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Anton Bitel provides a look at six titles heading to streaming and physical media releases this month that you should add to the top of your viewing list.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Fall of Ako Castle, dir. Kinji Fukasaku, 1989<\/h3>\n

The true story of the 47 r\u014dnin who took revenge for the death (by seppuku) of their daimy\u014d Lord Asano after he assaulted the powerful court official Kira in response to an insult was regarded as an exemplum for the samurai code of honour known as bushid\u014d, and has been the subject of many plays, television shows and films. Indeed over his career, beloved actor Toshiro Mifune appeared in three different versions of the story \u2014 Hiroshi Inagaki\u2019s 1962 film Ch\u016bshingara, the 1971 TV series Daich\u016bshingara, and this epic feature from Kinji Fukasaku, where he plays Lord Tsuchiya Michinao.<\/p>\n

The climax will eventually deliver on the promised violence, including an intense, prolonged sword duel between Fuwa Kazuemon (Sonny Chiba), bodyguard to the r\u014dnin\u2019s leader \u014cishi Kuranosuke (Yorozuya Kinnosuke), and Kobayashi Heihachiro (Tsunehiko Watase), bodyguard to Kira (Nobuo Kaneko). Yet for the most part Fukasaku plays a waiting game, focusing on the psychological tensions of a revenge that took place some 14 months after Asano\u2019s suicide, requiring extraordinary trust and forbearance on the part of r\u014dnin who were often as unsure as the authorities what, if anything, \u014cishi was plotting. Accordingly this plays like Sam Mendes\u2019 Jarhead, dramatising men of action reduced to inaction.<\/p>\n

The Fall of Ako Castle is available on Blu-ray from 4 December via Eureka<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Child\u2019s Play, dir. Tom Holland, 1988<\/h3>\n

After, cornered and dying, the \u2018Lakeshore Strangler\u2019 Charles \u2018Chucky\u2019 Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) uses a Voodoo spell to transfer his soul into a Good Guy doll, he hangs low in the elevated brownstone apartment of single mother Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) where he has become the beloved toy of her six-year-old son Andy (Alex Vincent). Eventually he reveals himself, pursuing a horrific vendetta against his enemies, and seeking a more permanent home in the body of his innocent new owner.<\/p>\n

They say Good Guys finish last, but the Child\u2019s Play franchise, far from ending, just keeps coming back, with its now iconic (and eminently commodifiable) villain, its multiple sequels (plus 2019 reboot), and its TV-series spinoff. Key to this success, now spanning over three-and-a-half decades, is its consistency, with key personnel (including Dourif and writer-turned-franchise-director Don Mancini) remaining in place, and its willingness to let the core mythology evolve in increasingly unhinged directions.<\/p>\n

Also crucial, though, is just how good Tom Holland\u2019s original film is: a Hitchcockian blend of high tension and dark comedy, with a rich seam of psychological subtext, as little Andy must decide between maternal influence and peer pressure.<\/p>\n

Child\u2019s Play is available as part of the Child\u2019s Play boxset on 4K UHD\/Blu-ray from 11 Dec via Arrow<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Murder Obsession, dir. Riccardo Freda, 1981<\/h3>\n

In 1957, Riccardo Freda directed I Vampiri, Italy\u2019s first horror feature with sound. Over three decades later, towards the end of his career, he would make this horror UFO – part late-entry giallo (complete with black-gloved killer), part modern gothic, part Satanic thriller.<\/p>\n

Actor Michael (Stefano Patrizi), who tends to get carried away in his roles as stranglers, has an \u2018irresistible impulse\u2019 to revisit his mother Glenda (Anita Strindberg) for the first time since, as a child, he was taken away and institutionalised for murdering his own conductor father. In Glenda\u2019s remote woodland pad (in Surrey!), together with his girlfriend Deborah (Silvia Dionisio) and some of the crew from his latest film (including his leading lady Beryl, played by Laura Black Emanuelle Gemser), Michael will find past trauma resurfacing, as the people around him start meeting grisly deaths one by one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe relationship between a mother and son is a mysterious one,\u201d observes Glenda, cutting to the Freudian core of Freda\u2019s Psycho-drama. For this who- and how-dunnit comes with the irrational trappings of a nightmare, as multiple narrative strands, dark magic and even metacinematic elements all converge to trap the viewer in a maddening fog of meaning.<\/p>\n

