Arrow Video has announced the July 2023 lineup of their subscription-based Arrow platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
Here’s everything you need to know…
July 7 starts the month in sun and fun with the “Permanent Vacation” Collection (UK/Ire/US/CA). In desperate need of a vacay? Well, be careful who you book with, because the flicks trips in Permanent Vacation are dream holidays that you’ll never return from.
Featuring murderous mini-breaks and sun, sea, sand and psychos, these gory getaways feature everything from island paradises full of monsters and mutants to nature breaks from the rat race that will be the death of you. So, pack your sunglasses and flip-flops, but don’t bother buying a return ticket, because you’re going on a Permanent Vacation.
Titles Include: Horrors of Malformed Men, Lake Michigan Monster, The Wind.
Also on July 7, subscribers are...
Here’s everything you need to know…
July 7 starts the month in sun and fun with the “Permanent Vacation” Collection (UK/Ire/US/CA). In desperate need of a vacay? Well, be careful who you book with, because the flicks trips in Permanent Vacation are dream holidays that you’ll never return from.
Featuring murderous mini-breaks and sun, sea, sand and psychos, these gory getaways feature everything from island paradises full of monsters and mutants to nature breaks from the rat race that will be the death of you. So, pack your sunglasses and flip-flops, but don’t bother buying a return ticket, because you’re going on a Permanent Vacation.
Titles Include: Horrors of Malformed Men, Lake Michigan Monster, The Wind.
Also on July 7, subscribers are...
- 6/27/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Arrow Offers Classic and Cutting Edge Cult Cinema - July 2023 Lineup Includes Spaghetti Westerns, a Trip Through History, the Inspiration of Josh Ruben and More!: "London, UK - Arrow Video is excited to announce the July 2023 lineup of their subscription-based Arrow platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
July 7 starts the month in sun and fun with Permanent Vacation (UK/Ire/US/CA).
In desperate need of a vacay? Well, be careful who you book with, because the flicks trips in Permanent Vacation are dream holidays that you’ll never return from.
Featuring murderous mini-breaks and sun, sea, sand and psychos, these gory getaways feature everything from island paradises full of monsters and mutants to nature breaks from the rat race that will be the death of you. So, pack your sunglasses and flip-flops, but don’t bother buying a return ticket, because you...
July 7 starts the month in sun and fun with Permanent Vacation (UK/Ire/US/CA).
In desperate need of a vacay? Well, be careful who you book with, because the flicks trips in Permanent Vacation are dream holidays that you’ll never return from.
Featuring murderous mini-breaks and sun, sea, sand and psychos, these gory getaways feature everything from island paradises full of monsters and mutants to nature breaks from the rat race that will be the death of you. So, pack your sunglasses and flip-flops, but don’t bother buying a return ticket, because you...
- 6/22/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Emerging from the rubble of two war-ending weapons of mass destruction as well as its own barbarism, Japan was reduced to its knees. With a cascade of constitutional changes at the hands of their occupiers, as well as the liberation of so-called “Sangokujin” whom Japan had spent the century systematically oppressing and obliterating, the people looked on in punishment as their country underwent rapid reformation once again. It is against this backdrop Rikio Ishikawa (a soul-destroyingly evil performance from Tetsuya Watari), the son of a country humiliated beyond defeat, the product of the pillaging of a national identity, violently defies salvation as a modern-day Ryunosuke Tsukue in Kinji Fukasaku’s most abyssal picture of his ferociously graphic career; enter the “Graveyard of Honour”.
Following Ishikawa’s tumultuous descent into oblivion over the span of the Japanese Occupation, “Graveyard of Honour “endeavours to plunder the lowest depths of immorality, deliberately finding...
Following Ishikawa’s tumultuous descent into oblivion over the span of the Japanese Occupation, “Graveyard of Honour “endeavours to plunder the lowest depths of immorality, deliberately finding...
- 2/19/2023
- by JC Cansdale-Cook
- AsianMoviePulse
After “Carmen from Kawachi” had been one more unsuccessful attempt of production company Nikkatsu to get director Seijun Suzuki in line with the kind of movies they wanted him to make, they decided to reduce his budget even further for his next feature. In the wrong hands, “Tokyo Drifter” probably would have been just another gangster flick which the industry had produced a thousand times, but Suzuki created something truly special, widely regarded as one of his most interesting and visually arresting works. Instead of feeling ´restricted by the lack of financial support, the director relied on his skill of making ends meet and sticking to his creative vision, resulting in a much more abstract work which also fits perfectly in the age of pop culture.
