88 Films: Two Cult Japanese Crime Films From Hideo Gosha and Kinji Fukasaku Prepped for Blu-ray
Home88 Films: Two Cult Japanese Crime Films From Hideo Gosha and Kinji Fukasaku Prepped for Blu-ray
Posted February 13, 2025 08:15 PM by Webmaster
88 Films is preparing Blu-ray releases of two cult Japanese crime films: Hideo Gosha's Yakuza Wives (1986) and Kinji Fukasaku's Jakoman and Tetsu (1964). The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on this April.
Yakuza Wives
Description: While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they're on.
U.S.AND CANADA STREET DATE: APRIL 29.
UK STREET DATE: APRIL 28.
Jakoman and Tetsu
Jakoman and Tetsu is an early action masterpiece from Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battle Royale), adapted from a script written by the legendary Akira Kurosawa. Set in 1947 in a small coastal village among the majestic snowy landscapes of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, Ken Takakura (the Abashiri Prison series, Ridley Scott's Black Rain) is Tetsu, the prodigal son who returns from the war to help out his father Kyubei with the family herring fishing business. His arrival coincides with that of a one-eyed miscreant named Jakoman, played by Tetsuro Tamba (Harakiri, You Only Live Twice), who bears a long-standing grudge against Kyubei and is intent on causing as much mayhem among the hordes of seasonal fishermen as possible.
U.S.AND CANADA STREET DATE: APRIL 29.
UK STREET DATE: APRIL 28.
Yakuza Wives
Description: While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they're on.
U.S.AND CANADA STREET DATE: APRIL 29.
UK STREET DATE: APRIL 28.
Jakoman and Tetsu
Jakoman and Tetsu is an early action masterpiece from Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battle Royale), adapted from a script written by the legendary Akira Kurosawa. Set in 1947 in a small coastal village among the majestic snowy landscapes of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, Ken Takakura (the Abashiri Prison series, Ridley Scott's Black Rain) is Tetsu, the prodigal son who returns from the war to help out his father Kyubei with the family herring fishing business. His arrival coincides with that of a one-eyed miscreant named Jakoman, played by Tetsuro Tamba (Harakiri, You Only Live Twice), who bears a long-standing grudge against Kyubei and is intent on causing as much mayhem among the hordes of seasonal fishermen as possible.
U.S.AND CANADA STREET DATE: APRIL 29.
UK STREET DATE: APRIL 28.
