Yakuza Princess 4K Blu-ray
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Posted October 2, 2021 04:31 PM by Webmaster
Magnolia Home Entertainment is preparing 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Vicente Amorim's Yakuza Princess (2021), starring Masumi, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Mariko Takai, and Kenny Leu. Currently, the two releases are set to arrive on the market on November 16.
Label description: Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil — the largest Japanese diaspora in the world — YAKUZA PRINCESS follows Akemi (MASUMI), an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate. Forging an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger (Rhys Meyers) who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates, Akemi must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead.
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Director's statement: Yakuza Princess is a thriller with a very strong emotional drive. This drive is powered by Akemi, who comes of age while having to learn how to fight (quite literally) and becoming who she was always meant to be.
The film showcases a very complex, broken, family dynamic, with themes such as identity and belonging, the longing for (and rejection of) a fatherfigure as pivot points around which we see her trajectory unfold. The Yakuza Princess brings strong Japanese elements from the jidaigeki tradition of masters such as Mizoguchi or Kurosawa, the vibrant aesthetics of animes such as Akira and the violence derived from the new Ronin classics by Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano. As in those films, no punches are pulled.
The Japanese neighborhood's settings in São Paulo play a major role in the choreography of chases, fights and shootouts. Brazil's own clique of the Yakuza, its corrupt police, and its own brand of domestic violence are present in the fringes of a greater, very elaborate, action canvas that will be grounded in the character's traits and will lead their arcs.
In a movie where no one is really who they seem to be, we tell the story through reflections, transparencies and layers that veil and disguise the characters' every move. We have built a desaturated version of the 90s neon noir, without its corny excesses.
On one hand, we are welcome by a sense of familiarity and, on the other, like Akemi herself, we'll be waking from a long nightmare – one that we do not control, one that only Akemi can end with the power she discovers to have when the Muramasa (the cursed samurai sword) is in her hands.
Label description: Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil — the largest Japanese diaspora in the world — YAKUZA PRINCESS follows Akemi (MASUMI), an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate. Forging an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger (Rhys Meyers) who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates, Akemi must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead.
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Director's statement: Yakuza Princess is a thriller with a very strong emotional drive. This drive is powered by Akemi, who comes of age while having to learn how to fight (quite literally) and becoming who she was always meant to be.
The film showcases a very complex, broken, family dynamic, with themes such as identity and belonging, the longing for (and rejection of) a fatherfigure as pivot points around which we see her trajectory unfold. The Yakuza Princess brings strong Japanese elements from the jidaigeki tradition of masters such as Mizoguchi or Kurosawa, the vibrant aesthetics of animes such as Akira and the violence derived from the new Ronin classics by Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano. As in those films, no punches are pulled.
The Japanese neighborhood's settings in São Paulo play a major role in the choreography of chases, fights and shootouts. Brazil's own clique of the Yakuza, its corrupt police, and its own brand of domestic violence are present in the fringes of a greater, very elaborate, action canvas that will be grounded in the character's traits and will lead their arcs.
In a movie where no one is really who they seem to be, we tell the story through reflections, transparencies and layers that veil and disguise the characters' every move. We have built a desaturated version of the 90s neon noir, without its corny excesses.
On one hand, we are welcome by a sense of familiarity and, on the other, like Akemi herself, we'll be waking from a long nightmare – one that we do not control, one that only Akemi can end with the power she discovers to have when the Muramasa (the cursed samurai sword) is in her hands.
