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Check out this month's ep of The Official Deaf Crocodile Podcast for details on today's pre-orders,

Check out this month's ep of The Official Deaf Crocodile Podcast for details on today's pre-orders, THE LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE and BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT!

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Black Rabbit, White Rabbit trailer YouTube video by Deaf Crocodile

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The Legend of The Sacred Stone trailer YouTube video by Deaf Crocodile

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Deluxe Edition Bonus Content:

Slipcase featuring new artwork by Brian Level.

60-page illustrated book with essays by film scholars Walter Chaw, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Michelle Kisner.

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New visual essay: “The Maze: Entrances and Exits in Black Rabbit, White Rabbit” (2026, 13 min.) by filmmaker and scholar Stephen Broomer.

New artwork by Beth Morris.

Special Features
Three ultra-rare early Mokri short films: "The Dragonfly Storm" (Toofan-e Sanjaghak) (2002, 15 min.); "Limits of the Circle" (Mahdoodeh-ye Dayereh) (2005, 15 min.); "Ando-C" (2007, 15 min.). Persian w/ English subtitles.
New audio commentary by Tori Potenza.

“The magic of time weaves apparently unrelated events. A story of women seeking to escape their cocooned lives. A story of objects possessing a soul, deciding when and where to play a role. A quest to make dreams come true, linking these stories thanks to the wonder of cinema.” – Shahram Mokri

...and an aspiring actress gives an audition in which she does magic, causing a white rabbit and a black rabbit to appear.

Slowly, fantastical elements begin to bleed through, like waking dreams intruding on the conscious world: an enormous prop Coffee Cup moves about the set by itself; inanimate objects talk amongst themselves about the Italian gun that's arrived to take revenge...

The other major storyline involves Sara (Hasti Mohammaï), who is kept as a prisoner inside her house by her husband while she recovers from a near-fatal car accident. She's wrapped in bandages like Elsa Lanchester in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and gives off a foul odor from her wounds.

This production marks his 40th, and he’s paranoid he won’t get through the day without a terrible accident (his mentor was killed in an explosion on his 40th film.) "I've discovered something important: there's a revolver here hell bent on revenge,” he murmurs.

...set during production of a film by a director named “Shahram” – already blurring the lines between film and reality.

Guns play a strange and mystical part in BLACK RABBIT: on the film set, we meet armorer Babak, played by the great Iranian actor Babak Karimi (FISH & CAT, A SEPARATION)...

BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT (2025, DreamLab Films, 139 min.) The latest from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (FISH & CAT, CARELESS CRIME) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like meditation on reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicities, involving stories-within-stories...

PRE-ORDER: Shahram Mokri's fifth film comes to Deaf Crocodile on Blu-ray! Plus, the disc also contai

PRE-ORDER: Shahram Mokri's fifth film comes to Deaf Crocodile on Blu-ray! Plus, the disc also contai

PRE-ORDER: Shahram Mokri's fifth film comes to Deaf Crocodile on Blu-ray! Plus, the disc also contai

PRE-ORDER: Shahram Mokri's fifth film comes to Deaf Crocodile on Blu-ray! Plus, the disc also contai

PRE-ORDER: Shahram Mokri's fifth film comes to Deaf Crocodile on Blu-ray! Plus, the disc also contains Shahram's three rare early short films!

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Deluxe Edition Bonus Content:

Slipcase featuring new artwork by Richard Cox
60-page illustrated booklet
New essay by Fantasia Festival programmer Rupert Bottenberg
New essay by film critic Walter Chaw (Film Freak Central)

...through “Pili: The Nine Dragon Throne,” “Pili: Labyrinth Castle, “Pili Fantasy: War of Dragons” and more! (w/ English subtitles).

Blu-ray authoring by Vital Passenger.

New art by Beth Morris.

showing the evolution of Su Huan-Jen over the course of nearly 40 years of PILI TV, incl material from early shows such as “Pili Golden Beam,” “Pili Crazy Blade,” “Pili Sky Entrance” and “Pili Kingdom”...

"Puppets, Wuxia, and Spirituality: The Lore and Inspirations Behind Legend of the Sacred Stone" - new visual essay by Evan Chester (17 min)

Two original trailers for the feature (w/ English subtitles)

“Su Huan-Jen Character Spotlight” (1987-2024, 5 min.) – a newly-edited compilation...

Special Features:

New video interview with director Chris Huang and members of the PILI puppeteering team. (In Taiwanese Hokkien with English subtitles).

New audio commentary by puppeteer & filmmaker Ben Wolf Page, Associate Editor of The Puppetry Journal for the Puppeteers of America.

(And keep an eye out for the second Pili feature DEMIGOD: THE LEGEND BEGINS coming out through Deaf Crocodile later in 2026!) In Taiwanese Hokkien with English subtitles.

Along the way you get treated to martial arts moves like Aeolian Surprise, Thunder Bars, heroes riding a flying sword like the Silver Surfer, living corpses with melting flesh – oh, and if you’ve ever wondered how a puppet bleeds, you’ll see that too.

from gaining possession of the all-powerful Sacred Stone. The Unkind in particular are a riot with their screechy Skeksis-like voices and unexpected sense of humor: “We’re the most handsome men in the world!” one chortles.

A mix of classic Shaw Brothers martial arts movies, THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO, TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, and Jim Henson’s beloved THE DARK CRYSTAL, LEGEND revolves around a group of warriors of Wulin led by white-maned hero Su Huan-Jen trying to prevent Mo Kuei and his spectral assassins "The Unkind"

told entirely with *puppets* – then your wait is over! LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE is based on the tremendously popular Taiwanese TV show “PILI” launched in 1984 that uses traditional Chinese budaixi glove puppetry to tell amazingly elaborate wuxia stories packed with nonstop action and swordplay.

LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE (SHENG SHI CHUAN SHUO) – 2000, 99 min. If you’ve dreamed of a wuxia martial arts epic with black magic spells, incredibly choreographed sword fights with spinning/flying/leaping combatants, hidden tombs, lakes of fire, the eternal battle between darkness and light – but...

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE Deluxe limited edition. Glove-puppet wuxia insan

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AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE Deluxe limited edition. Glove-puppet wuxia insan

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE Deluxe limited edition. Glove-puppet wuxia insan

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE Deluxe limited edition. Glove-puppet wuxia insanity, jaw-dropping in every way! (details in comments)

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