“Yakuza Graveyard” reunited director Kinji Fukasaku with writer Kazuo Kasahara. With a cast that includes Tetsuya Watari, Nobuo Kaneko, and Meiko Kaji, the results are predictably excellent. Radiance Films has given the film a Blu-ray release.
“Big Time Gambling Boss” – the inaugural release by Radiance Films – is an emotionally deep Yakuza film brimming with iconic Japanese actors that deserves to be discovered..
Arrow Video has brought Shinji Somai’s genrebending yakuza/coming-of-age/idol film/dramedy “Sailor Suit and Machine Gun” to Blu-ray. The long-take sequences are truly impressive, and the film is strangely hypnotic.