Out There By Toei Boxset (Blu-ray) ***Preorder*** 5/6

Spanning nearly three decades, this electrifying boxset showcases the fearless imagination and genre-shaping legacy of Japanese powerhouse TOEI. From cosmic spectacle to punk-inflected revenge to uncanny body horror, these films trace a lineage of excess, invention, and cultural bite that only TOEI could deliver.

Together, these films form a vivid portrait of TOEI’s genre-bending bravado, unapologetically stylish, often confrontational, and endlessly inventive, capturing the studio’s enduring commitment to pushing popular cinema to its most extreme and exhilarating edges.

Kinji Fukasaku’s A MESSAGE FROM SPACE (1978) launches the set in operatic fashion: a wildly ambitious sci-fi epic that fuses space opera with samurai myth, international star power, and the director’s trademark intensity.

Nearly thirty years later, in YO-YO GIRL COP (2006) Kenta Fukasaku brings that rebellious energy crashing into the 21st century, reinventing the schoolgirl action film with pop-punk attitude, kinetic violence, and a weaponised yo-yo at its center.

From there, descend into the uncanny with EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS (2007), a uniquely Japanese strain of modern horror in which beauty culture and bodily obsession intertwine with chilling consequences.

Finally, X-CROSS (2007) explodes into brutal, neon-lit survival horror, as a group of women stumble into a nightmare of sadism, vengeance, and feral resistance deep in the forest.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku, Sion Sono
Starring Aya Matsuura; Chiaki Kuriyama; Nao Matsushita; Sonny Chiba; Vic Morrow

EXTRAS

MESSAGE FROM SPACE

NEW! Audio Commentary with Author Patrick Macias
NEW! Galleons in Space: Director Kenta Fukasaku on his father's film "Message from Space”
Japanese Theatrical Trailers
Stills Gallery
US Theatrical Trailer
YO-YO GIRL COP

NEW! End Of An Era: Director Kenta Fukasaku on Yo-Yo Girl Cop
NEW! David Michael Brown on Spinning Around with Yo-Yo Girl Cop
The Making Of Yo-Yo Cop Girl
Yo-Yo Girl Cop 2006 Premiere Q&A
Yo-Yo Girl Cop 2006 Press Conference at Tokyo Film Studio
Interview with Actors Yuki Saita and Aya Matsuura
Archival Cast & Director Interviews
Theatrical Trailer
EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS

NEW! Audio Commentary with Author Samm Deighan
NEW! Bad Hair Day: Special Effects Guru Yoshihiro Nishimura on Exte
NEW! Robert Edwards on Hair, Horror and the Commodification of the Body in Exte
Behind The Scenes
Deleted Scenes
My Hair: Music Video
Trailer
TV Spots
X-CROSS

NEW! Audio Commentary with Author Patrick Macias
NEW! Cut Above the Rest: Director Kenta Fukasaku on X-Cross
NEW! Armed and Dangerous: Robert Edwards on The Rise of Weaponised Women in Japanese Genre Cinema
The Making Of X-Cross
Deleted Scenes
Cast Interviews
Ashikari Village Special Language Segment
Theatrical Trailer