MASSACRE GUN [BLU-RAY] [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1967
• Genre: Crime
• Plot: Genre icon Jô Shishido stars in this tense and violent yakuza yarn from genre stalwart and Seijun Suzuki's former assistant, Yasuharu Hasebe (Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song).; ; Shishido stars as Kuroda, a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji, In the Realm of the Senses) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki, Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.; ; Strikingly violent for the period and gorgeously photographed in monochrome like genre siblings Branded to Kill and A Colt is My Passport (Shishido's other films from 1967), Massacre Gun is a bold iteration on the genre featuring some stunning compositions and the assured direction of Hasebe.;
• Cast: Tatsuya Fuji, Ryôji Hayama, Takashi Kanda, Hideaki Nitani, Jirô Okazaki, Ken Sanders, Tamaki Sawa, Jô Shishido, Yôko Yamamoto, Yasuharu Hasebe, Ryûzô Nakanishi, Kazue Nagatsuka, Naozumi Yamamoto, Takeo Kimura
• Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Nikkatsu corporation, Arrow Films, MVD Visual (A Division of MVD Entertainment Group)
• Media Format: Movie