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Kinji Fukasaku's (BATTLE ROYALE) revered gangster series is a landmark of 1970's Japanese cinema. Set just after WWII and based on the memoirs of a real-life crime boss, these films serve to deglamorize the traditional cinematic portrayal of organized crime, instead painting its members as petty, backstabbing thugs who will turn on their closest allies for power or profit. The story follows the violent exploits of Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), a former soldier, as he joins a yakuza gang in post-bomb Hiroshima. From there, he weathers a brutal series of events, including jail terms and pulling off hits of rival gang members, on his shaky journey through the ranks. This 6-Disc box set includes all 5 films in the series, plus a bonus disc of supplemental material.DVD Features:Region 16-Disc SetWidescreen - 2.35Additional Release Material: Featurette - 1. FRIEDKIN ON FUKASAKU








2. TRANSLATING FUKASAKU








3. KANTOKU: REMEMBERING FUKASAKU








4. JITSUROKU: REINVENTING THE YAKUZA GENRE








5. BORYOKU: FUKASAKU AND THE ART OF VIOLENCE








6. KAPLAN ON FUKASAKUText/Photo Galleries: Yakuza Papers Family TreeAdditional Products: Booklet
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This powerful drama, based on a true story, tells the remarkable tale of Sister Faustina, a brave nun who was canonized as a saint in 2000. Telling Sister Faustina`s remarkable life story, Jerzy Lukaszewicz delivers a hopeful film that is inspiring, moving, and exhilarating.
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A collection of two documentaries by Werner Herzog, FATA MORGANA (1971) and LESSONS OF DARKNESS (1992), this program illustrates Herzog's sustained vision, one where nature and man are continually at war with one another. Made more than 20 years apart, these two films are remarkably similar. FATA MORGANA, shot in the Sahara desert, is a mostly silent film, accompanied only by the reading of the Popul Vuh, a Mayan creation myth, and the songs of Leonard Cohen. Poetic, beautiful, and often humorous, Herzog's images twist and turn in the mind, forcing the viewer to step outside themselves and look at the world as a combination and clash between the natural and the man made. LESSONS OF DARKNESS is ostensibly a documentation of Kuwait in the aftermath of the Gulf War, when oil fires were burning up the land and transforming the formerly beautiful countryside into a surreal new landscape. Mostly silent and accompanied by classical music, in a few segments local Kuwaitis bemoan the destructiveness of the fires and the war. Herzog, however, shoots the changed landscape in a way that makes it at once terrifying and beautiful.DVD Features:Region 12-Disc SetDisc #1: LESSONS OF DARKNESSAnamorphic - 1.77:1Audio: Mono - EnglishAdditional Release Material: To Be AnnouncedInteractive Features: Scene Access Interctive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Production NotesDisc #2: FATA MORGANAFull FrameAudio: Mono - GermanAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Werner Herzog - Director, Crispin GloverInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Hitomi is a young woman whose world seems to come to an end when her fiancee Tatsuya is killed in a car accident. During a trip to Hong Kong she runs into an undercover cop who is Tatsuya's dead ringer. The pair are forced to flee togther to China and find themselves increasingly attracted, but Hitomi doesn't know what to do about her feelings. A lush romantic mystery featuring a cameo by Michelle Yeoh.DVD Features:Region 0 (All Regions)Keep CaseLetterboxedAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Chinese/ Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1 - Chinese/ MandarinAdditional Release Material: Trailers Music Video Featurette -Making OfInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/ Photo Galleries: Filmographies - Cast& Crew
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Julian Ssands stars as Sergio, a nobleman in the 18th-century Italy who becomes a when he finds out his fiancee was the kings mistress.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Full Frame - 1.33
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