katsu perfected in 26 films and a television series between 1962 and 1989. Takeshi Kitano starred in and directed a more adventurous update in 2003 (complete with a musical number), so while Ichi is largely superfluous, it does feature a fine performance by Haruka, some lovely photography, and muscular and bloody combat choreographed by Kuze Hiroshi, who worked on several films for Akira Kurosawa. The DVD includes only a trailer for supplemental features. --Paul Gaita Read more
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Samurai Girls Complete Collection
Format: DVD
(1)Release Date: August 23, 2011
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Queens Blade 2: The Evil Eye [Blu-ray]
Kinji Yoshimoto (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
Release Date: September 13, 2011
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The end of the Queen s Blade has come, and only
the strongest remain. Leina, Tomoe, and the rest
of the finalists take up residence in Gynos, the
Queen s Capital. Each girl is paired up in a duel,
and friends are forced to fight each other with
their lives on the line. When the smoke clears,
who will be crowned queen? Read more
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Hetalia - Paint it, White - The Movie - LE
Todd Haberkorn (Actor), Christopher Bevins (Actor), Scott Sager (Director) | Format: DVD
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(2)Release Date: November 22, 2011
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It's totally the end of the world in Hetalia Axis Powers: Paint it, White! This full-length flick brings all your fave boys together in modern times with one goal: Drop the bro-hammer on some alien invaders!
The Pictorians have arrived from deep in space. They also have dangly glow-balls on their heads, which is kinda cool, but still. The freaky aliens are using use their crazy rainbow-beam-thingy to paint everything on Earth the same color: white! See, now the title of the movie makes more sense, right? Anyway, if the Pictorians are to be stopped, the Allied guys and the Axis boys plus some new characters, too must set aside their differences, unite against their common foe, and hopefully get together for a sweaty work-out to make sure they re super-ready to save the world! Read more
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Cowboy Bebop Remix: The Complete Collection (Anime Legends)
Cowboy Bebop (Actor), Sunrise Studios (Director) | Format: DVD
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The crew of the Bebop is once again ready to take control of space, bringing bad guys to justice and trying to make some cash while doing it. Join the always cool Spike, investigative genius Jet, the fabulous Faye, the amazing (but weird) Ed and the super-smart Welsh Corgi named Ein as they try to make a buck in the year 2071. How do they do it? They re bounty hunters. But then again, you probably wouldn t be reading this if you didn t already know that...Now, for the first time in North America the entire Cowboy Bebop Remix series in one package!!! Read more
Monday, August 8, 2011
Trigun: Badlands Rumble [Blu-ray]
Luci Christian (Actor), Trina Nishimura (Actor), Zach Bolton (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
Release Date: September 27, 2011
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The first new Trigun animation in over ten years featuring all the classic Trigun characters you know and love, plus new villains and heroes!
In town surrounded by quicksand, an outlaw from Vash the Stampede’s past has resurfaced after twenty years. His name is Gasback – and he’s looking to cause a little trouble. It seems Gasback has a serious beef with the town’s mayor, who’s paying dozens of bounty hunters to protect his turf. One of those hired guns is a beautiful woman with a vendetta against Gasback. Will she get a shot at revenge? Maybe, if she can get through Gasback’s bodyguard, Wolfwood. And what’s Vash got to do with this mess? Nothing much – except for the fact that he personally set off the entire chain of events two decades ago! Read more
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Eden of the East: The King of Eden (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Jason Liebrecht (Actor), Leah Clark (Actor), Mike McFarland (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
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The intrigue goes international in The King of Eden, a feature-length conspiracy thriller that continues the action of the acclaimed Eden of the East. The deadly game that began in Japan now intensifies on the streets of New York City. The rules are the same: Do whatever it takes to win. Die if you lose.
Takizawa prevented Japan’s destruction – and then he vanished. Six months later, clues lead Saki to the Big Apple in search of her missing friend. Meanwhile, the remaining Seleção are plotting their final move. Some of them would prefer Takizawa dead and out of the way. Some might even be willing to help him achieve his goals. Unfortunately, some are prepared to destroy everything if it means claiming checkmate in Mr.Outside’s puzzling game.The theatrical feature Eden of the East: The King of Eden (2009) takes place six months after the hit broadcast series ended--when Akira Takizawa vanished after liberating 20,000 NEETS (young men with No Employment, Education or Training) and saving Japan from destruction by missiles. Saki Morimi kept the "Noblesse Oblige" cell phone that identified Takizawa as Seleçao No. 9, one of 12 agents charged by the mysterious Mr. Outside with saving a faltering, apathetic Japan. She flies to New York when an old message gives her a clue to his whereabouts. Takizawa has once again had most of his memories erased, but he and Saki rekindle their relationship while outwitting threats from the remaining Seleçaos. Voice actors Jason Liebrecht and Leah Clark once again make Takizawa and Saki a singularly engaging and believable couple, even in the most improbable circumstances. As he did in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, writer-director Kenji Kamiyama uses a reference to J.D. Salinger as a key element in the plot. (This time, it's the scene in The Catcher in the Rye in which Holden Caulfield watches his sister Phoebe trying to catch the golden ring on the carousel.) The King of Eden ends halfway through the story, as Saki and Takizawa prepare to return to Japan to resolve the battle of the Seleçaos. But Kamiyama builds the suspense so skillfully, the viewer feels impatient for the release of the second feature, Paradise Lost, rather than cheated. The theme of Eden of the East, the need for young people to revitalize the spirit and economy of Japan, seems prescient in light of the reports of young Japanese volunteering in record numbers to assist in the cleanup of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Blu-ray disc (and the second DVD) contain Air Communication--the original series recut into a prequel feature (only in Japanese). (Unrated, suitable for ages 14 and older: profanity, violence, nudity, risqué humor, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon Read more
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