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Apr 13, 1974 · Violent Streets: Directed by Hideo Gosha. With Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi, Isao Natsuyagi, Bunta Sugawara. A retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Hideo Gosha
- 1974-04-13
Dec 12, 2022 · Hideo Gosha's VIOLENT STREETS is "one of the wildest, bloodiest and most visually stunning Yakuza yarns ever made" and "one of the crowning achievements in Japan's Yakuza cycle...
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- Film Movement
May 16, 2023 · Violent Streets (1974) from director Hideo Gosha, a master of Yakuza cinema, is a tough, mean, riveting and bloody tale of a retired gangster caught in the middle of a deadly feud between rival gangs.
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Violent Streetsarrives on Blu-ray from Film Movement taken from a 2K restoration from the original film elements. The film is framed at 2.35:1 and comes in an AVC 1080p encodement. This is a very grainy film, and that grain looks natural and free from noise. There is a lot of detail in the overall image even as some scenes look a little soft. The b...
The original Japanese mono mix is included in LPCM 2.0. This is an acceptable mono track with a full sound to the sound effects and clear, intelligible dialogue.
The featurette and the booklet provide strong background on the film, filmmaker, and this genre on a whole. 1. Tattooed Director: Hideo Gosha (1080p; 00:19:41) 2. A Street That Can’t Be Beat (1080p; 00:08:44) 3. 16-page booklet featuring stills, credits, and a new essay on the film by Japanese film expert and Japanese film critic for The Japan Time...
This is a classic that deserves to be reexamined and Film Movement’s release does an excellent job of offering this up in a satisfying, high quality release for those purposes. This one will be enjoyed by fans of classic Japanese cinema. Highly recommended.
The most outstanding of these was Violent Streets; a baroque crime thriller about a retired yakuza who gets pulled into a violent gang war by his former associates. A former yakuza member, Egawa (Noboru Andô) is now a brooding world-weary nightclub owner.
May 16, 2023 · The Japanese-ness of the yakuza cycle in films like ‘Violent Streets’ connects with the era’s newly violent, high-octane gangster movies functioning as national parables.
Legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays a retired yakuza underboss who is pulled back into action when old cronies encroach on his nightclub. Soon he finds himself embroiled in a reckless gang war ignited by a celebrity kidnapping.
