Items Matching Tag 'MVM'

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...

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...

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...

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 &...

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...

Ninja Battle (DVD Details)
Blood-soaked, Ninja-powered mayhem from cult director Seiji Chiba (Alien vs Ninja). Stars Ben Hiura (Zatoichi) & Kentaro Shimazu (Tokyo Gore Police). Set in war-torn feudal Japan, the Iga ninja make a final stand as the overwhelming armies of Warlord Oda Nobunaga and the deadly Koga ninja approach. This is the ultimate battle to the death where surrender is not an option.

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...

Slayers: Evolution-R (DVD Details)
The magical mayhem of The Slayers Revolution continues in The Slayers Evolution-R! With the original cast of The Slayers back together for the first time in over a decade, Lina Inverse and her crew are reunited and doing what they do best - saving the world by almost destroying it! Lina's gang and their new ally Pokota are hot on the trail of the Hellmaster's Jar! It's no ordinary piece of...

Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny Complete Collection (DVD Details)
The “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” continues on in modern Japan, as the rival high schools involved in the retelling of the epic saga struggle to achieve dominance. The focus begins to shift to other high schools and the interaction of their frontrunners. In the backdrop, the dragons of the remaining two great leaders are awakening, leading to growing mayhem. As ancient artifacts are acquired and...

Ninja Girl (DVD Details)
As the fierce rivalry between the Iga and Kouga ninja clans rages on, a pair of psychotic eunuch ninjas, Shimotsuki and Hyotsuki, are tasked with abducting young women from nearby Kouga villages and forcing them to serve as “tools of pleasure” to the lower-ranking members of their clan. While transporting their latest quartet of victims – including a feisty girl called Kisaragi (Rina Takeda) –...

Rogue Ninja (DVD Details)
Directed by Seiji Chiba (Alien Vs. Ninja; Evil Ninja) and starring up-and-coming Japanese action heroine Mika Hijii (Alien Vs. Ninja), the action-packed, period-set martial arts adventure Rogue Ninja delivers bone crunching thrills aplenty with a classic tale of comradeship, loyalty and betrayal. The time is the 16th Century and the whole of Japan is wracked by civil war. The Iga ninja, fated...

Black Belt (DVD Details)
Before World War II, three disciples, Taikan, Choei, and Giryu, were taught by karate master Eiken Shibara in a remote mountain dojo. When the Japanese military police attempt to seize the training hall, the three disciples resist and soundly defeat them, though Choei receives a crippling injury. Afterwards, on his deathbed, their master bids his pupils to focus their skills inward and decide who...

Gallants (DVD Details)
This unheralded little movie is thus far 2010's biggest surprise - an entertaining and winning kung-fu comedy with plenty of old-school Hong Kong Cinema love. Featuring excellent action plus a terrific star turn from Teddy Robin Kwan. Weedy office worker Cheung is sent to a remote village to secure property rights for his real estate company. Two martial artists run the village's teahouse,...

Demons Rising (DVD Details)
The Liber Malorum – the book of life and death – created by heretic monks long ago to raise the dead and to demonize the living. This ancient text, believed to have vanished in 1947 in Soviet Russia, has now reappeared in Genoa, Italy and a man calling himself Doctor Angelo Montorio desperately wants to get his hands on it. To assist him, Montorio hires Kyle Rush, a professional thief specialising...

The Tower of Druaga: The Complete Series (6 discs) (DVD Details)
Defeat the demon, save the kingdom, and don't forget those extra lives! In a summer once every five years, demons within the mysterious Tower of Druaga lose their powers due to a magic spell cast by a god named 'Anu'. During this time, King Gilgamesh, ruler of the kingdom Uruk, and his army have invaded the tower and built a fortress city on the very first floor of Druaga. Thus begins the story of...

Pandemic (DVD Details)
When a new strain of influenza is discovered in the heart of Japan, Tokyo General Hospital dispatches emergency medical units to aid the infected but as the invisible threat spreads through out a terrified city mass panic erupts and martial law is imposed. As the pandemic worsens the isolated hospital becomes a war zone between the military and medical authorities.

Wushu (DVD Details)
Presented by Jackie Chan, this martial arts action movie shows the discipline required for this Japanese art form whilst showing the true bonds of friendship. Upon arrival at an elite martial arts school, a group of young boys swear allegiance to each other and form a gang whilst learning the disciplines of Wushu. A decade later at graduation, they unexpectedly cross paths with an evil martial...

Death Notice: Ikigami (DVD Details)
In the interests of national prosperity, in a near-future Japan all children are given an inoculation on their first day at school. One in every thousand of the injections contains a lethal nano-capsule, which will end the recipient’s life some time between the ages of 18 and 24. Having been randomly selected to die, prior to their termination these citizens are given 24 hours’ notification of...

