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Yokohama BJ Blues

When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ (Yusaku Matsuda, The Game Trilogy) gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city’s underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past. A loose remake of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye that also draws from Visconti’s Death in Venice, this was Matsuda’s break with his action hero image. Samurai movie veteran Eiichi Kudo (The Fort of Death) relishes his chance at directing a neo-noir that captures urban Japan at the height of 1980s decadence.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• High-Definition digital transfer, world premiere on Blu-ray 
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Interview with star Mari Hemmi
• Interview with screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama
• Interview with writer and Yokohama expert Toru Sano on the film and a look at the locations
• Trailer
• Newly translated English subtitles
• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Dimitri Ianni on Toei Central Film, a subsidiary of Toei studios famed for releasing Pink Films and independent productions such as Yokohama BJ Blues and an archival review of the film
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

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Year: 1981
Cert: TBC
Format: Blu-ray
Region: AB
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EAN: 5060974681648

Release date: 16/12/24