Tattooed Life Blu-Ray

Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant. Fearing repercussions from the yakuza they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs. Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director’s all-time classic scenes.

SPECIAL FEATURES

High-Definition digital transfer

Uncompressed mono PCM audio

Audio commentary by William Carroll, author of Seijun Suzuki and Postwar Cinema (2024)

Newly edited archival interview with director Seijun Suzuki

Newly edited archival interview with art director Takeo Kimura

Trailer

Newly improved English subtitle translation