Tokyo Drifter is screening as part of the Seijun Suzuki Centennial presented by Japan Society
In Tokyo, Tetsuya (Tetsuya Watari), nicknamed “Phoenix”, is the...
Tokyo Drifter is screening as part of the Seijun Suzuki Centennial presented by Japan Society
In Tokyo, Tetsuya (Tetsuya Watari), nicknamed “Phoenix”, is the...
- 1/28/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Yakuza tales drenched in revenge and bloody samurai epics are what most people think of when asked about their favorite Japanese action movies. They wouldn't be wrong, either, as both are essential components of the genre. Japan has one of the oldest film industries in the world, with Thomas Edison's kinetoscope first imported in 1896. Between 1909 and 1928, director Makino Shozo began pumping out films, popularizing period pieces known as jidaigeki.
I bring up jidaigeki movies because they reached new heights by the mid-1940s, thanks to Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa is the gateway to Japanese cinema for many Western audiences. This legendary director incorporated action into his period epics that have since influenced filmmakers globally.
Of course, Kurosawa is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Japanese action films. What fascinates me about these movies is the deep saturation of culture throughout. Filmmakers take their time with certain scenes,...
I bring up jidaigeki movies because they reached new heights by the mid-1940s, thanks to Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa is the gateway to Japanese cinema for many Western audiences. This legendary director incorporated action into his period epics that have since influenced filmmakers globally.
Of course, Kurosawa is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Japanese action films. What fascinates me about these movies is the deep saturation of culture throughout. Filmmakers take their time with certain scenes,...
- 12/27/2022
- by Marta Djordjevic
- Slash Film
For the second week of September, we don’t have a ton of horror and sci-fi headed home on Blu-ray and DVD, but there are a few releases genre fans are definitely going to want to pick up. This Tuesday’s biggest release is the new Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection in 4K from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, which includes the uncut version of Psycho, and Psycho is also getting its own stand alone release for its 60th anniversary as well.
Arrow Video has put together a Limited Edition set for Graveyards of Honor which features both filmic versions, and both Saw and Candyman are getting a re-release too. Other titles arriving on September 8th include A Deadly Legend and Evil Boy.
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection
Universally recognized as the Master of Suspense, the legendary Alfred Hitchcock directed some of cinema's most thrilling and unforgettable classics. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics...
Arrow Video has put together a Limited Edition set for Graveyards of Honor which features both filmic versions, and both Saw and Candyman are getting a re-release too. Other titles arriving on September 8th include A Deadly Legend and Evil Boy.
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection
Universally recognized as the Master of Suspense, the legendary Alfred Hitchcock directed some of cinema's most thrilling and unforgettable classics. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics...
- 9/7/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard Of Honor (1975) and Takashi Miike’s 2002 Remake will be available together on Blu-ray September 8th from Arrow Video
Two peerless masters of Japanese cinema Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike present their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita s gangster novel Graveyard of Honor, each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period of Japanese history.
Set during the turbulent post-war years, Fukasaku s original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa. Shot through with the same stark realism and quasi-documentarian approach as Fukasaku s earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Fukasaku nonetheless breaks new ground through his portrayal of a gangster utterly without honor or ethics, surviving by any means necessary in a world of brutal criminality.
Meanwhile, Miike s 2002 retelling transplants the story to Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. Less a direct remake of Fukasku s film...
Two peerless masters of Japanese cinema Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike present their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita s gangster novel Graveyard of Honor, each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period of Japanese history.
Set during the turbulent post-war years, Fukasaku s original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa. Shot through with the same stark realism and quasi-documentarian approach as Fukasaku s earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Fukasaku nonetheless breaks new ground through his portrayal of a gangster utterly without honor or ethics, surviving by any means necessary in a world of brutal criminality.
Meanwhile, Miike s 2002 retelling transplants the story to Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. Less a direct remake of Fukasku s film...
- 9/7/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
UK-based distributors Third Window Films and Arrow Video will release hard-copy Japanese cult classics come September. Among the titles include Macoto Tezka’s musical “The Legend of the Stardust Brothers” (1985), Seiji Tanaka’s low-budget, high concept feature “Melancholic” (2018), and Katsuhito Ishii’s Cannes opening film “The Taste of Tea” (2004). Read below for exact release dates.
