Third Window Films has announced the first of a series of films from the legendary 1980s Japanese production company, The Director's Company, a collection of ground-breaking cinema from the legendary 80s Japanese production company, all with brand new digital remasters, new bonus features and in limited edition collector sleeves. The first three releases are detailed below.

THE GUARD FROM THE UNDERGROUND [JIGOKU NO KEIBĪN] (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 1992)
Blu-ray | 25 September 2023 | £29.99

A woman begins working at the same company as a security guard that she believes might be a former sumo wrestling serial killer.

Before becoming one of Japan’s most well-known horror directors through films like Cure, Pulseand Creepy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa started off his career in horror with 1992’s The Guard from Underground, the final film of the Director’s Company.

BLU-RAY CONTENTS:

• New digital remaster from the original negatives
• New audio commentary by Tom Mes
• Interview with producer Takashi Ikoma
• Kurosawa Kiyoshi talk at the premiere of the new master
• Trailer
• Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
• ‘Director’s Company’ edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies

DOOR (Takahashi Banmei, 1988) | Blu-ray | 30 October 2023 | £29.99

After several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman, a homemaker becomes increasingly afraid to answer her apartment door.

Two long-lost, extreme Japanese films which were way ahead of their time in pushing the boundaries for genre cinema in Japan.

BLU-RAY CONTENTS:

• Bonus Feature: Door 2: Tokyo Diary
• New digital remasters on both films, from their original negatives
• Door 1 audio commentary by Jasper Sharp
• Interview with director Banmei Takahashi
• Trailers for both features 
• Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
• Reversible sleeve featuring both Door 1 and 2 artworks
• ‘Director’s Company’ edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp - limited to 2000 copies

TYPHOON CLUB [TAIFŪ KURABU] (Somai Shinji, 1985) | Blu-ray | 27 November 2023 | £29.99

In the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious and seemingly liberating typhoon, several students are marooned in their school gymnasium.

Somai Shinji’s beloved cult film Typhoon Club is widely heralded as the director’s seminal feature and considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever made.

BLU-RAY CONTENTS:

• New 4K digital remaster from the original negatives
• Feature audio commentary by Tom Mes
• Selected audio commentary by Josh Slater-Williams
• Assistant Director Koji Enokido Talk Event
• Introduction by Ryusuke Hamaguchi at the Berlin Film Festival
• Trailer 
• Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
• ‘Director’s Company’ edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp - limited to 2000 copies