Big Time Gambling Boss Blu-ray

Description: Originally released in 1968, the film was hailed by Paul Schrader as the richest and most complex film of its type, while novelist Yukio Mishima declared it a masterpiece.

The film is set in Tokyo in the thirties, where gang boss Arakawa is ill and a successor must be named. The choicefalls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsudainstead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won’t wait for his release, so they appointthe younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honor and loyalties areseverely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internalstrife.

An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara (Battles
Without Honor and Humanity) and starring Tomisaburo Wakayama (Lone Wolf andCub, The Bounty Hunter Trilogy), and genre legend Koji Tsuruta, Big Time GamblingBoss is one of the all-time classics of the Yakuza genre. Radiance Films is proud to present this crucial re-discovery for the firsttime ever on Blu-ray.

Limited Edition Special Features:


• High Definition digital transfer ofthe film
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Visual essay by genre expert Chris D on the film and its place within the period and genre
• Ninkyo 101: A masterclass with Mark Schilling, author of The Yakuza Movie Book
• Gallery of promotional imagery
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by author Stuart Galbraith IV, and critic Hayley Scanlon
• Limited edition of 2000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip