OUT THERE BY TOEI (BOXSET)

Spanning nearly three decades, this electrifying boxset showcases the fearless imagination and genre-shaping legacy of Japanese powerhouse TOEI. From cosmic spectacle to punk-inflected revenge to uncanny body horror, these films trace a lineage of excess, invention, and cultural bite that only TOEI could deliver.

Together, these films form a vivid portrait of TOEI’s genre-bending bravado, unapologetically stylish, often confrontational, and endlessly inventive, capturing the studio’s enduring commitment to pushing popular cinema to its most extreme and exhilarating edges.

Kinji Fukasaku’s A MESSAGE FROM SPACE (1978) launches the set in operatic fashion: a wildly ambitious sci-fi epic that fuses space opera with samurai myth, international star power, and the director’s trademark intensity.

Nearly thirty years later, in YO-YO GIRL COP (2006) Kenta Fukasaku brings that rebellious energy crashing into the 21st century, reinventing the schoolgirl action film with pop-punk attitude, kinetic violence, and a weaponised yo-yo at its center.

From there, descend into the uncanny with EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS (2007), a uniquely Japanese strain of modern horror in which beauty culture and bodily obsession intertwine with chilling consequences.

Finally, X-CROSS (2007) explodes into brutal, neon-lit survival horror, as a group of women stumble into a nightmare of sadism, vengeance, and feral resistance deep in the forest. 

the OUT THERE BY TOEI Collector’s Edition includes:

• 48-page book of behind-the-scenes material and essays by Jonathan Clements, Dr. Jonathan Wroot and Pieter-Jan Van Hoeke
• Custom illustration rigid case by Colin Murdoch
• 8 replica lobby cards
• X2 A3 reversible posters featuring original art
• Limited edition numbered release

MESSAGE FROM SPACE

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Author Patrick Macias
• NEW! Galleons in Space: Director Kenta Fukasaku on his father's film "Message from Space”

• Japanese Theatrical Trailers
• Stills Gallery
• US Theatrical Trailer

YO-YO GIRL COP

• NEW! End Of An Era: Director Kenta Fukasaku on Yo-Yo Girl Cop
• NEW! David Michael Brown on Spinning Around with Yo-Yo Girl Cop
• The Making Of Yo-Yo Cop Girl
• Yo-Yo Girl Cop 2006 Premiere Q&A
• Yo-Yo Girl Cop 2006 Press Conference at Tokyo Film Studio
• Interview with Actors Yuki Saita and Aya Matsuura
• Archival Cast & Director Interviews
• Theatrical Trailer

EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Author Samm Deighan
• NEW! Bad Hair Day: Special Effects Guru Yoshihiro Nishimura on ExteNEW! Robert Edwards on Hair, Horror and the Commodification of the Body in Exte
• Behind The Scenes
• Deleted Scenes
• My Hair: Music Video
• Trailer
• TV Spots

X-CROSS

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Author Patrick Macias
• NEW! Cut Above the Rest: Director Kenta Fukasaku on X-CrossNEW! Armed and Dangerous: Robert Edwards on The Rise of Weaponised Women in Japanese Genre Cinema

• The Making Of X-Cross
• Deleted Scenes
• Cast Interviews
• Ashikari Village Special Language Segment
• Theatrical Trailer