Black Test Car / The Black Report: 24 August; blu-ray only
Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) helms a bitingly satirical espionage thriller set in the heart of the Japanese auto industry in his 1962 landmark Black Test Car, which launched a series of similarly themed “Black” films.
Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut, Black Test Car is paired here with the English-language video premiere of its follow-up The Black Report, also directed by Masumura.
Melancholic: 7 September; blu-ray only
From Third Window Films: Despite having graduated from the prestigious Tokyo University, Kazuhiko is unemployed and living with his...
Black Test Car / The Black Report: 24 August; blu-ray only
Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) helms a bitingly satirical espionage thriller set in the heart of the Japanese auto industry in his 1962 landmark Black Test Car, which launched a series of similarly themed “Black” films.
Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut, Black Test Car is paired here with the English-language video premiere of its follow-up The Black Report, also directed by Masumura.
Melancholic: 7 September; blu-ray only
From Third Window Films: Despite having graduated from the prestigious Tokyo University, Kazuhiko is unemployed and living with his...
- 8/23/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Tetsuya Watari, the Japanese actor who worked with international cult favorites Seijun Suzuki and Kinji Fukasaku on some of their best-known films, died on Aug.10 of pneumonia at age 78. His death was announced Friday following a private family funeral.
Joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1964 after graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University, Watari soon became a mainstay of its action line-up, starring in Suzuki’s 1966 “Tokyo Drifter” and Toshio Masuda’s 1968 “Outlaw: Gangster VIP,” which became a six-part series. Both films have been widely screened abroad, and since rereleased for home entertainment.
After Nikkatsu turned over production to softcore porn in 1971, Watari left the studio and joined Ishihara Promotion, the talent agency started by Nikkatsu mentor and megastar Yujiro Ishihara in 1963.
In 1975 Watari starred in Fukasaku’s action biopic “Yakuza Graveyard,” playing a self-destructive gangster who was based on a real-life model. But he was prevented by illness from appearing in Fukasaku’s signature gangster series,...
Joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1964 after graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University, Watari soon became a mainstay of its action line-up, starring in Suzuki’s 1966 “Tokyo Drifter” and Toshio Masuda’s 1968 “Outlaw: Gangster VIP,” which became a six-part series. Both films have been widely screened abroad, and since rereleased for home entertainment.
After Nikkatsu turned over production to softcore porn in 1971, Watari left the studio and joined Ishihara Promotion, the talent agency started by Nikkatsu mentor and megastar Yujiro Ishihara in 1963.
In 1975 Watari starred in Fukasaku’s action biopic “Yakuza Graveyard,” playing a self-destructive gangster who was based on a real-life model. But he was prevented by illness from appearing in Fukasaku’s signature gangster series,...
- 8/15/2020
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
The 1970s were arguably the busiest period within the career of esteemed Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku. While continuing the “New Battles Without Honor and Humanity”-series of movies, he adapted his unique take on the yakuza movie on other projects as well, adding new aspects to the themes of his work, the portrayal of post-war Japan, the link between crime and politics, as well as the destructive male behavior. Even though he had already introduced many notable characters in his movies, perhaps his interpretation of Rikio Ishikawa, the protagonist of Fujita Goro’s work on the life of this real-life yakuza, is the most unforgettable. In “Graveyards of Honor”, Fukasaku explores the nature of self-destructive behavior, making a bold and quite bleak statement about the direction his home country was heading for in the 1970s.
After having left his parental home, Rikio Ishikawa (Tetsuya Watari) heads to...
After having left his parental home, Rikio Ishikawa (Tetsuya Watari) heads to...
- 8/3/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Summer will be bidding us farewell but Arrow Video and Arrow Academy keep things sizzling in September, with the release of the greatest work and autobiography of a French cinema pioneer, a glorious 4K Ultra HD debut of a beloved Oscar-winning masterpiece about the beauty of cinema, and a pair of blood-splattered Yakuza classics. This outstanding selection of films include pristine restorations, hours of rare bonus features, brand new commentaries, unseen cuts of the films, as well as collector’s booklets with incisive writing on the filmmakers, and limited edition deluxe packaging and striking new artwork.
In September, Arrow Academy proudly presents an exclusive, limited edition Blu-ray package, George Méliès’ “A Trip to the Moon & Autobiography.” Méliès, a pioneer of early cinema, as well as an illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor, paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. The release includes his boldest and best known film, A Trip To The Moon,...
In September, Arrow Academy proudly presents an exclusive, limited edition Blu-ray package, George Méliès’ “A Trip to the Moon & Autobiography.” Méliès, a pioneer of early cinema, as well as an illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor, paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. The release includes his boldest and best known film, A Trip To The Moon,...
