New on Blu-ray: THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS (2001) - Japanese Musical Horror Comedy

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Product Description: Japanese language, English subtitles, high definition, Region A disc. It wasn’t all that long ago that the Katakuris moved out to the sticks with dreams of running a beautiful bed and breakfast along the highway. Unfortunately for them, that highway never came. With their morale at rock bottom, the eccentric family prays to add just one name to the guestbook! But when customers finally start rolling in, they won’t stop keeling over! And instead of going to the cops, the Katakuris find themselves doing a strange song and dance to keep anyone from finding out! Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2004 Gérardmer Film Festival, Takashi Miike’s (Audition, Ichi the Killer) viscerally surreal horror musical returns on Blu-ray—jam packed with a whole chorus of special features! Presented in the original Japanese language with English subtitles!

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New on Blu-ray: TAMALA 2010 - A PUNK CAT IN SPACE (2018)

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Product Description: Arguably the only anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that flows back and forth in time, following the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her home world of Meguro City, Cat Earth, a BLADE RUNNER-like mega-city controlled by the Catty & Co. corporation. Escaping into space, she's waylaid by the God of Death and crash-lands near Hate City on the Planet Q, where she meets a new boyfriend, goes bowling and shopping in a thrift store – and realizes she may be the latest reincarnation of an ancient Greek cat cult with ties to the omnipresent Catty & Co.

A heady, conceptual work of psychedelic sci-fi, influenced by the style of classic manga and anime such as Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and Takashi Murakami's postmodern art movement Superflat, TAMALA 2010 is also a savage take on modern consumer culture: in Meguro City a giant Colonel Sanders stalks the streets with an axe buried in his head, and Tamala's eerie cat's eyes are everywhere, advertising chocolate, toothpaste and drugs for forgetfulness.

Written, directed and composed by the two-person team of t.o.L. – their incredibly addictive electronica / space-lounge score is worth the price of admission alone – TAMALA 2010 is equal parts Philip K. Dick, METROPOLIS and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (with a few sly nods to THE SHINING thrown in for good measure.) In Japanese with English subtitles.

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