Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

Bemerkungen:

*Kein Abspann. "The End"-Einblendung bei 98:50 Min.)

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KINJI      FUKASAKU'S
BATTLES WITHOUT
HONOUR AND
HUMANITY
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
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Battles Without Honour And Humanity
Hiroshima Death Match
Proxy War
Police Tactics
Final Episode

A R R O W   V I D E O
Standard Edition
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Alle 5 Teile als Standardauflage.

Box bestehend aus:

• Pappschuber (B13,8 cm x H17,3 cm x T3,5 cm), matt, dünn, mit Artwork, Boxtitel, Arrow- und Freigabelogo auf der Front, Filmtiteln auf dem Spine und Inhaltsangabe, technischen Spezifikationen und Logos auf dem Backcover
• 3 Slim Keep Cases (transparent). Keep Case #1 verfügt über zwei unterschiedliche Artworks zum ersten Teil der Reihe, jeweils eins auf jeder Seite, Keep Case #2 und #3 verfügen jeweils über ein eigenes Artwork für jeden enthaltenen Film
• 5 Blu-rays (BD-50). Disc 1 befindet sich in Hülle 1, Disc 2 + 3 in Hülle 2, Disc 4 + 5 in Hülle 3.
• Werbeeinleger in Hülle 1
  

Im Gegensatz zur Erstauflage nicht enthalten:

• 152-seitiges Hardcoverbuch "The Yakuza Papers"
  
• "The Complete Saga"-Zusammenschnitt mit Einführung von Toru Dobashi
• DVDs
  

Nach Einlegen der Disc erscheint ein Einspieler mit Copyright-Hinweisen und Arrow-Logo

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

Menüpunkte:

• Play Film
• Special Features
• Setup

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

Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) gave the world Japan's answer to The Godfather with this violent yakuza saga, influencing filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs) to Takashi Miike (Graveyard of Honor, Audition). Made within just two years, the five-film series brought a new kind of realism and ferocity to the crime genre in Japan, revitalising the industry and leading to unprecedented commercial and critical success.

Literally exploding on screen with a mushroom cloud, and ending with Hiroshima's A-bomb Dome, the epic story of Battles Without Honour and Humanity follows over 100 characters through twenty years of gang wars, alliances, betrayals, and assassinations, in an exciting exploration of criminal power and politics in Japan. In the opening episode, ex-soldier Shôzô Hirono escapes from the post-war black markets to become a key member of the Yamamori gang, but soon finds himself disillusioned by the selfish duplicity of his bosses. Hiroshima Death Match focuses on a demobilised kamikaze pilot drifting through the early 1950s, whose suicidal impulses find good use as a mob assassin. Proxy War and Police Tactics form a labyrinthine, two-part story of ambition and betrayal set against Japan's rapid economic growth of the 1960s, with Shôzô caught between warring factions. Final Episode concludes the series in the 1970s as the former Yamamori gang transforms itself into an economic conglomerate called the Tensei Group, in a bid for mainstream respectability.

Fukasaku and his team broke with the longstanding studio tradition of casting marquee idols as honourable, kimono-clad heroes, defending their gang bosses against unscrupulous villains, and instead adapted true accounts torn from the headlines, shot in a documentary-like style, and with few clear-cut heroes or villains. The vibrancy and dynamism of the filmmaking, plus its shocking violence, Shakespearean plotlines, and wide tapestry of characters, launched a revolutionary new genre, establishing the series as one of the great masterpieces of world crime cinema.
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Zu den Fassungseinträgen der weiteren Filme:

• Battles Without Honour And Humanity
• Hiroshima Death Match
• Proxy War
• Police Tactics
• Final Episode