Battles Without Honor and Humanity [Blu-ray]

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Battles Without Honor and Humanity [Blu-ray] Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) gave the world Japans answer to The Godfather with this violent yakuza saga, influencing filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs) to Takashi Miike (Graveyard of Honor, Audition). Made within just two years, the five-film series brought a new kind of realism and ferocity to the crime genre in Japan, revitalising the industry and leading to unprecedented commercial and critical success. Literally exploding on screen with a mushroom cloud, and ending with Hiroshimas A-bomb Dome, the epic story of Battles Without Honour and Humanity follows over 100 characters through twenty years of gang wars, alliances, betrayals, and assassinations, in an exciting exploration of criminal power and politics in Japan. In the opening episode, ex-soldier Shz Hirono escapes from the post-war black markets to become a key member of the Yamamori gang, but soon finds himself disillusioned by the selfish duplicity of his bosses. Hiroshima Death Match focuses on a demobilised kamikaze pilot drifting through the early 1950s, whose suicidal impulses find good use as a mob assassin. Proxy War and Police Tactics form a labyrinthine, two-part story of ambition and betrayal set against Japans rapid economic growth of the 1960s, with Shz caught between warring factions. Final Episode concludes the series in the 1970s as the former Yamamori gang transforms itself into an economic conglomerate called the Tensei Group, in a bid for mainstream respectability. Fukasaku and his team broke with the longstanding studio tradition of casting marquee idols as honourable, kimono-clad heroes, defending their gang bosses against unscrupulous villains, and instead adapted true accounts torn from the headlines, shot in a documentary-like style, and with few clear-cut heroes or villains. The vibrancy and dynamism of the filmmaking, plus its shocking violence, Shakespearean plotlines, and wide tapestry of characters, launched a revolutionary new genre, establishing the series as one of the great masterpieces of world crime cinema. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of all five original filmsOriginal Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays)Optional English subtitles for all five filmsReversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist DISC 1: BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITYAudio commentary by critic and author Stuart Galbraith IVYakuza Graveyardan interview with Takashi Miike about Kinji Fukasaku and the yakuza film genreOriginal trailers for all five films DISC 2: HIROSHIMA DEATH MATCHMan of Actionan interview with series fight choreographer Ryz UenoOriginal Trailer DISC 3: PROXY WARSecrets of the Piranha Armya documentary about the troupe of supporting actors who appeared throughout the series, featuring interviews with original Piranha members Masaru Shiga and Takashi Noguchi, plus second-generation Piranha, Takashi Nishina and Akira MurotaTales of a Bit Playeran interview with supporting actor and stuntman Seiz FukumotoOriginal Trailer DISC 4: POLICE TACTICSRemembering Kinjia featurette about director Kinji Fukasaku and his work, featuring interviews with Kenta Fukasaku and film critic and Fukasaku biographer Sadao YamaneFukasaku Familyan interview with Proxy War and Police Tactics assistant director Tru DobashiOriginal Trailer DISC 5: FINAL EPISODELast Days of the Bossan interview with Final Episode screenwriter Kji TakadaOriginal poster gallery for the seriesOriginal Trailer Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. 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