The first 6 releases in our Directors Company series are now out and available Terracotta Dist! shop.terracottadistribution.com/collections/di… All featuring new HD masters and bonus features Jasper Sharp Tom Mes Josh Slater-Williams and more! Limited Edition versions w/slipcases Gokaiju!

A big gap in our understanding of J-horror gets filled with this set. I get to add my two cents in a filmed interview and a commentary on Shunichi Nagasaki's SHIKOKU, the folk horror counterweight to J-horror's (sub-)urban image

Tai Kato's EIGHTEEN YEARS IN PRISON drops today. Get it while it's hot, it certainly won't stick around for eighteen years

One of the great, rare pleasures of my career has been the opportunity to record audio commentaries on every single 塚本晋也tsukamoto_shinya film that's come out on Blu-ray (which is nearly all of them). I get to continue on this new Third Window Films release of his latest

And speaking of Tsukamoto, 睡蓮みどり Midori Suiren and I just produced a new interview with him for an upcoming release - of a film he didn't direct, but whose director he much admires

And there it is: 塚本晋也tsukamoto_shinya 's latest plus the 20th anniversary of one of his most enigmatic films. Great to see Vital back in circulation after two decades in UK rights limbo. The commentary on this is the one I recorded for the Tartan DVD all those years ago.

There's always room for another Fukasaku!

I finally got my copy, in time for my summer holiday from teaching. Thanks Tom Mes and Radiance Films

This book is a guide to an overlooked filmmaker! Assistant director to Akira Kurosawa on the epoch-making Rashomon, Tai Kato made a name for himself during the 1960s as a specialist of period actioners and yakuza films. radiancefilms.co.uk/products/tai-k… Tom Mes Radiance Films

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It's special sort of satisfaction that these three films, which were labours of love I recommended to Radiance but which were hardly guaranteed hits, have all sold out their initial print run

Shinya Tsukamoto’s Venice Film Festival winner SHADOW OF FIRE gets selected as one of the Top 10 Blu-Rays (UK) for September 2024 AVForums.com Bluray & digital out September 30! Order it Terracotta Dist avforums.com/articles/top-t… 塚本晋也tsukamoto_shinya Robert Edwards Tom Mes

CORRECTION: Yokohama BJ Blues is in fact, a UK/US release.

My latest production for Radiance Films is this stylish and moody 1980s neo-noir starring Yusaku Matsuda, set in one of my favourite cities in the world

Shinya Tsukamoto’s award winning SHADOW OF FIRE ほかげ gets its first international bluray release on Sep 30! Order it Terracotta Dist shop.terracottadistribution.com/products/shado…

Out now from Radiance Films featuring contributions from Suzuki scholars Will Carroll and Tom Vick, plus newly edited archive interviews with Suzuki and art director Takeo Kimura