All Posts: Page 46
June 13, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: Otherside Picnic
By Shelley Pallis. Sorawo Kamikoshi is a loner, a twenty-year-old nerd studying cultural anthropology at a Saitama university, whose hobby is exploring spooky places. Nor are these randomly and doubtfully “haunted houses” – she has found numerous portals to an alternate world, the titular “Otherside” where all sorts of rumours, urban legends, horror stories and […]
June 10, 2022 · 0 comments
Anime Limited to release The Irresponsible Captain Tylor on UK Blu-ray
We first revealed our plans to bring this popular cult classic series to Blu-ray at the start of the month as part of our new slate of pre-orders, and as promised here we are to do the responsible thing and reveal a little more about our plans for the title. Want to know more? Read […]
June 10, 2022 · 0 comments
Crazy Thunder Road
by Jeremy Clarke. Following on from Arrow’s superb BD of Sogo Ishii’s Burst City (1982) comes Third Window’s equally impressive BD release of its predecessor in the Ishii canon Crazy Thunder Road (1980). This was his Nihon University student graduation project, his first to be shot on 16mm rather than Super 8, which somehow got […]
June 7, 2022 · 0 comments
Lupin III.5
By Andrew Osmond. For anyone who needs reminding who is Lupin the Third, he’s a super-thief, a lanky, loony criminal showman, forever off on adventures involving fast cars, lovely women and crazy stunts. He’s accompanied by a mobster gunman (Jigen) and an old-school samurai (Goemon); he’s frantically pursued by a monomaniac cop, Zenigata; and he’s often tracked […]
June 4, 2022 · 0 comments
A Fine Romance
By Jeannette Ng. Despite the assumptions encouraged by the title, Emma: A Victorian Romance is very much not based on Jane Austen’s Emma. However, its literary ancestors are manifold and those with familiarity with Victorian novels would find themselves passingly busy noting the connections. Emma overhears a whispered discussion about a scandalous yet delicious novel […]
June 1, 2022 · 0 comments
NEWSWIRE: June 2022 Pre-Orders
A new month is here, and June is a month with some big releases on our store, as our work on the likes of BELLE and Future Boy Conan finally come to fruition and make their way into your hands. It’s also a great month for cinema-goers (and cinema lovers), as Pompo the Cinephile arrives […]