BFI

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Akira Kurosawa's classic Japanese drama follows a dying man as he regains his zest for life along with a desire to do some good after 30 years of working for the civil service. Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), Chief of the Citizen's Section of the Town Hall, learns that he has terminal cancer and has only months left to live. Seeking to make a difference, he rediscovers a passion for life and uses his influence to cut through bureaucratic red tape and facilitate the construction of a children's playground. The cast also includes Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka and Nobuo Kaneko.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored (Limited Edition)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Yasujirô Ozu directs this 1950s Japanese drama that explores ageing, mortality and intergenerational tensions. When elderly couple Tomi and Shukichi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama and Chishu Ryu) travel from their rural village home to visit their married son and daughter in Tokyo, their reception is disappointing. Met with impatience and selfish indifference by their children and their grandchildren, they are soon packed off to a spa - but when Tomi falls ill, her descendants are forced to re-evaluate their priorities.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Yasujiro Ozu directs this intimate family portrait telling the story of widowed college professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu), who must face the inevitability that his only daughter, 27-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara), will soon be married off. Noriko, however, sees no reason to disrupt the harmony of the family home and repeatedly insists that marriage is not for her. Yet the social pressure continues to build, and eventually Somiya tricks his daughter into marrying by informing her that he is planning to remarry himself.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Alan Clarke directs this BBC drama that was made for the 'Play for Today' programme. Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire, the drama follows pastor's son Stephen Franklin (Spencer Banks) as he has a series of surreal encounters with angels, demons and pagans. The journey he embarks upon forces Stephen to evaluate his place in the world and confront his home country's ancient pagan history.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Limited Edition</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Three episodes from the BBC's horror anthology series from the 1970s. In 'The Exorcism' the past comes back to haunt four well-off friends - Dan (Clive Swift), Edmund (Edward Petherbridge), Rachel (Anna Cropper) and Margaret (Sylvia Kay) - during a Christmas get together. In 'Return Flight' pilot Captain Rolph (Peter Barkworth) struggles to maintain his reputation when he is confronted by the ghostly image of a Lancaster bomber from the Second World War. In 'A Woman Sobbing' strange goings-on cause Jane (Anna Massey)'s mental state to become more and more fragile.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Adaptation of the Jean Cocteau novel directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) and Paul (Edouard Dhermitte) are a brother and sister who live together in a single room. The siblings are unusually close, and develop an unhealthy obsession with each other which takes a tragic turn when outsiders intrude on their closeted existence.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Double bill of documentary-style BBC dramas written and directed by Peter Watkins. 'Culloden' (1964) depicts the 1746 Battle of Culloden in which the British Army defeated the outnumbered Scottish Jacobite forces and shows events before and after the Jacobite rising was defeated. The film presents the historical event as if it was being featured on a modern TV report, by portraying the action as a documentary and interviewing the actors involved in the battle. 'The War Game' (1965) depicts a fictional Soviet nuclear attack against Britain and shows events leading up to and in the aftermath of the devastating attack.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>