Violent Streets (1974) Noboru Andô

Violent Streets (Bôryoku gai, 1974)

"Violent Streets is one of the wildest, bloodiest and most visually stunning Yakuza yarns ever made. Violent Streets is a masterpiece, plain and simple. One of Gosha's best (just maybe his very best) and one of the crowning achievements in Japan's Yakuza cycle of the 70s. A must see." - Films from the Far Reaches

"Violent Streets is a lean and mean yakuza exploitation picture that plays with a lot of genre tropes – e.g., rival groups, old ways versus young guns, etc. – all capped off by a deeply fatalistic streak." - Matt Spry, Death Ray Dive

Väkivaltainen yakuza-saaga japanilaisista rikollisryhmistä, jotka epäluulo, vallanhimo ja petos ajavat avoimeen katusodankäyntiin.

Ohjaajana parhaiten samuraielokuvien tekijänä tunnettu Hideo Gosha (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI), pääosassa tosielämän yakuza, Noboru Andô (STREET MOBSTER, SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG, BY A MANS FACE YOU WILL KNOW HIM), joka ajautui elokuva-alalle istuttuaan ensin kuuden vuoden tuomion rikoksistaan.

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One of the finest directors of Japanese chambara (sword fighting) films, Hideo Gosha (Sword of the Beast, Three Outlaw Samurai) also directed a number of films in the yakuza genre. The most outstanding of these was Violent Streets; a baroque crime thriller about a retired yakuza who gets pulled into a violent gang war by his former associates.

A former yakuza member, Egawa (Noboru Andô) is now a brooding world-weary nightclub owner. Some of his former associates are released from prison and want to regain a foothold in the criminal underworld by igniting a gang war between the local yakuza, and an out-of-town clan led by veteran actor Tetsur? Tanba (Harakiri).

A bold and colourful entry in the yakuza genre, Hideo Gosha’s Violent Streets makes its worldwide debut on Blu-ray from a new restoration completed by Toei Company, Ltd.

Pääosissa: Noboru ANDÔ, Akira KOBAYASHI, Isao NATSUYAGI, Bunta SUGAWARA, Tetsuro TANBA

Ohjaus: Hideo GOSHA

Ääni: Japani

Tekstitys: Englanti

Julkaisija: Eureka! Masters of Cinema

Kesto: 96 min

Extrat

An introduction to Violent Streets and the works of director Hideo Gosha by film critic Tony Rayns | Jasper Sharp on Violent Streets | PLUS: A collector’s booklet featuring a new essay by Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes

Lisätietoja

https://blueprintreview.co.uk/2023/01/violent-streets-eureka/