Weekly Movie/Music update: Around 500 new J-Pop, Anime, Soundtrack & Movie releases

December 20th, 2008, 11:30 Posted By: wraggster

Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Around 500 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.

Biohazard Degeneration the 3D animated movie is releasing as DVD's, Blu-Ray Discs and PSP UMDs a week later but the Original Soundtrack is already out for you to prepare yourself for its impact. The cyber rock and punk styles inspire images of charging zombies and ceaseless gun fire.

Besides the exciting zombie infused feature film, the pop animation series Bleach also released their newest Best Album and Character Songs CDs. While the Best Album carries the theme songs the series used between 2006 and 2008, the Character Songs CD features the music talents of the best partners Ichigo and Rukia.

Being a major composer and producer for Bemani games' music, Ueno Keiichi combined forces with his fellow composers and DJs in the beatmania team to produce his newest album Rewind! The newest Beatmania PS2 release IIDX 15 DJ Troopers features quite a number of his pieces, feel the beat and sway to it as you go to school or work.

Besides music, an interesting Hong Kong romantic action film Butterfly Lovers is also released in Blu-Ray Discs and DVD formats.

Butterfly Lovers is the equivalent of Romeo and Juliet in Chinese speaking communities and with a generous blend of sword fighting and action scenes, the film is sure to add a layer of glitter to your Christmas holidays.

While action elements is peripheral to the romantic film, it is the center of attention in Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell 2.0 Limited Edition. This 2.0 version carries the original version of the film, an audio CD, video clips on the making-of process of the film, promotional footages such as trailers and Japanese/English language options.

Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, December 13th and Friday, December 19th. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.


J-Pop Music releases (217)
ENKA Music releases (20)
Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (37)
Video Game Soundtracks (2)
Blu-ray Disc Movies (11)
Anime & Animation (52)
Hong Kong Version Movie releases (43)
Japanese Movies (19)
Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (65)
J-Pop DVD releases (9)
Misc Japanese Movie releases (5)
Idol DVD (24)
UMD™ Video & Music (1)

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