  Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (1963) (Dvd)Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (1963) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 738329063528
Actors: Jo Shishido
Directors: Seijun Suzuki
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Japanese
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Release date: May 19, 2009
Run time: 88 minutes
Product Description
FROM THE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR OF TOKYO DRIFTER AND BRANDED TO KILL
STARRING JAPANESE SUPERSTAR JO SHISHIDO (BRANDED TO KILL and A COLT IS MY PASSPORT)
Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein pioneered at Japan s famed Nikkatsu Studios, director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) and his frequent leading man Jo Shishido used 1963 s Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! to flip the Japanese gangster film genre on its ear. A rapid fire gun heist, credits with an infectious jazz pop score, and a wide-screen close-up of a burning car announce Detective Bureau 2-3 as the film that would both lampoon and redefine Asian crime films for an irreverent new decade of garish panache and ultra-violent cool. The story follows police detective Tajima (Shishido), who, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a bloodbath -- while Suzuki transforms a colorful potboiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed. (This isn t an American TV series,) one of Tajima s doubting subordinates tells the sharkskin-suited, super suave sleuth. Anarchic, breakneck paced, darkly comic, and stylish to the extreme, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! was a movie unlike anything audiences had ever seen. It would cement Suzuki s fervent popularity at home and heralded his imminent cult status worldwide.
1963 Japan 88 min. Color In Japanese with Optional English Subtitles Letterboxed (2.35:1) Enhanced for 16x9 TVs
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