Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Collection (1973-1974)

[Akijama]

Separate releases:

Release date: August 9, 2016




The Box set is OOP





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*** BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR/HONOUR AND HUMANITY FULL SPECS + STOCK UPDATE***

It is time for us to reveal the full specs for our stacked Battles boxset!

This set is limited to 2500 copies in the US & UK and is now approximately 50% sold out - we will release individual Dual Format releases of the five films in 2016.

Pre-order the UK edition here: http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/ind...product_id=605

Pre-order the US edition here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...f_rd_i=desktop


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LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
•Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection (2500 copies)
•High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of all five original films
•Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays)
•Optional English subtitles for all five films
•Limited Edition packaging and reversible sleeves for all five films including original and newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist

BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR/HONOUR AND HUMANITY (DISCS 1 & 2)
•Brand new audio commentary by critic and author Stuart Galbraith IV
•Yakuza Graveyard – a new interview with Takashi Miike about Kinji Fukasaku and the yakuza film genre
•Original trailers for all five films

HIROSHIMA DEATH MATCH (DISCS 3 & 4)
•Man of Action – a new interview with series fight choreographer Ryuzo Ueno
•Original Trailer

PROXY WAR (DISCS 5 & 6)
•Secrets of the Piranha Army – a new documentary about the troupe of supporting actors who appeared throughout the series, featuring interviews with original Piranha members Masaru Shiga and Takashi Noguchi, plus second-generation Piranha, Takashi Nishina and Akira Murota
•Tales of a Bit Player – a new interview with supporting actor and stuntman Seizo Fukumoto
•Original Trailer

POLICE TACTICS (DISCS 7 & 8)
•Remembering Kinji – a new featurette about director Kinji Fukasaku and his work, featuring interviews with Kenta Fukasaku and film critic and Fukasaku biographer Sadao Yamane
•Fukasaku Family – a new interview with Proxy War and Police Tactics assistant director Toru Dobashi
•Original Trailer

FINAL EPISODE (DISCS 9 & 10)
•Last Days of the Boss – a new interview with Final Episode screenwriter Koji Takada
•Original poster gallery for the series
•Original Trailer

THE COMPLETE SAGA (DISCS 11, 12 & 13) [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]
•English-subtitled premiere of the 224-minute compilation edition of the first four films, previously screened only as part of a limited Japanese theatrical release in 1980 and on the Toei cable channel
•Introduction by Complete Saga editorial supervisor Toru Dobashi

THE YAKUZA PAPERS [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]
•152-page hardback book featuring writing on the history of the yakuza film genre, the background and continuing importance of the Battles series, and additional essays on the men who made them, including a newly-reprinted and fully annotated edition of Paul Schrader's classic 1974 Film Comment essay Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer, a new, exclusive English translation of screenwriter Kazuo Kasahara’s 1974 Scenario magazine essay on his writing process for the first four films, as well as new essays and interviews from critics and authors Chris D., Grady Hendrix, Patrick Macias, Tom Mes, Mark Schilling, and Jasper Sharp

[Martin_31]

Never heard of these films before. I absolutely need to watch them now. Cannot wait to buy this set!

[buffetfroid]

I'm not familiar with this but it looks kick ass

[MifuneFan]

Awesome

[thrillmygorilla]

Nice.

[Telstar]

Got to say this looks like one of the all time great box sets.

[BobbyMcGee]

These box-sets are killing my wallet! I love it.

[MifuneFan]

Any word on pricing for the US release? The UK one currently works out to about $101, which is actually pretty reasonable for a set like this. I imagine the US one will be more. $129.99 if I had to guess, but I could even seen $149.99.

[RodChester]

First time hearing about this series. It looks pretty great and I think I'll be picking it up. Hopefully the U.S. price is around $100 like what it is going for on Arrows UK site. If not I'll just order from there.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by RodChester

First time hearing about this series. It looks pretty great and I think I'll be picking it up. Hopefully the U.S. price is around $100 like what it is going for on Arrows UK site. If not I'll just order from there.

I'm thinking I will regardless, since you get a ton of reward points by doing so

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Any word on pricing for the US release? The UK one currently works out to about $101, which is actually pretty reasonable for a set like this. I imagine the US one will be more. $129.99 if I had to guess, but I could even seen $149.99.

Do they do the early bird thing for US releases? I know if you order from Arrow direct right now it's £10 off, so if you can afford it it's probably going to be the best price

[Moj]

Does Arrow's UK site charge you for pre-orders before they ship?

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

Do they do the early bird thing for US releases? I know if you order from Arrow direct right now it's £10 off, so if you can afford it it's probably going to be the best price

Arrow doesnt have a direct shop here, so we have to rely on third parties like Amazon for any discounts. Arrow titles don't seem to stray too far from their MSRP's from what I've noticed though.

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by Moj

Does Arrow's UK site charge you for pre-orders before they ship?

Yeah you'll get charged right away, that's what I meant by if you can afford it now it's probably the best price and you get the reward points

[Blu Titan]

Awesome news...day one purchase .

[RiFiFi1955]

Looks like a fantastic set!

[Moj]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

Yeah you'll get charged right away, that's what I meant by if you can afford it now it's probably the best price and you get the reward points

Huh, and it looks like you get, what, two movies worth of points with the purchase? Sounds, like it's definitely worth the pre-order from Arrrow UK.

Just one last question, what's stopping an American from ordering from the UK site, they're the same releases, right?

[Ray_Rogers]

AWESOME!
Been waiting for The Yakuza Papers aka Battles Without Honor and Humanity to be released onto Blu-ray for awhile. Might've even owned the DVD boxset long back whenever but obviously I already sold it awhile ago. Course I'll be buying the Arrow UK release.
There'll be a separate 5-Film set with Blu-rays only or will they throw in DVDs anyway?

[MifuneFan]

I hope Arrow can get Sympathy for the Underdog one day, that would be amazing.

[JoeBuck]

Glad these are finally coming.
This is easily the best Arrow US release to date!