Cash Calls Hell
Facing the final days of his prison sentence for vehicular manslaughter, Oida (Tatsuya Nakadai) dreads reentering society as a ruined man with no future prospects. Sensing his street smarts, Oida's cellmate promises him a pile of loot if he tracks down and kills three men whose names are on a list. Reluctantly accepting the task, he finds himself embroiled in a web of stolen money, betrayal and other sordid vices. Torn between compassion and desperation, Oida discovers danger lurking around every corner as he navigates a treacherous path of cold-blooded fate. Legendary director Hideo Gosha (Samurai Wolf, Violent Streets, Onimasa) blends classic, gritty film noir tropes into a New Wave inflected cinematic fever dream of intrigue and paranoia in this “absolutely gripping and suspenseful movie, a masterpiece of genre filmmaking” (Japan on Film).
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Ichirô Nakatani
- Hisashi Igawa
- Kunie Tanaka
Blu-ray Features
- Fighting Spirit - New video essay by TokyScope author Patrick Macias
- Bitter Little World - New video talk by Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras author Odie Henderson
- 16 page booklet with a new essay by writer, filmmaker and film programmer Steve Macfarlane
Discs: 1
- "One of the great film noirs from any country. It is an absolutely gripping and suspenseful movie, a masterpiece of genre film-making...."
- "Gosha was a true auteur with a vision, a style, a set of concerns, a preference for certain actors and certain kinds of stories, but at the same time he worked in the real world of Japanese samurai filmmaking and played by its conventions."
- "After years of watching the films of Japanese masters Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, and Akira Kurosawa, Gosha’s movies are both jarring and enlightening. You are safe within the hands of the master Samurai."
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