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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.

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Bonus Materials

• 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
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tom Vick and a newly translated archival review of the film

Sales Points

• For fans of THE YAKUZA PAPERS & BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR
• From Suzuki Seijin, the director of Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter
• First time on Blu-ray

Press Quotes

A complex and satisfying genre crossbreed

     —Glenn Erickson, DVD Savant

Famously fired from Nikkatsu Studios for his delirious and eccentric cinematic crafting, Seijun Suzuki is a director like no other

     —Adam Lemke, DVD Beaver

Great yakuza tale about redemption and the possibility of second chances, this film has so much to offer fans of the genre: an engaging set of characters with their own well-developed motivations, great cinematography, and a brutal yet beautiful showdown

     —Rotten Tomatoes