- 7/8/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
My thoughts and admiration for Mark Schilling’s work have already been shared in the review of “Art, Cult and Commerce“. In that regard, continuing with his bibliography was inevitable, and the fact that the present book deals with the oldest Japanese motion picture studio, and particularly its Action Cinema period, made its appeal even more intense. Even more so, since, during the latest years, there seems to be a renewal of interest regarding the genre, especially through the home video releases of companies like Arrow and Eureka.
The book begins with the history of Nikkatsu, focusing on the period from the late 50s until the early 60s, when the Nikkatsu Action genre started, flourished and declined. The second part deals with the main male protagonists of those movies, presenting detailed biographies of Yujiro Ishihara, Akira Kobayashi, Keiichiro Akagi and Tetsuya Watari, highlighting the concept of the...
The book begins with the history of Nikkatsu, focusing on the period from the late 50s until the early 60s, when the Nikkatsu Action genre started, flourished and declined. The second part deals with the main male protagonists of those movies, presenting detailed biographies of Yujiro Ishihara, Akira Kobayashi, Keiichiro Akagi and Tetsuya Watari, highlighting the concept of the...
- 5/15/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Ryûji Kita, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Eimei Esumi | Written by Yasunori Kawauchi | Directed by Seijun Suzuki
It would be easy to assume that Seijun Suzuki’s 1966 crime thriller is a construct of a TV series. With its strictly-defined three-act structure, divided by subtitles, it has the feel of a succession of episodes stitched awkwardly together across 90 minutes. But it actually is a cheesy, kind of likeable, complete film.
Tetsuya Watari plays Tetsu “The Phoenix” Hondo, an ex-mobster trying to go straight. He and his avuncular old boss Kurata (Ryûji Kita) live in peace in a building owned by a kindly landlord named Yoshii (Michio Hino). However, Kurata’s old foe, Otsuka (Eimei Esumi) isn’t done with him yet. They force Yoshii to sell the building to them, triggering a fight between the Kurata and Otsuka clans. Tetsu can’t help but get involved.
To save Kurata from further conflict,...
It would be easy to assume that Seijun Suzuki’s 1966 crime thriller is a construct of a TV series. With its strictly-defined three-act structure, divided by subtitles, it has the feel of a succession of episodes stitched awkwardly together across 90 minutes. But it actually is a cheesy, kind of likeable, complete film.
Tetsuya Watari plays Tetsu “The Phoenix” Hondo, an ex-mobster trying to go straight. He and his avuncular old boss Kurata (Ryûji Kita) live in peace in a building owned by a kindly landlord named Yoshii (Michio Hino). However, Kurata’s old foe, Otsuka (Eimei Esumi) isn’t done with him yet. They force Yoshii to sell the building to them, triggering a fight between the Kurata and Otsuka clans. Tetsu can’t help but get involved.
To save Kurata from further conflict,...
- 2/19/2019
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Welcome back to This Week In Discs where we check out tomorrow’s new releases today! Outlaw Gangster VIP: The Complete Collection (Arrow Video) What is it? Goro is a yakuza sent to jail for three years after stabbing an attempted assassin, and when he’s finally released it’s to a completely different power struggle in Gangster VIP. He tries to leave his gangster past behind him and heads to the country, but violence follows in Gangster VIP 2. Goro, working once again with the yakuza, finds himself embroiled in a battle with his own conscience in Heartless. Another knife fight, another prison sentence, and when he’s released he once again steps in to help out some people in need in Goro the Assassin. A young woman dies, a new challenger steps up, and Goro must again seek vengeance in Black Dagger. Violence and heartbreak make one final collaboration in Kill! Why...
- 4/18/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
To mark the release of Outlaw Gangster VIP: The Complete Collection on 18th April, we’ve been given 1 copy to give away on Blu-ray. In 1968, acclaimed director Toshio Masuda (Rusty Knife, Tora! Tora! Tora!) and rising star Tetsuya Watari (Tokyo Drifter) teamed up for Outlaw: Gangster VIP. The series offers up a depiction of
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- 4/18/2016
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Feature James Clayton Jan 11, 2013
With Gangster Squad out in UK cinemas, James assembles his own fantasy gang of movie mobsters...
Rat-a-tat-tat! Gangster Squad has hit town! This is great news for cinemagoers seeking sparks in the middle of grey, grim January. Slick mobster style! Machine gun-blastin’ action! Hollywood pizazz! Retro chic and period detail!
