Items Matching Tag 'Drama'

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Blu-ray Details)
On December 17th, Kyon's life was abnormal: he spent his free time with an alien robot (Yuki), a time traveler (Mikuru), and an ESPer (Koizumi), trying to keep a headstrong classmate (the eponymous Haruhi) entertained so that she wouldn't unintentionally destroy the world. On December 18th, Kyon's life becomes...normal. Haruhi has disappeared as if she never attended their high school. Yuki is now...

Crime or Punishment?!? (DVD Details)
Ayame is an unsuccessful girl celebrity, who happens to take on the PR role of a "police chief for a day". It is the job of a campaign girl to smile and act as a police chief for one day. It should have been a simple job, however, the police station staff treat her like the real police chief and look to her for instructions, which makes Ayame feel perplexed. In addition, she runs into her ex-boy...

War of the Arrows (Blu-ray Details)
A non-stop action-gem that hits the bull's-eye with style, War of the Arrows is groundbreaking entertainment that brings archery to new cinematic heights. Orphaned as a child, Nam Yi overcame tragic loss to become the most accomplished hunter and archer of his generation. When his beloved Korea comes under attack from Chinese imperial forces, he returns from the forest to discover that his...

The Lakes (Complete Series 1 and 2) (DVD Details)
John Simm gives an electrifying lead performance in one of the most controversial and gripping series of the 1990s, The Lakes, written by Jimmy McGovern. Originally screened on the BBC, it now comes to DVD. Leaving the dole queues of Liverpool behind him, Danny Kavanagh (John Simm – Life On Mars) heads off to make a fresh start in The Lake District. Finding work in a hotel he soon settles into...

LA Law: Season 2 (DVD Details)
Created by Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) and Terry Louise Fisher (Cagney & Lacey), L.A. Law is the multi award-winning courtroom drama that was a huge commercial and critical hit. In the second season, Brackman unwittingly gets arrested for solicitation by an inexperienced undercover policewoman who mistakes his reading of a Japanese restaurant menu for come-ons....

Bad Lieutenant (Blu-ray Details)
He's the kind of cop who steals drugs off a dead man's body, the kind of father who'd rather feed his drug habit than his family. His badge means nothing to him other than the right to act like the very criminals he's supposed to be chasing. the fierce anger beneath his personality is only fuelled by his addiction to heroin, crack and alcohol.But when a beautiful young nun (Frankie Thorn) is raped...

Genshiken: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
Sasahara appears to be a quiet college freshman, but a certain darkness lurks within his soul. For one thing, he knows what "cosplay" is, and he'd like to know more. He knows how to unlock all the secret characters in Guilty Gear X, and he'd like to know more. He knows what the plot twist is going to be in episode twenty-five of Kujibiki Unbalance because he's read the manga, and he'd like to know...

The Equalizer: Season 2 Box Set (6 Discs) (DVD Details)
Your life or the life of a loved one is in danger and you don't know where to turn for help anymore. Then your eyes catch a small newspaper ad: "Gotta problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer." You call the number and a friendly, reassuring voice tells you where to meet him. Robert McCall (Edward Woodward) is The Equalizer and he promises to even out the odds, in your favour... Enjoy for...

1911 Revolution (Blu-ray Details)
Celebrate the landmark 100th movie of Jackie Chan's outstanding career in film and re-live the violent and heartbreaking events of The Xinhai Revolution: a bloody uprising that brought the despotic Qing Dynasty crashing to its knees, ending nearly 3,000 years of feudal oppression. Action legend, Jackie Chan, commands the screen as Huang Xing: the fearless resistance leader and military genius,...

Phantom: Requiem For The Phantom - Part 2 (DVD Details)
A young man with no memories fights to salvage his humanity when he's forced into a life of murder by a dangerous crime syndicate called Inferno. The organization gives him a new name, Zwei, and molds him into a perfect killing machine, a meticulous instrument of death created to obey his masters' every deadly command. Zwei's not the only puppet controlled by Inferno; Ein is a girl as beautiful...

The Front Line (Blu-ray Details)
Experience breath-taking action sequences and heart-wrenching performances in this critically acclaimed Korean box-office smash-hit. In the final decisive battles of The Korean War, the battle-worn armies of North and South Korea face a brutal deadlock on the rugged Aerok Hills. Fears of treachery and collusion with enemy forces trigger an investigation into the men of the South Korean...

The Practice: Season 1 & 2 Box Set (8 Discs) (DVD Details)
Bobby Donnell is a young, passionate lawyer struggling to keep his small Boston law firm afloat. Full of idealistic dreams of defending the innocent, he quickly realises that being a good defence lawyer is more challenging than he ever expected. Along with his associate attorneys he walks a fine line between his own principles and his legal obligations to his clients. Striving for justice, Bobby...

Samurai Warrior (DVD Details)
Violent 2010 sword & Sake romp from maverick director Kenichiro Nishiumi, starring Yuma Ishigaki (13 Assassins/ Battle Royale 2) & Suzunosuke (Suicide Club). To distance themselves from their humble origins as farmers, 3 friends masquerade as Samurai and hold the peace in Kinugasa Village despite daily battles to the death with rogue bandits. However, when real samurai &...

Adrift In Tokyo (DVD Details)
Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long as Fumiya agrees to walk with him across Tokyo to the police station of Kasumigaseki, where he intends to turn himself in for a crime he deeply regrets....

Perfect Sense (DVD Details)
A virus is spreading. People around the world are being infected. First the grief, then smell is gone. As loss of one sense leads to another, people are stripped of the lives that they once knew. Chaos ensues whilst a young couple try to begin a relationship. Michael (Ewan McGregor, Star Wars, Shallow Grave) is a chef and Susan, (Eva Green, Casino Royale, Camelot) a scientist, their budding...

