Voice without a shadow. Red pier. Rambling guitarist.
Notes:
Voice without a shadow: Hideaki Nitani, Yoko Minamida, Jo Shishido, Nobuo Kaneko. Red pier: Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Masumi Okada, Shiro Osaka, Sanae Nakahara. Rambling guitarist: Akira Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Sanae Nakahara, Misako Watanabe, Jo Shishido. Special edition contents: limited edition Blu-ray collection (3000 copies) -- high definition digital transfers of all three films from original film elements by Nikkatsu Corporation -- high definition Blu-ray (1080p) and standard definition DVD presentation -- original uncompressed mono audio -- newly translated English subtitles -- specially recorded video discussions with Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp on Diamond Guys Hideaki Nitani and Yujiro Ishihara -- original trailers for all three films and trailer preview for Diamond Guys Volume 2-- extensive promotional image galleries for all three films -- reversible sleeve featuring brand new artwork by Graham Humphreys -- booklet featureing new essays on all three films and director profiles by Stuart Galbraith IV, Tom Mes, and Mark Schilling.
Contents:
Disc 1 (Blu-ray): Nikkatsu Diamond Guys, volume 1 (all three films plus bonus features) -- Disc 2 (DVD): Voice without a shadow & Red pier -- Disc 3 (DVD): The rambling guitarist & bonus features.
Summary:
"Nikkatsu, the oldest films studio in Japan, inaugurated a star system in the late 1950s, finding talent and contracting them to a series of wild genre pictures. This collection celebrates these "Diamond Guys" with three classic films from directors Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill), Toshio Masuda (Rusty Knife), and Buichi Saito (Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril)"--Container. Voice without a shadow (1958, 92 minutes): When former telephone operator Asako's husband invites his boss Hamazaki over for dinner, she realizes his voice is suspiciously like that of a killer she heard years ago. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect. Determined to prove is innocence, Asako enlists a driven journalist to investigate. Red pier (1958, 99 minutes): Shortly after arriving in Kobe, Jiro the Lefty, a killer with natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop. Rambling guitarist (1959, 78 minutes): Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as wandering street musician Shinji, who falls in with mob boss Akitsu after saving one of this henchmen in a bar fight. Tasked by Akitsu with evicting an offshore fishery, Shinji finds himself in the middle of a very unusual domestic dispute.
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