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The Game Trilogy

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Number of Discs
2

Release Date
17/02/2025

Studio
Arrow Video

format
Blu-ray / Normal

Duration
281

Certificate UK
18

Description

Made at the end of the 1970s, Tôru Murakawa's Game Trilogy launched actor Yusaku Matsuda as the Toei tough guy for a new generation. Matsuda was the definitive screen icon of 1980s until his career was tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 40, following his Hollywood debut in Ridley Scott's Black Rain. In this career-defining triptych, Matsuda is Shohei Narumi, an ice cool hitman of few words, a steely trigger finger, and a heart of stone, hired in The Most Dangerous Game by a company bidding for a lucrative government air defence contract to take out the competition. In The Killing Game, Narumi finds himself caught in the midst of violent yakuza gang warfare, while his own brutal past catches up with him in the form of two beautiful women still bearing the emotional scars of his past assignments. In The Execution Game, Narumi falls for a mysterious saloon bar chanteuse who may or may not be part of the same, shadowy underworld organisation as the rival hitmen he is employed to rub out. With cool blue cinematography by Nagisa Oshima collaborator Seizo Sengen and a sultry score by jazz legend Yuji Ohno, Murakawa's masterful set of films raised the bar for the Japanese action movie to new heights.

Actor: Yutaka Nakajima
Actor: Kôjirô Kusanagi
Actor: Yûsaku Matsuda
Actor: Yoshirô Aoki
Writer: Hideichi Nagahara
Writer: Susumu Saji
Cinematographer: Seizô Sengen
Producer: Mitsuru Kurosawa
Actor: Kenji Imai
Actor: Keiko Tasaka
Actor: Ichirô Araki
Actor: Daigo Kusano
Writer: Koji Hama
Actor: Kaori Takeda
Cinematographer: Norimoto Seizo
Actor: Aiko Morishita
Actor: Kei Satô
Director: Tôru Murakawa
Music: Yuji Ohno
Writer: Shoichi Maruyama
Actor: Asao Uchida

Main Format
Blu-ray

Keyword Index
The Game Trilogy|Yûsaku Matsuda

Alternative Title
The Most Dangerous Game/The Killing Game/The Execution Game

Colour
Colour

Region
Region B

Subtitles
Subtitled

Extras 1
High Definition extras tbc

Extras 2
Language(s):Japanese, Subtitles:English, InteractiveMenu, Screenratio1-2.35:1, Mono

Extras 3
Commentary:'TheMostDangerousGame':ChrisPoggialiandMarcWalkow;'TheKillingGame':EarlJacksonandJasperSharp;'TheExecutionGame':TomMes., Documentaries:'RememberingYusakuMatsuda'., ImageGallery, Interviews:TôruMurakawa(director);ShoichiMaruyama(writer)., ReversiblesleevefeaturingoriginalandnewlycommissionedartworkbyTonyStella.

Catalogue Number
FCD2676

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