Here are the final releases of 2021.
| Balsam: Paranormal Investigation | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Best of the Three Stooges | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Help Me… I’m Possessed, Night of the Strangler, and Carnival of Blood. | ||||||||
| Castle Falls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Christmas vs. the Walters | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cutie Honey: The Live | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is a live-action tokusatsu series based on Go Nagai’s Cutiey Honey. | ||||||||
| French Dispatch | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Girly Air Force | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Goblin Slayer | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Grenadier: The Beautiful Warrior | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fantasy action anime action series about a gunslinger with a particualrly… distinctive method of reloading her revolver. | ||||||||
| Knocking | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Man From Hong Kong | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Martial arts action film featuring George Lazenby (post-Man with the Golden Gun & Universal Soldier–no not that one), and Jimmy Wang Yu (One Armed Swordsman & Master of the Flying Guillotine), and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (Turkey Shoot). | ||||||||
| Mayday | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Messalina | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Murder Hornets | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Red Snow | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Robot Carnival | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | 4K release of the anime anthology film. | ||||||||
| Samurai Troopers: Ronin Warriors | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This aired dubbed on Cartoon Network in the Toonami Block as Ronin Warriors – this Blu-ray release includes that dub. | ||||||||
| Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eyes | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| ShawScope Volume One (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes King Boxer, The Boxer from Shantung, Five Shaolin Masters, Shaolin Temple, Mighty Peking Man, Challenge of the Masters, Executioners from Shaoline, Chinatown Kid, The Five Venoms, Crippled Avengers, Heroes of the East, and Dirty Ho. | ||||||||
| Try Harder! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Urusei Yatsura: Only You | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Another of the Mamoru Oshii-directed tie-in films for Urusei Yatsura – this is actually the first one, with Beautiful Dreamer coming after this one. | ||||||||
| Venom (aka Legend of Spider Forest) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Very Private Lesson | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fanservice-heay direct-to-video slapstick comedy anime from the 90s, about a high school teacher who has a female student who is crushing on him – said student also being the daughter of a very protective Yakuza boss. | ||||||||
| Woman Who Ran | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| WWE: Survivor Series 2021 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Zeiram | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Alex: I reviewed this tokusatsu film back in 2014. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Martial arts film fans with money to burn will want to go with Shawscope Vol. 1, those who don’t will want to go with Man from Hong Kong, and on the 4K front, I’m recommending the release of Robot Carnival.” Blaine says, “nothing jumps out at me this week.”