Film Movement Classics Delivers Hideo Gosha's "Violent Streets" on Blu-ray (5/23)

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VIOLENT STREETS

Sometimes regarded as not only among Gosha’s finest films but among the finest yakuza films ever made, VIOLENT STREETS (1974, 96 mins, 2.35:1 Widescreen, Mono) is a brutal, gripping, kinetic action yarn in which legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays Egawa, a retired yakuza underboss, now nightclub owner, who gets pulled back into the life when his old comrades demand control of his club. Meanwhile, a gang war quietly roiling behind the scenes erupts into open violence in response to a high-profile kidnapping, lending unimaginably high stakes to Egawa's reemergence onto the yakuza scene. The result is a kinetic and stylish explosion of deception, mayhem, and death that leaves no one safe - and a masterpiece of 1970's yakuza cinema, a pulpy, pungent thriller.

Films from the Far Reaches said “Violent Streets is one of the wildest, bloodiest and most visually stunning Yakuza yarns ever made…[it’s] a masterpiece, plain and simple. One of Gosha's best (just maybe his very best) and one of the crowning achievements in Japan's Yakuza cycle of the 70s. A must see,” and Joseph Perry of When It Was Cool said the film “boasts engrossing performances, taut direction, double-crosses galore, eye-popping visuals, and plenty of offbeat moments,” and Ruben Rosario of Film Monthly called it ““an insane delight to behold.”

BONUS FEATURES
  • Tattooed Director: Hideo Gosha featurette with Tomoe Gosha
  • A Street That Can’t Be Beat video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias
  • 16-page booklet with a new essay by Japanese film expert Mark Schilling



 

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Never heard of this one. Will there be a review?
 

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Great, hopefully it will arrive. :) Looking forward to it.
 
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