Il posto + I fidanzati (Limited Edition) Blu-Ray (UK Import)

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Il posto + I fidanzati (Limited Edition) Blu-Ray (UK Import)
Radiance Films

Original title: Il posto + I fidanzati

Year: 1961 / 1962
Country: Italy
Region code: A/B/C
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060974681822

Image: 1.33:1 / 1.85:1 (1080p)

Audio: Italian - Uncompressed Mono PCM

Subtitles: English

Rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loredana Detto , Sandro Panseri

Director: Ermanno Olmi


Synopsis:

When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ (Yusaku Matsuda, The Game Trilogy) gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past. A loose remake of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye that also draws from Visconti's Death in Venice , this was Matsuda's break with his action hero image. Samurai movie veteran Eiichi Kudo ( The Fort of Death ) relishes his chance at directing a neo-noir that captures urban Japan at the height of 1980s decadence.

Extras:

• High-Definition digital transfer, world premiere on Blu-ray
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Interview with star Mari Hemmi
• Interview with screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama
• Interview with writer and Yokohama expert Toru Sano on the film and a look at the locations
• Trailer
• Newly translated English subtitles
• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Dimitri Ianni on Toei Central Film, a subsidiary of Toei studios famed for releasing Pink Films and independent productions such as Yokohama BJ Blues and an archival review of the film
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings