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Far Out East: Basara



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The Princess Goh
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Far Out East: Behind Flower and Snake



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This is a behind-the scenes making-of of the superb, brutal, erotic, handsomely produced sado-masochistic masterpiece from director Takeshi Ishii: 'Flower and Snake'. Perfect Picture and Sound from an international dvd source with menu and chapter stops. In Japanese with English Subtitles. Sound/Picture 10/10

Far Out East: Blessing Bell



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Kôfuku no kane (2002) AKA: Blessing Bell (USA)

Directed by Hiroyuki Tanaka. Runtime: 87 min.

Director SABU has been creating great, dynamic films for years and the sense of sadness and agony is the core of what makes his films interesting. With Blessing Bell he again shows us great quirky characters: The story goes like this: After Igarashi loses his job when the factory he worked for is closed down he aimlessly

wanders around, seeing one strange event after another...

Great print: Picture/Sound 10/10

Far Out East: Bloody Aria



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a.k.a. Guta-yubalja-deul (2006) Directed by Shin-yeon Won. A music professor takes his 'favorite' student on a drive through the countryside of South Korea. To evade a cop he decides to take a detour and winds up near a desolate river. Feelin' pretty good bout himself, he steps out of the car, takes in the view of the scenery and decides to give an impromptu "music lesson" to his student. The student freaks out and takes off into the remote woods. The lecherous prof figures there's no where to run to and waits for her in his car. While waiting for her, 3 very strange people emerge from the woods.. one has a bloody baseball bat..

Combines the ugly country bumpkins of Deliverance and the stylistic flair of Oliver Stone’s U-Turn. Pretty damn cool.

Beautiful sound and picture from an international dvd source. Sound/picture a 10/10. In Korean with English Subtitles. Dvd menu. Adults Only!

Far Out East: Cassern



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It's an Earth with an alternate history, a gigantic world war has finally come to an end leaving the earth diseased and polluted. A geneticist called Dr. Azuma is trying to get support from the government for a new neo-cell treatment that he claims can rejuvenate the human body and thereby regenerate all of humankind. The government leaders, in a move to safeguard their own deeply entrenched powers, turn down the good prof. Undaunted and driven to move foreward and complete his work, Dr. Azuma accepts a secret offer from a sinister faction of the military. After an incident occurs in Dr. Azuma's lab, a race of mutant humans known as the Shinzo Ningen are unleashed upon the world. Now only the warrior known as Casshern, reincarnated with an invincible body, stands between the Shinzo Ningen and a world on the brink of annihilation.
A very cool movie and available in a special edition 3 disc version with TONS of extras (the movie is subtitled but the extras are not..sorry). Sound/Picture=10/10.

Far Out East: Dead End Run



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(2003) Directed by Sogo Ishii. Ishii Sogo (Electric Dragon 80,000 volts) is kind of a Rorschach director. His movies are pretty well incomprehensible, stylish as all hell, but depending what you put into it are either amazing and unique or weird and boring. This one is three stories linked in the weirdest way: three separate guys being chased down an alley. A man being chased by Yakuza, another man chased by a hitman, and a third by the police. Perfect Picture and Sound from an international dvd source with menu and chapter stops. In Japanese with English subtitles. Sound/Picture 10/10

Far Out East: Dead Run



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Directed by Sabu. Another great movie from Sabu. Shuji and Shuichi are two brothers who were born and raised in Hama, a city in Western Japan. Shuichi is the ambitious brother, determined to make something of himself, while Shuji is the quieter kind, willing to let his brother be the star of the family. A resort project designed to economically jump-start Hama becomes a massive failure and results in the city becoming increasingly difficult to live in while it's discovered that the village priest has a scandalous past. The pressures getting to him, Shuichi starts setting fire to buildings to vent his rage.

There's loads more that happens but I don't want to give you a complete play by play of a movie that the pleasure is seeing things unfold. Just buy it and enjoy.

Great print in with menu & chapter stops. Subtitled in English. Picture/Sound 10/10

Far Out East: Diary



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A.K.A. Mon seung (2006) Directed by Oxide Pang Chun. The new movie from those crazy Pang fellows. Winnie, a disturbed woman lives in a weird, bizarrely old-fashioned house full of marionettes. What's started breaking down around her is her perceptions of what's real. The horror being not ghosts, devils or monsters, but the the most terrifying: her own mind. Diary does have some gore but it works on a more horrifying level: with suggestion of terrible things lurking just in the background. The best Pang Bros outing since The Eye. Great Picture and Sound from an international dvd source with menu and chapter stops. English subtitles. Sound/Picture 10/10

Far Out East: Dog Bite Dog



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a.k.a. Gau ngao gau (2006) Directed by Pou-Soi Cheang. Insane movie that lives up to it's Cat.III rating! The story: A young, vicious, Cambodian hit man (Pang), is sent to Hong Kong to assassinate the wife of a judge. He's in unfamiliar territory and what makes it worse is that he's pursued by an equally sadistic detective (Wai). Like two feral wild dogs attacking each other, neither Pang nor Wai will stop until the other man falls! A tough, brutal movie that's definitely not for everyone on yer Christmas list. Recommended! Beautiful sound and picture from an international dvd source. Sound/picture a 10/10. In Cantonese with English Subtitles. Dvd menu. Adults Only!

