Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
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Weary of the rigid codes of the underworld, gambler Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura, Goyokin) wanders Japan in search of freedom. But escape proves to be impossible when an obligation to a gang boss leaves him with no choice but to kill a man. To atone for his crime, he vows to take care of his victim’s widow and young son. But the gang won’t rest until they’ve killed the entire family - including the man who stands in their way. With this breathtakingly stylised film, Tai Kato broke all the conventions of the yakuza genre, fusing blood-spurting action with melodrama worthy of Japanese cinema’s greatest masters.
964 Pinocchio
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Shozin Fukui’s live-action, underground cyberpunk masterpiece depicts the nightmarish journey of a discarded cybernetic sex android that is expelled from a brothel and left to fend for himself. Aimlessly wandering around the city, Pinocchio meets Kyoto, an amnesiac homeless girl with a horrible secret of her own. Together, they try to piece together their past lives and survive in a cruel, brutal hellscape. At the same time, Pinocchio’s fiendish creators search desperately to find their lost prototype android before the public and authorities discover him! As agents pursue Pinocchio, his frantic escape morphs into a mind-warping hallucinogenic thrill ride! Be prepared! Shozin Fukui’s masterful direction provides the viewer with a totally unique experience along the lines of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
Tokyo Gore Police
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Blood and guts are the ultimate weapon! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the engineers. These genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a combat form. Ruka, the daughter of a murdered police officer, is now the top engineer hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency, she cuts and slashes her way the crime world and tracks down their lair, a bizarre fetish club. But nothing can sway Ruka from fulfilling her sworn duty and avenging her father’s death!
The Best of Midnight Rider
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Best bits of the Midnight Rider late night variety stoner comedy show featuring stand up preformances, short cartoons, voice dubbed sketches & independent short films.
The White Reindeer
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The debut feature film by acclaimed Finnish cinematographer and documentarian Erik Blomberg, this "fascinating, intoxicating and truly haunting folk horror fairy tale" (Behind The Couch) remains a pioneering shocker of shamanism, vampirism and female sexuality: Unknowingly born a witch, a frustrated young Lapland wife shapeshifts into a bloodthirsty white reindeer with an insatiable appetite for the local herdsmen.
Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Ozzy Osbourne"
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Tonight’s new Night Flight Short Cut features one of the most iconic interviews from the original series: our exclusive sit-down with Ozzy Osbourne. Coming across as disarmingly self-aware, Mr. Osbourne sets the record straight on the infamous bat-biting incident, the media frenzy that followed, and more. Featuring vintage performance clips and classic Night Flight flair, this addition to our Short Cut Collection is a MUST-WATCH!
Fudoh: The New Generation
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Hailed by critics, Fudoh: The New Generation is the film that brought director Takashi Miike to the attention of international cinema audiences. Prepare yourself to experience Miike's extreme and virtuoso filmmaking in this gangster thriller that set the pace for his later classics like Audition and Ichi The Killer. Riki Fudoh appears to be an ordinary high school student, but beneath the surface he’s driven by the trauma of witnessing a brutal family murder. The son of a yakuza crime lord, he assembles a crew of classmates to overthrow the old guard and claim power for a new generation!
X-Cross
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From the director of Battle Royale 2 and the screenwriter of the Death Note movies, X-Cross is a "demented slice of midnight movie bliss" (Dread Central)! Shiyori, a young lady trying to mend her broken heart after the end of a relationship, is off to the hot springs for a therapeutic soak with her friend Aiko. The quiet country village turns out to be home to a cult of psychopaths with strange fetishes, and when the two friends are separated, the cell phones that keep them connected only serve to create more panic and terror.
Bloody Muscle Body Builder In Hell
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Alternately known as "The Japanese Evil Dead," this legendary, sought after independent 1995 Japanese cult film will enjoy its first ever North American release! Trapped inside a haunted house, a body builder must survive a blood soaked night of insanity to save himself and his friends from a demonic ghost that is hell-bent on revenge.
Dark Water
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After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, tale of the supernatural which took the common theme of the "dead wet girl" to new heights of suspense and drama. Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well. Beautifully shot by the same cinematographer as Ring and Pulse, and featuring an especially unnerving sound design, Dark Water successfully merges spine-tingling tension with a family's heart-wrenching emotional struggle, creating one of the very finest and most unsettling contemporary Japanese horror films.
Zëiram
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Two happy-go-lucky electricians go out on a job expecting it will be just like any other work day only to find themselves suddenly zapped into a violent virtual reality war zone! The Zone is an alternate dimension created by Iria, a cute but badass bounty hunter, and Bob, her computer side-kick, to capture and destroy Zeiram, an evil alien creature! Soon, the bumbling electricians join forces with Iria to battle Zeiram in this epic sci-fi adventure.
Mechanical Violator Hakaider
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From director Keita Amemiya: The darkest force of destruction is now the only hope for salvation! In the far future, peace and violence walk hand in hand in Jesus Town, a false utopia ruled by the iron fist of Gurjev and his cyborg enforcer Michael. After a long imprisonment, Hakaider the destroyer, is enlisted in the rebel fight. Suddenly aware of the new menace, Gurjev seeks to crush the rebels and destroy Hakaider once and for all!
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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The masterpiece of Japanese Cyberpunk Body Horror. A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.
Noroi: The Curse
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Noroi: The Curse, directed by Kôji Shiraishi, is a bone-chilling masterpiece of found-footage horror presented in a pseudo-documentary format. The film follows Masafumi Kobayashi, a seasoned investigative reporter specializing in paranormal phenomena, as he embarks on what becomes his most harrowing case yet. Through unsettling archival footage, interviews, and firsthand encounters, Noroi builds an atmosphere of dread, unraveling a terrifying web of curses and rituals tied to a long-forgotten evil.
Evil Dead Trap
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A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, only to end up running for her life. Nami hosts a late night home video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets a man looking for his brother who warns her to stay away. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare. RAW HORROR KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES!
Dogra Magra
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A man wakes in an asylum with no memory. Dr Wakabayashi helps him to recall his past in which he killed his bride on their wedding day. Part of his memory becomes linked to another doctor, Dr Masaki, and a manuscript, Dogra Magra. The final feature film by Toshio Matsumoto (Funeral Parade of Roses) is an adaptation of the celebrated novel by Kyusaku Yumeno, a period set gothic tale with a sense of dreamy dread that recalls Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and the locked room mystery of Shutter Island. A stunningly shot phantasmagoria by Tatsuo Suzuki, Dogra Magra is presented by Radiance films for the first time outside of Japan.
The Ghost of Yotsuya
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Director Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub) and writer Fuji Yahiro (Sansho the Bailiff, A Bloody Spear at Mt. Fuji) turn the quintessential Japanese ghost story into a profoundly resonant doomed romance, with chilling ghost scenes that would leave a deep mark on the creators of J-horror. Samurai Iemon (Kazuo Hasegawa, Gate of Hell) has grown distant from his wife Oiwa. Oume, the pretty young daughter of a wealthy family, falls madly in love with Iemon after he saves her from a group of drunk swordsmen. Oiwa learns about the blossoming affair and grows despondent. Without his knowledge, Iemon's associates conspire to clear the way for him to marry Oume by poisoning his wife. But Oiwa returns from the grave as a horribly disfigured ghost to haunt Iemon and her tormentors.
Madame O
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"Dedicated to medicine... and the cold-blooded destruction of men!" Madame O is a classic and controversial tale of revenge from late 1960s Japan. Director Seiichi Fukuda uses widescreen cinematography and a strange mix of both black and white and color imagery to paralyze audiences with gore, nudity and shocking violence.

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