DETONATION: VIOLENT RIDERS 88 Films Blu-Ray Review: Japanese Biker Gangs Ride Fast And Live Faster In Teruo Ishii’s 1975 Classic
Coming to Blu-Ray from 88 Films on July 21.
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Arrow Video’s V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal Review – Part Four: THE HITMAN: BLOOD SMELLS LIKE ROSES and DANGER POINT: THE ROAD TO HELL
Part four of our review series brings us well past the halfway mark!
THE PRISON WALLS TRILOGY Eureka Classics Blu-Ray Review
This was a pretty big task to take on in the past week, but I really wanted to dive into some classic Japanese cinema. Eureka Entertainment remains on the ball as one of the foremost niche outlets priming throwback titles out of banners like Toei, including the Prison Walls Trilogy culminating the first three movies of the “Abashiri Bangaichi” franchise. The trilogy is now available in a box set containing the first three films on two blu-ray discs. The movies are presented in original Japanese Mono with optional subtitles, and commentaries from experts on the stars and subject matter, and much more. I had a blast with these, and if you didn’t pre-order these discs yet, I highly recommend ordering them now. It’s a must-have for anyone in the western world who discovered actor Ken Takakura in Tony Scott’s Black Rain like I did, and is purely keen on venturing […]
PRISON WALLS: ABASHIRI PRISON Trilogy: Eureka Locks Up Ken Takakura For A Trio Of Restored Crime Classics In May!
I missed out on posting about this yesterday when I got the alert, but there’s still plenty of time given the three-month window. For this, you’re welcome to take a gander at what’s in store with Eureka Entertainment’s upcoming Masters Of Cinema Series rollout, director Teruo Ishii’s Prison Walls: Abashiri Prison Trilogy. The films all star late legendary actor Ken Takakura who became a household name, priming the yakuza genre with the franchise beginning in 1965. There are actually seventeen of these based on the literary work of author Hajime Itō, but Eureka is putting out three of these for the taking, packaged in limited edition O-card slip cases, currently for the first run of 2000 copies. May 28 is the date for those of you living in the U.S., so mark it and get your pre-orders in if and when you can. More info below! Constructed in the late […]