This collector’s edition features two iconic films from director Akira Kurosawa: Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). In Yojimbo, Toshiro Mifune plays a mysterious, scruffy samurai who wanders into a town torn by conflict between two rival clans, using his swordsmanship and wit to play both sides against each other. The film blends thrilling action, dark humour, and a memorable soundtrack. Sanjuro, a lighter follow-up, sees Mifune’s character outwit a group of naive samurai and corrupt officials with a comedic edge, before delivering a sudden and intense finale. Together, these films showcase Kurosawa’s mastery in action, character, and storytelling.

The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.

When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a series of murders of young boys, the superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local “witch”, Maciara (Florinda Bolkan, A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin). With the bodies piling up and the community gripped by panic and a thirst for bloody vengeance, two outsiders – city journalist Andrea (Tomas Milian, The Four of the Apocalypse) and spoilt rich girl Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) – team up to crack the case. But before the mystery is solved, more blood will have been spilled, and not all of it belonging to innocents…

After her daughter’s death in an accident, Miyabi gets a divorce, starts working as a call girl and moves in with her new boyfriend. In a meeting with a new customer, he asks to take a picture of her body — first her spine, then, her feet, and after that, he begins to photograph her every time they meet. One day, while at home, Miyabi feels a small hand touching her leg and soon realizes that every time she allows her body to be photographed she can feel her daughter’s spirit reaching closer and closer. 

Neu Mirrors is a spin-off short film that attempts to answer certain unanswered questions of New Religion and begins just after a scene in the previous film. Aizawa wakes up in a strange hotel room. A voice calls him from his earphone. Aizawa notices a man in a white shirt in the room and a photo book at his feet. There are the faces of many strangers and his own face printed on it. Then, Aizawa’s reality dissolves into a nightmare world.

The hardboiled genre of crime fiction evolved from the mystery crime novels of the early 20th century. Closely associated with US pulp magazines, these cynical and unsentimental stories of desperate criminals and social corruption were both influenced by and an influence on the golden era of film noir.

As their popularity waned in the US, the hardboiled genre remained hugely popular and relevant throughout the 1960s and 70s in France, thanks to the successful Série Noire imprint and a succession of new translations. In Alain Corneau’s early films, he sought to continue the noir tradition in his native France and was both directly and indirectly inspired by titans of the hardboiled genre, including Kenneth Fearing and Jim Thompson. A heady combination of classic noir and 70s grit, these three darkly thrilling films are vastly underrated and important works in the canon of crime cinema.

Films featured: Police Python 357, Série noire, Choice of Arms

drugstore cowboy – the criterion collection 4k uhd

release date: 10th march 2025

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant and director of photography Robert Yeoman, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack

• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

• Audio commentary featuring Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon

• The Making of “Drugstore Cowboy,” featuring interviews with Van Sant and members of the cast and crew

• New interviews with Yeoman and actor Kelly Lynch

• Deleted scenes

• Trailer

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by author and screenwriter Jon Raymond

play it cool blu-ray

release date: 10th march 2025

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation

• Original uncompressed mono audio

• Optional English subtitles

• Brand new audio commentary with critic and Japanese cinema specialist Jasper Sharp and professor and Japanese literature specialist Anne McKnight

• Too Cool for School, brand new video essay on Play it Cool and the career of writer-director Yasuzō Masumura by Japanese film scholar Mark Roberts

• Original theatrical trailer

• Image gallery

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella

• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Earl Jackson

the terminal man blu-ray

release date: 10th march 2025

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of both the theatrical and director’s cuts of the film

• Original lossless mono audio

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Brand new audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger and Steven Mitchell

• A (Misunderstood) Modernist Masterpiece, a new visual essay by film scholar Josh Nelson

• Who Am I If Not Myself, a new visual essay by Howard S. Berger

• The Skin We Live In, a visual essay by film critic and historian Howard S. Berger on the conjunction of author Michael Crichton, Mike Hodges, and cinematographer Richard H. Kline

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde

• Illustrated collector’s booklet containing new writing by author and critic Guy Adams, plus select archival material

all we imagine as light blu-ray

release date: 10th march 2025

• Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition

• Introduction by Payal Kapadia (2024, 1 min)

• An Alternative Family (2024, 22 mins): director Payal Kapadia discusses her education, film and the role of women in Indian cinema

• Trying to Survive (2024, 21 mins): actress Kani Kusruti discusses her upbringing, career, and collaboration on All We Imagine as Light

• Afternoon Clouds (2017, 13 mins): 70-year old widow Kati and her Nepali maid Mati cook together while beholding a flower which only blooms for two days

• And What is the Summer Saying? (2018, 23 mins): a poetic and dreamlike story set in a forest village where women whisper the secrets of their lost loves

• Theatrical trailer (2024, 2 mins)

• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring a new essay on the film by ElhumShakerifar, writing by Isabel Stevens, new writing on the short films by Rachel Pronger,an original review by Arjun Sajip and film credits