Underworld Beauty / Love Letter Limited Edition Blu-Ray

The thief Miyamoto retrieves the diamonds he hid before his arrest and hopes to help his old partner Mihara, who was paralyzed during the heist. Their former boss, the criminal Oyane, offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself. The deal goes awry when armed men show up at the scene. Mihara swallows the diamonds but dies in the chase, leaving a valuable corpse at the police morgue. Miyamoto forms an uneasy alliance with Mihara's wild sister Akiko to keep the gems away from gangsters, cops, and even Akiko's greedy boyfriend. In this wildly inventive early noir, Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tattooed Life) playfully subverts the genre's conventions and gender stereotypes.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

New 4K restoration of the film by Nikkatsu Corporation

Uncompressed mono PCM audio

New interview with critic Mizuki Kodama (2024, 15 min)

Bonus material: Seijun Suzuki's Love Letter (1959, 40 min)

Audio commentary on Love Letter by Suzuki biographer William Carroll (2024)

Trailers for both films

Newly improved translation of English subtitles

Reversible cover with original artwork and newly produced art by Time Tomorrow

Limited edition booklet with newly written text by critic Claudia Siefen-Leitich and an archival review of the film

Limited edition of 3,000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip that leaves the packaging free of certificates and markings

• Language: Japanese