Aesthetics of a Bullet Blu-ray 1973 Radiance Sadao Nakajima Tsunehiko Watase

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Predates Robert DeNiro’s indelible turn as Travis Bickle in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver!

Introducing Radiance Films' Blu-ray release for 1973's Aesthetics of a Bullet. After the major studios refused to finance it, director Sadao Nakajima (The Japanese Godfather Trilogy) took this project to New Wave bastion the Art Theatre Guild.

With a deeply impressive performance by Tsunehiko Watase (Sympathy for the Underdog) that predates Robert DeNiro’s indelible turn as Travis Bickle in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver by three years, Aesthetics of a Bullet is a lost gem of 1970s Japanese cinema ripe for rediscovery.

A yakuza gang selects a good-for-nothing street vendor to stir up trouble in enemy territory. With a flashy suit, a gun and a pocketful of money, he feels like a king but when trouble comes knocking, he realises that waving a gun and pulling the trigger are two very different things.

Limited Edition Features:

• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Olaf Möller and an archival essay on the film
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Features:

• High-Definition digital transfer
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Robert Schwentke
• New interview with filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
• Archival interview with Sadao Nakajima
• Trailer
• Newly improved English subtitle translation

Technical Specs: 

• Country: Japan
• Language: Japanese
• Year: 1973
• Runtime: NA
• Aspect Ratio: NA
• Subtitles: Optional English subtitles