Gangster Squad also appeals with a stellar cast and the presence of Ruben Fleischer - an assured hand when it comes to directing high-octane entertainment - behind the camera. Nevertheless, the film has let me down slightly right from the start in that its title is misleading. “Gangster Squad” is not a ‘squad of gangsters’ but rather, less alluringly, ‘a police squad to tackle gangsters’.
The squad - Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña, Gio Ribisi and Robert Patrick - are indubitably a very cool bunch. Furthermore, watching the Lapd come down hard on...
With Gangster Squad out in UK cinemas, James assembles his own fantasy gang of movie mobsters...
Rat-a-tat-tat! Gangster Squad has hit town! This is great news for cinemagoers seeking sparks in the middle of grey, grim January. Slick mobster style! Machine gun-blastin’ action! Hollywood pizazz! Retro chic and period detail!
Gangster Squad also appeals with a stellar cast and the presence of Ruben Fleischer - an assured hand when it comes to directing high-octane entertainment - behind the camera. Nevertheless, the film has let me down slightly right from the start in that its title is misleading. “Gangster Squad” is not a ‘squad of gangsters’ but rather, less alluringly, ‘a police squad to tackle gangsters’.
The squad - Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña, Gio Ribisi and Robert Patrick - are indubitably a very cool bunch. Furthermore, watching the Lapd come down hard on...
- 1/10/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Tokyo Drifter defies expectations of the Japanese gangster film, but no just because of its prevalent use of music, but because its editing and structure make it absurdly difficult to follow the first time through. The narrative seems to jump indiscriminately halfway between one scene and the next and the viewer has to make an effort to connect the events as the film clips along. The story is certainly linear in its telling, but how it’s presented by Director Seijun Suzuki comes closer to a rock skipping over the surface of a pond with each jump a little shorter until it becomes a rapid series of small cuts and finally sinks into its ending. Luckily the story that the viewer pieces together, about a gang attempting to turn legitimate and leave their underhanded ways behind them with a real estate deal, affords them the chance to reconcile the film...
- 2/8/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Tokyo Drifter Directed by Seijun Suzuki Written by Kouhan Kawauchi Starring Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawaji Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter is a colourful, energetic blast of 1960's Japanese pop culture wrapped in a complicated, satirical take on the Yakuza gangster film. Packed with wild imagery and some amazing art design, Suzuki's unusual brand of crime film is more Warhol than Kurosawa and a definite treat for genre fans. The plot of Tokyo Drifter seems to be intentionally over-complicated, but let me try my best to summarize. Our hero, Tetsu Hondo, and his boss Kurata have given up the gangster life and gone straight. They're ex-Yakuza with an eye on opening a night club and making legit money. When a rival gang boss, Otsuka, fails to recruit Tetsu into his own club, he sends his men to rub him out. Kurata, a father figure to Tetsu, suggests he leaves town and become a drifter.
- 12/28/2011
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
Release Date: Dec. 13, 2011
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Criterion
Tetsuya Watari (r.) gets his point across in Tokyo Drifter.
In the jazzy 1966 Japanese gangster crime film Tokyo Drifter, directed Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill), reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu’s (Tetsuya Watari) attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
The thriller movie’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors reportedly got Suzuki in trouble with the studio heads, who were put off by his anything-goes, in-your-face aesthetic, even though it’s the kind of approach that went on to define much of the over-the-top genre filmmaking that emerged from Japan in the decades to come.
Tokyo Drifter plays as equal parts Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss) and Nagisa Oshima (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) — and it’s a wild, wild ride.
Criterion...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Criterion
Tetsuya Watari (r.) gets his point across in Tokyo Drifter.
In the jazzy 1966 Japanese gangster crime film Tokyo Drifter, directed Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill), reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu’s (Tetsuya Watari) attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
The thriller movie’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors reportedly got Suzuki in trouble with the studio heads, who were put off by his anything-goes, in-your-face aesthetic, even though it’s the kind of approach that went on to define much of the over-the-top genre filmmaking that emerged from Japan in the decades to come.
Tokyo Drifter plays as equal parts Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss) and Nagisa Oshima (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) — and it’s a wild, wild ride.
Criterion...
