The Big Time Gambling Boss Blu-ray Standard Edition (Radiance/U.S.)

RADIANCE FILMS IS PROUD TO PRESENT "BIG TIME GAMBLING BOSS", A CRUCIAL RE-DISCOVERY NOW ON SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY!

Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill, and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider, he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won't wait for his release, so they appoint the younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honor and loyalties are severely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internal strife.

An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara (Battles Without Honour and Humanity) and starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, (Lone Wolf and Cub, The Bounty Hunter Trilogy) and genre legend Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. Paul Schrader called it the richest and most complex film of its type, while novelist Yukio Mishima hailed it as a masterpiece.

Bonus Materials

• High-Definition digital transfer of the film
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Serial Gambling: A video essay by Chris D., author of Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980, on Big Time Gambling Boss's origins in the Toei studio's serialized yakuza movie production and what sets the film apart (2022)
• Ninkyo 101: In this video essay, Mark Schilling, author of The Yakuza Movie Book, delves into the history and impact of the classical style of yakuza film, the ninkyo eiga or 'chivalry films' (2022)
• Gallery of original promotional stills
• Trailer