Far Out East: Eighteen Springs



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Year: 1997 Director: Ann Hui On-Wah

Based on a famous novel, director Ann Hui’s film is a fable about class prejudices and the ironies of fate.

Manjing's budding romance to Shijun is frought with ill-fated cicumstances. Among the couple's many problems: her mother thinks he’s too slow, his parents don’t like her class status, and her sister (Anita Mui) has other plans for her while Anita’s rich husband (Ge You of Farewell My Concubine and To Live) has quite a liking for Manjing, and wants to add her to his collection, too.

A great print: Picture/Sound 10/10

Far Out East: Getting Any



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Takeshi Kitano - Director

Kitano is mostly known in the west as a gritty, tough guy character. If that's all YOU know him as, you'll be pretty surprised with this hilarious departure. This isn’t the kind of familiar deadpan humor that he sometimes adds to his dramas, it's an all-out slapstick cartoony comedy full of sex humor, pop culture parodies and generally weird ideas all kneaded together to form one weird funny movie expreience. The best way to describe the film is it's a live-action Wile E. Coyote film if Wile E. was obsessed with devising plots to acquire money, a car and sex.

A must see!

A great print: Picture/Sound 9/10

Far Out East: G.I. Samurai



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a.k.a.Sengoku jieitai (1979) Directed by Mitsumasa Saito. Classic Sonny Chiba! A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan. To achieve this, he teams his troops up with those of Kagatori, a samurai daimyo who also aspires to become Shogun. Are either of these power-hungry warriors to be trusted?

Perfect Picture and Sound from an out of print international dvd source with menu and chapter stops. In Japanese with English Subtitles. Sound/Picture 10/10

Far Out East: Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai



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(2006) aka ELECTION 2. Directed by Johnny To. If you loved "Infernal Affairs' - and who's mind didn't it blow?- Election 2 is for you.

Super stylized and almost completely lacking of the typical "action" sequences that HK gangster pictures have become associated with, Election 2 is also one of the coldest films in recent memory.

The plot is not amazing, this is a film of STYLE. The gangster underworld is populated by disaffected thugs in expensive suits, no loyalties to anyone but themselves. The isolation and paranoia of these guys are accentuated beautifully by the lighting, music, and sparse sets.

Even though there's really no typical HK brand action scenes isn't to say it's not violent, it's that the depictions of violence and Triad traditions that these power obsessed sociopaths participate in are not glamorous; their quiet panic becoming palpable as the realization sets in that greed has condemned them all. It is a testament to the director's talent that even without a single likable character for the audience to root for; the film remains compelling right to the bitter end.

Awesome. Great print in with menu & chapter stops. Subtitled in English. Picture/Sound 10/10

Far Out East: Haze



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(2005) HORROR Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. At only 40 minutes long, Haze is like a punch in the gut. Again Shinya Tsukamoto proves that he not afraid of pushing boundaries in terms of what might be shown. Plus the guy shure knows what scares us. The short is like your worst nightmare come alive. I don't want to say too much. It's time to buy this mother and feel really uncomfortable for 40 minutes. Recommended!

Great print in with menu & chapter stops. Subtitled in English. Picture/Sound 10/10

Far Out East: One Missed Call



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People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters persue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.
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Far Out East: Samurai Commando



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A.K.A.Sengoku jieitai 1549 (2005) Directed by Masaaki Tezuka. This is pretty well a remake of G.I.Samurai but it's seriously flikkin' silly maan. Modern day soldiers travel back in time to Japan’s 'Warring States' era and participate in out n'out battle with clans of warring samurai. Sounds pretty cool eh? Except there's so many lapses of logic here that kinda lowers the cool factor. I mean the movie, straight faced, wants us to believe half a squad of military fighters constructs a giant, I'm talkin' massive, castle complex with WORKING OIL REFINERY !?! in under two years while also cooking up some kind of plan that the nuking Mount Fuji is somehow the key to a more prosperous future !?! Still a cool time waster. Perfect Picture and Sound from an international dvd source with menu and chapter stops. Sound/Picture 10/10

