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Robert Mitchum: Yakuza
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Robert Mitchum is Kilmer in this haunting East-meets-West head-on thriller powered by a team of heavy Hollywood hitters: writers Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and Robert Towne (Chinatown) and director Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter). Co-starring Japan’s Takakura Ken and veteran character actor Brian Keith, The Yakuza is a modern film noir in which honor and loyalty become issues of life and death. Violence erupts with the speed of a Tokyo-bound bullet train. And the last thing to die is tradition.
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Warner Brothers has decided to put together a medley of lesser known Robert Mitchum films in new the signature series collection. Some may consider some of the pictures like Macao somewhat disposable. It doesn’t fair much better for The Good Guys And The Bad Guys. Now when you get to Angel Face and three greats; Home From The Hill, The Sundowners and The Yakuza, you get to see some of the great moments in cinematic times gone by which make Robert Mitchum arguably the coolest cat on the silver screen. With his unmistakable voice and countenance, you can see why he was a true movie star. With his career spanning a good chunk of a century, he definitely made a dent in film history.
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One of the most durable of Hollywood leading men and, until fairly recently, one of its more underrated actors, Mitchum has continued to appear in films through the 90s. The mid-60s saw the beginning of a general decline into routine Westerns (Villa Rides 1968), strange melodramas (Secret Ceremony 1968, The Wrath of God 1972) and the occasional modest comedy (Mister Moses 1965, Matilda 1978). Mitchum's subtle work as a schoolteacher, though, was the best thing about David Lean's handsome but vastly overblown quasi-epic, Ryan's Daughter (1970) and he ... appeared in such interesting films as the sensitive The Yakuza (1975) and the moody The Big Sleep (1978), where he reprised his Philip Marlowe role.
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About the DVDs: Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection offers up each of these six films in their proper aspect ratios, along with a whole host of bonus features. Angel Face comes equipped with a commentary track by film noir historian Eddie Muller, while Macao ... contains a commentary track (with Muller and screenwriter Stanley Rubin) as well as an episode of TCM's Private Screenings (featuring Mitchum and Russell). Home from the Hill, The Sundowners, and The Good Guys and the Bad Guys all contain a copy of their respective trailers, with The Sundowners and The Good Guys and the Bad Guys also offering up vintage featurettes. Finally, The Yakuza comes equipped with a commentary by Sydney Pollack and a vintage featurette.
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The telephone rang and it was Mitchum's secretary, calling from California with news about "Yakuza," a movie that Mitchum might or might not make in Japan. It's all up in the air," he explained after hanging up.
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