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In Lu Chuan's THE MISSING GUN, Ma Shan (Jiang Wen), a small-town policeman, wakes up one morning to discover that his gun is missing. Since firearms are rare in rural China, this is a serious offense, and Ma Shan must find the weapon as quick as possible. During his search, events take a sinister turn when his first love turns up dead, and the bullet appears to be from his gun.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - ChineseAdditional Release Material: Trailers
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Tadanobu Asano and Joe Odagiri star as two friends who work part-time in a laundry factory in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's highly original BRIGHT FUTURE. Odagiri is Yuji Nimura, a messy, lazy slacker who has odd dreams at night of a future of hope and peace. His best friend, Mamoru Arita (Asano), meanwhile, is obsessed with his pet red jellyfish, a poisonous creature he is training to be able to survive in fresh water. After mysteriously presenting the marine invertebrate to Yuji, he even more mysteriously viciously murders his boss and willingly accepts his fate. While Mamoru is in prison, Yuji grows attached to the jellyfish and to his friend's estranged father, who repairs old televisions, radios, and lamps in his own cluttered shop. The very busy Asano (ICHI THE KILLER, THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI, LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE) and Odagiri are excellent in the lead roles, filled with a quiet ennui and disassociation from the rest of the world. Longtime actor Tatsuya Fuji provides outstanding support as Mr. Arita, who becomes a kind of surrogate father to Yuji. Kurosawa, the director of such successful thrillers as DOPPELGANGER, PULSE, and CURE, here alternates between beautifully shot scenes and grainy set pieces, steady camerawork and handheld moments, keeping the audience perpetually off balance yet mesmerized. BRIGHT FUTURE, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is a slow-paced, introspective, intelligent film that has a dark underbelly lurking just beneath it, like the potential lethal bite of a jellyfish.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Theatrical Trailer PreviewsDVD Rom Features: Weblinks
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When a small plane crashes near the Mexican town of Zacatecas, local farmers are in for a surprise: the plane carries an illegal cargo, and when the pilot dies, it is up to them to dispose of the drugs. With his dying words the pilot explains that he was attempting to sell the drugs to raise money for his daughter's heart transplant, and the farmers, touched, decide to carry the operation through. They load the cargo into boxes made of cactus fruit called tunas, and head for California. Will they succeed in their mission and save the girl's life, or will the lure of riches, not to mention the authorities, divert them from their goal?DVD Features:Region (Unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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An amazing documentary about an incredible woman, this film traces Leni Riefenstahl's life from her beginnings as a German action movie starlet through her career as film director on such Nazi epics as Triumph of the Will and Olympia and beyond. The 91-year-old subject, hailed as the greatest woman filmmaker ever, remains fiercely private about her controversial relationship with Hitler and the Nazis.DVD Features:Region 1Keep Case
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Directed by Juan Martinez Moreno, this Spanish action comedy stars Antonio Resines as a hitman who takes a young boy under his wing for a few days. Jordi Vilches plays the nephew of a mobster, and when the two are thrust together, things go horribly awry. They are forced to go on the run, with the young man ultimately receiving an unexpected education.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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