2024 HAUL - APRIL CHAPTER: BATCH #1
A few more packages arrived this week. The weather wasn't great on one of the days and I had work getting in the way so I took some photos on the day for the first items and then the rest done this morning.
The first arrival for the month is another Radiance Films order and these are focused on the Japanese films that arrived in their March line-up.
Starting with
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy box set that features three films; Shigehiro Ozawa's 1969 film
Bounty Hunter: Killer's Mission (賞金稼ぎ), Eiichi Kudo's 1969 film
Bounty Hunter: The Fort of Death (五人の賞金稼ぎ), and Shigehiro Ozawa's 1972 film
Bounty Hunter: Eight Men to Kill (賞金首 一瞬八人斬り). This box set was selling pretty fast than anyone had been anticipating so I got my copy ordered sooner than later. I suppose part of the reason is because the main actor of these films Tomisaburo Wakayama is also the same lead star in the
Lone Wolf and Cub adaptations (which I never managed to get on Blu-ray because Criterion's release was too expensive and is out of print).
Also arrived was Kiju Yoshida's 1965 film
A Story Written With Water (水で書かれた物語), a single pressing release which means once this sells out it will no longer be reprinted. Some of you may recognise the director's name as Arrow Academy once released a box set of his films called Love + Anarchism in 2015 (and then re-released in 2021 under the Arrow Video name).
I plan to get more of the recent Radiance Films titles and a few pre-ordered as it's clear that demand is higher than ever!
Next we have an MVM Entertainment release thanks to their Deal of the Week offer with the collector's edition Blu-ray release of
Burst Angel, Gonzo's 2004 series. Funimation released this on Blu-ray back when they used to do slipboxes with two slim amaray cases but in recent years MVM finally re-released it.
You can view more photos & specs on my blog.
Next we have our Terracotta Store haul featuring two more recent releases.
First up I want to talk about Wellson Chin Sing-Wai's 1989 film
The Inspector Wears Skirts II (神勇飛虎霸王花) which for some reason is going out of print on its first print edition which is very surprising. Then again I mainly pre-order 88 Films' titles and I didn't think this one of all releases would sell as soon as it did. Terracotta were upfront on what edition they have so I went for their listing to secure a copy.
Next we have Junta Yamaguchi's 2023 film
River (リバー、流れないでよ), which is by the same team behind the recent film Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. As I wanted to get free shipping I went for this film since I heard it was pretty good.
