Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha
Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha

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Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha

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Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

Onimasa: Matsue is the adoptive daughter of the Kiryuin House, a small yakuza clan in Shikoku. Onimasa, their leader, is the last heir to a family of samurai. He is hard in business but respected by the poor because of his fairness. Matsue lives in the middle of this society, between gang wars and rivalries among the chief's mistresses. But when Onimasa takes a chivalrous attitude and finds himself on the side of train workers on strike, it annoys the Great Godfather of the island. The story starts in 1918, ending with the nearing of the Second World War.

Japan's Official Submission to the 1982 Academy Awards.  Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Tokyo Bordello: A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. After several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer.

directed by: Hideo Gosha
starring: Yuko Natori, Rino Katase, Jinpachi Nezu, Sayoko Ninomiya, Mariko Fuji
1982, 1987 / 279 min (combined) / 1.85:1 / Japanese DTS-HD MA 1.0, 2.0

Additional info:

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • Onimasa:
    • Commentary by Japanese cinema scholar Jasper Sharp
    • Video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias
  • Tokyo Bordello:
    • Commentary by Japanese cinema scholar Jasper Sharp
    • Video essay by TokyoScope author Patrick Macias
  • English subtitles

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