Arrow Video is excited to announce the January 2025 lineup of their subscription-based ARROW platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Enjoy a selection of new titles, from carefully cultivated curations to shorts by new talent. For serious enthusiasts, ARROW offers deep dives into the tastes of filmmakers that changed the way we see the genre.
In a recent profile, the New York Times praised ARROW and noted, “Viewers with a fondness for the esoteric will be hard-pressed to find more quality bang for their streaming buck.”
The January 2025 lineup leads with Rampo Noir, where four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan’s celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo. with a cast featuring some of Japan’s top stars, including Tadanobu Asano (Maboroshi, Silence) and Ryuhei Matsuda (Blue Spring, Gohatto), Rampo Noir is a stylistic tour-de-force that vividly evokes the “erotic grotesque” worlds created by Japan’s pioneering proponent of horror and mystery fiction.The new month also features Incubus, a long lost Italian horror film starring a pre-Kirk William Shatner and the release of the acclaimed Indie Dude Bro Party Massacre III. ”
In the aftermath of the holiday season, ARROW unwraps three new titles on January 6.
This Game’s Called Murder (US/CA): The comedy thriller follows the daughter of iconic women’s luxury footwear designer Mr. Wallendorf, who sabotages her sadistic father’s business in a dark tale of murder, greed, and betrayal based in a consumer-crazed society.
Action USA (US): Billy Ray steals a cache of priceless diamonds from Frankie and unleashes the crime boss’s fury. When Billy is killed, his girlfriend Carmen and the diamonds are chased by mobsters, hitmen and a rogue Federal Agent. G-Men Osborn and McKinnon try to rescue Carmen through a series of explosive car chases, gun fights and Texas bar brawls with a fiery showdown on a bridge at the state line.
Miami Connection (US/CA): Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. When not performing their hit song “Against the Ninja,” Mark and the boys are kicking and chopping at the drug world’s smelliest underbelly.
ARROW starts the Seasons with a bang on January 6 with the debut of Explosive Action! (UK/US/CA/IRE).
ARROW presents a collection of adrenalin-infused action films that put the bang in bangers. Headlined by a pair of pure Cult action new additions, Action USA and Miami Connection, with backup from belters like Bloodstone and White Fire, this is the action film, ARROW style!
Titles Include: Action USA, Miami Connection, Kali Karate.
On January 10, curl up with Terror By Night or party with Dude Bro Party Massacre III.
Terror By Night (US): Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) has his hands full in this jewel heist/murder mystery. Holmes has been hired to safeguard one of the Earth’s greatest treasures, The Star of Rhodesia 423 Karat diamond, by the son of the current owner, the eccentric Lady Margaret Carstairs. When her son is murdered in his train compartment and the diamond is stolen, Holmes has a train full of suspects, but his biggest problem is dealing with his bumbling companion, Dr. Watson.
Dude Bro Party Massacre III (UK/US/CA/IRE): In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico’s frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother’s murder at the hands of the serial killer known as “Motherface.”
On January 10, check out Michael Rousselet Selects (UK/US/CA/IRE).
Michael Rousselet is a founding member of 5secondfilms, the vanguards of micro-content est. 2008, co-director of Dude Bro Party Massacre III, writer on 3 seasons of “Creepshow”, and he is infamously known as “Patient Zero” for creating The Room cult phenomenon, for that he’s sorry -but not that sorry.
Titles Include: Buddha’s Palm, The Ballad of Narayama, Nekromantik.
Beginning January 13, subscribers in all territories can get drawn into Incubus (UK/US/CA/IRE). Evil has never been so seductive. On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
As the new year gets underway, ARROW takes a look back with 00s Cult (UK/US/CA/IRE) on January 17.
A new century saw Cult filmmakers looking forward to the future and wanting to shake up norms with new approaches. There was also a burgeoning distrust in the technology which was becoming a bigger and more important part in all of our lives. Boundaries were being pushed and challenged, and new stars and auteurs were beginning to emerge that would go on to define the Cult film scene for years to come.
There was also an element of looking back too. Acknowledging the past and giving praise to the films that the current generation had grown up on, but also giving them a fresh spin. Not only with sequels and remakes that wanted to make what came before relevant for the audience of now, but also documentaries that delved deep into what had made the films of the previous century classics.
Take a ride through the films of the naughty noughties in 00s Cult.
Titles Include: A Hole in My Heart, Vital, The Great Yokai War.
On January 17, ARROW goes East with Abbot White, Warrior From Shaolin and Once Upon a Chinese Hero Kickboxer.
Abbot White (US): A supernatural tale of demonic possession and martial arts mayhem.
Warrior From Shaolin (US): Gordon Liu portrays a Buddhist monk who abandons his post at a Buddhist temple when the temple is attacked by Japanese troops during World War II. After he leaves the temple, he takes on two misfit apprentices portrayed by Eric Tsang and Liu Chia-yung. Together, they battle the villains.
Once Upon a Chinese Hero Kickboxer (UK/US/CA/IRE): While master Wong Fei Hung is away traveling, the impulsive Lau Zhai (Yuen Biao), an initiate into Wong’s kung fu school, begins wandering town. He soon allies with police chief Panther, in order to offer assistance in toppling an opium distribution ring.
The action continues on ARROW January 24 with Violent Street, Kali Karate: The 2nd Beginning, and Jungle Raiders.
Violent Street (US): After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (Three Outlaw Samurai, Samurai Wolf) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza and the violent streets they control. Legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays Egawa, a retired yakuza underboss who gets pulled back into a life of crime when some of his old cronies demand control of his nightclub. Meanwhile, a gang war quietly roiling behind the scenes spontaneously erupts in response to a high-profile kidnapping, raising the stakes of Egawa’s return to the underworld. The result is a kinetic and stylish explosion of deception, mayhem, and violence that leaves no one safe.
Kali Karate: The 2nd Beginning (UK/US/CA/IRE): A mockumentary following the comeback of washed up prize fighter and action star, SENSAI Houston. After blackmailing a B list Hollywood producer, he gets his Martial Arts talk show fully financed, in hopes of getting his ex wife back.
Jungle Raiders (US): Capt. Yankee (Christopher Connelly) takes a Colombian curator (Marina Costa) on a search for the Ruby of Gloom in 1938 Malaya.
ARROW concludes its first lineup of 2025 with a trio of films that kick audiences right in the face.
Five Fighters from Shaolin (UK/US/CA/IRE): Five disciples, each a grand master in a particular style of kung fu, are banded together by a wise old drunken monk. He leads the band of fighters on a mission to catch a group of evil martial arts experts and white-haired wizards from China.
The Leg Fighters (UK/US/CA/IRE): Tan, a Northern Chinese kung fu expert, kills a man using his lethal boot work in self defense. He’s then hired to train a bratty princess and her servant in kung fu. While, the brother of the man Tan killed is out for revenge and he’ll get him at any cost.
Ninja Hunter (UK/US/CA/IRE): Wu Tang villain, Abbot White, wants to destroy the Shaolin monks and become a supreme martial artist. In order to do so, he teams up with a clan of Ninjas, led by three masters – gold lamé ninja, white mustachioed ninja and black ninja – and succeeds in destroying the Shaolin temple and most of its inhabitants. However, there are some survivors. It’s their job to pass on the knowledge of the Shaolin finger jab to a new generation, who must defeat the ninjas and Abbott White, if peace and order is to be restored.
