get yr release on: week of May 17th

A week that sees two movies featuring Lady Snowblood's Meiko Kaji (one with Sonny Chiba!) is in the running for best week ever.

!Hola, DVD releases for the week of 5/17! How was the end of your semester?

U.S. DVD releases:

- 3 Seconds Before Explosion (starring Akira Kobayashi)
- Billy Jack (dir. Tom Laughlin)
- Bollywood Horror Collection, Vol. 3 (Mahakaal / Tahkaana)
- Def by Temptation (starring Samuel L. Jackson)
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (dir. Seijun Suzuki)
- Detective Story (dir. Takashi Miike)
- Eden Log (dir. Franck Vestiel)
- El Dorado: Paramount Centennial Collection (dir. Howard Hawks; starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan)
- Fanboys
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle (dir. Peter Yates; starring Robert Mitchum)
- Girl on a Motorcycle (dir. Jack Cardiff; starring Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon)
- The Last Horror Film: Uncut Special Edition
- Man Hunt (dir. Fritz Lang; starring Walter Pidgeon)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Paramount Centennial Collection (dir. John Ford; starring John Wayne, James Stewart)
- Masaru Konuma: Debauched Desires (Wife to be Sacrificed/Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession/Tattooed Flower Vase/Erotic Diary of an Office Lady)
- My Bloody Valentine 3D
- Nightmare Castle (starring Barbara Steele)
- Pigs, Pimps, & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (Pigs and Battleships, The Insect Woman, Intentions of Murder)
- Valkyrie (dir Bryan Singer; starring creepy scientologist #1)
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly (starring Meiko Kaji)
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler (starring Meiko Kaji, Sonny Chiba)

U.S. Blu-Ray releases:

- Batman (dir. Tim Burton)
- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (dir. Tim Burton)
- Circle of Iron (starring David Carradine)
- Eden Log (dir. Franck Vestiel)
- Fast Company (dir. David Cronenberg)
- The Machinist (starring Christian Bale)
- My Bloody Valentine 3D
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Skynet Edition (dir. James Cameron; starring Arnold Schwarzenegger)
- Three Days of the Condor (dir Sydney Pollack; starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway)
- Valkyrie (dir. Bryan Singer; starring creepy scientologist #1)

Foreign DVD and Blu-Ray releases:

- A-1 (Dir. Gordon Chan; starring Anthony Wong, Edison Chen) Hong Kong Blu-Ray All Region
- City of Life and Death (dir. Lu Chuan) Mainland Chinese DVD All Region PAL
- Claustrophobia (dir. Ivy Ho; starring Ekin Cheng, Karena Lam) Hong Kong R3 DVD
- The Last Dinosaur (dir. Tsugunobu Kotani; starring Richard Boone) Japan R2 DVD
- Nanayomachi (dir. Naomi Kawase) Japan R2 DVD
- Parking (dir. Chung Mong-hong; starring Chang Chen, Guey Lun Mei) Taiwan All Region DVD
- Tactical Unit: The Complete Series (Produced by Johnnie To; starring Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Maggie Shiu) Hong Kong All Region DVD