Latest Radiance Films Blu-ray & 4K Releases: Full List, Special Features, and Collector Highlights

Radiance Films continues to impress cinephiles and home video collectors alike with its curated slate of Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases. Radiance is known for its dedication to international cinema, rare gems, and restoration excellence.

Radiance Films' latest wave of titles offers a rich mix of cult classics, auteur-driven works, and forgotten treasures—each packed with insightful special features and premium packaging. Whether you're a seasoned collector or a newcomer to boutique labels, this roundup covers everything you need to know about the most recent additions to the Radiance Films catalog.

Tale and Sorrow and Sadness (1977) The editor of a sports magazine grooms fashion model Reiko to become a pro golfer, while retaining exclusive rights to her likeness. Reiko's popularity soars after she wins her first tournament and she becomes a media sensation, but when she and her manager (Yoshio Harada, Zigeunerweisen) cause a hit-and-run accident, the victim begins to blackmail Reiko, intruding further and further into her personal life. This was Seijun Suzuki's comeback film after being blacklisted by the film industry for ten years. Though adapted from a popular manga, the bold visuals and absurdist plot twists are vintage Suzuki.

Bonus Materials
* High-Definition digital transfer
* Uncompressed mono PCM audio
* Audio commentary by critic and author Samm Deighan (2025)
* New interview with editor Kunihiko Ukai (2025)
* Trailer
* Newly improved English subtitle translation
* Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Smith
* Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp and an archival review of the film

You can buy a copy of A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness at MVD Shop or Amazon.

Girl With a Suitcase (1961) Aida (Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Day of the Owl) has fallen for a rich playboy and arrives at his door to find it firmly shut and herself ignored. His younger, more sensitive brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin, Cinema Paradiso) helps her and finds himself quickly besotted. Cardinale gives one of her most tender and vulnerable performances in Girl with a Suitcase, an unsentimental coming-of-age story that deals as much with adolescence as class. A vital director of Italy's post-war cinema, Valerio Zurlini's small but remarkable body of work deserves to be discussed among the greats.

Bonus Materials
* 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by the Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Camelia and Titanus
* Interview with assistant director Piero Schivazappa
* Interview with screenwriter Piero De Bernard
* Interview with film critic Bruno Torri on Zurlini’s career
* Visual essay about the film by Kat Ellinger
* Trailer
* Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
* Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Giuliana Minghelli

You can purchase a copy of Girl with a Suitcase on MVD Shop or Amazon.

Thermroc (1973) Aida (Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Day of the Owl) has fallen for a rich playboy and arrives at his door to find it firmly shut and herself ignored. His younger, more sensitive brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin, Cinema Paradiso) helps her and finds himself quickly besotted. Cardinale gives one of her most tender and vulnerable performances in Girl with a Suitcase, an unsentimental coming-of-age story that deals as much with adolescence as class. A vital director of Italy's post-war cinema, Valerio Zurlini's small but remarkable body of work deserves to be discussed among the greats.

Bonus Materials
* 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by the Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Camelia and Titanus
* Interview with assistant director Piero Schivazappa
* Interview with screenwriter Piero De Bernard
* Interview with film critic Bruno Torri on Zurlini’s career
* Visual essay about the film by Kat Ellinger
* Trailer
* Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
* Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Giuliana Minghelli

You can purchase a copy of Thermroc on MVD Shop or Amazon.

The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) In the free-for-all chaos after World War II, black marketeer Ueda (Hiroki Matsukata, Cops vs Thugs) is robbed of a stash of morphine. He takes his brutal revenge, but is arrested for murder and sentenced to 20 years. He escapes and is caught, but no matter where they send him, Ueda won't let prison walls stop him. Directed by a master of the genre and based on the real exploits of a seven-time prison escapee, this ranks as one of the rawest entries in the 1970s cycle of Japanese true-account crime films.

Bonus Materials
* High-Definition digital transfer
* Uncompressed mono PCM audio
* Audio commentary by yakuza film expert Nathan Stuart (2025)
* Visual essay on Sadao Nakajima by Tom Mes (2025)
* New English subtitle translation
* Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
* Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Earl Jackson and an archival review of the film

You can order a copy of The Rapacious Jailbreaker on MVD Shop or Amazon. 

