4.5
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun – Arrow
David Brook reviews Shinji Sômai's unusual coming-of-age Yakuza drama, which is being released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
4.5
3.5
Versus – Arrow
David Brook reviews Ryûhei Kitamura's adrenaline-fuelled genre-hybrid, which is being released on 2-disc Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
3.5
Burst City – Arrow
David Brook reviews Sogo Ishii's intense sci-fi movie, which puts the punk in cyberpunk. It's being released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
4.0
Graveyards of Honor – Arrow
David Brook reviews Arrow's boxset of Graveyard of Honor adaptations, one by Kinji Fukasaku in 1975 and the other by Takashi Miike in 2002.
4.0
Melancholic – Third Window
David Brook reviews Seiji Tanaka's blackly comic spin on the crime genre. It's being released on Blu-ray & DVD in the UK by Third Window.
4.0
Street Mobster
David Brook reviews Kinji Fukasaku's influential gangster movie, starring Bunta Sugawara. The film is being released on Blu-Ray by Arrow Video.
3.0
Outlaw: Gangster VIP Collection
David Brook reviews this set of obscure Japanese Yakuza action melodramas, released on Blu-Ray by Arrow Video.
4.0
Battles Without Honour and Humanity
David Brook reviews Arrow's expansive re-release of the epic 5-film yakuza saga, Battles Without Honour and Humanity (a.k.a. The Yakuza Papers) on Blu-Ray and DVD.
Youth of the Beast
David Brook reviews Seijun Suzuki's breakthrough gangster thriller, re-released on Blu-Ray & DVD in the UK by Eureka's Masters of Cinema label