The Killing Game (1978)

Bemerkungen:

*Kein Abspann. "The End"-Einblendung bei 91:39 Min.

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 YUSAKU
MATSUDA

  GAME
TRILOGY

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
THE KILLING GAME
THE EXECUTION GAME
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                   A R R O W   V I D E O
                      Limited Edition
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Toru Murakawas "Game Trilogy" auf zwei Blu-rays.

Transparentes Amaray Keep Case im O-Ring-Pappschuber.
Inklusive Wendecover mit alternativem Artwork.
Die zweite Disc ist auf einem separaten Flügel untergebracht.

Weiterhin enthalten:

• Werbekarte für den "Arrow-Player" Streaming Service
• Doppelseitig bedrucktes Poster mit zwei Motiven, gefaltet (Maße ca. 44cm x 35,6cm)
• 40-seitiges Booklet mit folgendem Inhalt:
  
  • Contents (S. 3)
  • The Most Dangerous Game Cast & Crew (S. 4)
  • The Killing Game Cast & Crew (S. 6)
  • The Execution Game Cast & Crew (S. 7)
  • Dangerous Games: Murakawa, Matsuda, and an Age of Anxiety by Hayley Scanlon (S. 9 - 15)
  • Misuru Kurosawa and Toei Central: Reshaping Japanese Action Cinema by Dimitri Ianni (S. 17 - 26)
  • Yusaku Matsuda Filmography (S. 31 - 33)
  • Toru Murakawa Filmography (S. 35 - 37)
  • About the Restorations / Production Credits / Special Thanks (S. 39)
    

Nach Einlegen der Disc erscheint ein Einspieler mit Copyright-Hinweisen, Arrow-Logo und rechtlichen Hinweisen zu geäußerten Meinungen (0:28 Min.)

Das Menü ist musikalisch untermalt. Im Hintergrund laufen Szenen aus dem Film.

Menüpunkte:

• Choose Film
  
• Play Film
• Special Features
• Setup

"The Killing Game" befindet sich gemeinsam mit "The Execution Game" auf Disc 2 des Sets.

Der Hauptfilm ist in 12 Kapitel unterteilt (kein Kapitelmenü).
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Herstellerangaben von der Arrow-Homepage:

Made at the end of the 1970s, Toru Murakawa's Game Trilogy launched actor Yusaku Matsuda as the Toei tough guy for a new generation. Matsuda was the definitive screen icon of 1980s until his career was tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 40, following his Hollywood debut in Ridley Scott's Black Rain.

In this career-defining triptych, Matsuda is Shohei Narumi, an ice cool hitman of few words, a steely trigger finger, and a heart of stone, hired in The Most Dangerous Game by a company bidding for a lucrative government air defence contract to take out the competition. In The Killing Game, Narumi finds himself caught in the midst of violent yakuza gang warfare, while his own brutal past catches up with him in the form of two beautiful women still bearing the emotional scars of his past assignments. In The Execution Game, Narumi falls for a mysterious saloon bar chanteuse who may or may not be part of the same, shadowy underworld organisation as the rival hitmen he is employed to rub out.

Released for the very first time outside Japan, with their cool blue cinematography by Nagisa Oshima collaborator Seizo Sengen and a sultry score by jazz legend Yuji Ohno, Murakawa's masterful set of films raised the bar for the Japanese Action & Adventure movie to new heights.
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Zu den Fassungseinträgen der weiteren Filme:

• The Most Dangerous Game
• The Execution Game