Ichikawa, Bolognini, Has, Ferrara, Avildsen and more from Radiance in September
The August disc releases from Radiance have been announced as Ichikawa Kon’s The Inugami Family, Mauro Bolognini’s Corruption, Abel Ferrara’s New Rose Hotel, nine film set Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio, and in the TX label, John G Avildsen’s Joe, all on Blu-ray, and Wojciech Has’s The Saragossa Manuscript on UHD & Blu-ray. Full details follow.
THE INUGAMI FAMILY [INUGAMI-KE NO ICHIZOKU] (Japan 1976)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 14 September 2026 | £17.99
When the wealthy patriarch of the Inugami dynasty dies, he leaves his fortune to Tamayo (Shimada Yoko, Shogun), a young woman from outside the family. There is one condition: she must marry one of his grandsons. As the family gather in the stately mansion to discuss the situation, grisly murders occur. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke arrives to investigate the case and uncovers the secret history of the family’s bloodline. Directed by Ichikawa Kon (Ten Women in Black, Fires on the Plain), this murder mystery was a massive hit in Japan that profoundly changed the Japanese film industry. Infused with a gothic atmosphere and featuring several now-iconic scenes, The Inugami Family has rarely been seen outside its home country, making it one of Japanese cinema’s best-kept secrets.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- 4K restoration by Kadokawa Pictures
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- Newly filmed interview with Aaron Gerow on the film’s impact in Japan (2026)
- Secrets of Kon Ichikawa’s Visual Style – archival documentary (44 mins)
- Outtakes from Secrets of Kon Ichikawa’s Visual Style (8 mins)
- Archival making-of documentary, featuring interviews with director Ichikawa Kon, star Ishizaka Koji and editor Osada Chizuko (30 mins)
- Archival interview with star Ishizaka Koji (16 mins)
- Archival documentary on the 4K restoration process (12 mins)
- Trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Kimbara Yuka
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
CORRUPTION [LA CORRUZIONE] (Italy 1963)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 14 September 2026 | £17.99
After finishing his studies in Switzerland, the shy and innocent Stefano (Jacques Perrin, Girl with a Suitcase) decides to become a priest. His father, Leonardo (Alain Cuny, La dolce vita), a rich publishing magnate, disapproves: he wants his son to take over his empire someday. When he invites Stefano on a yacht trip together with his mistress (Rosanna Schiaffino), Leonardo’s intention is not to reconcile with his son…
Pleasure under the burning sun takes on sinister undertones in this haunting tale of a cruel father determined to tempt his son into relinquishing his spiritual ambitions. With ice-cold New Wave stylings and sharp dialogue, director Mauro Bolognini (Il bell’Antonio, The Big Night) crafts an unsparing critique of Italy’s nascent consumerist society.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- 2K restoration
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- New interview with critic and programmer Adrian Wootton (2026)
- Archival interview with producers Alfredo Bini and Manolo Bolognini
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by film scholar Marco Natoli
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT [REKOPIS ZNALEZIONY W SARAGOSSIE] (Poland 1965)
Limited Edition UHD + Limited Edition Blu-ray | 14 September 2026 | £24.99
At the height of the Napoleonic wars, a Polish soldier seeks refuge in a deserted house in the Spanish town of Saragossa, and discovers a mysterious manuscript written in a language he doesn’t speak. When enemy Spanish officers arrive to arrest him, one of the soldiers realises that the book appears to tell the story of his grandfather, Alfonse Van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski, Ashes and Diamonds), and his surreal, mystical adventures in the region several decades before. He starts to translate the text for the Polish soldier, and so begins a time-shifting, genre-hopping, ouroboros-like epic narrative, one that blends the gothic, quixotic and erotic, and in the process interrogates the very nature of storytelling itself.
Championed by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, The Saragossa Manuscript has grown in status since its initial release from a cult oddity to a film widely regarded as one of greatest ever produced in Poland, and a work that cemented Wojciech Has as one of European cinema’s most visionary and idiosyncratic directors.
4K UHD & BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K restoration from the original camera negative, presented in Dolby Vision HDR
- 4K UHD and Blu-ray presentation of the feature; world premiere on 4K UHD
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- The Saragossa Labyrinth – new visual essay on the cinema of Wojciech Has and The Saragossa Manuscript by Polish film expert Michael Brooke
- Saragossa – archival making-of documentary made for Polish television on The Saragossa Manuscript, featuring Wojciech Has, cinematographer Mieczyslaw Jahoda, production designer Jerzy Skarżyński, and assistant director Barbara Sass-Zdort (1998, 29 mins)
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by author David Hering and archival writing by Annette Insdorf
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
The Blu-ray edition has the same content but 1080p transfers of both cuts of the film.
NEW ROSE HOTEL (US 1998)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 14 September 2026 | £17.99
Abel Ferrara (Ms .45) directs cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson’s neo-noir short story about industrial espionage. Two extraction specialists Fox (Christopher Walken, King of New York) and X (Willem Dafoe, Poor Things) are hired to tempt the genius Hiroshi away from a rival company by using sexy call girl Sandii (Asia Argento, Land of the Dead).
