"Actor: Hideki Takahashi"

• Tattooed Life | Blu Ray | (07/10/2024) from £22.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked,His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant,Fearing repercussions from the yakuza they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs,Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director's all-time classic scenes. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESHigh-Definition digital transferUncompressed mono PCM audioAudio commentary by William Carroll, author of Seijun Suzuki and Postwar Cinema (2024)Newly edited archival interview with director Seijun Suzuki Newly edited archival interview with art director Takeo Kimura TrailerNewly improved English subtitle translationReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time TomorrowLimited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tom Vick and a newly translated archival review of the filmLimited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• Fighting Elegy | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £10.59   |  Saving you £9.40 (88.76%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Okayama in the mid 1930s Kiroku (Takahashi) attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter Michiko captures his heart. He must however hide his ardor and other aspects of his emerging sexuality focusing his energy on a gang he joins breaking school rules and getting into scuffles. He comes under the influence of a young tough nicknamed Terrapin and together they lead fights against rival gangs. Gradually Kiroku and Terrapin align themselves with the right-wing Kita Ikki and Kiroku becomes a stand-in for the attitudes of Japanese youth who embraced the imperialism leading to World War II... Screenplay adapted from Takashi Suzuki's novel by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba Kuroneko).