Tomisaburō Wakayama's Films on Terracotta
Big Time Gambling Boss | 1968 Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara, Big Time Gambling Boss is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. The Bounty Hunter Trilogy | 1969-72 Before he made his name in LONE WOLF AND CUB, Tomisaburo Wakayama starred in this triptych of violent samurai spectacles that draw on James Bond and Spaghetti Westerns for inspiration yet feature the familiar style and...
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Don’t be confused by the way that I stagger: A celebration of Drunken Master
Terracotta would like to introduce you to the excellent Youtube channel JAKE ON FILM, if you don't already know it. More than just another film review site, you'll find well made content shot by the production team which is themed to the film they are reviewing, and you get good insight into the background and context of the film as well. Here's a special guest post from Jake, of JAKE ON FILM, about the seminal film Drunken Master (and of course we hope that we get that elusive Drunken Master II blu ray release from one of the labels...
About Toshiaki Toyoda
The following is an excerpt from a piece about Toshiaki Toyoda on the site ALL THE ANIME. When people think of the new masters of Japanese cinema, the same roster of names continues to crop up. Hirokazu Koreeda, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takashi Miike, among others, tend to be the usual suspects as far as international acclaim goes. However, there is another director whose consistently introspective, vibrant, and brutal work has flown almost entirely under the radar, and that is Toshiaki Toyoda. The director has faced uphill battles for most of his career, in part because of two very public arrests,...
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