In recent years I’ve made efforts to keep the live-action Asian film collection growing, with distributors like 88 Films, Arrow Video, Eureka Entertainment and Third Window Films releasing many Japanese, Chinese and Korean films to the UK on Blu-ray, some of which had never been released before. I can’t get every single special edition day one, I will try to keep that trend going exclusively to both 88 Films and Third Window.
US imports are a rarity in this case, but I have made an exception for Discotek’s Nihon Nights and Toku Time line-up of releases. The list below is split by distributor.
88 Films
Name
Format
Line-up
Language
Released
Operation Scorpio
Blu-ray
88 Asia
Cantonese
2026
Sex and the Emperor
Blu-ray
Category III
Cantonese
2026
Arrow Video
Name
Format
Language
Released
Akio Jissôji: The Buddhist Trilogy (re-release)
Blu-ray
Japanese
2021
Blind Beast
Blu-ray
Japanese
2021
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Blu-ray
Japanese
2018
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!
Blu-ray
Japanese
2018
Family Values: Three Films by Hirokazu Kore-eda (re-release)
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
Female Prisoner Scorpion (re-release)
Blu-ray
Japanese
2019
Giants and Toys
Blu-ray
Japanese
2021
Hiroshima
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
Inferno of Torture
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
The Invisible Man Appears
Blu-ray
Japanese
2021
Irezumi
Blu-ray
Japanese
2021
JSA: Joint Security Area
Blu-ray
Japanese
2021
The Mad Fox
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
Red Angel
Blu-ray
Japanese
2022
Seijun Suzuki’s The Taisho Trilogy (re-release)
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
Shogun’s Joy of Torture
Blu-ray
Japanese
2021
Stray Cat Rock Collection (re-release)
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
Three Films by Jia Zhangke (re-release)
Blu-ray
Japanese
2020
British Film Institute
Name
Format
Language
Released
An Autumn Afternoon
BD/DVD
Japanese
2011
Early Summer
BD/DVD
Japanese
2010
Equinox Flower
BD/DVD
Japanese
2011
Farewell My Concubine
BD/DVD
Mandarin
2016
Good Morning
BD/DVD
Japanese
2011
Late Autumn
BD/DVD
Japanese
2011
Late Spring
BD/DVD
Japanese
2010
Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda