Review by By Roger Carpenter
Fans of Japanese B-cinema and yakuza films have long known of Seijun Suzuki’s cult status both in Japan and overseas here in America. But availability of his films have been limited to his most prestigious pictures being released in fairly expensive editions on boutique labels, again implying that his films are only for high-minded cineastes with vast experience in film criticism.
But over the last couple of years Arrow Video USA has taken up Suzuki’s cause, releasing over a dozen of his films, ranging from his B-movie programmers at Nikkatsu Studios to his truly independent arthouse productions of the 1980’s. Collections such as Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years Volume 1 and Volume 2 each collect five early films from the director when he was churning out programmers for Nikkatsu at an astounding rate. Each collection is loosely categorized, thus Volume 1 is subtitled The Youth Movies...
Fans of Japanese B-cinema and yakuza films have long known of Seijun Suzuki’s cult status both in Japan and overseas here in America. But availability of his films have been limited to his most prestigious pictures being released in fairly expensive editions on boutique labels, again implying that his films are only for high-minded cineastes with vast experience in film criticism.
But over the last couple of years Arrow Video USA has taken up Suzuki’s cause, releasing over a dozen of his films, ranging from his B-movie programmers at Nikkatsu Studios to his truly independent arthouse productions of the 1980’s. Collections such as Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years Volume 1 and Volume 2 each collect five early films from the director when he was churning out programmers for Nikkatsu at an astounding rate. Each collection is loosely categorized, thus Volume 1 is subtitled The Youth Movies...
- 8/30/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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