The Game Trilogy: The Most Dangerous Game (1978) / The Killing Game (1978) / The Excecution Game (1979)

Viileä jazz soi, kun palkkatappaja selvittää välejään Tokion likaisen bisneksen ja yakuza-jengien kanssa. Päärooli kolmen elokuvan trilogiassa nosti Yusaku Matsudan (MUSTA SADE, THE BEAST TO DIE) 80-luvun japanilaisen toimintaelokuvan supertähdeksi.

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Takakannen kertomaa:

Made at the end of the 1970s, Toru Murakawa's Game Trilogy launched actor Yusaku Matsuda as the Toei tough guy for a new generation. Matsuda was the definitive screen icon of 1980s until his career was tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 40, following his Hollywood debut in Ridley Scott's Black Rain.

In this career-defining triptych, Matsuda is Shohei Narumi, an ice cool hitman of few words, a steely trigger finger, and a heart of stone, hired in The Most Dangerous Game by a company bidding for a lucrative government air defence contract to take out the competition. In The Killing Game, Narumi finds himself caught in the midst of violent yakuza gang warfare, while his own brutal past catches up with him in the form of two beautiful women still bearing the emotional scars of his past assignments. In The Execution Game, Narumi falls for a mysterious saloon bar chanteuse who may or may not be part of the same, shadowy underworld organisation as the rival hitmen he is employed to rub out.

With cool blue cinematography by Nagisa Oshima collaborator Seizo Sengen and a sultry score by jazz legend Yuji Ohno, Murakawa's masterful set of films raised the bar for the Japanese action movie to new heights.

Pääosissa: Yusaku Matsuda

Ohjaus: Toru Murakawa

Ääni: Japani

Tekstitys: Englanti

Julkaisija: Arrow

Kesto: 4 h 41 min

Extrat

Levy 1: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

Audio commentary by Chris Poggiali and Marc Walkow
The Action Man, a 30-minute interview with director Toru Murakawa
Original Japanese theatrical trailer
Image gallery

Levy 2: THE KILLING GAME & THE EXECUTION GAME

Audio commentary on The Killing Game by Earl Jackson and Jasper Sharp
Audio commentary on The Execution Game by Tom Mes
Remembering Yusaku Matsuda, an interview with Yutaka Oki, film critic and personal friend of Yusaku Matsuda
Game Changer, an interview with The Execution Game screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama
Original Japanese theatrical trailers for both films
Image galleries for both films

Lisätietoja

https://insidepulse.com/2023/05/30/blu-ray-review-game-trilogy-limited-edition/

https://setthetape.com/2023/06/19/the-game-trilogy-blu-ray-review/