Tokyo no abarembô (Motion picture) Yabai koto nara zeni ni naru (Motion picture) Toba no mesu neko: Sha kiba no shobu (Motion picture) Tokyo mighty guy. Danger pays. Murder unincorporated.
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Title from container. Tokyo mighty guy: Akira Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka. Danger pays: Jo Shishido, Ruriko Asaoka. Murder unincorporated: Jo Shishido. Widescreen (2.35:1). 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 Jo Shishido and Akira Kobayashi; original trailers for all three films; extensive promotional image galleries for all three films; reversible sleeve featuring brand new artwork by Graham Humphreys; booklet featuring new writing on all the films and director profiles by Stuart Galbraith IV, Tom Mes, and Mark Schilling.
Tokyo mighty guy: Jiro is a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women and well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend's business. Danger Pays: A crime caper about counterfeiting. When one billion yen goes missing, "Joe the Ace" spies an opportunity to get rich quick, but things soon go wrong as it turns out he isn't the only one who'll stop at nothing to get his hands on the missing cash. Murder unincorporated: When the mysterious "Joe of Spades" executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their lives, call on the services of an assassin agency to take care of the problem. "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 Buichi Saito (Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril), Ko Nakahira (Crazed Fruit), and Haruyasu Noguchi, who is a new discovery for the West"--Container.
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