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(aka "Irezumi ichidai" or "Tattooed Life" or "Life of a Tattooed Man" or "One Generation of Tattoos" or "White Tiger Tattoo")
Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant. Fearing repercussions from the yakuza they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs. Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director's all-time classic scenes. *** Tattooed Life begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not? |
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Theatrical Release: November 13th, 1965
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Review: Radiance - Region FREE - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Radiance - Region FREE - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:26:34.439 | |
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Release Information: Studio: Radiance
2.39 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 29,849,969,498 bytesFeature: 25,049,546,112 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.87 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Audio commentary by William Carroll, author of Seijun Suzuki and Postwar Cinema (2024)• Newly edited archival interview with director Seijun Suzuki (10:30) • Newly edited archival interview with art director Takeo Kimura (11:36) • Trailer (3:05) Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tom Vick and a newly translated archival review of the film
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On their
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Radiance use a linear PCM dual-mono track (24-bit) in the
original Japanese language. Tattooed Life
has many fight scenes with hand-to-hand, weapons etc. and group conflicts. It's fairly
flat but with strength in the high end. The score was by
Masayoshi Ikeda (Cruel
Gun Story,
The
Man with a Shotgun,
Kanto
Wanderer) supporting the
period milieu and various tones of the narrative. Radiance offer optional English subtitles on
their Region FREE
Blu-ray.
The Radiance
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Seijun Suzuki's Tattooed Life
is an enjoyable Nikkatsu studio effort with romance, villains,
conflict and brotherly love. It has Hideki Takahashi (Fighting Elegy)
who was a star in jidaigeki having extensive roles in television. Masako
Izumi (Midori) started her acting career at the age of 11 and is still
with us today. Kayo Matsuo (Shogun
Assassin,
Lone Wolf and Cub,
The Vampire Doll) and Kaku Takashina (Underworld
Beauty,
Story of a Prostitute). There are so many Suzuki films beyond
the most well known;
Branded to Kill,
Tokyo Drifter,
Youth of the Beast,
Pistol Opera and I'd love to see more of these lesser-known
films reach HD status as many are still only on DVD. Just examining the
director's cuts, editing, tonal shifts, approach to color and ellipses
is worthwhile. He's a fascinating director. I'm very pleased with the Radiance
Blu-ray
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