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    Screenshots from the upcoming OPERATION: MYSTERY Blu-ray Box from Japan. Photos courtesy of Tsuburaya Productions. © Tsuburaya Productions

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    Author: Keith Aiken Source: Tsuburaya Productions, Toei Co., Ltd. Official Site: toei-video.co.jp/special/kaiki-bd Tsuburaya Productions` OPERATION: MYSTERY (?????, Kaiki Daisakusen, 1968-1969) will be released in a Blu-ray box set in Japan on March 6, 2019. Also known as THE MYSTERY FOE, this was the final television series supervised by FX legend Eiji Tsuburaya, and featured a team of agents investigating strange and paranormal events denied by the government. OPERATION: MYSTERY was a ratings hit, averaging a 22% audience share during its original broadcast run. The set has been remastered in the same manner as Tsuburaya`s recent Blu-ray Boxes of the classic Ultraman shows, with the episodes of the series digitally restored to fix film scratches and damage, adjust color tones, and improve image quality while retaining the graininess of the original 16mm film. This process allows for the maximum presentation of OPERATION: MYSTERY available

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    Source: Well Go USA, MPRM Communications press release Special Thanks to Leif Helland and Rachel Villegas @wellgousa Director Tsui Hark (THE TAKING OF TIGER MOUNTAIN) brings back the popular hero in the smash hit wuxia fantasy franchise for DETECTIVE DEE: THE FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS (????????, 2018), coming to digital, Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD November 13 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Set during the Tang dynasty, the third film in the action-packed, martial arts franchise finds the intrepid detective defending himself from the Empress while looking to recover a magical weapon. DETECTIVE DEE: THE FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS has Mark Chao (YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON) returning in the title role, with Feng Shaofeng (The Monkey King franchise), Lin Gengxin (THE TAKING OF TIGER MOUNTAIN), Ethan Juan (THE GUILLOTINES), Ma Sichun (GOLDBUSTER) and Carina Lau (DETECTIVE DEE franchise) rounding out the cast. Synopsis A

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    Source: Arrow Video US, MVD Entertainment Group press release Special Thanks to Clint Weiler Legendary Toei director Teruo Ishii tells three stories of moral sickness set during Japan`s prosperous Genroku era in ORGIES OF EDO (???????? ?????, Zankoku Ijo Gyakutai Monogatari: Genroku Onna Keizu, 1969), a bloody follow-up to his sexploitation classic SHOGUN`S JOY OF TORTURE (??????, Tokugawa Onna Keibatsu-shi, 1968), and the fourth entry in Toei`s `abnormal love` film series. Ishii`s politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture. Told in anthology style by an impassive physician (Teruo Yoshida), the first story follows Oito (Masumi Tachibana), an innocent young girl deceived by a handsome yakuza and sold into prostitution who finds herself in a doomed love affair with the man who brought her to ruin. The tale of Ochise (Mitsuko

    A college student has a surreal night of drinking and adventure in Kyoto in director Masaaki Yuasa`s THE NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL. Image courtesy of GKIDS and Fathom Events. © Tomihiko Morimi, KADOKAWA NAKAME COMMITTEE

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    Source: Shout! Factory press release Official Site: kurokaminootome.com (Japan), NightIsShort.com (US) Special Thanks to Shannon Meehan The inventive new feature THE NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL (?????????, Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome, 2017) from anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa (MIND GAME, LU OVER THE WALL) will be released on Blu-ray + DVD combo pack on January 29, 2019 from GKIDS and Shout! Factory. Winner of the 2018 Japan Academy Prize for Best Animated Feature, the film comes to home video following its nationwide theatrical release in August. Bonus features include interview with Yuasa, trailers and TV spots. From the visionary mind of director Masaaki Yuasa comes a free-wheeling comedy about one epic night in Kyoto. As a group of teens go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as “The Girl with Black Hair” experiences a series of

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    The Hit Netflix Animated Series Based On The CASTLEVANIA Video Game Arrives On Blu-ray And DVD This December Source: VIZ Media, MediaLab press releases Official Site: netflix.com/castlevania Special Thanks to Jane Lui and Erik Jansen VIZ Media, LLC, a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, has announced preorders for the home media release of CASTLEVANIA SEASON 1. Set to debut on December 4th, the four-episode first season of the series is produced by Frederator Studios and has streamed to wide acclaim on Netflix. CASTLEVANIA will be available on Blu-ray, with an MSRP of $24.98 U.S. / $29.99 CAN, and on DVD, with an MSRP of $19.98 U.S. / $24.99 CAN. Bonus features for the CASTLEVANIA SEASON 1 home media release include on-disc storyboards and art galleries for both the BD and DVD. Exclusive Blu-ray extras include the sketch art-to-animation

