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Our annual Holiday Sale is upon us.
Until the end of the year, you can get great savings on some of our most popular titles!

Just added: The Japan at War DVD collection for a mere $34.98!

The complete Yawara! box set for only $34.95!

Individual discs of You're Under Arrest! are now only $6.99!

A mere $7.99 will bag you Samurai Assassin, Incident at Blood Pass, The Wolves, Battle of Okinawa, Kon Ichikawa's 47 Ronin, Shinsengumi or Dora-Heita! Keep our shipping ninjas busy and out of trouble -- we don't want a repeat of last year's regrettable "Missing Mall Elves" incident. Order today!
Samurai Titles going Sayonara!
Lady Snowblood, Samurai Banners and Red Lion will all be going out-of-print on November 30th, 2011, and will not be available after that date. The price of all of these DVDs has been reduced to $7.99 while supplies last.

The Toshiro Mifune Box Set, which contains Samurai Banners and Red Lion, will also become unavailable at the same time, but the other titles in the set will still remain available as individual DVDs.
Sneak Preview of 2012
Coming in 2012, a set of stellar samurai films, plus the long-awaited Blu-ray release of the complete Shogun Assassin series!

If classic samurai films are your cup of green tea, you'll love Eiichi Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy, consisting of 13 Assassins (1963, aka The Thirteen Assassins -- recently remade by Takashi Miike), The Great Killing (1964, aka The Great Duel) and Eleven Samurai (1967).

And if stellar swordplay is your bowl of rice, then you'll be pleased to know that the complete 5-film Shogun Assassin series, dubbed into English, will be released in a Blu-ray collector's set.

More details soon; in the meantime, here are a few images to whet your appetite.

You're Under Arrest will go out-of-print on January 31st, 2012
We regret to announce that You're Under Arrest will go out of print on January 31st, 2012. As individual DVDs may go out-of-print prior to that date when stocks are exhausted, we recommend that if you want to complete your collection, you do so as soon as possible.
Summer Samurai Sale!
It's hot out there, so now's the perfect time to crank up the AC and watch some seriously sizzling samurai cinema.

So for a limited time, the two Lady Snowblood films, as well as two Toshiro Mifune classics (Red Lion and Samurai Banners), are only $9.99.

And if two helpings of the magnificent Mifune just don't seem like enough, you can get the 5-film Toshiro Mifune Box Set for a mere $39.99!
Free Ninja T-Shirts are back!
We just discovered that an extra supply of our extremely elusive Ninja T-Shirts has infiltrated our office, so we are re-instating our Free Ninja T-Shirt Offer.

Place any order totaling $100 or more (before taxes and shipping), and follow the instructions cunningly hidden on the checkout page, and you can get one for free. Currently we only have L, XL and 2XL sizes. This offer is available while supplies last.
Portrait of Hell goes out-of-print on 2011-02-28
One of our favorite psychological horror films, Portrait of Hell, will go out of print at the end of February. Can you possibly resist the chance to see Kinnosuke Nakamura lose his mind for only $3.99?

Quantities extremely limited! Offer good while supplies last!
Urusei Yatsura to go out of print on 30-September-2011
It is with heavy hearts that we must announce that we will be unable to renew our license for Urusei Yatsura. We will be unable to accept orders after the 30th of September, 2011, and individual DVDs will almost certainly become unavailable before that date as our stocks become exhausted.

So if you've always been meaning to complete your collection of UY, now is the time.

Tip: if you want to order a lot of DVDs, our Complete Product List lets you add as many DVDs as you want to your shopping cart in a single operation!
The Perfect Gifts for Valentine's Day...?
Looking for a romantic gift for Valentine's Day?

Then how about the complete Yawara Season One Box Set for only $39.99?

What's that you say? You like your hearts pierced by sharp implements? Then how about the second Sleepy Eyes of Death Box Set for only $49.99? Or the Mikogami Trilogy for a mere $19.99 (or each film for only $6.99!)

At AnimEigo, we specialize in very special gifts for that very special someone.
Box Set Blowout Sale
For a limited time, we've reduced the prices on some of our most popular box sets. Now you can get hours of top-notch anime and samurai films for only pennies. Ok, thousands of pennies, but you get the idea! Included are titles like Miyamoto Musashi, Sleepy Eyes of Death, Shinobi no Mono, Shogun Assassin, Tora-san, The Toshiro Mifune Collection and Yawara. You can see all the items and add them to your cart here.
April 29th, 2010 - Yawara Status Update
We know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting news about the future of Yawara. It is with deep regret that we must announce that so far, we have not been able to secure a license to release the rest of the series.

