A SAMURAI IN TIME: Pre-Orders Are Up For Junichi Yasuda’s Adoring Time Travel Samurai Flick
Junichi Yasuda’s A SAMURAI IN TIME is coming soon on Region Free Blu-Ray next month from Third Window Films!
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THE KATSUHITO ISHII COLLECTION: Third Window Touts Limited Edition 6-Film Blu Pack Debuting In July!
2023 aims to be a great year for Katsuhito Ishii fans. The Japanese auteur’s work is soon to be subject of a few film events taking place this summer for NIFFF, as well as in the UK in July at the Prince Charles Cinema (TBA) and at Derby’s QUAD Cinema (also TBA). By then, fans will be able to snag their copy of a sextet of films dubbed The Katsuhito Ishii Collection, a mixed collection of six films at short and feature-length on limited edition 3 disc digipack Blu-ray. Starting with Disc 1, we have 1998’s Shark Skin Man And Peach Hip Girl, with Tadanobu Asano and Sie Kohinata leading the way for the story of a woman and a man on the run from her sexually abusive uncle and relentless Yakuza killers and goons looking to retrieve what’s theirs. That film gets paired with Ishii’s earlier 1995 indie short, Promise […]
ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE Sets April And May Theatrical, Blu-Ray And VOD Dates From Third Window Films
Third Window Films is proudly taking the mantle to release their latest epic war drama, Onoda: 10,000 Nights In The Jungle. Exhibitors in the UK and Ireland all have limited theatrical dates from next week on Friday, April 15, through May with more dates to be announced. Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, but for Onoda and his men, the war will go on for 10,000 more days. The film marks writer/director Arthur Harari’s third feature endeavor, submitted to Cannes’s Un Certain Regard section and […]
ONE CUT OF THE DEAD+ONE CUT OF THE DEAD: IN HOLLYWOOD Limited Blu-Ray Sets Coming In May From Third Window Films
Third Window Films is touting a limited edition release of one of its most-prized titles of its catalogue, One Cut Of The Dead. A sleeper hit at home with increasing support in the months and years that followed, director Shinichiro Ueda’s one-take comedic horror delight now comes aptly packaged with its 57-minute follow-up, One Cut Of The Dead: Hollywood Edition. The UK distro outlet will have 2000 units on hand, boasting several hours of content with bonus features, and it all goes down May 31. Peep the specs below: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD opens in a run-down, abandoned warehouse where a film crew are making a zombie film. Yet this is no ordinary warehouse. It’s been said that it’s the site of military experiments on human. From nowhere, real zombies arrive & terrorize the crew!This may sound like a the plot of a clichéd zombie film, but One Cut of […]
Review: In TOP KNOT DETECTIVE, McCann And Pearce Strike Asian Cult Comedy Gold With Unapologetic Fervor
Filmmakers Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce knew exactly what they were doing in the years leading up to the completion of their latest SBS webseries-turned-feature debut, Top Knot Detective. It took a bit of effort and evolution, for sure, and indeed it’s paid off something fierce in terms of influence, having become one of the biggest and most well-received cult hits of our time. Narrated by Hercules Returns screenwriter Des Mangan, Top Knot Detective goes full-tilt in its satirical endeavors to tap into the oddities of early 1990s Japanese TV lore and celebrity. Delivered with a mix of dated footage from an early 1990s TV show along with old and recent interviews with the cast along with an assortment of 90s-era pictorals, it brings little wonder as to why some folks who’ve seen this mockumentary thought that everything elucidated was true, no matter how good or juicy it was. Top […]
TOP KNOT DETECTIVE: Bring Home The Legendary Untold Non-Story Home On Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray/DVD March 18
Australian duo Dominic Pearce and Aaron McCann have spent the last several years stirring a ruckus with the gonzo comedic mockumentary, Top Knot Detective. Originally an episodic then edited swiftly in feature film fashion to present to audiences, the film has earned countless praise from festivals and niche sites around and thus, the good folks over at Third Window Films are ready to oblige with a Region Free Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray and DVD on March 18. In the early 90s a little known Japanese Samurai/Detective series hit Australia where it quickly became a cult hit. In Japan it was called ‘Ronin Suiri Tentai (Deductive Reasoning Ronin), but in Australia it is known only as ‘Top Knot Detective’! Samurai, robots, flying tiger sharks, time-traveling baseball players and alien monsters: the legendary – and above all notoriously bad – Japanese detective series Ronin Suiri Tentai had it all. In Japan, the series […]
DANGAN RUNNER: Third Window Films Hits The Ground Running With An Official NSFW Trailer
SABU’s critically acclaimed cult fave, DANGAN RUNNER, is getting a UK Blu-Ray debut release from Third Window Films.
Arrow Films Acquires UK-Based Asian Cult Cinema Distributor, Third Window Films
It’s been quite a rollercoaster in the last several years for UK-based Third Window Films. After launching in 2005 with an interest in tapping into Asian cult cinema for better profusion overseas, the company found itself wrestling with theatrical distribution in 2012 and resorted to scaling down to release to DVD and Blu-Ray rollout efforts with the help of Fusion Media Group until parent company Curzon folded it into its Artificial Eye shingle. That pretty much left Third Window Films blowing in the wind back in January which further left things uncertain along with other distributors of the same size. On Thursday, the humble niche distributor of Japanese titles like Love Exposure, Tetsuo 1 and 2, Tokyo Fist and recently listed hopefuls such as Uchida Eiji’s Love And Other Cults, Sono Sion’s Antiporno, limited edition two-disc animated titles – Osamu Tezuka’s 1001 Nights and Cleopatra, SABU’s 1996 crime comedy, Dagan […]
FIRES ON THE PLAIN Rages On UK DVD And Blu-Ray This Fall
Expect to catch actor Tsukamoto Shinya in a remastered performance in the gruesome subliminal 2001 crime manga adaptation, Ichi The Killer. While you’re at it if in the U.K., feast your eyes on the upcoming release of Tsukamoto’s most recent outing, Fires On The Plain, remade from Ichikawa Kon’s own 1959 adaptation of Shohei Ooka’s 1951 anti-war novel. In the final stages of WWII, the occupying Japanese army in the Philippines is rapidly losing ground, facing local resistance combined with an American offensive. The final few Japanese survivors, having almost been wiped out, have crossed the threshold into a realm where there are no friends, no enemies and no God. The imagery alone dictates this isn’t for the faint of heart. Tsukamoto also wrote screenplay and is joined on screen by Nakamura Tatsuya, Lily Franky and Nakamura Yûko for its September 11 release on DVD and Blu-Ray from Third Window […]
Ochiai Ken's UZUMASA LIMELIGHT Is Headed To The U.K.!
Ochiai Ken‘s suspenseful swordplay drama, Uzumasa Limelight became an award-winning festival sensation during its run last year and it’s safe to suggest that many of the critics who have seen it all stand behind this one. It’s an ardent homage to a bygone era of stylish stunt acting with longtime veteran Fukumoto Seizo in his debut lead role after half a century of having established himself in the world of swordplay genre and action on film, which undoubtedly makes Uzumasa Limelight one worthy of moviegoers’ utmost attention. SYNOPSIS: Uzumasa (Kyoto) is considered the Hollywood of Japan. It has produced many “jidaigeki” films (period dramas with sword fighting) that are loved by many Japanese, and are highly praised all over the world. These films wouldn’t be what they were if it weren’t for the “kirareyaku” (actors whose main job is to be killed by the lead star). Men who are killed, […]
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