    THE ANCIENT MAGUS` BRIDE. Image courtesy of Funimation. © 2017 Kore Yamazaki/MAG Garden Partners

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    Source: Funimation Entertainment press release Special Thanks to Scott Barretto On October 4, Funimation announced some upcoming releases during their Industry Panel at New York Comic Con 2018... NNew Release (Home Video) – citrus • From Passione, the complete anime series adapted from the romance manga by Saburouta. • Available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital • Street date: 01/22/19 New Release (Home Video) – THE ANCIENT MAGUS` BRIDE • From Wit Studio, episodes 1-12 of the anime series adapted from the award-wining dark fantasy sh?nen manga by Kore Yamazaki • Extras: 3-part prequel OVA THOSE AWAITING A STAR and Twitter Q&A with director Kyle Phillips and voice actors Dani Chambers (“Chise”) and Brian Mathis (“Elias”) • Available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital • Street date: 01/29/19 Like Funimation on Facebook at facebook.com/funimation, and follow them on Instagram at instagram.com/funimation and Twitter

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    Source: Sentai Filmworks, HIDIVE press releases Official Site: tbs.co.jp/anime/gakuen_basara (Japan) Sentai Filmworks has acquired exclusive rights to GAKUEN BASARA: SAMURAI HIGH SCHOOL (??BASARA, Gakuen Basara, 2018), the spoof spinoff of CAPCOM’s wildly popular franchise, SENGOKU BASARA, for the USA, Canada and Latin America. Anyone who thinks warring samurai and violent power plays in feudal Japan were rough business must have missed Monday mornings in this modern high school! The winds of change have come for the students of Basara Academy. Due to the suspension of their current student council president, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, a new leader must be chosen. Two prominent first-year athletes prepare to battle for the chance to rule the school: baseball elite Masamune Date and soccer star Yukimura Sanada. However, it’s not all fun and games as the two also have to fight other rivals for the top spot. From fierce food-eating contests to

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    Source: Sentai Filmworks press release Official Site: releasethespyce.jp (Japan) Sentai Filmworks announced today it acquired exclusive rights to the original series, RELEASE THE SPYCE????? ? ????, Ririisu za Supaisu, 2018), for the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, South America and other select territories. The series’ animation production is led by Lay-duce (FATE/GRAND ORDER: FIRST ORDER, MAGI: ADVENTURES OF SINBAD). To everyone around her, Momo lives a quiet life of solitude: going to school and keeping to herself. To the members of the private intelligence agency Tsukikage, she is their newest recruit, learning to hone her skills to help fight against a global crime organization. Under the guidance of senior member Yuki, Momo undergoes a series of dangerous, deadly and diabolical training scenarios and missions. With each victory, Momo’s confidence in her skills grows but it’ll take more than that to help keep not just

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    GIRLS` LAST TOUR Available January 29th Source: Section23 Films press release Special Thanks to Mike Bailiff Home video distributor Section23 Films has announced its January slate of releases which includes Sentai Filmworks post-apocalyptic adventure series, GIRLS` LAST TOUR, available on Blu-ray and in a special Limited Edition Premium Box Set! Product details follow, in order of release... HUMAN CROSSING BLU-RAY Published by: Maiden Japan Distributed by: Section23 Films Run Time: 325 min. Street Date: 1/8/2019 Format: BD Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles SRP: $49.98 There are over 120 million people living in modern Japan, and over 38 million live in the greater Tokyo area alone. Some live in incredible luxury, while others to struggle to survive. But from the high to the low, all are connected through the complex web that binds us all, the bonds of family and relationships. Yet there are times

    Image courtesy of Aniplex of America. © Chica Umino, HAKUSENSHA/March comes in like a lion Animation Committee

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    Source: AniplexUSA press release Official Site: 3lion-anime.com (Japan), 3lion-usa.com (US) Special Thanks to Aiko Makino At their industry panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta, Aniplex of America announced their plans to release season two of March comes in like a lion (???????, 3 Tsuki no Raion) in two Blu-ray volumes. The heartfelt series is based on an award winning manga by Chica Umino, who is best known as the creator of Honey and Clover. Produced by studio SHAFT (PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA, KIZUMONOGATARI), March comes in like a lion features a well-respected creative team including Director Akiyuki Shimbou (PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA, MONOGATARI series) and Character Designer Nobuhiro Sugiyama (NISEKOI, BAKEMONOGATARI). Both volumes of the Blu-ray will include a never before seen English dub of season two, adapted and voice directed by seasoned veteran, Wendee Lee (BLUE EXORCIST, YOUR LIE IN APRIL) and starring an all-star English