Featuring a variety of screens and footage, New Rose Hotel uses these mixed media formats to distance us from Hiroshi as an intractable presence that emphasises the lack of control experienced by Fox and X whilst also presenting a prescient view of our own engagement with screens and digital communications. Misunderstood upon release, Ferrara’s feverish film has been reappraised in recent years and compared to David Lynch’s exploration of perception and paranoia. Newly restored and making its UK home video debut, New Rose Hotel is one of the finest examples of cyberpunk on film.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- 2K restoration from the 35mm interpositive by Vinegar Syndrome, approved by Abel Ferrara
- Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio surround sound
- Audio commentary by co-screenwriter Christ Zois (1998)
- New interviews with director Abel Ferrara and star Asia Argento (2026)
- Wild and Woolly – an interview with star Willem Dafoe (2025)
- Interview with critic Beatrice Loayza (2026)
- Trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original promotional materials
- Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Brad Stevens, author of Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in and full-height Scanavo packaging with O-card and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
TREASURES FROM THE GOLESTAN FILM STUDIO (Iran 1958-1974)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 14 September 2026 | £34.99
For the first-time ever on home video, this collection presents the complete output of the iconoclastic independent Iranian film studio founded in the late 1950s by a towering figure of Iranian culture, Ebrahim Golestan. The studio’s earliest productions were documentaries that helped bring Iranian cinema to international attention, including The House Is Black, directed by the poet Forough Farrokhzad. From 1961, the studio turned to fiction. Two feature films were completed, including the pivotal Brick and Mirror – both of which are presented here. After years of circulation in compromised versions, sometimes altered by censorship, these classics, which map the origins of the Iranian New Wave, are now presented in restored and definitive versions.
The nine films in this set move fluidly from prose poetry to political allegory, achieving remarkable results that have inspired generations of filmmakers from Abbas Kiarostami to Jonathan Glazer.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K restoration of Brick and Mirror from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna and Ecran Noir Productions / Fereydoun Firouz under the supervision of Ebrahim Golestan
- Outtake from Brick and Mirror (3 mins)
- Introduction by curator and the Golestan restoration project collaborator Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- Visual essay on Ebrahim Golestan by Khoshbakht (2026)
- A restored programme of three short documentaries combining the talents of master director Golestan and Iran’s greatest female modernist poet, Forough Farrokzhad: A Fire (1961, 25 mins); Courtship (1961, 11 mins); The House is Black (1962, 22 mins)
- A restored programme of Golestan’s documentaries following his recurrent theme of the land and its people: The Crown Jewels of Iran (1965, 14 mins), Wave, Coral and Rock (1961, 41 mins); The Hills of Marlik (1963, 15 mins), Harvest and Seed (1965, 29 mins)
- Introductions to each programme by Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- New 4K restoration of Secrets of the Jinn Valley Treasure from the original camera negative by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory with funding provided by the Iran Heritage Foundation and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
- Introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- See You Friday, Robinson – Mitra Farahani’s award-winning documentary chronicles an exchange of ideas between two giants of cinema – Golestan and Jean-Luc Godard – on the meaning of creativity in the twilight of life (2022, 96 mins)
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
- Booklet featuring archival writing by Ehsan Khoshbakht
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
JOE (US 1970)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 14 September 2026 | £17.99
After his daughter (Susan Sarandon in her first screen role) overdoses on heroin, wealthy NY businessman Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick) confronts her drug dealer boyfriend in a rage and accidentally murders him. Stunned, he retreats to a nearby bar and finds himself confessing his crime to a stranger: the charismatic yet deeply bigoted blue-collar factory worker Joe (a remarkable Peter Boyle).
When the hippy-hating Joe discovers his new friend is telling the truth, he begins to ingratiate himself into Compton’s life, and despite their vastly different backgrounds the two men find themselves developing a rapport based around their shared fear and disdain of the counter culture, an uneasy alliance that will eventually have devastating consequences.
Directed by John G Avildsen (Rocky) from a typically trenchant Norman Wexler (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico) screenplay, Joe ruthlessly exposes the dark heart of American society in a shocking, darkly satirical depiction of the fierce cultural battleground of the USA at the beginning of the 1970s, and the violent death of the hippy dream.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K restoration of Brick and Mirror from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna and Ecran Noir Productions / Fereydoun Firouz under the supervision of Ebrahim Golestan
- Outtake from Brick and Mirror (3 mins)
- Introduction by curator and the Golestan restoration project collaborator Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- Visual essay on Ebrahim Golestan by Khoshbakht (2026)
- A restored programme of three short documentaries combining the talents of master director Golestan and Iran’s greatest female modernist poet, Forough Farrokzhad: A Fire (1961, 25 mins); Courtship (1961, 11 mins); The House is Black (1962, 22 mins)
- A restored programme of Golestan’s documentaries following his recurrent theme of the land and its people: The Crown Jewels of Iran (1965, 14 mins), Wave, Coral and Rock (1961, 41 mins); The Hills of Marlik (1963, 15 mins), Harvest and Seed (1965, 29 mins)
- Introductions to each programme by Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- New 4K restoration of Secrets of the Jinn Valley Treasure from the original camera negative by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory with funding provided by the Iran Heritage Foundation and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
- Introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- See You Friday, Robinson – Mitra Farahani’s award-winning documentary chronicles an exchange of ideas between two giants of cinema – Golestan and Jean-Luc Godard – on the meaning of creativity in the twilight of life (2022, 96 mins)
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
- Booklet featuring archival writing by Ehsan Khoshbakht
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings