K-ON! THE MOVIE available May 21st
Home video distributor Section23 Films has announced its May slate of releases, including Sentai Filmworks newest acquisition K-ON! THE MOVIE, the theatrical follow-up to the ultra-popular TV series. K-ON! THE MOVIE will be available on both DVD and Blu-Ray.
Product details follow, in order of release.
Title: KIDS ON THE SLOPE COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 5/7/2013
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
It's the summer of 1966 and high school freshman Kaoru Nishimi is
struggling to adjust to the latest of many moves in his young life, this
time to his uncle's home in the seaside town of Kyushu. It's never easy
adjusting. It's never easy fitting in. But this time will be different.
This time he'll meet friends who will change his life forever. And
he'll discover a new passion, one that grabs his heart and rocks him to
his very soul. It's music. A beat. A whole new way of looking at life.
It's called jazz, and together with bad boy Sentaro and music store girl
Ritsuko, they're going to follow their muse to wherever their music
takes them! You think garage bands are something new? Think again and
travel to a time when dreams and a couple of musical instruments really
could change the world! Get ready to be blown away by a tale of life,
love and all that jazz in THE KIDS ON THE SLOPE!
Title: KIDS ON THE SLOPE COMPLETE COLLECTION BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 5/7/2013
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $69.98
SYNOPSIS:
It's the summer of 1966 and high school freshman Kaoru Nishimi is
struggling to adjust to the latest of many moves in his young life, this
time to his uncle's home in the seaside town of Kyushu. It's never easy
adjusting. It's never easy fitting in. But this time will be different.
This time he'll meet friends who will change his life forever. And
he'll discover a new passion, one that grabs his heart and rocks him to
his very soul. It's music. A beat. A whole new way of looking at life.
It's called jazz, and together with bad boy Sentaro and music store girl
Ritsuko, they're going to follow their muse to wherever their music
takes them! You think garage bands are something new? Think again and
travel to a time when dreams and a couple of musical instruments really
could change the world! Get ready to be blown away by a tale of life,
love and all that jazz in THE KIDS ON THE SLOPE!
Title: NATSUYUKI RENDEZVOUS COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 275 min.
Street Date: 5/7/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98
SYNOPSIS:
Hazuki may be near-sighted, but he knows true beauty when he sees it
and the delicate form of flower shop owner Rokka draws him in like a bee
to honey. So, hoping to cultivate a relationship between them, Hazuki
takes a part time job at her shop, only to discover two huge thorns
preventing the nurturing of any romance. The first, the fact that Rokka
is still grieving for her late husband Shimao, would be enough to snip
most men’s ardor short, but it’s the second that really threatens to
make Hazuki’s forlorn hopes wilt. Because while Shimao is most
definitely deceased, he hasn’t yet departed and his spirit is still
living in Rokka’s apartment! Except only Hazuki can see him, which
leads to a very strange romantic triangle indeed. Are Hazuki’s chances
with Rokka as dead as the man who still lives in her house? Or can he
somehow make love blossom even though there’s an interloper pushing up
the daisies between them? One way or another, the ground’s going to be
rocky and someone or something’s likely to get nipped in the bud in
NATSUYUKI RENDEZVOUS!
Title COLORFUL: THE MOTION PICTURE
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 126 min.
Street Date: 5/14/2013
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $29.98
SYNOPSIS:
There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who
arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For
one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather
than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide
Makoto Kobayashi where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's
existence, but also unravel two mysteries. What is the secret of the
great sin it committed in its own previous life and what were the
reasons that led to Makoto's suicide? While some may believe the truth
to be as plain to see as black and white, "Makoto" soon finds that the
real world is overlaid with so many shades of grey and rainbows of
colors that even the most obvious of "facts" are not what they seem.
With the soul's time in Makoto's body quickly running out, the answers
to all life's mysteries await discovery in the acclaimed animation
masterpiece that won the 34th Japanese Academy Prize for Excellence in
Animation: Colorful ~ The Motion Picture.
