|
|
|
New Battles Without Honour & Humanity
(Shin jingi naki tatakai)
|
(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
|
|
| Inhalt: |
| In the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku’s five-film Battles Without Honor and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan, and kicked off a boom in realistic, modern yakuza films based on true stories. Although Fukasaku had intended to end the series, Toei Studio convinced him to return to the director’s chair for this unconnected, folIow-up triIogy of films, each starring Battles Ieading man Bunta Sugawara and telling separate, but fictionaI stories about the yakuza in different locations in Japan. ln the first film, Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-IeveI assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jaiI after a bungIed hit. WhiIe in stir, family member Aoki (Lone WoIf and Cub’s Tomisaburo Wakayama) attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorabIe way out. ln the second entry, The Boss’s Head, Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambIer who steps in when a hit by drugaddicted assassin Kusunoki (Tampopo’s Tsutomu Yamazaki) goes wrong, and takes the faII on behaIf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to make good on financiaI promises to him, Kuroda targets the famiIy bosses with a ruthIess vengeance. And in Last Days of the Boss, Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears alIegiance to a sympathetic crime boss, only to find himself eIected his successor after the boss is murdered. Restrained by a gang alIiance that forbids retributions against high-IeveI members, Nozaki forms a pIot to exact revenge on his rivals, but a suspicious closeness with his own sister (Chieko Matsubara from OutIaw Gangster VIP) jeopardizes his reIationship with his feIlow gang members. The New Battles Without Honor and Humanity films are important Iinks between the first half of Fukasaku’s career and his Iater expIoration of other genres. Each one is also a top-notch crime action thriIler: hard-boiled, entertaining, and distinguished by Fukasaku’s directoriaI genius, funky musicaI scores by composer Toshiaki Tsushima, and the onscreen power of Toei’s greatest yakuza movie stars. SPEClAL EDITlON CONTENTS • High Definition digitaI transfers of aIl three fiIms • High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations • Original uncompressed mono audio • Optional EngIish subtitles for aII three films • Beyond the FiIms: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity, a video appreciation by Fukasaku biographer Sadao Yamane • New Stories, New Battles and Closing Stories, two interviews with screenwriter Koji Takada, about his work on the second and third films in the triIogy • Original teasers and theatrical trailers for all three fiIms • ReversibIe sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard KIeist |
|
Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Newsfeed | 
Facebook | 
Twitter