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    Beyond each of their wishes is where the "Apocrypha" is woven. Source: AniplexUSA press release Official Site: fate-apocrypha.com (Japan), fate-apocryphausa.com (US) Special Thanks to Aiko Makino Aniplex of America announced their plans to release FATE/APOCRYPHA (????/??????, Feito/Apokurifa, 2017) as two Blu-ray box sets at their industry panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta. Based on a light novel series by Yuichiro Higashide, who is also an FGO Scenario writer, with original illustrations by Ototsugu Konoe, FATE/APOCRYPHA is part of TYPE-MOON’s expansive Fate franchise which include popular anime series FATE/STAY NIGHT [UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS], FATE/ZERO, and the mobile game FATE/GRAND ORDER. Produced by A-1 Pictures, the series is directed by Yoshiyuki Asai, who served as series director for Charlotte, and character design by Yukei Yamada (PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA THE MOVIE –REBELLION–, IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS) with music by renowned composer Masaru Yokoyama from Your Lie in April. Each Blu-ray

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    Source: Sentai Filmworks press release Official Site: yagakimi.com (Japan) Sentai Filmworks announced today that it has acquired exclusive distribution rights to BLOOM INTO YOU (???????, Yagate Kimi ni Naru, 2018), the animated series based on Nio Nakatani’s best-selling, award-winning manga, for the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Enthralled by shoujo manga, Yuu waited for a love confession to make her feel as special as the heroines in her favorite stories but when a junior high classmate admits his feelings for her, she feels nothing. Time passes and Yuu starts high school feeling confused and downhearted. Things change, however, when she witnesses Nanami, the beautiful student council president, effortlessly turn down a boy. Yuu asks Nanami for help and the two become fast friends. Yuu’s heart is suddenly sent aflutter when the next person to confess

    The 30th anniversary collector’s edition Blu-day of MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO will be released this December. Photo courtesy of Shout! Factory. © 1988 Nibariki • G

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    Source: Shout! Factory press release Special Thanks to Shannon Meehan Studio Ghibli and GKIDS, with distribution by Shout! Factory, will issue MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (???????, Tonari no Totoro, 1988) in a beautiful 30th anniversary collector’s edition release on December 11, 2018. The limited-edition set comes housed in an elegant hard slipcase and includes a new 40-page book with stunning art and essays. Featured in a deluxe disc portfolio will be a Blu-ray of the film paired with hours of special features, and the film’s soundtrack made available on CD for the first time in North America. The set’s 40-page book features new essays by The New York Times’ film critic A.O. Scott and film writer Lauren Wilford, alongside gorgeous art and statements from director Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki, and more. From the legendary Studio Ghibli, this classic tale of magic and adventure is one of

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    Source: Well Go USA, MPRM Communications press release Special Thanks to Leif Helland and Rachel Villegas @wellgousa Directed by Lee Hae-Young (THE SILENCED), BELIEVER (??, Dokjeon, 2018), the stylish, action-packed South Korean remake of Johnnie To’s DRUG WAR (??, Dú zhàn, 2013), hits digital, Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD October 30 from Well Go USA Entertainment. While technically a remake, Cary Darling of The Houston Chronicle notes that “Lee Hae-Yeong’s gripping retelling... stands on its own and is different enough from the original to make it less a clone and more of a genuflection.” The story follows an investigator who, in an effort to bring down the boss of Asia’s biggest drug cartel, conspires with a lowly member of the gang seeking revenge against the boss. BELIEVER, stars Cho Jin-woong (THE HANDMAIDEN), Ryu Jun-yeol (A TAXI DRIVER), Kim Joo-hyuck (THE SERVANT), Kim Sung-ryoung (THE TARGET), Park

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    The Hilarious Sequel to the Hit Comedy GIRLS Source: Well Go USA, MPRM Communications press release Special Thanks to Leif Helland and Rachel Villegas @wellgousa After a drinking contest with some questionable local spirits, three friends wake up naked on a beach to discover two are handcuffed to a locked suitcase, one has a strange new tattoo, and none of them have any clue what happened the night before in GIRLS VS. GANGSTERS (??2?????, 2018), the fun-filled sequel to the over-the-top 2014 Chinese romp GIRLS (??). They soon become the target of local gangsters as they try to retrace their drunken steps and make it back home -- and to the alter -- on time. Directed by Barbara Wong (BREAK UP CLUB, GIRLS), the film stars Fiona Sit (THE MIDNIGHT AFTER), Yihan Chen (SPIDER LILIES) and Ning Chang (BLACK & WHITE: THE DAWN OF JUSTICE), with

