Yakuza Crime Thriller THE BLOOD OF WOLVES Tows The Thinning Divide Between Crime And Justice In The Official Trailer
Director Shiraishi Kazuya just had his latest theatrical opening this month with kidnapping thriller, Sunny/32, and is now onto the next round of promotions for his latest offering which arrives this summer. Enter Hiroshima with author Yuzuki Yuko’s 2015 bestseller, The Blood Of Wolves, serving as the basis for Shiraishi’s new crime noir thriller set in the years leading up to Japan’s crackdown on the Yakuza in the early 1990s. The Devil’s Path helmer is joined by Twisted Justice scribe Ikegami Junya with actors Yakusho Koji and Matsuzaka Tori leading the narrative for the film pre-emptively driven by the author’s affinity for Showa-era crime tales as exemplary as Toei’s highly acclaimed ripped-from-the-headlines crime saga, Battles Without Honor And Humanity. The first official trailer is finally here as well and does amply in observing much of that bygone splendor of the roaring 80s crime lore with a plot highlights the boiler […]