Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Japanese historical drama directed by Yojiro Takita Two men Saito (Koichi Sato) & Ono (Takehiro Murata) meet by chance in a doctor&s surgery in 1899 & discover that they both have past connections with the same man Kanichiro Yoshimutra (Kiichi Nakai) a skilled samurai who was forced to leave his wife & children behind during a famine in order to earn some money by joining the well-known samurai faction Shinsen-gumi Misunderstood & assumed by many to be a greedy mercenary Yoshimura&s path through Japan&s turbulent struggles to banish feudalism & his own conflicting motivations is both tortuous & complex The film won several Japanese Academy Awards in 2003 including Best Actor Best Supporting Actor & Best Picture ...

This compelling story of the writing & recording of Led Zeppelin IV is full of passionate insights into the mayhem madness & creative processes behind one of the most influential albums of all time This book explains how Led Zeppelin recognized as the first true rock gods with three platinum albums in quick succession had been shrouded in intrigue with legendary tales of debauched excesses orgies black magic & satanic pacts Included are details on how a clever studio deal afforded the band total artistic freedom to create an explosive & massive new sound with a heavy sex groove that would redefine rock music & create an entirely new genre heavy metal The exhaustive track-by-track analysis

Includes:: commentary on Stairway to Heaven Black Dog & Rock & Roll

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Pam Evans' London saga brings the glamour of the cinema during the Blitz of the Second World War vividly to life Sure to appeal to fans of Katie Flynn & Cathy Sharp It is 1938 & the threat of war looms on the streets of London But when the lights go down in the cinema aisles usherette Daisy Blake is transported to a world of glamour & romance Among the staff there is much merriment & Daisy soon falls in love with the handsome organist Al Dawson Then war is declared & just after Al leaves for the frontline Daisy discovers she's pregnant Her mother is distraught; she doesn't think Al is right for her daughter & when Daisy's letters to him go unanswered her mother encourages her to marry John the cinema's projectionist to spare her further heartache As the blitz rages over London & disaster strikes Daisy's morale is boosted by her work & her young son Sam brings her comfort & joy in the troubled times ahead ...

EMBRACE THE TRUTH & EXPERIENCE UNRIVALED TERROR Yorkshire 1974 the Maynard family moves into their dream house It&s a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth that will make the history books The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep & drag you helplessly into the darkness As the attacks on the family become increasingly violent & terrifying it becomes clear that the exorcism of the poltergeist will be their only chance for survival Based on true events that occurred at No 30 East Drive on the Chesterfield Estate Pontefract West Yorkshire The subject of a plethora of research group studies books & newspaper reports this is the horrifying story of what really happened &A tense chilling & original homegrown borrow& (Zoo)&A natural born chiller& (Sky Movies) ...

Heirs to their father's fortune destiny divides the boys from the start
- Garrick is eager to stay indoors with a book & escape
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London 1910 Twins Lester & Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage Lester is a brilliant pianist; Lillia a magnificent opera singer But their cruel father has other ideas for their future Lester is sent to a military academy while Lillia must marry Lord Dalton
- a self righteous pompous friend of her father's looking for a young wife to give him an heir Yet their plans to defy their father's wishes are put on hold when war breaks out in 1914 Suddenly Lester is flying planes for the RFC & Lillia trains as a nurse to help those wounded at home & then abroad For both twins the fighting brings hardships & difficult choices They wait in hope like the rest of Europe for the war to end & the music to start again
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTwo young girls Two unspeakable crimes Fifty years separate them
- their pain connects them
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe twenty third instalment of the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING DCI Banks Series The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market Try one & tell me I'm wrong
- Stephen King Two young girls Two unspeakable crimes Fifty years separate them
- their pain connects them When the body of a 15-year-old is found in a remote countryside lane beaten & broken DI Annie Cabbot is brought in to investigate how the child could possibly have fallen victim to such brutality Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a case that is as cold as they come Now in her 60s Linda Palmer was attacked aged 14 by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton yet the crime has never been investigated
- until now As each steps closer to uncovering the truth they'll unearth secrets much darker than they ever could have guessed


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A sweeping saga of the centuries to come from the new dark age that followed a global war to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars At first the colonists use ships with gigantic sails cruising on the waves of starlight their captains having to become something part human & part machine; then later moving by planoforming ships which travel faster than light but must defend themselves against the malevolent mind-devouring creatures lurking in the dark between the stars Then came the reign of the all-powerful Lords of the Instrumentality who ruled Earth & its colony worlds with ruthless benevolence suffocating the human spirit for millennia—until the time of the Rediscovery of Man when the strange lost concept of freedom was reborn An extraordinary vision of a future unique in science fiction praised by readers critics & major writers in the field About the Author Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym under which Dr Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction His first story “ Scanners Live in Vain” appeared in 1950 & rocked the science fiction world as few first stories have He was born in Milwaukee & grew up in Japan China (where he became the godson of Sun Yat-Sen then president of China) France & Germany He was a Professor of Asiatic Studies at Johns Hopkins University was on the US Operations Planning & Intelligence Board during World War II & became a Colonel in Army Intelligence After the war he was advisor to the British forces in Malaya & to the US Eighth Army in Korea & wrote the book Psychological Warfare regarded for decades after as the most authoritative text in the field He died in 1966 ...

Unlock the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work school & at home; from the internationally bestselling author of Drive & To Sell is Human 272 pages Pink Daniel H ...