Disc 1: Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage
Direction and script Shundo Okawa 1989 with introduction 2025 by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles
Extra: Loose Cannon - Interview with director Shundo Okawa (18 minutes, 2025)

Two cops, Ahiru (Riki Takeuchi) and Joe (Masanori Sera) are investigating a
church-yakuza group. They catche a thief, Bruce (Seiji Matano) who has stolen a
million USD from the church and stashed it somewhere.
When Ahiru is killed Joe is out revenging his partner, and out for revenge is also
the armed Nun Lily (Minako Tanaka).

Disc 1 Film 2: Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Direction Banmei Takahashi 1990 with introduction 2025 by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles
Extra: Zooming Out - Interview with director Banmei Takahashi (15 minutes, 2025)
Crime Hunter and the Dawn of V-Cinema: Video essay on Crime Hunter Bullets of
Rage by japanese cinema expert Tom Mes
Original trailers for both films

Gangster drama with the Takashi Miike legend Show Aikama and with the beautiful
Chikako Aoyama (of Robotrix boobs fame) as Junko's girlfriend.
Junko (Show) is an underling to a Yakuza boss. When there's a turf war between
two families Junko is ordered to do a revenge killing (with hilarious results).
Show Aikama sings the ending song. Trailers and collector cards

Disc 2: Stranger
Direction and script Shunichi Nagasaki 1991 with introduction by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles
Extra: Interview with director and screenwriter Masaki Nagasaki (18 minutes) 2 cards

Great Crime Mystery with a very fine Yuko Natori as Kiriko the Taxi Driver.
Arty compared to the other films in the collection.
Kiriko is harassed by a mysterious stalker. Does it have something to do
with her criminal old boyfriend ?
Extra: Interview with director and screenwriter Shunichi Nagasaki (18 min)

Disc 2 Film 2: Carlos
Direction: Kazuhiro Kiuchi 1991 with introduction by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles
Extra: Interview with director and scriptwriter Kazuhiro Kiuchi (20 minutes)
Appreciation of Carlos by Jonathan Clements (17 minutes)

Brazilian gangsters causes a mobster war when they try to ascent within
the Yakuza gangster circle. Psychotic Brazilians vs. Yakuza killers

Disc 3 Burning Dog
Direction, Script Yoichi Sai / Shugeki 1991 with introduction by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles
Extra: An appreciation of Burning Dog by critic Mark Schilling (16 minutes)
Trailer
A very fine Heist movie shot in Okinawa and by the director Yoichi Sai, the
man who directed the great mystery thriller "Marks" in 1995. A film I was much
fascinated of but that seems to be very obscure.

5 gangsters are counting their illegally gained money when one of them, Bukuro
suddenly shoots the other 4 and grabs the money. But Shu / Shugeri (Seiji
Matano) finds Bukuro and the money. Shu and his friend Takuji plans to rob
the US military base on Okinawa

Disc 3 Film 2: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat
Direction: Toshinaru Ikeda 1991
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles
Extra: Toshinaru Ikeda's Beautiful Monster of Vengeance: An Appreciation
by Samm Deighan (12 minutes)
Trailer, 2 collector cards

A female killer for hire with her Yakuza boyfriend as her manager has new
mission. To enter a women's prison and to kill a dangerous prisoner, Nami
Matsushima

Disc 4: The Hitman: Blood Smells like Roses
Direction, script: Teruo Ishii 1991 with introduction by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles
Extras: The Versatility of Teruo Ishii: Video essay by Frankie Balboa
Trailer, Collector card

Disc 4 Film 2: Danger Point: The Road to Hell
Direction: Yasuharo Haseba 1991 with introduction by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles, Collector card
Extra: James Balmont appreciation of Danger Point (15 minutes)

Two scummy police detectives and hitmen, Show Aikawa and Joe
Shishido on a quest for Mr. Sakai's money

Disc 5: XX: Beautiful Hunter
Direction: Masaru Konuma 1994 with introduction by Masaki Tanioka
4:3 LPCM japanese audio with english subtitles, collector card
Extra: The Secret and the Profane: Interview with scriptwriter Hiroshi
Takahashi (17 minutes, 2025)
They brought back the sleaze: Video essay by Patrick Macias
Trailer

Crime Action with S&M Sleaze. A little girl, Shion (Makiku Kuno),
has grown up among killer nuns in a christian sect. She's a cold
murderer and she only obeys the master of the cult, Father.
An investigative journalist, Ho (Johnny Okura) spies on the Cult.
Could having sex with the assasin make her amend her ways?