Murder Obsession is available on Blu-ray from 18 December via Radiance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, dir. Eastwood Allen and Christopher Griffiths, 2023<\/h3>\n

Released in 1987, Paul Verhoeven\u2019s RoboCop sold itself, from the title on down, as a scuzzy sci-fi action B movie, but it also pushed cartoonish on-screen violence to new levels, while being both satire of the Reagan-era drive towards corporate privatisation, and, as Verhoeven himself would insist, an all-American retelling of Jesus\u2019 crucifixion and resurrection. Eastwood Allen and Christopher Griffiths\u2019 four-part, five-hour documentary mini-series traces the film\u2019s genesis, its (sometimes difficult) production, and its reception and cultural impact.<\/p>\n

All this is communicated through an impressively extensive range of talking heads \u2014 practically the entire cast and crew apart from those who have since died \u2014 ensuring palatable, often very funny anecdotes, as well as a masterclass on every aspect of filmmaking. Along the way you will learn things: that all the cops in the film were named after serial killers; that Peter Weller was a \u201cpussy hound\u201d on set; that RoboCop predicted both the DVD, and the militarisation of the police force; and that real police repeatedly interrupted the shoot because of alarm over the scale of explosions and fires on location. It is an exhilarating, exhausting tribute to Verhoeven\u2019s infectious movie-making mania.<\/p>\n

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop is available on Blu-ray from 18 Dec via Icon Film Channel<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze), dir. Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1957<\/h3>\n

\u201cEveryone here has some kind of past. Everyone used to be somebody else before they ended up here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The speaker, old Dr Uchiyama (Isamu Kosugi), is not wrong. For he, though kindly, is a washed-up alcoholic, while restaurateur J\u014dji Shimaki (Yujiro Ishihara) is an ex-boxer with blood on his hands, and indentured chanteuse Saeko (Mie Kitahara) is \u201ca canary that\u2019s forgotten how to sing\u201d \u2014 and all these characters will find themselves united by their loneliness and despair, in a demimonde of cabaret clubs, pool halls, love hotels and sleazy dives, as J\u014dji vainly pursues a dream that is long since over.<\/p>\n

From its opening shot of a gutter-level puddle that, once the rain has stopped falling in it, reflects the neon sign (in English) for J\u014dji\u2019s restaurant, Koreyoshi Kurahara\u2019s monochrome feature is clearly one of several Nikkatsu noirs produced to fight it out with the American and French films that were doing so well at the Japanese box office. The shadows are long, Masaru Sato\u2019s score is jazzy, and the crises that the players must face, though criminal in nature, are also existential, with the past proving as inescapable as the self, and love the only salve.<\/p>\n

I Am Waiting is available as part of the Blu-ray set World Noir 1 from 18 December via Radiance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jules, dir. Marc Turtletaub, 2023<\/h3>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve seen the movies too,\u201d Sandy (Harriet Harris) says of the alien (Jade Quon) \u2014 later variously nicknamed Jules or Gary \u2014 that has crash-landed into the back garden of her friend Milton (Ben Kingsley), ruining his birdhouse and azaleas. \u201cYou know what happens to these guys when they fall to Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The obvious movie reference point here is E.T., in which those who discover and befriend the alien must also protect it from government agents \u2014 except that, unlike the suburban children in Steven Spielberg\u2019s film, Sandy and Milton are in their Seventies. So while they do their best to clothe and feed this recently arrived guest and to help him rebuild his damaged spacecraft, one might naturally also think of the geriatric close encounters of Ron Howard\u2019s Cocoon. Meanwhile the similarly ageing Joyce, to whom Sandy addresses her words about movie aliens, is played by Jane Curtin, herself once a movie alien in Steve Barron\u2019s SNL-spinoff Coneheads.<\/p>\n

This is a gentle, somewhat mawkish allegory of Milton\u2019s encroaching twilight years – for coinciding with Jules\u2019 arrival is the early onset of the widower\u2019s cognitive decline, so that he too is on a slow, difficult journey both home and heavenwards.<\/p>\n

Jules in UK cinemas and on digital from 29 December via Signature Entertainment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Samurai, demon dolls, an actor-murderer and RoboCop are some of the gems to catch up on while you’re relaxing this holiday season.<\/p>\n

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