Cruel Tale of Bushido (Limited Edition) w/SLIP Michael Powell courting controversy and drenching the

courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray

New audio commentary featuring film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth

A dark study of childhood trauma and grief which gives way to a fully waking dream-like state in its final act

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Cruel Tale of Bushido (Limited Edition) w/SLIP Michael Powell courting controversy and drenching theCruel Tale of Bushido won the Golden Bear Award at the 1963 Berlin Film Festival for its uncompromising deconstruction of the concept of bushido. Best known for dramas such as Until We Meet Again and An Inlet of Muddy Water, the Japanese filmmaker Tadashi Imai was also the director of Revenge, a highly accomplished and brutal jidaigeki picture. These two sensibilities come together in the film that might just stand as Imai's masterpiece: Cruel Tale of