Fruits Basket: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
Adapted from the phenomenally popular manga written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya, the animated version of Fruits Basket has been charming and intriguing anime fans worldwide ever since its original Japanese television debut. Now, the complete anime series has been collected together on the four-disc DVD release Fruits Basket Complete Collection, which features all 26 episodes plus a generous...

LA Law: Season 1 (DVD Details)
Join an array of stars in the long-awaited first season of LA Law, the award-winning courtroom drama that thrilled audiences and critics alike when first broadcast over 26 years ago. At Los Angeles law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney & Kuzak, many of the battles occur outside of the courtroom. In the season premiere, the office is shocked by the death of founding partner Norman Chaney...

Whisper Of The Heart - Double Play: The Studio Ghibli Collection (Blu-ray Details)
From the creators of the Academy Award-winning SPIRITED AWAY comes a tale scripted by the legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. Directed by his protégé Yoshifumi Kondô, this film is a simple tale about a young girl who falls in love and learns to believe in herself. Her name is Suzuku Tsukishima and she is nearing the end of her final year of junior high. An avid bookworm, she devours books while...

Welcome to the NHK: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
Sato's life is going down the drain. He's dropped out of college, only goes outside once a week, and sleeps sixteen hours a day. Surviving on a steady diet of internet porn sites, he finds himself falling further into a pit of despair. Then he has a sudden epiphany. Sato decides that the sinister broadcast company known as "The NHK" is trying to transform their viewers into jobless, societal...

Brazil (Blu-ray Details)
Brazil is a Terry Gilliam`s surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme. Everyone is monitored by a secret government agency that forbids love to interfere with efficiency. When a daydreaming bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryce) becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero (Robert De Niro) and a beautiful mystery woman (Kim Greist), he becomes the...

Villain (DVD Details)
Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a construction worker who has lived his entire life in a dreary fishing village. With no girlfriend or friends, he spends his days working and looking after his grandparents, with no enjoyment in life other than his car. Meanwhile, Mitsuyo (Eri Fukatsu) also lives a monotonous life pacing between the men s clothing store where she works and the apartment where she...

Eden Of The East Movie 2: Paradise Lost (Blu-ray Details)
The story of political and subversive intrigue in the series finally reaches endgame. Even as the law enforcement net tightens around Saki and her fellow Eden of the East associates over alleged terrorist activities, the complex web surrounding the mysterious Mr. Outside is finally untangled as the remaining Selecao attempt to outmaneuver one another. Takizawa's memories and identity are also...

Red Letter Day: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 4 NOVEMBER 2012. It happens in almost everyone’s life. There is a special day – a day of unusual significance. A turning point in life, perhaps in career, romance or fortune; a day to remember. This anthology of plays, each as individual as the people and events portrayed, looks at seven such Red Letter Days. Ranging from the poignant to the surreal,...

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (DVD Details)
It is mid-december, and SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that the Brigade is going to hold a Christmas party in their clubroom, with Japanese hotpot for dinner. The brigade members Kyon, Yuki Nagato, Mikuru Asahina and Itsuki Koizumi start preparing everything for the party, such as costumes and decorations. But a couple of days later, Kyon arrives at school only to find that Haruhi is...

Five Minarets in New York (Blu-ray Details)
Istanbul, Turkey: Two of Turkey s top Secret Police Officers undertake covert anti-terror operations to uncover the true identity of a dangerous Islamic leader known only as Dajjal . Through violent raids and brutal interrogations they uncover his real name. New York: Led by Agent Becker (Robert Patrick Terminator 2; Judgement Day) the FBI arrest a prominent Muslim scholar and family man Hadji...

Children of the Stones: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Children of the Stones was an undisputed landmark in children's television. Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray's groundbreaking fantasy series, starring Iain Cuthbertson and Gareth Thomas and filmed largely in Avebury in Wiltshire, combined scientific fact and fiction with pagan mythology and rural folklore in its portrayal of a village held captive by the sinister power of its Neolithic stone circle....

Armchair Theatre: Volume 2 (DVD Details)
Armchair Theatre was ITV’s flagship drama anthology series. Initially screened between 1956 and 1973, it was hugely popular, with viewing figures occasionally reaching twenty million, and became a byword for quality in televised drama. Pioneering, immensely influential and sometimes challenging in its content, the series consistently drew upon a wide range of talent. Armchair Theatre became a...

Phantom: Requiem For The Phantom - Part 1 (DVD Details)
A young man with no memories fights to salvage his humanity when he's forced into a life of murder by a dangerous crime syndicate called Inferno. The organization gives him a new name, Zwei, and molds him into a perfect killing machine, a meticulous instrument of death created to obey his masters' every deadly command. Zwei's not the only puppet controlled by Inferno; Ein is a girl as beautiful...

Sawako Decides (DVD Details)
Sawako has lived in Tokyo for five years, is working her fifth office job, and is dating her fifth boyfriend, who is also her boss at the office. Her life with Kenichi, her boyfriend, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Kayoko, feels like a "compromise," and she endures each day feeling distressed about her career and love life. One day, she receives word that her father, Tadao, who runs a...

Manhunter: 25th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray Details)
2011 is the 25th Anniversary of the original release of Michael Mann's stylish thriller MANHUNTER, the first film adaptation of Thomas Harris's 'Red Dragon', thus also the screen debut of the infamous Hannibal Lecktor, as played here by Brian Cox.  Will Graham (William Petersen) is persuaded to return from retirement by his colleague Jack Crawford, who convinces him that his ability to...