Not often am I devoting column area (no matter which means in digital realms) to particular person home-video releases––a minimum of in the event that they’re not prone to obtain a complementary theatrical run. However I’m unusually elated seeing a favourite discovery get the improve most would rightly guess on by no means coming: Eiichi Kudo’s Yokohama BJ Blues, an ’80s Japanese anti-noir that solely assumes style kind when its character tries (miserably) to resolve a case. (It’s been billed a unfastened remake of The Lengthy Goodbye, and to thoughts exceeds Altman’s movie in each regard.) A masterclass in telling lackadaisical thriller that’s additionally suffused with wintry Japanese skies, Yokohama‘s handed round cinephile circles for years like an underground object. Radiance are spearheading a Blu-ray launch on December 16 (accessible within the US from Diabolik), forward of which is a trailer displaying some latest restoration work.
Right here’s the official synopsis: “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.”
Watch the preview and discover cowl artwork beneath:
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