Shadow Wars: The Elusive Kinji Fukasaku Collection (Collector's Edition) Blu-Ray (Australia Import)

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Shadow Wars: The Elusive Kinji Fukasaku Collection (Collector's Edition) Blu-Ray (Australia Import)

Umbrella

Original title: Cops Vs. Thugs / Cross the Rubicon / Hokuriku Proxy War

Year: 1975 - 1977
Country: Japan
Region code: B
Contents: Blu-Ray
EAN: 9344256038945

Image: 2.35:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Japanese - DTS-HD MA 2.0

Subtitles: English

Age rating: Not Rated

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Kin'ya Kitaōji, Hiroki Matsukata

Director: Kinji Fukasaku


Synopsis:

From the master of postwar chaos comes a blistering triptych of crime, corruption, and collapse.

After the success of Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973–74), Fukasaku continued to refine his “jitsuroku” (true record) approach; a semi-documentary style of yakuza film inspired by real events, police files, and newspaper reportage.

These three titles, COPS VS THUGS, CROSS THE RUBICON!, and HOKURIKU PROXY WAR, all extend that gritty realism: handheld camerawork, frenetic editing, overlapping dialogue, and moral murk. They turn away from romanticized gangsters toward a chaotic, corrupt Japan of the 1960s-70s where cops, crooks, and politicians are virtually indistinguishable.

Extras:

Collector's Edition Extras:

• 48-page book of behind-the-scenes material and essays by Brian Streussnig, Mark Schilling and David Michael Brown
• Custom illustration rigid case by Colin Murdoch
• 8 replica lobby cards
• X2 A3 reversible posters featuring original art
• Limited edition numbered release

Cops Vs. Thugs

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Critic & Author Jasper Sharp
• NEW! Cops, Thugs and Proxy Wars: James Balmont on the Revolutionary Yakuza Cinema of Kinji Fukasaku
  
• Archival Behind the Scenes Footage
  
• Beyond the Film: Cops vs. Thugs - a Video Appreciation by Fukasaku Biographer --- Sadao Yamane
  
• Theatrical Trailer

CROSS THE RUBICON!

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Writer and Critic Tom Mes
• NEW! Funny Money: Screenwriter Koji Takada Discusses Cross the Rubicon!NEW! Shadows of War: Kenta Fukasaku on His Fathers’ Yakuza Films

HOKURIKU PROXY WAR

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Japanese cinema expert Frankie Balboa
  
• NEW! Loyalty for Sale: Matthew Carter on Power, Masculinity and Corruption in the World of Kinji FukasakuNEW! Deadly Coincidence: Screenwriter Koji
• Takada discusses Hokuriku Proxy War
  
• Theatrical Trailer