Items Matching Tag 'Japanese'

Bleach The Movie 3: Fade To Black (Blu-ray Details)
Save the girl, save the other world! A mysterious figure has broken into Mayuri Kurotsuchi's laboratory in the Seireitei. Rukia witnesses this catastrophe, and the intruders abduct Rukia as she feels something inside of her fade away. Meanwhile, in the World of the Living, Ichigo and Kon experience a strange disturbance and head to Kisuke Urahara's shop for some answers. When Kisuke informs...

Bleach The Movie 2: The Diamond Dust Rebellion (Blu-ray Details)
When a caravan transporting the King's Seal is attacked, Toshiro Hitsugaya and Squad 10 are on the ready. As they prepare to protect the treasure that holds immeasurable power, Hitsugaya suddenly abandons the scene alongside the thieves and becomes one of the accused. In response, the Soul Society calls for his capture and execution. Upon hearing the edict, Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo...

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...

Bleach The Movie: Memories Of Nobody (Blu-ray Details)
Ichigo Kurosaki has never been an average teenage boy. For as long as he can remember, has been able to see and communicate with the spirits of the recently departed. Now, Ichigo is a Soul Reaper, one whose duty it is to send lost souls off to the world of the dead while fighting malevolent spirits known as Hollows. Ichigo's already weird existence gets even weirder when he and fellow Soul...

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts Complete Series Collection (DVD Details)
When a fight breaks out at Fumizuki Academy, nobody throws a single punch. Instead, the students utilize the school's technology to summon Avatars, pint-sized stand-ins with battle powers based on academic ability. That "academic ability" part is bad news for Yoshii: he's an idiot, stuck in lowly Class F with the slackers. If these misfits want to escape their dump of a classroom and earn some...

Yatterman (Blu-ray Details)
Classic seventies anime series Yatterman flies to the silver screen in a brilliant crime-fighting explosion of candy-coloured camp, over-the-top adventure, and pure popcorn entertainment. Directed by legendary cult director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer, Audition) and featuring a brand new plot and re-imaged characters, this live action debut of Yatterman will re-define the robot...

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (Blu-ray Details)
A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker named the Puppeteer is behind the entire series of events. In the midst of all, Batou, who was stalking...

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...

Fairy Tail: Part 2 (DVD Details)
Across the Fiore kingdom, wizards join guilds and make their pay by filling magical needs - but one guild has a reputation as the roughest, rowdiest, most dangerous of all: Fairy Tail! In the midst of a mission to break the curse over Galuna Island, Natsu and the gang face a band of deranged mages trying to resurrect the monstrous demon Deliora. Gray's determined to put the freeze on the...

Bleach: Series 8 Part 2 (2 Discs) (UK) (DVD Details)
Kurosaki Ichigo has always had the uncanny ability to see spirits and ghosts. Despite his unusual skill, he lives the normal life of a 15-year-old boy, aside from the moments when his rambunctious father body-slams him by surprise. Then one day, a Shinigami named Kuchiki Rukia crosses his path. She is hunting for an evil spirit but is shocked by Kurosaki's ability to see both her and the demon....

Deadball (DVD Details)
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a...

Yakuza Weapon (Blu-ray Details)
Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after four years, Shozo discovers that his father's number-one man, Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), has double-crossed and assassinated Kenzo, leaving Shozo not only in charge of what little remains of the Iwaki Family, but also...

Kiddy Grade: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
In Star Century Zero-One-Sixty-Five, the Global Union was born. To provide an impartial mediator to the various planetary governments of the G.U., the Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs, or G.O.T.T., was simultaneously formed to settle economic disputes amongst the member planets. Existing in the shadows of the G.O.T.T., the ES Force serves as the G.O.T.T.'s primary law enforcement...

Yakuza Hunters 2: The Revenge Duel In Hell (DVD Details)
After three years of intensive training Asami returns home to see her master Inokuma, the man who first taught her Yakuza hunting skills. She is devastated to see the whole area is now run by the Shoryu Yakuza and her master is in ruins. Planning to open a casino, the Yakuza hire cold-blooded killer Akira to kill anyone who gets in their way. But when Akira brutally murders those closest to Asami,...

