Play It Cool Limited Edition Blu-Ray

Play it Cool is an elegant and erotically charged drama starring today's popular Japanese singer Mari Atsumi in the lead role as a college girl trying to make her way through the male-dominated hierarchies of Tokyo's underground but dangerous nightclub culture.Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a cute fashion student who shares a cramped home with her mother Tomi (Akemi Negishi, The Saga of Anatahan) and her incompetent stepfather Ryoichi. (Akemi Negishi, The Saga of Anatahan) and her useless stepfather Ryoichi. Tomi works at a local hostess bar and hopes for a better future for Yumi. When Ryoichi violently forces himself on her teenage daughter, Tomi is not afraid to act to protect her, an act that leads to her imprisonment. Yumi is left to fend for herself and is taken in by her mother's former workplace, where she has to fight off unwanted attention from the men who swarm around her. One day, she is rescued from a malicious gangster by the handsome former lawyer Nozawa (Yusuke Kawazu, Cruel Story of Youth), which seems to offer an escape to a completely different world, albeit one that turns out to be filled with similar dangers.

Arrow Films is proud to release this little gem from one of Japan's most respected directors of the 1960s, Yasuz? Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi), a filmmaker known for his social satires and powerful portrayals of women, when Play it Cool is released for the first time for the home video market outside Japan in a brand new high-definition transfer.

Extras- High-definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation

- Original audio in uncompressed mono

- Optional English subtitles

- Brand new audio commentary with Jasper Sharp, critic and specialist in Japanese cinema, and Anne McKnight, professor and specialist in Japanese literature

- Too Cool for School, brand new video essay on Play it Cool and screenwriter and director Yasuz? Masumura's career by Japanese film scholar Mark Roberts

- Original theatrical trailer

- Photo gallery

- Reversible cover with original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella

- Illustrated booklet with newly written text about the film by Earl Jackson

• Language Japanese

   

• Subtitles English