Description:
Drugs, drag-racing, and gambling deliriously collide in a classic of the yakuza crime genre, Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower. Ryo Ikebe plays Muraki, ahard-boiled gangster fresh out of prison after serving a sentence for murder. At a gambling house he meets Saeko (Mariko Kaga), a mysterious woman drawn to the dangerous high-stakes lifestyle. Their doomed love propels them at breakneck speed through Tokyo’s underworld, down a road filled with hoods, drugs, and murder. Pale Flower features stark black-and-white photography by Masao Kosugi and a twisted score by noted composer Toru Takemitsu.
Special Features:
- New digital transfer, enhanced for 16X9 televisions
- Newly translated subtitles
- Interview with Director Masahiro Shinoda
- Director filmography
- With liner notes by American Cinematheque Programmer Chris D.
- 2.35:1 aspect ratio
