Yakuza Papers

The IFC channel is going to be airing all five Yakuza Papers films through December. I'm excited about this because I have not gotten a chance to see any of these yet. Ifc quote: " This landmark 5-film crime epic is Japan's answer to "The Godfather". Directed by Kinji Fukasaku who also directed the splendid "Battle Royale". Head over to the link provided for more info.

"The posthumous reappraisal of Japan's most iconoclastic pulpster, Kinji Fukasaku, continues with this handsome packaging of what came to be known as the Battles Without Honor & Humanity series. A Quentin Tarantino favorite (the title song makes a memorable appearance in Kill Bill Vol. 1), the first Battles (1973) may be Fukasaku's emblematic film�a convoluted, overpopulated diagram of escalating gang warfare in which fights seem to break out at two-minute intervals. (Deaths are annotated with a burst of text and accompanied by a dramatic trumpet flourish on the soundtrack.)"-Village Voice




Buy the box set of all five films with a bonus disc at critics choice.

Or rent