| Airport: Complete 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Akiba Maid War | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on the premise “What if Maid Cafes were the Yakuza. Not run by the Yakuza – were the Yakuza.” | ||||||||
| American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Americas | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Asian Persuasion | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Comedy film about a divorced chef who tries to hook his ex-wife up with a husband so he doesn’t have to pay alimony anymore. | ||||||||
| At the Circus | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Barry Lyndon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Better Tomorrow Trilogy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains the 3 films – two (well, 1 and a half) directed by John Woo, and one (well, 1 and a half) directed by Tsui Hark. | ||||||||
| Casino | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| City War | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doris Day 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Love Me Or Leave Me, Jumbo, Romance on the High Seas, and Lullaby of Broadway. | ||||||||
| Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Feature (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| El (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Enter the Ninja (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Ninja film staring Italian actor Franco Nero as a ninja. | ||||||||
| Fantastic Four: First Steps | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Freaked | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Gene Kelly 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes For Me and My Gal, An American in Paris, The Pirate, and Singin’ in the Rain. | ||||||||
| Gracie Allen Murder Case | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hell’s Angels (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Directed by Howard Hughes | ||||||||
| History of Sound | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hitchcock Nine 1925-1929 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Pleasure Garden, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The Ring, Downhill, The Farmer’s Wife, Easy Virtue, Champagne, The Manxman, Blackmail, and I Am Alfred Hitchcock. | ||||||||
| Hitchcock: The Early Years: Volume One 1931-1935 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Skin Game, Rich and Strange, Number Seventeen, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The 39 Steps. | ||||||||
| Howard’s End | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| I Love You Again | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Iron Mistress | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| It’s Love I’m After | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| James Cagney 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, White Heat, and Yankee Doodle Dandy. | ||||||||
| James Dean Story | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Glory of Troy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Lesbian Space Princess | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece Mystery!: Maigret | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Miracle on 34th Street: The Made-for-TV versions | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Hero Academia | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ninja III: The Domination (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Semi slasher film about a woman working as a power line repairwoman who witnesses a ninja get gunned downed by the Yakuza, who then possesses her and leads her to go seek murderous revenge. | ||||||||
| Ninja Trilogy (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja and Ninja III: The Domination | ||||||||
| One Battle After Another | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Other | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Out of Africa | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This won Best Picture for 1985… somehow. | ||||||||
| Paul | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Red Planet (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rent | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Revenge of the Ninja (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Spiritual film starring Sho Kusugi (the villain of Enter the Ninja) as the protgaonist, avenging his wife and daughter. | ||||||||
| Riefenstahl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Secret Mall Apartment | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Silver River | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Splitsville | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| The Bride Came C.O.D. | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ultraman 4K Discovery | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | 4 episodes of the original Ultraman series remastered in 4K. | ||||||||
| Waltzing with Brando | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Yellowstone | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My UHD pick of the week is the A Better Tomorrow Trilogy (with the Ninja Trilogy as a close second), and with Akiba Maid War as my anime pick.” Blaine says, “I would go with either Hitchcock collection. If you have them, the Gene Kelly and James Cagney sets are also worth checking out.”
Ah, the ’80s Ninja movies. Canon Group’s one contribution to world, let alone cinema culture that one might argue isn’t completely negative.
I actually grew up on those movies — those (and other Canon Group) movies were ridiculously popular where I lived.
Also there’s a Marx Brothers movie up there and those are always good.
I remember how EVERYTHING was ninja for a few years back in the 1980s.
Secret Mall Apartment: a documentary that has to be seen to be believed. Entertaining, informative, and bizarre. There is so much more to the story than what you might recall from the news, if you recall this happening at all.
I remember seeing some of this online. Mindblowing.