- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 6 videodiscs of 6.
color and b/w.
widescreen. sound - Dolby digital monaural.
- Notes:
- Supplemental material includes: William Friedkin on the influence of Fukasaku on 1970s Hollywood action; David Kaplan, Chief Investigative Reporter for US News and World Report, on the yakuza; subtitle writer Linda Hoaglund on translating Fukasaku.
Titles
+ Battles Without Honor & Humanity
- Director:
- Fukasaku, Kinji
- Running Time:
- Feature. 99 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1973
- Language:
- Japanese with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Crime, Action Adventure
+ Deadly Fight In Hiroshima
- Director:
- Fukasaku, Kinji
- Running Time:
- Feature. 100 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1973
- Language:
- Japanese with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Crime, Action Adventure
+ Proxy War
- Director:
- Fukasaku, Kinji
- Running Time:
- Feature. 102 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1973
- Language:
- Japanese with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Crime, Action Adventure
+ Police Tactics
- Director:
- Fukasaku, Kinji
- Running Time:
- Feature. 101 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1974
- Language:
- Japanese with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Crime, Action Adventure
+ Final Episode
- Director:
- Fukasaku, Kinji
- Running Time:
- Feature. 98 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1974
- Language:
- Japanese with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Crime, Action Adventure
+ Boryoku: Fukasaku and the Art of Violence
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Home Vision Entertainment
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 2004
- Language:
- Japanese with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Boryoku, the Japanese word for violence, is an integral facet in the films of Kinji Fukasaku. The following interviews and documentary footage comprise a rare look into the ways Fukasaku approaches and expresses violence in the world of his films.
+ Kantoku: Remembering the Director
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Home Vision Entertainment
- Running Time:
- Short. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 2004
- Language:
- Japanese language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- On most Japanese film sets, the director is never referred to by his name but always as “kantoku”, the Japanese word for director. IN the following discussion, Kenta Fukasaku (Kinji Fukasaku’s son), Sato Masao (producer of Battle Royale) and Yamane Sadao (Fukasaku biographer) discuss what it was like to collaborate with the late director.
+ Jitsoroku: Reinventing a Genre
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Home Vision Entertainment
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 2004
- Language:
- Japanese language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Meaning “actual record”, Jitsoroku is a sub-genre of Japanese Yakuza films whose events are based on true stories or historical record. The following film includes interviews that focus on how Fukasaku’s THE YAKUZA PAPERS subverted the norms of the day and ushered in a new period of yakuza film.
