Film Movement: New Restorations of Three Classic Hideo Gosha Films Detailed for Blu-ray
HomeFilm Movement: New Restorations of Three Classic Hideo Gosha Films Detailed for Blu-ray
Posted March 24, 2023 06:29 PM by Webmaster
Film Movement will release on Blu-ray three recent restorations of three classic Hideo Gosha films: Samurai Wolf (1966), Samurai Wolf II: Hell Cut (1967), and Violent Streets (1974). The three releases will be available for purchase in May.
Samurai Wolf
Label description: Isao Natsuyagi stars as Kiba, a charismatic ronin who wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that's more than meets the eye. After dispatching a pair of highway criminals seen robbing a courier wagon, Kiba agrees to assist a beautiful blind woman who runs the local shipping company. Double- and triple-crosses ensue, illustrated with savage but economical violence courtesy of famed director Hideo Gosha's (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, VIOLENT STREETS) striking black and white filmmaking. The result is a lean and mean triumph of samurai cinema, cementing Gosha's status as a master of the genre.
Samurai Wolf II: Hell Cut
Label description: Charismatic ronin Kiba (Isao Natsuyagi) returns, once again entangled in a complex web of intrigue, involving a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical swordsman, and an arrogant dojo master. Master filmmaker Hideo Gosha brings his trademark tight pacing and stylish action to this brisk morality play, inevitably punctuated by the explosions of violent swordplay beloved by fans of the genre.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Violent Streets
Label description: After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, SAMURAI WOLF) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza, and the violent streets they control. 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.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Samurai Wolf
Label description: Isao Natsuyagi stars as Kiba, a charismatic ronin who wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that's more than meets the eye. After dispatching a pair of highway criminals seen robbing a courier wagon, Kiba agrees to assist a beautiful blind woman who runs the local shipping company. Double- and triple-crosses ensue, illustrated with savage but economical violence courtesy of famed director Hideo Gosha's (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, VIOLENT STREETS) striking black and white filmmaking. The result is a lean and mean triumph of samurai cinema, cementing Gosha's status as a master of the genre.
Samurai Wolf II: Hell Cut
Label description: Charismatic ronin Kiba (Isao Natsuyagi) returns, once again entangled in a complex web of intrigue, involving a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical swordsman, and an arrogant dojo master. Master filmmaker Hideo Gosha brings his trademark tight pacing and stylish action to this brisk morality play, inevitably punctuated by the explosions of violent swordplay beloved by fans of the genre.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATIONS OF BOTH FILMS
- Outlaw Director - Hideo Gosha featurette with Tomoe Gosha
- Audio commentary by Chris Poggiali, co-author of These Fists Break Bricks
- 20-page booklet with a new essay by Robin Gatto, author of Hideo Gosha, cinéaste sans maître
- English subtitles for the main feature
Violent Streets
Label description: After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, SAMURAI WOLF) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza, and the violent streets they control. 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.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- 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
- English subtitles for the main feature
