Radiance Films exposes UNDERWORLD CHRONICLES: THREE YAKUZA FABLES BY TAKASHI MIIKE (review)

Takashi Miike had been making Yakuza films as part of Japan's direct-to-video V-Cinema boom but his video-bound project FUDOH: THE NEW GENERATION was given a theatrical launch and ended up with wider exposure through the festival circuit.  Ten years after his gang boss father sacrifices his older brother for a rival gang dispute, teenage Riki trains his classmates for revenge against all responsible.  In AGITATOR, a low-level gang chief takes on three powerful organizations when he realizes he has been used as a pawn in a plot for three gang bosses to move up in their families.  In DEADLY OUTLAW: REKKA, a hotheaded gang chief acquires a rocket launcher to avenge his godfather.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

UNDERWORLD CHRONICLES - THREE YAKUZA FABLES BY TAKASHI MIIKE 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Fudoh: The New Generation (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Takashi Miike and actor Shosuke Tanihara
• Optional introduction by director Takashi Miike 
• Disc Two - Fudoh: The New Generation (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Takashi Miike and actor Shosuke Tanihara
• Optional introduction by director Takashi Miike
• Interview with director director Takashi Miike
• Interview with actor Shosuke Tanihara 
• Disc Three - Agitator (Blu-ray):
• Theatrical Cut (150 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Mes 
• Two-Part Television Cut (200 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (upscaled from standard definition)
• Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Interview with director Takashi Miike
• Theatrical Trailer  
• Disc Four - Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Mes
• Interview with director Takashi Miike
• "Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!" documentary 
• Limited edition of 5,000 copies, presented in rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and an 80-page bound book featuring new writing by Tom Mes and Colin Geddes, and archival writing from Tony Rayns. 

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