&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/68930?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=This+week%27s+new+DVD+%26amp%3B+Blu-ray%3AArticle%3A1646744&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=DVD+and+video+reviews%2CFilm%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Phelim+O%27Neill&amp;c7=11-Oct-15&amp;c8=1646744&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Review&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FDVD+and+video+reviews&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9eoWHhg1w&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In The Realm Of The Senses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;; Empire Of Passion; Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three separate releases this week from one of Japan&#039;s most progressive and controversial directors, Nagisa Oshima.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oshima&#039;s bold and inventive early films made him a darling of the critics of world cinema but it was 1976&#039;s long-banned In The Realm Of The Senses (Ai No Corrida) that really put him on the map. It&#039;s a tale of a sexual relationship so obsessive and boundary-breaking that it can only end in tragedy. 1979&#039;s Empire Of Passion covers much similar destructive ground, with another doomed romance, here featuring jealousy, guilt, madness and murder. It&#039;s a heady brew. 1983&#039;s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence provided Oshima with an unexpected hit, thanks not only to support from the UK&#039;s legendary independent film company Palace Pictures but also to a leading role by David Bowie. Quite what young pop fans thought of seeing their musical hero playing a distant soldier embroiled in a heavy, homoerotic relationship with the Japanese captain of the PoW camp he&#039;s interned in is sadly unrecorded, but the film plays even better today. Bowie is superb, as is Ryuichi Sakamoto, whose evocative soundtrack is one of the best ever to grace a motion picture. It&#039;s time for you to discover Oshima.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is out on 24 October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blu-ray Double Play, StudioCanal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cave Of Forgotten Dreams&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Originally in 3D but just as good here flat, Werner Herzog guides us around some 30,000-year-old cave paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revolver, DVD &amp; Blu-ray&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last Night&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington in a movie about infidelity, well delivered, if not exactly original.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Optimum, DVD &amp; Blu-ray&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Control/Requiem For A Dream/Am&eacute;lie/Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;A series of cult classics finally appear on Blu-ray.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Momentum, Blu-ray&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;West Side Story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Romeo And Juliet transposed to the streets of New York with lots of classic songs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fox, DVD &amp; Blu-ray&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/dvdreviews&quot;&gt;DVD and video reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/phelimoneill&quot;&gt;Phelim O&#039;Neill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;