    Win a Blu-ray of the classic horror movie HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN from Arrow Video US and SciFi Japan! Photo courtesy of MVD Entertainment. © 1969 Toei Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Arrow Video US, MVD Entertainment Group Special Thanks to Clint Weiler Arrow Video US is offering SciFi Japan readers a chance to win their new Blu-ray of HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN (??????????????, Edogawa Rampo Zenshuu: Kyoufu Kikei Ningen, 1969), cult director Teruo Ishii`s (SHOGUN`S JOY OF TORTURE, BLIND WOMAN`S CURSE) nightmarish, hallucinogenic tale drawn from the feverish pen of Japan`s celebrated pioneer ofero-guro ("erotic grotesque") literature, Edogawa Rampo. Medical student Hirosuke Hitomi slips out of the asylum in which he has been wrongfully confined and stealthily assumes the identity of a recently deceased nobleman with whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. Hirosuke eases his way into the nobleman`s household and his dead double`s marital bed. But as long-repressed memories begin to bubble to the surface, he soon finds himself drawn to a remote isle where he is confronted by a mad scientist

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    Source: Well Go USA, MPRM Communications Special Thanks to Leif Helland and Rachel Villegas Well Go USA Entertainment is offering SciFi Japan readers a chance to win a Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack of the South Korean horror thriller GONJIAM: HAUNTED ASYLUM (???, Gonjiam, 2018). Based on the local legends and stories of people who’ve visited the real-life abandoned hospital, the movie follows the crew of a horror web show who plan to stream live from inside the asylum. To attract more viewers, the show’s host arranges some scares for the team, but as they move further into the nightmarish old building, they begin to encounter much more than expected. GONJIAM: HAUNTED ASYLUM debuts on digital, Blu-ray Combo Pack (SLP: $29.98) and DVD (SLP: $24.98) September 18 from Well

    Win the new Blu-ray of director Tomu Uchida`s classic BLOODY SPEAR AT MOUNT FUJI from Arrow Video US and SciFi Japan! Photo courtesy of MVD Entertainment. © 1955 Toei Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Arrow Video US, MVD Entertainment Group Special Thanks to Clint Weiler Arrow Video US is offering SciFi Japan readers a chance to win their new Blu-ray of director Tomu Uchida`s BLOODY SPEAR AT MOUNT FUJI (????, Chiyari Fuji, 1955). Praised by Japanese film critics and much admired by his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirô Ozu, Uchida nonetheless remains little-known in the west. BLOODY SPEAR AT MOUNT FUJI is his masterpiece. and an excellent entry point for the newcomer. Set during the Edo period, the film is a tragicomic road movie of sorts, following a samurai, his two servants -- including spear-carrier Genpachi (Chiezô Kataoka) -- and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution. Winner of a prestigious Blue Ribbon Award

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    Smile! Sweet! Sister! Sadistic! Surprise! Service! Café Stile on Blu-ray Source: Aniplex of America press release Official Site: rightstufanime.com/BLEND-S-Blu-ray Special Thanks to Aiko Makino At their Industry panel at Crunchyroll Expo (San Jose, CA), Aniplex of America announced the complete Blu-ray set release of the working comedy, BLEND-S (?????S, Burendo Esu). The immensely popular anime series, which premiered in fall of 2017, is based on Miyuki Nakayama’s popular 4-panel manga series by the same name. The complete Blu-ray set will include web previews, trailers and commercials, all six variations of the textless endings, and a special booklet with Café Stile’s menu pages. The Blu-ray discs will be housed in a beautiful Blu-ray cases and box illustrated by creator Miyuki Nakayama. Pre-orders are now open with the set scheduled to be released on November 20th. Produced by the acclaimed studio A-1 Pictures (SWORD ART ONLINE, ANOHANA THE

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    Source: Funimation Entertainment press release Special Thanks to Scott Barretto Funimation announced some upcoming releases today during their Industry Panel at San Japan XI…. New Release (Home Video): ANIME-GATARIS • From DMM Pictures, the anime series based on the animated short film ANIME-GATARI • Available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital • Street date: 12/11/18 New Release (Home Video): KONOHANA KITAN • From Studio Lerche, the 12-episode anime adaptation of the Konohana Kitan manga series • Available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital • Street date: 12/11/8 New Release (Home Video): URAHARA • From EMT Squared, the anime adaptation of the Urahara web comic • Available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital • Street date: 12/18/18

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