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Youth of the Beast
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Right on the heels of the riotous Go to Hell, Bastards: Detective Bureau 2 3, Seijun Suzuki unleashed what would come to be seen as his true breakthrough, the film that would cement "the Suzuki sensibility": Youth of the Beast [Yajû no seishun]. A kaleidoscopic fantasia that contains "youth" and "beast" only insofar as 1963 pop/youth culture was that violently upstart thing, — not unlike the yakuza? And so Youth of the Beast is a yakuza tale with a premise like Akira Kurosawa's Yôjinbô, but denuded of an easy definition of which side is which.
It stars Suzuki's iconic '60s regular Jô Shishido, with his dare-you-to-call-them-out artificial cheek implants like new acting blasphemy. There are drug-addled whores, gunfights in a new colour apocalypse, and at least one alien landscape: the sudden mind-searing eruption of a sulphur yellow desert like an action -figure playset with overspill of unbridled lust... Suzuki's infectious go-for-broke energy is assisted by a telephoto lens that serves at once as phallus and yoni in the masterful, Minnelli-worthy 'Scope framing.
His film would go on to inspire John Woo's forthcoming remake titled Day of the Beast; Nikkatsu have in recent times deemed this movie one of their treasures. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Youth of the Beast in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition based on their new HD master.
Bonus Features:
- New high-definition 1080p presentation of the film on the Blu-ray, and progressive encode on the DVD.
- New and improved optional English subtitles
- 36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring a new essay by Frederick Veith, and rare archival imagery
- Masters of Cinema
- 92 mins approx.
- Seijun Suzuki
- 15
- Jô Shishido
- Misako Watanabe
- Tamio Kawaji
- Minako Katsuki
- Daizaburo Hirata
- Eiji Gô
- Koichi Uenoyama
- Akiji Kobayashi
- Yuzo Kiura
English for the Hard of Hearing, English
- 2.35:1 OAR
- Japanese
- 1
- B
Youth of the Beast
RRP £17.99
£7.99
Save: £10.00
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Right on the heels of the riotous Go to Hell, Bastards: Detective Bureau 2 3, Seijun Suzuki unleashed what would come to be seen as his true breakthrough, the film that would cement "the Suzuki sensibility": Youth of the Beast [Yajû no seishun]. A kaleidoscopic fantasia that contains "youth" and "beast" only insofar as 1963 pop/youth culture was that violently upstart thing, — not unlike the yakuza? And so Youth of the Beast is a yakuza tale with a premise like Akira Kurosawa's Yôjinbô, but denuded of an easy definition of which side is which.
It stars Suzuki's iconic '60s regular Jô Shishido, with his dare-you-to-call-them-out artificial cheek implants like new acting blasphemy. There are drug-addled whores, gunfights in a new colour apocalypse, and at least one alien landscape: the sudden mind-searing eruption of a sulphur yellow desert like an action -figure playset with overspill of unbridled lust... Suzuki's infectious go-for-broke energy is assisted by a telephoto lens that serves at once as phallus and yoni in the masterful, Minnelli-worthy 'Scope framing.
His film would go on to inspire John Woo's forthcoming remake titled Day of the Beast; Nikkatsu have in recent times deemed this movie one of their treasures. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Youth of the Beast in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition based on their new HD master.
Bonus Features:
- New high-definition 1080p presentation of the film on the Blu-ray, and progressive encode on the DVD.
- New and improved optional English subtitles
- 36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring a new essay by Frederick Veith, and rare archival imagery
- Masters of Cinema
- 92 mins approx.
- Seijun Suzuki
- 15
- Jô Shishido
- Misako Watanabe
- Tamio Kawaji
- Minako Katsuki
- Daizaburo Hirata
- Eiji Gô
- Koichi Uenoyama
- Akiji Kobayashi
- Yuzo Kiura
English for the Hard of Hearing, English
- 2.35:1 OAR
- Japanese
- 1
- B
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