New on Blu-ray: BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY - THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (1973-1974) - 5 Movies

Battles Without Honor And Humanity Complete Collection New On Bluray

Product Description: Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) gave the world Japan’s answer to The Godfather with this violent yakuza saga, influencing filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs) to Takashi Miike (Graveyard of Honor, Audition). Made within just two years, the five-film series brought a new kind of realism and ferocity to the crime genre in Japan, revitalizing the industry and leading to unprecedented commercial and critical success.

Literally exploding on screen with a mushroom cloud, and ending with Hiroshima’s A-bomb Dome, the epic story of Battles Without Honor and Humanity follows over 100 characters through twenty years of gang wars, alliances, betrayals, and assassinations, in an exciting exploration of criminal power and politics in Japan. In the opening episode, ex-soldier Shōzō Hirono escapes from the post-war black markets to become a key member of the Yamamori gang, but soon finds himself disillusioned by the selfish duplicity of his bosses. Hiroshima Death Match focuses on a demobilized kamikaze pilot drifting through the early 1950s, whose suicidal impulses find good use as a mob assassin. Proxy War and Police Tactics form a labyrinthine, two-part story of ambition and betrayal set against Japan’s rapid economic growth of the 1960s, with Shōzō caught between warring factions. Final Episode concludes the series in the 1970s as the former Yamamori gang transforms itself into an economic conglomerate called the Tensei Group, in a bid for mainstream respectability.

Fukasaku and his team broke with the longstanding studio tradition of casting marquee idols as honorable, kimono-clad heroes, defending their gang bosses against unscrupulous villains, and instead adapted true accounts torn from the headlines, shot in a documentary-like style, and with few clear-cut heroes or villains. The vibrancy and dynamism of the filmmaking, plus its shocking violence, Shakespearean plotlines, and wide tapestry of characters, launched a revolutionary new genre, establishing the series as one of the great masterpieces of world crime cinema.

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Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Starring: Akira Kobayashi, Bunta Sugawara, Goro Ibuki, Hiroki Matsukata

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 501 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Japanese

Studio: Arrow

Home Video Release Date: June 18, 2024

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Region: Region A/1

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Reversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist
Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of all five original films
Optional English subtitles for all five films
DISC 1: BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY
Audio commentary by critic and author Stuart Galbraith IV
Yakuza Graveyard – an interview with Takashi Miike about Kinji Fukasaku and the yakuza film genre
Original trailers for all five films
DISC 2: HIROSHIMA DEATH MATCH
Man of Action – an interview with series fight choreographer Ryūzō Ueno
Original trailer
DISC 3: PROXY WAR
Secrets of the Piranha Army – a documentary about the troupe of supporting actors who appeared throughout the series, featuring interviews with original Piranha members Masaru Shiga and Takashi Noguchi, plus second-generation Piranha, Takashi Nishina and Akira Murota
Tales of a Bit Player – an interview with supporting actor and stuntman Seizō Fukumoto
Original trailer
DISC 4: POLICE 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 Tōru Dobashi
Original trailer
DISC 5: FINAL EPISODE
Last Days of the Boss – an interview with Final Episode screenwriter Kōji Takada
Original poster gallery for the series
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Battles Without Honor And Humanity Complete Collection Bluray

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Monday, June 24, 2024

New on Blu-ray: BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY - THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (1973-1974) - 5 Movies

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