Title: COLORFUL: THE MOTION PICTURE BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 126 min.
Street Date: 5/14/2013
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $39.98
SYNOPSIS:
There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who
arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For
one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather
than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide
Makoto Kobayashi where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's
existence, but also unravel two mysteries. What is the secret of the
great sin it committed in its own previous life and what were the
reasons that led to Makoto's suicide? While some may believe the truth
to be as plain to see as black and white, "Makoto" soon finds that the
real world is overlaid with so many shades of grey and rainbows of
colors that even the most obvious of "facts" are not what they seem.
With the soul's time in Makoto's body quickly running out, the answers
to all life's mysteries await discovery in the acclaimed animation
masterpiece that won the 34th Japanese Academy Prize for Excellence in
Animation: Colorful ~ The Motion Picture.
Title: KÄMPFER ~ FÜR DIE LIEBE
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 50 min.
Street Date: 5/14/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $19.98
SYNOPSIS:
Natsuru used to dream of being a lady killer. Instead, he got turned
into a Kämpfer - a lady who's supposed to fight and kill other girls in
mortal combat! Now, he's stuck splitting his/her days between being a
typically average Japanese boy and a very untypical Japanese girl. And
to make matters even more complex, Natsuru's allowed him/herself to be
convinced to move in with three other gorgeous Kämpfers, who are
definitely all woman all of the time, for their "mutual defense." Of
course, the fact that more than one of them may have less than honorable
designs upon one or the other of his/her two alternate sexualities
couldn't possibly be a problem, could it? Of course it could, and
things really get hopping when Natsuru has to take a job at the
Bunnygirl Café and ends up in the hot box! Getting in touch with your
feminine side's a full-contact, no-holds-barred, Amazon action-fest as
feelings are bared and titans clash in Kämpfer für die Liebe!
Title: K-ON! THE MOVIE
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 110 min.
Street Date: 5/21/2013
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $29.98
SYNOPSIS:
Graduation time is finally here, but the girls of the Sakuragaoka
Girl's High Light Music Club aren't going to let the end of high school
be the end of all they've built together. First though, they have to
keep a promise to take a trip together, and like everything else they
do, they're not doing it halfway. So it's time to hop on the bus - the
double-decker bus that is - and go around the world as the band heads
for the birthplace of the British Invasion: the United Kingdom! And on
the way they're going to have to solve that one last big puzzle that's
been vexing them: what to get for their underclassman rhythm guitarist
Azusa, who will be taking over the club once they don their caps and
gowns and leave Sakuragaoka for the last time. Get ready for a Magical
Musical Tour as the whole gang takes in the sights and sounds of London
and prepares for one last amazing encore in the climatic finale of K-ON!
THE MOVIE!
Title: K-ON! THE MOVIE BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 110 min.
Street Date: 5/21/2013
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $39.98
SYNOPSIS:
Graduation time is finally here, but the girls of the Sakuragaoka
Girl's High Light Music Club aren't going to let the end of high school
be the end of all they've built together. First though, they have to
keep a promise to take a trip together, and like everything else they
do, they're not doing it halfway. So it's time to hop on the bus - the
double-decker bus that is - and go around the world as the band heads
for the birthplace of the British Invasion: the United Kingdom! And on
the way they're going to have to solve that one last big puzzle that's
been vexing them: what to get for their underclassman rhythm guitarist
Azusa, who will be taking over the club once they don their caps and
gowns and leave Sakuragaoka for the last time. Get ready for a Magical
Musical Tour as the whole gang takes in the sights and sounds of London
and prepares for one last amazing encore in the climatic finale of K-ON!
THE MOVIE!
Title: LOVE ♥ LOVE? COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Maiden Japan
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 195 min.
