Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha Blu-ray (UPDATED)
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Posted December 9, 2025 08:28 PM by Webmaster
Film Movement will release on Blu-ray Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha (1982-1987). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on January 27.
UPDATE: New promotional trailers for the two films are now included below.
RELEASE CONTENT:
ONIMASA
Matsue is the adoptive daughter of the Kiryuin House, a small yakuza clan in Shikoku. Onimasa, their leader, is the last heir to a family of samurai. He is hard in business but respected by the poor because of his fairness. Matsue lives in the middle of this society, between gang wars and rivalries among the chief's mistresses. But when Onimasa takes a chivalrous attitude and finds himself on the side of train workers on strike, it annoys the Great Godfather of the island. The story starts in 1918, ending with the nearing of the Second World War. Japan's Official Submission to the 1982 Academy Awards. Presented in a new 4K restoration.
TOKYO BORDELLO
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. After several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UPDATE: New promotional trailers for the two films are now included below.
RELEASE CONTENT:
ONIMASA
Matsue is the adoptive daughter of the Kiryuin House, a small yakuza clan in Shikoku. Onimasa, their leader, is the last heir to a family of samurai. He is hard in business but respected by the poor because of his fairness. Matsue lives in the middle of this society, between gang wars and rivalries among the chief's mistresses. But when Onimasa takes a chivalrous attitude and finds himself on the side of train workers on strike, it annoys the Great Godfather of the island. The story starts in 1918, ending with the nearing of the Second World War. Japan's Official Submission to the 1982 Academy Awards. Presented in a new 4K restoration.
TOKYO BORDELLO
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. After several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Onimasa: Commentary by Japanese cinema scholar Jasper Sharp
- Video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias
- Tokyo Bordello: Commentary by Japanese cinema scholar Jasper Sharp
- Video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias
- In Japanese, with English subtitles
