In this ""free-jazz gangster film "" ""Phoenix"" Tetsu drifts around Japan awaiting his own extinction until he's called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Equal parts Russ Meyer Nagisa Oshima and Frank Tashlin this ""barrage of aesthetic violence visual gags and mind-warping color effects"" once again put director Seijin Suzuki in trouble with Nikkatsu studio heads who had ordered him to ""play it straight this time""...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Classic Japanese Yakuza thriller from visionary director Suzuki Seijun Tetsu is a former hit man who has now joined his boss Kurata in going straight But old rivalries soon lead to outbreaks of violence and Tetsu decked out with a stoic attitude and a handsome powder-blue suit decides to leave the city in order to draw the heat away from Kurata What follows is a vividly-designed pop odyssey complete with bursts of stylized violence and an off-beat genre-defying logic
Classic Japanese Yakuza thriller from visionary director Suzuki Seijun. Tetsu is a former hit man who has now joined his boss Kurata in going straight. But old rivalries soon lead to outbreaks of violence, and Tetsu, decked out with a stoic attitude and a handsome powder-blue suit, decides to leave the city in order to draw the heat away from Kurata. What follows is a vividly-designed pop odyssey complete with bursts of stylized violence and an off-beat genre-defying logic.
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