Street Date: 5/21/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $39.98
SYNOPSIS:
It's said that Heaven and Hell can be the same place, depending upon
your situation, and Naoto Ooizumi is learning that lesson the hard way.
At only 17 years old, he's working on the set of Cosmopolitan Prayers
(CosPrayers for short,) one of the hottest TV soaps on the air, and the
girl of his dreams, Natsumi Magami, is playing the lead. The problem:
as much as he wants to start a relationship with her, he keeps getting
romantically intercepted by the OTHER cute girls in the show. It's not
like they're just trying to stop a Naoto/Natsumi hook up. They seem to
be actively "interested" in the cute young man who's running the behind
the scenes production camera! But that's not the biggest twist, because
unknown to anyone except the show's producer, Ooizumi ISN'T just a
camera operator, he's also the show's WRITER! So what do you do when
you're able to put any words you want in the mouth of the girl you love,
but you're contractually obligated to put similar things between the
lips of the girls that love you? The pros and cons abound as romance
goes wildly off script in LOVE ♥ LOVE?!
Title: OKAMIKAKUSHI ~ MASQUE OF THE WOLF COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 5/28/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98
SYNOPSIS:
From the moment Hiroshi and his family arrive in J?ga, he senses
something odd about the isolated village. It's not that the people are
cold and aloof. Except for his beautiful class president, Nemuru, most
welcome him quite warmly. But some also simply disappear. Students
transfer out of his school without any notice, and Hiroshi's next door
neighbor Isuzu, who seems quite infatuated with him, warns him to stay
away from the old part of town. The upcoming Haasaku Festival, which
celebrates the town's unique oranges, seems to be generating an unusual
level of concern, and groups of masked people roam the streets by night,
hunting… something. Could the legends of man-sized wolves roaming the
mountains surrounding J?ga be real? Who is the girl with the scythe?
What is the real purpose of the festival? And how does this all revolve
around something called a Temptation? Hiroshi and his new circle of
friends have little time to solve these riddles before the answers will
become far more dangerous and personal than he could ever imagine!
Beneath the mask of society and the skin of humanity, something ancient
awaits in Okamikakushi - MASQUE OF THE WOLF!
Title: PHI-BRAIN ~ SEASON 1 COLLECTION 2
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 5/28/2013
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS:
Kaito's spent his whole life solving puzzles, and now his life depends
on being able to solve some of the world's most difficult - and deadly -
puzzles. Designated as Puzzles of Fools, these puzzles are designed to
push Kaito's solving abilities to their limits and beyond, or destroy
him in the attempt. Each one is more fiendish than the last, and
they're all intended to prepare Kaito for his attempt to solve the
Puzzle of God. There's just one catch: Kaito doesn't want to solve the
Puzzle of God; that's all the POG's idea. And when Kaito discovers the
identity of the mastermind behind the POG, the sinister group that's
been endangering him and his friends with their cruel puzzles, it may
just be the final solution. Solving puzzles has never been more
challenging or potentially lethal than in Phi-Brain ~ Puzzle of God
Season 1 Collection 2!
Title: PHI-BRAIN ~ SEASON 1 COLLECTION 2 BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 5/28/2013
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $69.98
SYNOPSIS:
Kaito's spent his whole life solving puzzles, and now his life depends
on being able to solve some of the world's most difficult - and deadly -
puzzles. Designated as Puzzles of Fools, these puzzles are designed to
push Kaito's solving abilities to their limits and beyond, or destroy
him in the attempt. Each one is more fiendish than the last, and
they're all intended to prepare Kaito for his attempt to solve the
Puzzle of God. There's just one catch: Kaito doesn't want to solve the
Puzzle of God; that's all the POG's idea. And when Kaito discovers the
identity of the mastermind behind the POG, the sinister group that's
been endangering him and his friends with their cruel puzzles, it may
just be the final solution. Solving puzzles has never been more
challenging or potentially lethal than in Phi-Brain ~ Puzzle of God
Season 1 Collection 2!
