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A copy of a South Korean set I saw for sale would be great.
It had all 3 films and the DVDs were presented in what was designed to look like a book. Very smart looking.

I don't know if it's controversial but A Better Tomorrow 2 is my favourite.
Probably because of the Leslie Cheung plot.
 
Mini-update on the upcoming Third Window slate.

The Angel Guts box set will feature most of the films. The first film, High School Co-Ed, was unavailable due to issues with one of the actresses not allowing the film to be re-released. The box set will include the rest; the second film Red Classroom (previously released in the UK cut, but this release will now be uncut), the third film Nami (not yet rated by the BBFC atm), the fourth film Red Porno (rated 18 uncut), and the fifth film Red Vertigo (also not yet rated). While the sixth film Red Flash (Red Lightning on Wikipedia) is with the Takashi Ishii: Four Tales of Nami box set, it will also be included here as a bonus disc for those who didn't pickup the Ishii release.

For some context, Angel Guts is a manga series written by Takashi Ishii which was adapted into various films as part of Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series from directors Chūsei Sone (one of the writers for Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill), Noboru Tanaka (Watcher in the Attic), Toshiharu Ikeda (Evil Dead Trap) and Takashi Ishii himself.

Nothing has been said yet for Kaizo Hayashi box set but we do know that his 1993 film The Most Terrible Time in My Life was rated earlier in the year under Third Window. One of Kaizo's films To Sleep so as to Dream is available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video for those interested.
 
I don't know if this is a good topic, but are you able to buy the movie "Ran' from Amazon.co.uk?

Ran Collector's Edition (Vintage World Classics) 4K UHD + BD [Blu-ray] [Region A & B & C]: Amazon.co.uk: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Akira Kurosawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao: DVD & Blu-ray

Buy Ran Collector's Edition (Vintage World Classics) 4K UHD + BD [Blu-ray] [Region A & B & C] from Amazon's Movies Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk

I've been fighting with the Amazon team for 2 weeks, because there's supposedly an option to buy it, but it turns out there's no option in the basket and they don't know what's going on.
 
Radiance Films have announced a boxset focused on Japanese Filmmaker Nagisa Oshima titled Radical Japan Cinema and State.

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Details below:
Radical Japan: Cinema and State

The start of an ongoing series, this first volume of Radical Japan explores the films of new wave icon Nagisa Oshima (Cruel Story of Youth, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence). One of the most vital, challenging and admired bodies of work in cinema history, this boxset presents Blu-ray premieres of Oshima’s finest features across seven discs.

In The Catch (1961), a village in World War II is shaken by the capture of a pilot; in Death by Hanging(1968), a failed execution throws the justice system into disarray; Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) strikingly captures Tokyo’s 1960s counter-culture; Boy (1969) is a vivid portrait of a family surviving through scams; The Man Who Left His Will on Film(1970), Oshima’s reaction to the protest movement; The Ceremony (1971), a meditation on how traditions oppress the young; and Dear Summer Sister (1972), which questions Japan’s colonial relation to Okinawa.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

  • 4K restorations of Death by Hanging, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, Boy, The Man Who Left His Will on Film and The Ceremony
  • High-Definition digital transfers of The Catch and Dear Summer Sister (exclusive to this edition)
  • Uncompressed mono PCM audio for each film
  • Audio commentaries by Samm Deighan on Death by Hanging, Tony Rayns on Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, and Jasper Sharp on The Ceremony
  • Introductions and appreciations of the films by film historians and scholars Luk Van Haute, Jennifer Coates, Rie Tsukinaga, and filmmaker Yang Yong-hi
  • Archival interviews with Oshima (1986 & 1995)
  • Interviews with actors Tadanori Yokoo and Kazuo Goto (2025)
  • Interview with critic and author Junichi Konuma on composer Toru Takemitsu (2025)
  • Extensive interview with critic Tony Rayns on Oshima’s life and career (2025)
  • Yunbogi’s Diary - Oshima’s short film about street children in Seoul (1965, 25 mins)
  • 100 Years of Japanese Cinema - Oshima's documentary celebrating the centenary of cinema (1995)
  • Japanese Cinema: New Territories - a documentary by Hubert Niogret on the Japanese cinema of rebellion and renewal, charting the emergence of independent filmmakers of the 1960s to the 1990s featuring interviews with Oshima, Kiju Yoshida, Shohei Imamura and others (2011)
  • Newly improved English subtitle translation for each film
  • Reversible sleeves featuring original and new artwork based on designs by distributor ATG’s magazines
  • Limited edition 160-page book featuring new writing by Rea Amit, Espen Bale, archival articles by Donald Richie and Alexander Jacoby, plus writing by and interviews with Oshima
  • Limited Edition of 5000 copies, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
 
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