Yokohama BJ Blues (blu ray) Limited Edition
Yokohama BJ Blues (blu ray) Limited Edition
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Director: Eiichi Kudo
Cast: Yusaku Matsuda, Toby Kadoguchi, and Tatsuo Yamada Yoshio
Region: AB
YOKOHAMA BJ BLUES (1981) directed by Eiichi Kudo is a loose remake of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and stars Yusaku Matsuda (THE GAME TRILOGY) as a part-time blues singer framed for the killing of his police detective best friend.
He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city’s underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past.
Drawing also from Visconti’s Death in Venice, this was Matsuda’s break with his action hero image. Samurai movie veteran Eiichi Kudo (The Fort of Death) relishes his chance at directing a neo-noir that captures urban Japan at the height of 1980s decadence.
Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings with limited edition booklet.
See Special Features section for more details
Label: Radiance Films
Format: blu-ray
Country: Japan
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Language: Japanese
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Special Features
- High-Definition digital transfer, world premiere on Blu-ray
- Interview with star Mari Hemmi
- Interview with screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama
- Interview with writer and Yokohama expert Toru Sano on the film and a look at the locations
- Trailer
- Newly translated English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Dimitri Ianni on Toei Central Film, a subsidiary of Toei studios famed for releasing Pink Films and independent productions such as Yokohama BJ Blues and an archival review of the film
Technical Specifications
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
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This is an gritty, beautiful and enthralling musical detective story. Visually it’s like a William Friedkin wet dream. Dirty, rainy, gloomy, the environment seeping into everything. The blues music is an absolute vibe in this film from start to finish. Great visual storytelling choices, like how they’ll show part of a scene and have voice-over playing from a different part of the scene we don’t see. There is slightly dark sense of humor and a subtle bisexual love story. BJ is offbeat, can be very lighthearted and doesn’t kill. An outstanding performance by Yusaku Matsuda, uniquely stylish in that purple coat, scarf, scraggly hair and that weird red handkerchief that he puts to his face sometimes. The film also doesn’t spoonfeed all the answers, it demands you pay attention to details and interpret things through emotional cues. I just watched it twice in a row and I’m glad I did. What a film!
Promptly received in great condition. A pleasure to deal with! Thanks!!
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