Violent Streets
After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (Three Outlaw Samurai, Samurai Wolf) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza and the violent streets they control. Legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays Egawa, a retired yakuza underboss who gets pulled back into a life of crime when some of his old cronies demand control of his nightclub. Meanwhile, a gang war quietly roiling behind the scenes spontaneously erupts in response to a high-profile kidnapping, raising the stakes of Egawa's return to the underworld. The result is a kinetic and stylish explosion of deception, mayhem, and violence that leaves no one safe.
Cast
- Noboru Andô
- Akira Kobayashi
- Isao Natsuyagi
- Bunta Sugawara
- Tetsurô Tanba
DVD Features
BONUS FEATURES:
Tattooed Director: Hideo Gosha featurette with Tomoe Gosha
A Street That Can’t Be Beat video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias
16-page booklet with a new essay by Japanese film expert Mark Schilling
Discs: 1
Blu-ray Features
BONUS FEATURES:
Tattooed Director: Hideo Gosha featurette with Tomoe Gosha
A Street That Can’t Be Beat video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias
16-page booklet with a new essay by Japanese film expert Mark Schilling
Discs: 1
- "Violent Streets is one of the wildest, bloodiest and most visually stunning Yakuza yarns ever made. Violent Streets is a masterpiece, plain and simple. One of Gosha's best (just maybe his very best) and one of the crowning achievements in Japan's Yakuza cycle of the 70s. A must see."
- "VIOLENT STREETS is a lean and mean yakuza exploitation picture that plays with a lot of genre tropes – e.g., rival groups, old ways versus young guns, etc. – all capped off by a deeply fatalistic streak. "
- "Violent Streets boasts engrossing performances, taut direction, double-crosses galore, eye-popping visuals, and plenty of offbeat moments."
- "Violent Streets is one of the most refreshing yakuza films and one of the strongest films in Hideo Gosha’s oeuvre. Every single moment of the film just feels kinetic, from the moments in Ando’s nightclub to the Halloween costume money handoff, there’s just something about Violent Streets that feels electrifying. "
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