Bubblegum Crisis: Vol. 2 (UK) (DVD Details)
Megatokyo 2033 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the mega-lopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high-tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister android "Boomers". Largo (Episodes 4-6) A mysterious black car is hunting down motorcycle gangs, but when...

Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (Blu-ray Details)
To stop the unstoppable you need the irresistible. To kill the unkillable, you need someone for whom death no longer has a meaning. And to catch the perfect serial killer, you need the one person who knows his methods the best... his last victim! Murdered and reborn, no longer human, the female cyborg Balot exists for only one reason: to track down the man who killed her and bring him to...

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...

Crows Zero (DVD Details)
Prolific maverick director Miike Takashi certainly kept the masses happy in 2007 with the release of three high-profile ready-made cult films. Sukiyaki Western Django and Like a Dragon both had enough Miike magic to spare, but it's Crows Zero (a.k.a. Crows - Episode 0) that comes out on top of the heap as the auteur's most commercially successful film to date. Thanks to his extreme themes and even...

Naruto Shippuden: The Movie 1 & 2 Double (Blu-ray Details)
Movie 1: Demons that once almost destroyed the world, are revived by someone. To prevent the world from being destroyed, the demon has to be sealed and the only one who can do it is the shrine maiden Shion from the country of demons, who has two powers; one is sealing demons and the other is predicting the deaths of humans. This time Naruto's mission is to guard Shion, but she predicts Naruto's...

Yakuza Hunters 1: The Ultimate Battle Royale (DVD Details)
It's the birth of the coolest heroines in high heels! Asami fights the treacherous Junko - a former member of her all girl gang-and she is left for dead. Returning to town after several years, Asami finds that Junko now works for the Yakuza and her home town is now a den of drugs and prostitution. Together with four other gun-toting babes, Asami gears up as Yakuza Hunters to take on the...

Bleach: Series 8 Part 1 (2 Discs) (UK) (DVD Details)
Everyone's training for the coming battle with Aizen's herd of arrancars. When they arrive, however, no one is properly prepared. Grimmjow returns to Karakura Town, escorted by Yammy, Luppi, and Wonderweiss, all of them Espada except Wonderweiss, who is...weird. The clash goes poorly for Karakura's defenders. Until, that is, Aizen's true objective becomes clear and the fight becomes moot.(Episodes...

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...

Fairy Tail: Part 1 (DVD Details)
In the Kingdom of Fiore, powerful wizards make their living by joining magical guilds and contracting out their services to become "wizards for hire." Harnessing the forces of Dragon Fire, Ice, Weaponry, and the Zodiac, four young wizards of the infamous guild Fairy Tail team up to seek their fortunes. Growing stronger with every mission, they travel the countryside helping people and battling...

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa (Blu-ray Details)
It is 1923 in Munich. Two years have passed since Edward Elric`s sacrifice ripped him out of his world and into ours, separating him from his younger brother, Alphonse. In that time, Ed`s continued research into rocketry has allied him with Alphonse Heiderich, a fellow researcher who oddly resembles Ed`s brother. Progress has been slow, however, and Ed has become discouraged. But when he saves a...

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....

Naruto Shippuden: Box Set 8 (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
Naruto's new jutsu Rasen Shuriken is unbelievably powerful - but because of the risks to the user, Tsunade forbids Naruto to use it! When Jiraiya returns to the village, Naruto seeks his guidance, and the two head off to a hot springs resort to work on a solution. Meanwhile, Kakashi leads a team in search of Orochimaru's hideout, and when Naruto hears about it, he begs to join them. Contains...

Gantz 2: Perfect Answer (DVD Details)
Gantz is based on a hit manga series created by Hiroya Oku and stars leading Japanese actors Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City). Gantz 2: Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono (Ninomiya Kazunari) is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz and he is close to reaching the score he needs...

Tekken: Blood Vengeance (DVD Details)
The stage for a final showdown is prepared as Anna Williams and the G Corporation set a trap for her sister Nina, who works for Jin Kazama, head of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Both Jin and his father, Kazuya Mishima of the G Corporation, seek to possess and control the M Cell that will unlock the destructive supernatural powers buried within the Mishima bloodline. Kazuya dispatches Ling Xiaoyu to a...

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...