- 9/16/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
They’re still ironing out the wrinkles, but the English language site for the Nikkatsu Corporation’s newly created genre arm, Sushi Typhoon, is now up and running. ‘Ninja Vs Aliens’ and ‘Mutant Girls Squad’ are just two of the much anticipated horror/gore/splatter creations heading our way from some of the top names (Nishimura, Miike!!!, Sono!!!) in Japanese genre movie making. Want to know more? The press release reveals all…..“Born in 2010, The Sushi Typhoon is the upstart, wild offspring of a respectable parent—Nikkatsu Corporation, the oldest film studio in Japan and once home to legendary 1960’s action stars like Joe Shishido, Akira Kobayashi, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji and Yujiro Ishihara. With a long history of genre films and violent gangster epics, the company was also the leader of Japan’s erotic renaissance of the 1970’s with their Roman Porno line…and now, Nikkatsu’s latest offering,...
- 7/5/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
They’re still ironing out the wrinkles, but the English language site for the Nikkatsu Corporation’s newly created genre arm, Sushi Typhoon, is now up and running. ‘Ninja Vs Aliens’ and ‘Mutant Girls Squad’ are just two of the much anticipated horror/gore/splatter creations heading our way from some of the top names (Nishimura, Miike!!!, Sono!!!) in Japanese genre movie making. Want to know more? The press release reveals all…..“Born in 2010, The Sushi Typhoon is the upstart, wild offspring of a respectable parent—Nikkatsu Corporation, the oldest film studio in Japan and once home to legendary 1960’s action stars like Joe Shishido, Akira Kobayashi, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji and Yujiro Ishihara. With a long history of genre films and violent gangster epics, the company was also the leader of Japan’s erotic renaissance of the 1970’s with their Roman Porno line…and now, Nikkatsu’s latest offering,...
- 7/5/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
They’re still ironing out the wrinkles, but the English language site for the Nikkatsu Corporation’s newly created genre arm, Sushi Typhoon, is now up and running. ‘Ninja Vs Aliens’ and ‘Mutant Girls Squad’ are just two of the much anticipated horror/gore/splatter creations heading our way from some of the top names (Nishimura, Miike!!!, Sono!!!) in Japanese genre movie making. Want to know more? The press release reveals all…..“Born in 2010, The Sushi Typhoon is the upstart, wild offspring of a respectable parent—Nikkatsu Corporation, the oldest film studio in Japan and once home to legendary 1960’s action stars like Joe Shishido, Akira Kobayashi, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji and Yujiro Ishihara. With a long history of genre films and violent gangster epics, the company was also the leader of Japan’s erotic renaissance of the 1970’s with their Roman Porno line…and now, Nikkatsu’s latest offering,...
- 7/5/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
During my too-brief visit to the Fantasia Festival this year a major highlight were the three films the festival screened from the ongoing traveling retrospective of 1960’s Nikkatsu Action films. While I loved all three, and all three were wildly different from one another, I think Gangster VIP ended up emerging as my favorite and I’ve just come across and English subtitled trailer for the Tetsuya Watari - starring crime drama. Check it out below the break.
- 7/20/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
The third and final entry in the Nikkatsu Action retrospective at this year’s Fantasia Festival, Gangster VIP reunites director Toshio Masuda, star Tetsuya Watari and production designer Takeo Kimura from Velvet Hustler but the two films could scarcely be more different. Where Hustler was a light, playful film Gangster VIP is a much darker piece, one revolving around a man consumed by his circumstances, fully aware that his lifestyle will consume everyone around him and forced by his conscience to therefore shun any sort of “decent” relationships so that only those who somehow deserve it will be in the line of fire. Based loosely on the story of real life gangster Goro Fujita, Gangster VIP casts Watari as a sort of noble outcast, someone forced by poverty into a life of crime but also someone who has managed to retain a sense of honor and who recognizes fully that...
- 7/15/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Goro likes a simple life. The big city. Fast cars. Faster women. That’s all it takes to keep the carefree young man happy. Put him behind the wheel of a car and he has not a care in the world, whistling on his way to work. That the car is stolen and Goro works as a hitman seem almost secondary, secondary that is until Goro draws the task of killing the head of an opposing crime family and then must hide in Kobe - to his point of view a backwards, vulgar place with nothing worthwhile to do. Not to worry, he’s told, it shouldn’t be a long stay. The family will take care of things here and when everything is settled Goro will be free to return.
This is the world of Velvet Hustler, a surprisingly light hearted and carefree crime romp from director Toshio Masuda...
This is the world of Velvet Hustler, a surprisingly light hearted and carefree crime romp from director Toshio Masuda...
- 7/13/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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