Japanese

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional bond forms between the pair, Nozomi is gradually introduced to the more complex nature of human emotion.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Takashi Miike directs this larger-than-life samurai adventure set in mid-19th century Japan. Koji Yakusho stars as respected samurai warrior Shinzaemon Shimada, who gathers together 13 skilled assassins to bring down the evil Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki), a merciless killer who gets his kicks from brutally murdering women and children. The film ends with a 45-minute battle sequence in which the 13 assassins take on an army of 200 men, dispensing with them in a profusion of inventive and surprising ways.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Japanese drama written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The film follows Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky), a part-time worker from Tokyo living in poverty with his wife Nobuyo (Sakura Andô) and their son Shota (Jyo Kairi). Having to rely on his grandmother's pension to get by, Osamu is often forced to resort to shoplifting in order to provide food for his family. While out trying to steal groceries with his son, Osamu comes across a homeless young girl on the street. Despite their perilous financial situation, Osamu takes the girl home and the family decide to officially adopt her.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Japanese sci-fi horror. Set in a dystopian future version of Tokyo where the police force has been privatised and self-harming has become so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, the film tells the story of Ruka (Eihi Shiina), a samurai sword-wielding young woman on a mission to avenge the assassination of her father. Extreme violence, dismemberment, beheadings and outpourings of blood ensue as Ruka fearlessly throws herself into her gore-splattered mission.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Aino Kishi stars as the eponymous character in this live-action adaptation of the manga written and illustrated by Gô Nagai. The female students at Sparta Academy are terrorised by their teachers but Kekko-Kamen is determined to put an end to their sadistic schemes once and for all. The cast also includes Rei Toda and Yoshifumi Aoki.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Masaki Kobayashi directs this classic jidai-geki samurai drama set in 17th-century Japan. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Hanshiro Tsugumo, an ageing and disenfranchised samurai warrior who enters the house of a feudal lord asking to commit the act of hara-kiri on his land according to the ancient samurai code. On arrival, Hanshiro begins to tell his tragic life story, culminating in Hanshiro's violent revenge upon those whose hypocrisy and authoritarianism robbed him and his family of life, love and happiness.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Disturbing Japanese horror. A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio, where he has surrounded himself with perverse monuments to the female form. With the model, the sculptor works out his erotic and artistic obsessions, in a world where sight has been replaced by touch.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>