Set in the 1830s near the end of the age of the Samurai, Ronin
Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who
patronize a restaurant and brothel on the outskirts of Edo.
Among them are prostitutes who provide cheap sex while hoping
to marry out of their miserable fate, and Masterless Samurai, who reduced to
drunkenness and debauchery, waste what's left of their obsolete careers.
When a rogue band of the local Daimyo's retainers start
killing the prostitutes in a ruthless, self-righteous murder spree, the drunken
Samurai must sober up and retaliate.
Director Kazuo Kuroki is equally adept with nihilist
attitude and swift, bloody action sequences that are unflinchingly violent and
not for the faint of heart.
Parallels to Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven are readily
apparent, but Ronin Gai came first, and it's a must-see for fans of the Samurai
genre.
REMASTERED FOR SUPERIOR PICTURE
QUALITY
STARRING: KATSU SHINTARO, HARADA YOSHIO, HIGUCHI
KANAKO
1990 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - COLOR - 16:9
ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 117 MINUTES
