{"id":11429,"date":"2015-05-20T22:51:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2015-05-20T23:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:09:56","slug":"the-films-of-yasuharu-hasebe-part-1-black-tight-killers-1966-massacre-gun-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11429","title":{"rendered":"The Films of Yasuharu Hasebe, Part 1: Black Tight Killers (1966) + Massacre Gun (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11451\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BlackTightKillers_poster_a.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11451\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11451 \" alt=\"BlackTightKillers_poster_a\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BlackTightKillers_poster_a.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BlackTightKillers_poster_a.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BlackTightKillers_poster_a-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This may be a stretch, but I think this poster was hand-drawn by one of the Rocket Robin Hood animators.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the fall of 2014, Britain&#8217;s Arrow Films announced their intention to start releasing titles in North America &#8211; welcome news to fans of their exhaustive special editions that rival even Criterion releases, in terms of extras (like isolated music tracks) and gorgeous transfers &#8211; and the first titles (all new to Blu-ray) under the Arrow Video USA brand via MVD Visual started to appear around February \/ March.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Mario <strong>Bava&#8217;s Blood and Black Lace<\/strong> is still on hold (although one can purchase the BR from Britain), but there are plenty of other goodies that have materialized, and the first Arrow title I&#8217;m covering is Yasuharu Hasebe&#8217;s second feature as director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11427\"><strong>Massacre Gun<\/strong><\/a> (1967), a Yakuza \/ film noir hybrid. Paired with the film is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11431\"><strong>Black Tight Killers<\/strong><\/a> (1966), Hasebe&#8217;s first film, released on DVD by Image and a prime candidate for an HD release (if not a limited theatrical run).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to start sound editing <strong>BSV 1172\u00a0<\/strong>which should become an exceptional time hog next week, but coming next: another set of film reviews and soundtrack reviews.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 1, the first two films by Yasuharu Hasebe are examined: Black Tight Killers (1966) and new on Blu from Arrow Video \/ MVD Visual, Massacre Gun (1967).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3652,2562,2563,3653,3651],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MassacreGun_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2Yl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11472,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/11472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}