Kôji Wakamatsu - Vol. 3 - 4-DVD Box Set ( Otoko goroshi onna goroshi: hadaka no zyudan / Gewalt! Gewalt: shojo geba-geba / Gendai sei hanzai zekkyo hen: riyu naki boko / Shinjuku maddo (O trelos tou Shinjuku) ) ( Naked Bullet / Violent Virgin / Violence Without a Cause / Shinjuku Mad )

Kôji Wakamatsu - Vol. 3 - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Otoko goroshi onna goroshi: hadaka no zyudan / Gewalt! Gewalt: shojo geba-geba / Gendai sei hanzai zekkyo hen: riyu naki boko / Shinjuku maddo (O trelos tou Shinjuku)
Alternate Title: Naked Bullet / Violent Virgin / Violence Without a Cause / Shinjuku Mad
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
276 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1969 - 1970 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Kôji Wakamatsu

Written By:
Kôji Wakamatsu
Izuru Deguchi
Atsushi Yamatoya
Masao Adachi

Actors:
Yuichi Minato
Ken Yoshizawa
Eri Ashikawa
Toshiyuki Tanigawa
Miki Hayashi
Atsushi Yamatoya
Akitaka Kimata
Yuko Ejima
Toshitaka Sakabe
Makiko Harada
Akiko Hirooka
Yôko Ohno
Etsuko Sakata
Tadaharu Sekine
Mikio Terashima

Synopsis:

Naked Bullet (1969), a story of betrayal between yakuzas with gunfights and incongruous pauses like this voluntarily grotesque meal scene in which the characters devour food like animals.

Violent Virgin (1969), cult movie from the director daring an unusual combination of the scope format, the wide-open spaces and the grandiloquence of Once upon a time in West, and the surrealism of a film such as El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky. More desperate, with a Kafkaian atmosphere.

Shinjuku Mad (1970) follows the rovings of a father in the slums of Tokyo, searching for the murderers of his son.

Violence Without A Cause (1969) is certainly the film that links this boxset to the two previous ones since it tells the story of three young people, lazy and frustrated, refusing all kind of political ideology and thinking only about sex -a criticism of that generation.

With this third Wakamatsu boxset, it's almost an unknown territory we venture into since the director delivers a singular vision of an incontrovertible genre in Japan: the yakuza eiga or yakuza film. When, at the same time, the gangster underworld is explored by Seijun Suzuki's pop cinema and Kinji Fukasaku's nihilist rage, Koji Wakamatsu, an ex-yakuza himself, tackles it with a nonchalance and a sense of absurd, at the limit of pastiche. That perversion of the codes also expresses itself through the mix of genres since he doesn't hesitate to mix erotism, poetry and black humour with the usual gangs quarrels. Notably in Naked Bullet (1969), a story of betrayal between yakuzas with gunfights and incongruous pauses like this voluntarily grotesque meal scene in which the characters devour food like animals, and Violent Virgin (1969), cult movie from the director daring an unusual combination of the scope format, the wide-open spaces and the grandiloquence of Once upon a time in West, and the surrealism of a film such as El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky. More desperate, with a Kafkaian atmosphere, Shinjuku Mad (1970) follows the rovings of a father in the slums of Tokyo, searching for the murderers of his son while Violence Without A Cause (1969) is certainly the film that links this boxset to the two previous ones since it tells the story of three young people, lazy and frustrated, refusing all kind of political ideology and thinking only about sex -a criticism of that generation. Still as formally remarkable despite shootings of very short duration (three of them were shot in 1969, the fourth one in 1970), the films enable us to discover a new face of a filmmaker in perpetual renewal.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 26 March, 2011.

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