Some of the finest examples of Japanese action cinema available in one box set. Features:

The Black Angel 2: Takashi Ishii continues to explore the dark side of Tokyo in this sequel to Black Angel. This time Yuki Amami plays Mayu, an assasin, who becomes involved in a tangled web of friendship and revenge that can only end in despair. Ishii's direction makes for a dark, gritty and intense move using violence as an expression of anguish.

Gonin 2: Takashi Ishii's sequel to the brutal 'Gonin' is another two-fisted mix of blood and bullets. Instead of a quintet of five desperate men, 'Gonin 2' features five very angry women, all from different backgrounds. The film begins as Masamichi Toyama, a man with a large gambling debt is tracked down by his Yakuza lenders and forced to endure a beating and the rape of his wife.
Humiliated, Masamichi sets out for revenge with only a sword but events escalate as his path crosses the Gonin, five feisty femme fatales who would like nothing better than to rip-off the Mob. A highly stylised and violent crime caper, Gonin 2 retains the fluid and sensual camera work of the original adding even more perverse humour and off-beat characters to the mix making it a highly entertaining blend of genres.

Score 2: A small group of violent criminals carry out a daring bank robbery and escape with $5 million, eventually hiding the loot on a construction site. Months later, when one of their number is killed during a high-speed car chase, the surviving members of the gang decide to recover the money. Returning to the hiding place they discover the site has now been turned into an amusement park, at the same time coming to the realisation that the only one who knew where the money was hidden is now dead.

Recruiting a number of other gangsters to help search for the cash, the unlikely thieves find themselves involved in a traitorous maze of double-crossing and betrayal, further complicated by the unwanted attention of two crooked cops who have taken a personal rather than professional interest in the case...