Palindromes (2024) Ever since she was small, Aviva has desperately wanted a baby. Now a teenager - with thoughts and feelings her well-meaning parents Joyce (Ellen Barkin, Drop Dead Gorgeous) and Steve (Richard Masur, The Thing) don't quite know how to handle - she'll stop at nothing to make that dream a reality. Played by a cast of rotating actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) and Sharon Wilkins, Aviva's journey towards motherhood never would run smooth. Bringing his trademark dry wit to another series of taboos, Todd Solondz's portrait of middle-American girlhood interrogates the naivety and hypocrisy of the post-9/11 psyche that continues to shape US public life and policy.

Bonus Materials
* 4K restoration from the original negative by the Museum of Modern Art approved by writer-director Todd Solondz
* 4K UHD with Dolby Vision HDR and Blu-ray presentation of the feature
* Uncompressed stereo PCM audio
* New interview with Todd Solondz by critic Hannah Strong (2025)
* Todd Solondz and His Cinema of Cruelty, a new video essay by critic Lillian Crawford (2025)
* Trailer
* Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
* Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Bence Bardos, extracts from the original press book, plus archival interviews with Solondz and composer Nathan Larson

You can order a copy of Palindromes on MVD Shop or Amazon.

The Beast To Die (1980) Deeply scarred by what he witnessed on battlefields across Asia, a young war photographer (Yusaku Matsuda, Yokohama BJ Blues) returns to the bustling streets of Tokyo, plotting a series of brutal murders and robberies that are mere warmups for an unprecedented bank heist. Searching for an accomplice, he finds the short-fused and equally disenfranchised Tetsuo (Takeshi Kaga, Death Note).

Bonus Materials
* 4K Restoration by Kadokawa
* Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
* Interview with Toru Murakawa (2025)
* Interview with Shoichi Maruyama (2025)
* Critical appreciation from novelist and screenwriter Jordan Harper (2025)
* Newly improved English subtitle translation
* Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
* Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tatsuya Masuto
* Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

You can purchase The Beast to Die on MVD Shop or Amazon.

Rose La Rose, Fille Publique (1986) On the streets of Paris, Rosa 'la rose' (Marianne Basler, Va savoir) is the belle of Les Halles. With no shortage of clients, she is beloved by her fellow working girls and spoiled by her pimp Gilbert (Jean Sorel, Belle de Jour). For her, this is a charmed life - that is until her 20th birthday arrives. Across the floor, she locks eyes with Julien (Pierre Cosso, An American Werewolf in Paris), a blue-collar worker who sees something deeper beyond her fun-loving façade.

Bonus Materials
* 2K restoration approved by Paul Vecchiali
* Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
* Interview with critic David Jenkins (2025)
* Archival interview with director Paul Vecchiali (1985)
* Archival interview with actors Marianne Basler and Jean Sorel (1985)
* Newly improved English subtitle translation
* Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original promotional materials
* Limited edition booklet featuring archival interviews and new writing by Marina Ashioti
* Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

You can order Rose La Rose, Fille Publique on MVD Shop or Amazon.


Now for the Exciting Summer Sale News!

For our UK readers as summer starts, Radiance is bringing the heat of huge saving on more than 90 titles, including low-stock LEs like The Landlord and recent releases like Hokuriku Proxy War. Select Standard Editions are priced from £7.99 and LEs start from £9.99.

Likely to sell out during the sale:

The Agitator - 99% sold out

The Landlord - 99% sold out

Nomad + My Heart is that Eternal Rose - 95% sold out

May sell out during the sale:

Commedia all'italiana - 90% sold out

Nothing is Sacred - 90% sold out

Planet of the Vampires SE - 90% sold out

Watch out for:

The Dead Mother - 85% sold out

A Quiet Place in the Country - 85% sold out

Sympathy for the Underdog - 85% sold out

In addition, Radiance will also be including limited stocks of US variants of recent titles like Dogra Magra, Japan Organized Crime Boss and The Rapacious Jailbreaker. With only minor aesthetic packaging differences (lack of BBFC certification and changes in spelling), these variants feature the same material and region-coding, except for Slap the Monster on Page One and our Hardboiled boxset. These are marked on our website with the suffix (LE-US) and are only viewable for International (non-UK) customers.

 

Treat yourself while stocks last.

Our Summer Sale ends midnight Sunday July 6th