 | Like the cherry blossoms and bloody decapitations that saturate its frames, director Mamoru Kanbe's grisly anime series 'Elfen Lied' contrasts the opposing forces of innocence and evil with equal parts beauty and violence. Sexy, pink-haired Lucy is... |
 | A performance to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach. The Bach Collegium Japan recorded live from the Suntory Hall on the 28th July 2000. |
 | Ocho Inoshika is a pickpocket and gambler who gets into a heap of trouble when she meets the three villains responsible for her father's death. After providing refuge for an anarchist on the run, Inoshika gets on the wrong side of some Yakuza baddies... |
 | Ace fighter Tetsu is recalled to Tokyo to help out his former employer who's embroiled in gang warfare. Japanese dialogue. |
 | In this musical interpretation of a famous Japanese folktale, a raccoon spirit princess falls in love with a banished human prince. |
 | Seijun Suzuki, the legendary Japanese director probably best known for the cult hit BRANDED TO KILL, returns with this movie about a league of killers of hire. Something of a sequel to BRANDED TO KILL, the film stars Makiko Esumi as a killer named... |
 | Kanzo Hattori--an apprentice Ninja from Igo--travels to Edo to complete his training. The first person he meets there shall be his master. This turns out to be a nine-year-old boy called Kenichi. |
 | From Seijun Suzuki, the visionary Japanese director of BRANDED TO KILL and TOKYO DRIFTER, comes this tale of disaffected youth. FIGHTING ELEGY is the story of Kiroku; a young man who by suppressing his sexual desires, finds release only through gang... |
 | Recording information: CBGB's, New York, NY (2001). |
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