Each week here at Bloody Disgusting we like to highlight some of the new Blu-ray releases hitting shelves across the world. Please note that this isn’t every release for the week, just a few of the ones that jumped out at us.

Welcome to the second week of August! I am once again out of town so I’m only doing the US releases about but it is quite a week. We’ve got Basket Case 2 & 3 from Synapse Films that should be high on everyone’s list. My pick would be all of the Battles Without Honor and Humanity films from Arrow Video. These were previously released as one big box set but now you can get them individually and they’re certainly worth picking up. Great, great movies!

US Releases

Basket Case 2 (Synapse, Region A)

Synopsis:
Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.

Basket Case 3: The Progeny (Synapse, Region A)

Synopsis:
Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.

Baskin (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
A squad of unsuspecting cops goes through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.

Canadian Pacific (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

Supergirl: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros, Region A)

Synopsis:
Meet Kara Danvers, aka Kara Zor-El, who escaped the doomed planet Krypton at age 12 and was raised by her foster family, the Danverses, on Earth. There, she learned to conceal her superpowers and keep her identity a secret. Years later, Kara lives in National City working for fierce taskmaster Cat Grant alongside her friends, IT technician Winslow “Winn” Schott and photographer James Olsen. But Kara’s days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw, head of a super-secret agency where Kara’s older sister, Alex, works, enlists her to help them protect the world from sinister threats. Though Kara struggles to balance her extraordinary skills with her human emotions, her heart soars when she takes to the skies.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Kinji Fukasaku directed this powerful and uncompromising look at the deadly stakes of life among the Yakuza. Shozo Hirono is a former Japanese soldier who, following his nation’s defeat in World War II, finds himself in a prison cell in Hiroshima on a murder charge. While behind bars, Hirono gains a loyal friend in fellow criminal Wagasugi

Proxy War (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Moving beyond the true stories dramatized in the first two episodes of the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, director Kinji Fukasaku and screenwriter Kazuo Kasahara embark on their most complex narrative yet in Proxy War, a multi-character web of alliances and betrayals set against the economic growth of Japan as it prepares to host the 1964 Olympic games. 1960. A power vacuum is formed within the Muraoka family when underboss Uchimoto (Takeshi Kato) refuses to avenge the assassination of a superior. With the help of series hero Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), Uchimoto pledges loyalty to the powerful Akashi gang, but is soon expelled from the Muraoka for the act. Meanwhile, Akashi rivals the Shinwa Group form their own pact with Muraoka, and the enmity between the two gangs threatens to erupt into bloody violence across all of western Japan. The labyrinthine plotline of Proxy War–which continues in episode four, Police Tactics–approaches pure Jacobean drama as power players, kingmakers, and petty soldiers clash weapons and words in a stylized ritual of alliances and betrayals. Considered by many critics to be the best episode of the series, Proxy War is complex crime drama of the highest order.

Hiroshima Death Match (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Bunta Sugawara returns as Shozo Hirono in this sequel to the acclaimed yakuza film Jingi Naki Tatakai (aka The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity). Hirono, now dug deep into a Japanese crime family based in Hiroshima, finds a new adversary in the person of Katsutoshi Otomo (Sonny Chiba), a ruthless killer who is willing to do anything to promote his family’s interests. Meanwhile, Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji) is an ambitious criminal who quickly scales the hierarchy of the Muraoka family, but his fall proves as sudden as his ascent.

Police Tactics (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
A long-standing gang war on the streets of Hiroshima escalates despite police pressure in this, the fourth film in Kinji Fukasaku’s Yakuza Papers series. It’s 1964, and with the Tokyo Olympics turning the eyes of the world to Japan, lawmen have set out to keep the Yakuza out of sight.

Final Episode (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
In this violent and morally ambiguous crime drama from master genre filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku, Takeda, a longtime leader of one of Hiroshima’s Yakuza families, attempts to resolve the longtime war between various mob factions by reshaping his organization into a political organization that would be both powerful and legal.

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon (Scorpion Releasing, Region A)

Synopsis:
Famous detective Charlie Chan (Peter Ustinov) is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson (Richard Hatch) as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen (Angie Dickinson) who is the prime suspect..

The Cariboo Trail (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Montanans Jim Redfern and Mike Evans head into Canada’s British Columbia via the Cariboo Trail intent to raise cattle and dig for gold but find trouble instead.