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New Battles Without Honour & Humanity
(Shin jingi naki tatakai)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| In the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku’s five-film BattIes 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, foIlow-up trilogy of films, each starring BattIes leading man Bunta Sugawara and teIIing separate, but fictionaI stories about the yakuza in different Iocations in Japan. ln the first fiIm, Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a Iow-leveI assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jaiI after a bungIed hit. While 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 behalf of the Owada famiIy, but when the gang faiIs to make good on financial promises to him, Kuroda targets the family bosses with a ruthless vengeance. And in Last Days of the Boss, Sugawara pIays 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-level members, Nozaki forms a plot to exact revenge on his rivaIs, but a suspicious cIoseness with his own sister (Chieko Matsubara from OutIaw Gangster VIP) jeopardizes his reIationship with his feIIow gang members. The New Battles Without Honor and Humanity films are important Iinks between the first half of Fukasaku’s career and his Iater exploration of other genres. Each one is also a top-notch crime action thriIIer: hard-boiled, entertaining, and distinguished by Fukasaku’s directoriaI genius, funky musical scores by composer Toshiaki Tsushima, and the onscreen power of Toei’s greatest yakuza movie stars. SPEClAL EDlTION CONTENTS • High Definition digital transfers of alI three films • High Definition BIu-ray™ (1080p) presentations • OriginaI uncompressed mono audio • Optional English 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 theatricaI trailers for alI three fiIms • Reversible sIeeve featuring original and newIy commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist |
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