Seijun Suzuki's Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (DVD, 1963)

Description: Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein pioneered at Japan's famed Nikkatsu Studios, director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) and his frequent leading man Jo Shishido used 1963's Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! to flip the Japanese gangster film genre on its ear. A rapid fire gun heist, credits with an infectious jazz pop score, and a wide-screen close-up of a burning car announce Detective Bureau 2-3 as the film that would both lampoon and redefine Asian crime films for an irreverent new decade of garish panache and ultra-violent cool. The story follows police detective Tajima (Shishido), who, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a bloodbath – while Suzuki transforms a colorful potboiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed. "This isn't an American TV series," one of Tajima's doubting subordinates tells the sharkskin-suited, super suave sleuth. Anarchic, breakneck paced, darkly comic, and stylish to the extreme, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! was a movie unlike anything audiences had ever seen. It would cement Suzuki's fervent popularity at home and heralded his imminent cult status worldwide.

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Video Format: NTSC

Music Artist: Harumi Ibe

Case Type: Tall/DVD Case

Edition: Standard Edition

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Type: Movie

Region Code: DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)

Release Year: 2009

Actor: Jo Shishido, Reiko Sasamori, Tamio Kawachi, Nobuo Kaneko, Asao Sano, Kinzo Shin

Features: Widescreen, With Subtitles

Season: 1

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Producer: Shozo Ashida

Movie/TV Title: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Language: Japanese

Subtitle Language: English

Run Time: 88 min.

Rating: NR

Format: DVD

Genre: Action & Adventure

Studio: Kino Lorber

Sub-Genre: Foreign-Japanese