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Studio: Home Vision
Release date: December 14th, 2004.
Main Genre:
Foreign
Sub Genre:
Japanese Cinema
Actors/Artists:
Bunta Sugawara
Director:
William Friedkin
Features:
- "Friedkin on Fukasaku" - Director William Friedkin on Fukasaku and The Yakuza Papers
- "Jitsuroku: Reinventing the Yakuza Genre" A 30-minute video essay feturing interviews with film scholars, friends and family of Kinji Fukasau
- "Translating Fukasaku" An interview with subtitler Linda Hoaglund
- "Boyoku: Fukasaku and the Art of Violence" Features interviews and rare archival footage
- "Kantoku: Remembering Fukasaku" A 20-minute group discussion
- Yakuza Papers Family Tree: A comprehensive story guide
- 20+ page booklet featuring essays and articles
Audio:
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Subtitles:
English
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In the wake of the Bomb, ex-soldier Shozo Hirono [Bunta Sugawara] joins a Hiroshima yakuza gang, the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia and then the shootings, slashings, betrayals, and scheming begin.
Premiering a year after The Godfather, The Yakuza Papers also broke box office records and spawned sequels, but, in contrast, took a ruthlessly de-romanticized view of the underworld. Based on an actual gang boss's memoirs, The Yakuza Papers plunges the audience into a gritty, brutal, violent newsreel of a three-decade struggle for power of Shakespearean complexity, a nihilistic epic unlike any other.
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