Start 2027 With Blood Feuds And Street Wars As Toy Robot Video Reveals Its January Releases

It’s all blood feuds and street wars this January with Toy Robot Video. A double dose of Jet Li, and we meet Hakuchi: The Innocent as 2027 starts with a bang!

Can you believe that it is almost 2027 already? Where has this year gone? No matter though, Toy Robot Video has three new releases to get the post-Christmas party started. Toy Robot Video starts 2027 with a bang, announcing an action-packed slate for January, including two top-notch knockout hits starring Jet-Li and DMX, both restored from the original 35mm negative, and a quirky Japanese drama making its UK debut.

Toy Robot Video – a subsidiary of Arrow Video – aims to recreate the wondrous experience of browsing titles at the local video store – except this time they’re yours to own and cherish, with fabulous new cover artwork, film masters transferred from the best elements available, colorfully branded OBI-Strips, slip cards, art cards, and plenty of extras.

WHAT’S NEW ON TOY ROBOT VIDEO THIS JANUARY

Let’s see what lies in store for us to start the new year off with a bang!

Romeo Must Die

Released on dual format 4K UHD and Blu-ray January 4

The word on the street is… Romeo must die!

Jet Li, in his first English-language lead role, plays the rough-and-ready, ex-cop Han Sing who heads to America to find the truth behind his brother’s mysterious murder. He soon falls for Trish O’Day (the screen debut of singer Aaliyah), even though their families are rivals in a fierce Oakland turf battle. As the pair investigate the real cause of the blood feud, they quickly expose themselves to danger from both sides.

A modern-day action-packed ROMEO AND JULIET told with gravity-warping martial arts action, cool visual effects and an all-star music soundtrack, ROMEO MUST DIE also stars Isaiah Washington (EXIT WOUNDS), Russell Wong (NEW JACK CITY), DMX (CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE) and Delroy Lindo (SINNERS), and is now fully uncut for the first time in the UK.

Special Features

NEW 4K scan from the original camera negative

Thirteen Behind-the-Scenes featurettes

NEW The Director’s Cinematographer, interview with cinematographer Glen MacPherson

NEW The DMX Legacy: Romeo Must Die, interview with DMX’s estate administrators Sasha Simmons and Desiree Lindstrom

Two Music Videos

The Making of Aaliyah’s Try Again

Theatrical Trailers

TV Spots

Toy Robot says: “Romeo, Romeo, herefore art thou a totally uncut 4K!”

Pre-order in the UK via Toy Robot: LINK

Pre-order in the UK via HMV: LINK

Cradle 2 the Grave

Released on dual format 4K UHD and Blu-ray January 4

Born 2 the life. True 2 the code. Bad 2 the bone.

“A Non-stop Action Thriller” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Producer Joel Silver and director Andrzej Bartkowiak, who fused martial arts and hip-hop style in ROMEO MUST DIE and EXIT WOUNDS, take it to the next level in CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE. Action heroes Jet Li (THE ONE) and DMX hit hard, starring as rivals-turned-partners in a volatile street war ignited by kidnapping, stolen black diamonds, and a sadistic crime lord (Mark Dacascos, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3).

Featuring a gold-certified hardcore hip-hop soundtrack and exceptional martial arts fight choreography, the film also stars Kelly Hu (THE SCORPION KING), Gabrielle Union (BAD BOYS II), Anthony Anderson (HUSTLE & FLOW) and Tom Arnold (TRUE LIES).

Special Features

NEW 4K scan from the original camera negative

NEW I’m Only a Bad-Ass on TV, interview with actress Kelly Hu

DMX music video, X Gon’ Give it to Ya

NEW Music is My Life, interview with composer John Frizzell

NEW The DMX Legacy: Cradle 2 the Grave, interview with DMX’s estate administrators Sasha Simmons and Desiree Lindstrom

Profiles of the Movie’s Martial Artists

Choreography of the Camera

The Descender Rig

Time Lapse Montage

Rear Screen Projection

Theatrical Trailer

Toy Robot says: “Phew! Non-stop chop sock on 2 discs – this release is 2 much!”

Pre-order in the UK via Toy Robot: LINK

Pre-order in the UK via HMV: LINK

Hakuchi: The Innocent

Released on Blu-ray January 18

Don’t be afraid! Don’t leave me!

“Macoto Tezka fashions an alternate universe that is part fantasy, part dystopia, and part social satire.” – Japanonfilm.com

Director Macoto Tezka’s haunting drama is a surreal dystopian film set in an alternate Japan where World War II never ended, and nightly bombing raids have reduced the country to ruins.

Izawa (Tadanobu Asano) is a lowly production assistant in the corporate monolith Media Station, housed in a gleaming building that towers above the ruins of Tokyo. He lives in squalor among pigs and chickens in an old tailor’s house, perpetually contemplating suicide.

One day, he discovers a young woman, Sayo (Miyako Koda), the wife of the neighborhood lunatic, hiding in his room, and very soon an odd and beautiful relationship develops between these two deeply lonely souls.

Special Features

NEW Director Macoto Tezka on Hakuchi

NEW Jonathan Clements on Hakuchi

Original Theatrical Trailer

Toy Robot says: “The first ever UK release for this surreal gem – don’t tell me Toy Robot doesn’t spoil you!”

Pre-order in the UK via Toy Robot: LINK

Pre-order in the UK via HMV: LINK

Welcome in the new year with these great new titles from Toy Robot Video.