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SUMMARY

From the master of postwar chaos comes a blistering triptych of crime, corruption, and collapse.

After the success of Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973–74), Fukasaku continued to refine his “jitsuroku” (true record) approach; a semi-documentary style of yakuza film inspired by real events, police files, and newspaper reportage.

These three titles, COPS VS THUGS, CROSS THE RUBICON!, and HOKURIKU PROXY WAR, all extend that gritty realism: handheld camerawork, frenetic editing, overlapping dialogue, and moral murk. They turn away from romanticized gangsters toward a chaotic, corrupt Japan of the 1960s-70s where cops, crooks, and politicians are virtually indistinguishable.

In COPS VS THUGS (KENKEI TAI SOSHIKI BORYOKU), CROSS THE RUBICON! (SHIKINGEN GÔDATSU), and HOKURIKU PROXY WAR (HOKURIKU DAIRI SENSÔ), director Kinji Fukasaku tears away the illusion of honor to expose a Japan where the cops are as dirty as the gangsters and the only loyalty left is to survival itself.

Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Yumiko Nogawa

ADDITIONAL INFO

COPS VS THUGS:

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Critic & Author Jasper Sharp
  
• NEW! Cops, Thugs and Proxy Wars: James Balmont on the Revolutionary Yakuza
• Cinema of Kinji Fukasaku
  
• Archival Behind the Scenes Footage
  
• Beyond the Film: Cops vs. Thugs - a Video Appreciation by Fukasaku Biographer
• Sadao Yamane
  
• Theatrical Trailer

CROSS THE RUBICON!:

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Writer and Critic Tom Mes
  
• NEW! Funny Money: Screenwriter Koji Takada Discusses Cross the Rubicon!
  
• NEW! Shadows of War: Kenta Fukasaku on His Fathers’ Yakuza Films

HOKURIKU PROXY WAR:

• NEW! Audio Commentary with Japanese cinema expert Frankie Balboa
  
• NEW! Loyalty for Sale: Matthew Carter on Power, Masculinity and Corruption in the 
• World of Kinji Fukasaku
  
• NEW! Deadly Coincidence: Screenwriter Koji Takada discusses Hokuriku Proxy War
  
• Theatrical Trailer