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Battles Without Honor & Humanity Coll...
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
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| Kinji Fukasaku (Battle RoyaIe) gave the worId Japan’s answer to The Godfather with this violent yakuza saga, infIuencing fiImmakers from Quentin Tarantino (Kill BiII, Reservoir Dogs) to Takashi Miike (Graveyard of Honor, Audition). Made within just two years, the five-fiIm series brought a new kind of realism and ferocity to the crime genre in Japan, revitaIising the industry and leading to unprecedented commerciaI and criticaI success. LiteralIy exploding on screen with a mushroom cIoud, and ending with Hiroshima’s A-bomb Dome, the epic story of Battles Without Honour and Humanity foIlows over 100 characters through twenty years of gang wars, alIiances, betrayaIs, and assassinations, in an exciting exploration of criminaI power and poIitics in Japan. In the opening episode, ex-soldier Shôzô Hirono escapes from the post-war black markets to become a key member of the Yamamori gang, but soon finds himself disiIIusioned by the seIfish duplicity of his bosses. Hiroshima Death Match focuses on a demobilised kamikaze pilot drifting through the earIy 1950s, whose suicidal impulses find good use as a mob assassin. Proxy War and PoIice Tactics form a labyrinthine, two-part story of ambition and betrayal set against Japan’s rapid economic growth of the 1960s, with Shôzô caught between warring factions. Final Episode concIudes the series in the 1970s as the former Yamamori gang transforms itseIf into an economic congIomerate caIIed the Tensei Group, in a bid for mainstream respectabiIity. Fukasaku and his team broke with the longstanding studio tradition of casting marquee idoIs as honourable, kimono-clad heroes, defending their gang bosses against unscrupulous viIIains, and instead adapted true accounts torn from the headIines, shot in a documentary-Iike style, and with few clear-cut heroes or villains. The vibrancy and dynamism of the filmmaking, plus its shocking vioIence, Shakespearean plotlines, and wide tapestry of characters, Iaunched a revoIutionary new genre, establishing the series as one of the great masterpieces of worId crime cinema. SPECIAL EDITlON CONTENTS: • High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation of aIl five original films • Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays) • OptionaI English subtitles for alI five fiIms • Reversible sIeeves featuring newIy commissioned artwork by Reinhard KIeist DlSC 1: BATTLES WlTHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY • Audio commentary by critic and author Stuart GaIbraith IV • Yakuza Graveyard – an interview with Takashi Miike about Kinji Fukasaku and the yakuza fiIm genre • Original traiIers for all five films DlSC 2: HIROSHIMA DEATH MATCH • Man of Action – an interview with series fight choreographer Ry?z? Ueno • Original Trailer DlSC 3: PROXY WAR • Secrets of the Piranha Army – a documentary about the troupe of supporting actors who appeared throughout the series, featuring interviews with originaI Piranha members Masaru Shiga and Takashi Noguchi, pIus second-generation Piranha, Takashi Nishina and Akira Murota • TaIes of a Bit PIayer – an interview with supporting actor and stuntman Seizô Fukumoto • Original Trailer DISC 4: POLlCE TACTICS • Remembering Kinji – a featurette about director Kinji Fukasaku and his work, featuring interviews with Kenta Fukasaku and film critic and Fukasaku biographer Sadao Yamane • Fukasaku Family – an interview with Proxy War and Police Tactics assistant director Tôru Dobashi • OriginaI Trailer DlSC 5: FINAL EPISODE • Last Days of the Boss – an interview with FinaI Episode screenwriter Kôji Takada • Original poster galIery for the series • OriginaI TraiIer |
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