The final set of items belongs to a Third Window Films haul. The distributor is celebrating their 20 years of UK distribution and Terracotta Store is offering 20% off on their releases that are currently in stock. Since I still have a bunch of older releases not yet picked up, I used this opportunity to focus solely on that. The sale apparently ends near the end of the first week of June so I can sort out another haul before then.
Let's start off with one release that's actually not ordered from Terracotta because it wasn't listed, in fact I don't think it's in print anymore because it's not available on Amazon and eBay listings are scalper levels of prices. Fortunately HMV had a copy and I think I ended up with one of the last ones available. And that is Sion Sono's 2015 film
The Whispering Star (ひそひそ星), a more family friendly film compared to his other titles in his filmography, and this release also includes a documentary by Nagisa Oshima's son Arata Oshima called
The Sion Sono (園子温という生きもの).
Next we go back to the Terracotta haul with more Sion Sono releases. Here we have his 2012 film
The Land of Hope (希望の国), a drama focused on civilians caught up by the 2011 disaster, and his 2015 film
Love & Peace (ラブ＆ピース), also family friendly but with a tokusatsu twist in the mix. With these two, I finally own all of Sion Sono's films released by Third Window Films. Considering recent events I don't think we'll get any more from the director in terms of the other films not yet brought over to the UK but what we got are a great selection of cult classics.
Next we have Ken Ochiai's 2014 film
Uzumasa Limelight (太秦ライムライト), a film about making a samurai film starring the late Seizō Fukumoto in the leading role. I've heard about this film over the years but never got around to picking it up and here we are. And then we have Shinya Tsukamoto's 2002 film
A Snake of June (六月の蛇), an erotic thriller which is also the last one that I needed to pick up from Tsukamoto's filmography from Third Window Films. This film was also included in Arrow's box set but the content is the same. If you want an indie budget with some very interesting story and concepts, do check out Tsukamoto's works because they're great.
There's now 7 films left to own all of Third Window's releases on Blu-ray (excluding their kickstarter release);
Love and Other Cults,
Suffering of Ninko,
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle,
Adrift in Tokyo,
One Percenter,
Your Lovely Smile and the upcoming
The Box Man. Third Window may not have the best quality discs that Arrow, Eureka and Radiance have, but its the type of films they put out that makes up for it.