Blade of The Immortal: Volume 3 (DVD Details)
The pin wheel of fate turns, as Rin rescues a boy who turns out to be the son of Kawakami. Kawakami was the man who raped her mother as she was forced to listen from only a few feet away. A lot has happened to Kawakami and now he is a family man. Rin will either wear the signature face-paint of Kawakami's victims or kill him and doom his son to grow up just like she did: living only for vengeance...

252: Sign Of Life (DVD Details)
Inspired by a miraculous real-life rescue event that occurred following the Chuetsu earthquake of 2004 and named after the Tokyo Fire Department code that indicates the discovery of survivors in need of rescue, 252: Sign Of Life is an epic, special effects-laden disaster movie that combines the thrills and dramatic heroics of ‘The Towering Inferno’ with the elemental spectacle of ‘Sinking Of Japan’...

Slayers: Revolution (DVD Details)
Lina's on the run from a government inspector who's ready to put her away for good. Her crime? Just being herself! The guy's hot on her tail, but a tiny creature that actually has a tail might be Lina's biggest problem. Pokota's a powerful little furball, and his path of destruction is getting pinned on Lina. With so much explosive magic between them, you know things will go boom when they face...

Blade of The Immortal: Volume 2 (DVD Details)
For Manji, even the gift of death is not welcome when given at the wrong time by the wrong man. Shizuma Eikuu, a mysterious monk, challenges Manji. He shares Manji's curse of eternal life, and he fights with a special poison that can even kill the worms that hold Manji together. But even that is no match for the poison that lives in the human heart. The latest Ittou-Ryuu challenger is the most...

Moribito: Guardian Of The Spirit - Part 2 (DVD Details)
She carries the pain of eight souls. He carries the burden of one sacred spirit. At a time when the balance of nature still held the civilizations of mankind in thrall, a single drought could spell the end of a society and doom its inhabitants to piteous deaths. Prince Chagum has been imbued with the power to stave off the drought and bring new life to his empire. However, this is a...

Blade of The Immortal: Volume 1 (DVD Details)
In the lawless world of 18th century Japan, disputes among outlaw samurai warriors are settled with the sword and only the most adept swordsmen can survive for very long. But one man stands alone and for him the usual rules do not apply. A highly skilled samurai, Manji has earned himself a fearsome reputation as the killer of 100 honest men. Among his victims are his own Lord and the husband of...

Moribito: Guardian Of The Spirit - Part 1 (DVD Details)
At a time when the balance of nature still held the civilizations of mankind in thrall, a single drought could spell the end of a society and doom its inhabitants to piteous deaths. Prince Chagum has been imbued with the power to stave off the drought and bring new life to his empire. However, this is a suspicious time, and he is accused of possession by an evil spirit. Court advisors only see...

The Haunting of Marsten Manor (DVD Details)
A girl angry about being blind and struggling with her faith unexpectedly inherits an old mansion from her estranged aunt. When she arrives at the house, unnerving events start happening and she starts "seeing things". Her friends become concerned for her sanity, leaving her feeling even more isolated and mesmerised by the spell within the house. When she disappears, her friends realise that is...

Pet Shop Of Horrors (DVD Details)
Step right up! The line forms here for the most incredible pet shop in all of Chinatown... but is it ONLY a pet shop? Inside, the strangely androgynous Count holds court over a menagerie of strange and bizarre creatures, each of which seems to have been tailor made for the lost souls who enter seeking a new lifelong companion. Of course, the Count doesn't give guarantees on whose lifetime that...

Rozen Maiden: Traumend - Volume 2 (DVD Details)
Life returns back to normal within the Sakurada household, however, there remain a few dolls still intent on becoming "Alice." Barasuishou is an enigma as she manipulates events in the background and Kanaria finally makes her attack, proving that she's a force to be reckoned with, while Souseiseki grows restless with the current situation, trying to understand why the others aren't preparing for...

Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful - Volume 3 (DVD Details)
The final confrontation is here! Management vs Vesper vs Saint. The time has come for all cards to be placed into play as Minawa is called to fulfill her duty. Mahoro will have to use all her wits and skill to withstand Management's combat androids, Feldrance and Minawa. In a battle between superpowers and combat androids, what can Suguru, one human boy, do? Or is there more here than...

Samurai Zombie (DVD Details)
A vacationing family’s drive through the tranquil woods surrounding Eight Spears Village takes an unfortunate turn when their car hits a gun-toting man standing in the middle of the road. Suddenly, a young man and woman emerge from the woods and, after shooting the accident victim, proceed to car-jack the family taking them hostage in the process. The situation immediately goes from bad to worse...