If conditions change and it becomes possible to obtain a license, we will certainly do so. Everyone at AnimEigo loves Yawara and wants to continue work on the series.
April 19th, 2010 - New Staff Member Makes Her Debut
We are pleased to announce the arrival of our newest staff member, Jenna Lauren Engelmann, born April 16th, and weighing in at 6lbs, 11oz. Mother and daughter are doing fine; father Bobby somewhat worse for wear.
April 15th, 2010 - Two new licenses!
We're pleased to announce the licensing of the following two titles. Hopefully this news will dull the cutting pain of Tax Day.

Samurai Vendetta: A Chronicle of Pale Cherry Blossoms (Hakuoki), directed by Kazuo MORI and starring Raizo ICHIKAWA and Shintaro KATSU. The film that made Katsu a star, it is a tragic tale of two swordsmen whose clans are embroiled in a blood feud, and who vie for the same woman. Betrayal, dishonor and death ensue.

Shinsengumi Chronicles: I Want To Die A Samurai (Shinsengumi Shimatsuki), directed by Kenji MISUMI and starring Tomisaburo WAKAYAMA (under his alias, Kenzaburo JO) and Raizo ICHIKAWA. Raizo stars as a honest man who joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, Isami KONDO (Wakayama), and because he wants to die as a samurai.

More details, such as release dates, when we have them firmed up.
February 22nd, 2010 - Oh My Goddess! Armageddon Outta Here!
The license for Oh My Goddess! expires at 11:59:59PM ET on Sunday, February 28th 2010. We currently only have OMG Disc #2 remaining in stock, and we've dropped the price to an insane $2.99 to clear them out.
February 2nd, 2010 - Japan at War DVD Collection arrives.
Newly arrived at the warehouse - the Japan at War DVD Collection, featuring four award-winning and outstanding films told from Japan's perspective, each one focusing on a different aspect of the Pacific War. Included in the set are Japan's Longest Day, Battle of Okinawa, Father of the Kamikaze and Black Rain (also available individually).
February 2nd, 2010 - Oh My Goddess! going Out-Of-Print on 02-28-2010
Barring divine intervention, our license for Oh My Goddess! expires at the end of the month. We still have some copies of the 2-disc collector's edition and the original discs in stock, and we've reduced the price to clear them out. Supplies are limited, so if you want to make room for 3 Goddesses and 1 nerd in your Anime collection, now's the time!
January 20th, 2010 - We finally succumb and join Twitter
Yes, it's true. AnimEigo now has a Twitter Account, which means that Twitter is now officially not trendy anymore.

Rumor has it that those foolish enough to follow us on Twitter will not only get exclusive updates on what we're up to, but also special limited time coupon codes that can be entered during checkout for big savings on whatever we have too much of our hottest titles!
December 18th, 2009: Annual AnimEigo Holiday Break
Just ask anyone who works here (especially the management) - the hours are horrible, the working conditions are terrible, and we'd be paid in Quatloos if the government let Natsumi get away with it.

But there is one perk to slaving away subtitling films all year long -- the Annual AnimEigo Solstice Sabbatical. From 12/24 to 01/04, the lights are off, the thermostat is turned down, and the only sound to be heard at the AnimEigo offices is the shivering and bitching of the one Ninja who drew the short straw and got stuck with the job of guarding the place.

Which means that any orders received after Noon Eastern Time on Wednesday, 12/23 will not be processed and shipped until January 4th, 2010. So if you like us and want to get some DVDs before we close down, please get your orders in now.

And if you hate us but still want to get some DVDs before we close down, make huge orders at 11:50 AM ET on Wednesday...
December 3rd, 2009: We make Arben an offer he can't refuse!
Just last night, as I was tucking the minions into their beds, I got an email asking when Onimasa would be available. Well, as a favor to you, Arben, we're making it available right now.

But remember, Arben... Some day, and that day may never come, we will call upon you to do a service for us...
October 29th, 2009: Tora-san wanders into the warehouse
Given that he's visited just about every other place in the world over 48 movies, we shouldn't have been surprised that Tora-san found his way here. We were so entertained by his patter that we ended up buying thousands of copies of a box set containing his first four movies. He also told Natsumi to look him up in Shibamata if she ever needed a hand. Hmmm....