This is an essential piece of news for you collectors. I have all the details you need on some upcoming Shinya Tsukamoto releases from the awesome Third Window Films

I’ve said it before, getting these press releases on physical copies is almost making me feel like I’m working in a movie store again – only this is way better. These are films I’d genuinely be pushing when they came into my shop so it is fate that this is happening again with Moviehooker. Movies always find me in the end. Now, let’s check out the press release.

Is pleased to announce the Blu-ray releases of 2 films from Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

Both out on Blu-ray & Digital on September 30

SHADOW OF FIRE / VITAL

Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest examines the desperate lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post–World War II period through the story of a child dealing with unimaginable adversity.

Part of his war trilogy, which includes Fires On the Plain and Killing, Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest examines the lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post–World War II period. Part chamber drama, part road movie, Shadow of Fire finds its throughline in the story of a small boy coming of age amid unimaginable hardship.

Third Window Films

Bonus Features
• Tom Mes feature audio commentary
• “The Reality Of Violence” Video Essay by Robert Edwards
• Shinya Tsukamoto and author Kota Ishii talk event
• Director and cast cinema stage greetings
• Trailer
• Slipcase with artwork from Ian MacEwan (limited to 2000 copies)
• Region B

Japan / 2023 / 95 mins / In Japanese and English with English subtitles / Colour

A young man named Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it’s another who becomes his obsession, the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Third Window Films

Bonus Features
• Making of Vital
• Archival Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto
• Jasper Sharp Video Essay – “An Assault On The Senses”
• Tom Mes Audio Commentary
• Music Clips
• World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival
• Special Effects Featurette
• Trailer
• Slipcase with artwork from Ian MacEwan (limited to 2000 copies)
• Region B

Japan / 2004 / 85 mins / In Japanese and English with English subtitles / Colour

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