Far Out East: Spacked Out



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Directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. A group of four teenage girls in Hong Kong go through their lives, the product of broken homes and failing schools. They spend their time shopping, partying, and experimenting with sex and drugs until trouble strikes and harsh reality sets in. SPACKED OUT sets itself apart from other exploitative films by the stark light it sheds on the problems facing teenage girls around the world, thanks to top-notch acting and direction.
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Far Out East: Strange Circus



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Wheel-bound novelist Taeko sets on to write an erotic novel in which school principal Ozawa rapes his daughter after she sees her parents having sex as her mother Sayuri witness the event which results in him raping both of them as he pleases. Talk about a rape-happy patriarch. Taeko is assisted by Yuji, a young man who is actually on a mission to uncover the basis of this supposedly made up tale and of the reality of Taeko's past, and what is in the locked room in her apartment?

ADULTS ONLY!

A very strange film but a beautiful print with great menu! Subtitled in remove able English. Picture/Sound 10/10

Far Out East: Stereo Future



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Keisuke is a down-on-his-luck actor who seems only able to land roles as villains in period movies.
Constantly berated by an half-insane director and a jealous, arrogant leading star Keisuke considers quitting his dream of becoming an actor to work as a bartender in a trendy Tokyo oxgen bar.
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Far Out East: Vibrator



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VIBRATOR is the poignant story of Rei (Shinobu Terashima), a writer, who is laden with loneliness, fear, and obsession. She meets a truck driver, Okabe (Nao Omori), in a convenience store and takes to the road with him. Together they embark on a road trip through Japan amid the constant vibration of a 4-ton truck, sharing stories of his petty criminal past and her alcoholism and eating disorder. These damaged people find a bond in tenderly expressed sex (a Hiroki trademark), the freedom and beauty of the landscape, and in teaching Rei to operate the truck and its CB radio. Rei's inner thoughts are expressed, but no longer isolate her as she laughs, cries, and connects with Okabe. Shot almost entirely within the truck's cab, their intimate world is compelling. VIBRATOR has won numerous awards during its long and illustrious run on the film festival circuit.
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Far Out East: Welcome to Dongmakgol



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(2005) Directed by Kwang-Hyun Park. Welcome to Dongmakgolis a South Korean film set during the the Korean War. It was South Korea's official entry for the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards in 2005. The story is gonna sound a bit hard to believe but believe us, it's handled beautifully. In this flick soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot find themselves in a secluded and fairly idealized village which is unaware of the outside world and the war.

A very good film and a great print and menu. Sound/picture 10/10. In Korean with removable English subtitles.

Far Out East: Citizen Dog



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A.K.A. Mah nakorn (2004) Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng. From the director of the cool Tears of the Black Tiger. It's basically an urban road movie: It begins this way, Pod, bit of a country bumpkin works at a tinned sardine factory in Bangkok. One day, he chops off his finger and packs it in the can, prompting him to go out around looking for his lost finger at various supermarkets.

Through the course of the movie he meets an assortment of oddballs. As you can probabaly figure, it's kinda difficult to describe, like a cross between AMELIE and a bit of CHUNGKING EXPRESS without its' kinetic style.

Great Picture and Sound from an international dvd source with menu and chapter stops. English subtitles. Sound/Picture 10/10

Far Out East: Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot - Complete Series



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A.K.A."Jaianto robo" (1967) TV-Series 1967-1968. Ah yessss.. yet another guilty pleasure from long lost youth. Johnny Sokko is an ordinary kid, meets a young man on a voyage before the boat they're on is suddenly sunk by agents of the terrorist organization the Gargoyle Gang who use giant robots for their attacks. Managing to save themeselves, the two find themselves on an island base,and meet up with

a scientist who has constructed the most advanced and powerful robot of all (guess which one THAT is). Upset that his ultimate creation will be used for evil, the scientist shows the pair the robot and the wristwatch voice controller which is set to imprint the next speaker as the only person who can command the robot. Imp that he is, Johnny speaks into it and becomes that controller. With the robot's power, they escape and Johnny learns that his new friend is an agent of the worldwide

intelligence and anti-terrorist organization, Unicorn, which is dedicated to opposing the Gargoyle Gang. With no alternative, Unicorn recruits Johnny as a full regular agent. Now, Johnny has a vital role in this new war as the one person who can bring the tremendous strength and firepower of the giant robot to bear against the forces of evil!!! Cool! Three discs - complete series PLUS the movie. - Great Picture and Sound from an international source with menu and chapter stops. In English. Sound/Picture 10/10