Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (opening scene from Kino DVD)

http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=973
Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein pioneered at Japans famed Nikkatsu Studios, director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) and his frequent leading man Jo Shishido used 1963s 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 isnt an American TV series, one of Tajimas 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 Suzukis fervent popularity at home and heralded his imminent cult status worldwide.

1963 Japan 88 min. Color In Japanese with optional English subtitles
Letterboxed (2.35:1) Enhanced for 16x9 TVs

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Nikkatsu
• Seijun
• Suzuki
• Detective
• Bureau
• 2-3:
• Go
• to
• Hell
• Bastards!
• Kino
• DVD

[KataVideo]

I just got this, it's a fun action/comedy! The music alone is awesome. And as you see above, it opens with a BANG.

KINO, please release more Nikkatsu Action Movies!

[KinoInternational]

Thanks, we hope to get a clip up for 3 Seconds Before Explosion soon. Stay tuned.

[Conman436]

Can we get the theme song out up here?

[onlookerification]

(note to self): never piss Pepsi off.....

[elrealisator]

A great release from Kino! The movie was superb with a great transfer! Gotta love the scene where Jo Shishido joins the dancer for a musical number!

[TFCHooligan69]

Just saw this movie today. Fun stuff.