Arrow Video’s V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal Review – Part Two: STRANGER, and CARLOS
Part two of five covers the next two titles of this article series covering Arrow Video’s upcoming V-Cinema Essentials boxset.
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The New Teaser For GONIN SAGA Awakens A Two-Decade-Old Grudge!
Japan’s economic crisis in the mid-1990’s proved quite useful in setting up a working formula for writer and director Ishii Takashi’s 1995 crime thriller, Gonin, starring Sato Koichi and legendary actor Kitano Takeshi in a violent tale of one man’s consequential attempt to rob the Yakuza with the help of four desperate cohorts. The film led to an indirect sequel a year later, but gladly enough, fans who enjoyed the first can now get a taste of what’s to come with the brand new teaser for Gonin Saga, a generational sequel almost two vengeful decades in the making and clearly aimed at adding just a few more layers to the drama, action, suspense, intrigue and thrills. SYNOPSIS via Eigapedia: Yuto’s father was Shigeru Hisamatsu, a young lieutenant with the Gosei-kai affiliated Ogoshi gang. Although Hisamatsu is a peaceful young man who’s grown up to have a very different life than […]