V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal|Masanori Sera

Product Code: FCD2670

EAN: 5027035028408
Catalogue Code: FCD2670
Title: V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal,
Principle Contributor: Masanori Sera
Contributors: Toshimichi Okawa, Banmei Takahashi, Shunichi Nagasaki, Kazuhiro Kiuchi, Yôichi Sai, Toshiharu Ikeda, Teruo Ishii, Yasuharu Hasebe, Masaru Konuma, Katsuhiko Aoki, Kazuyuki Yokoyama, Atsushi Watanabe, Kanji Amao, Tsutomu Yamamoto, Masaru Konuma, Makoto Okada, Jôji Abe, Takuya Nishioka, Shunichi Nagasaki, Kazuhiro Kiuchi, Yôichi Sai, Chong Wui-Sin, Toshiharu Ikeda, Fumio Kônami, Yasuharu Hasebe, Ryûzô Nakanishi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yuji Ono, Sachi Hayasaka, Kimio Nomura, Kazuo Ohtani, Masahiko Satô, Kazuhiro Miyoshi, Norimichi Kasamatsu, Akira Sako, Shôhei Andô, Masanori Sera, Minako Tanaka, Riki Takeuchi, Shô Aikawa, Chikako Aoyama, Ren Osugi, Rikiya Yasuoka, Jô Shishido, Yûko Natori, Kentarô Shimizu, Kôjirô Kusanagi, Masumi Harukawa, Yûzô Hayakawa, Naoto Takenaka, Seiji Matano, Mami Kumagai, Takashi Naitô, Naoko Amihama, Shinzô Hotta, Kenji Imai, Denden, Gorô Mutsumi, Kazuyoshi Ozawa, Tetsurô Tanba, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryusaku Fukami, Hideo Murota, Makiko Kuno, Johnny Okura, Katsuo Tokashi, Hideki Saijô, Natsuki Okamoto
Genre: Foreign
Produced by Label/Studio: Arrow Video, 1994
Published by: Arrow Films, 28 Apr 2025
Format: Blu-ray / Box Set (Limited Edition),
Media: 5 disc(s)

Booklet|Bonus Footage|Documentaries: ''Crime Hunter' and the Dawn of V-Cinema': Video essay by Tom Mes (Japanese cinema expert); 'An Extra Round in the Chamber': Video essay by Jonathan Clements (critic/Japanese cinema expert); 'Fire and Ice': Video essay by Mark Schilling (critic/Japanese cinema expert); 'Toshiharu Ikeda's Beautiful Monster of Vengeance': Video essay by Samm Deighan (film historian); 'The Versatility of Teruo Ishii': Video Essay by Frankie Balboa (Japanese cinema expert); 'The Road to V-Cinema': Video essay by James Balmont (critic/Japanese cinema expert); 'They Brought Back the Sleaze': Video essay by Patrick Macias (critic/Japanese cinema expert).|Interviews: Shundo Okawa (director); Banmei Takahashi (writer/director); Shunichi Nagasaki (writer/director); Kazuhiro Kiuchi (writer/director); Hiroshi Takahashi (screenwriter).|Nine postcard-sized artcards; Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon; Introductions to all films by Masaki Tanioka (film critic).|Trailers

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Cover Notes: In 1989, legendary Japanese studio Toei launched their V-Cinema line of direct-to-video genre features. V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal presents nine explosive titles representing some of the best the Japanese crime film has to offer. Fast-paced and action-packed, Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage sees detective Joe Kawamura out for revenge against the men who gunned down his partner. Along the way he teams up with Lily, a gun-toting nun looking to get back five million dollars that was stolen from her church. Next up, Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet sees wannabe yakuza Junko get more than he bargained for when tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member, or face the consequences for betrayal. Meanwhile, in Shunichi Nagasaki's unbearably tense thriller Stranger, a late-night taxi driver is stalked by the unseen driver of an SUV, who just might have a connection to the taxi driver's criminal past. In Carlos, the eponymous Brazilian-Japanese petty criminal sees an opportunity to play rival yakuza gangs against each other, but bites off much more than he can chew. Burning Dog is a gripping heist film where a gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy. The sequel to one of the most iconic Japanese franchises of all time, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat sees a female assassin hired to infiltrate a women's prison and search for The Scorpion, a legendary rebellious prisoner hiding in the bowels of the building. After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible in legendary director Teruo Ishii's The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses. Meanwhile in Danger Point: The Road to Hell, duo of contract killers' fragile partnership is tested when their most recent hit starts to have unforeseen consequences. Finally, assassin and femme fatale Shion rebels against the fanatical religious order who prepared her from birth to be the perfect killer in the pulpy XX: Beautiful Hunter. Filled with action, thrills and double-crosses, V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal is an electrifying compendium of gems from the Japanese video underworld.

Extras: Booklet|Bonus Footage|Documentaries: ''Crime Hunter' and the Dawn of V-Cinema': Video essay by Tom Mes (Japanese cinema expert); 'An Extra Round in the Chamber': Video essay by Jonathan Clements (critic/Japanese cinema expert); 'Fire and Ice': Video essay by Mark Schilling (critic/Japanese cinema expert); 'Toshiharu Ikeda's Beautiful Monster of Vengeance': Video essay by Samm Deighan (film historian); 'The Versatility of Teruo Ishii': Video Essay by Frankie Balboa (Japanese cinema expert); 'The Road to V-Cinema': Video essay by James Balmont (critic/Japanese cinema expert); 'They Brought Back the Sleaze': Video essay by Patrick Macias (critic/Japanese cinema expert).|Interviews: Shundo Okawa (director); Banmei Takahashi (writer/director); Shunichi Nagasaki (writer/director); Kazuhiro Kiuchi (writer/director); Hiroshi Takahashi (screenwriter).|Nine postcard-sized artcards; Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon; Introductions to all films by Masaki Tanioka (film critic).|Trailers

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Even More Details: Language(s): Japanese|Subtitles: English|Interactive Menu|Screen ratio 1 - 1.33:1|Mono, Stereo

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