Tapes, DVDs for Nikkatsu Action line-up

[mark schilling]

Here's the availability status of the films in the Udine Far East Film
Festival's Nikkatsu Action retro. Corrections appreciated!

Note: NO TAPE OR DVD means that neither Nikkatsu nor Tsutaya stock tapes or
DVDs of the title at the moment, as far as I know.Tapes may exist somewhere,
however.

Also, for the NO TAPE films, Nikkatsu made unsubbed tapes especially for my
viewing. These tapes are now in the possession of the Udine festival.

Finally, I found the tape of "Colt wa Ore no Passport" I rented from Shibuya
Tsutaya to be quite viewable.

Mark Schilling
schill at gol.com


1. (DVD) Sabita Knife (Rusty Knife, 1958) dir: Masuda Toshio, cast: Ishihara
Yujiro, Kobayashi
Akira, Shishido Jo
2. (DVD)Akai Hatoba (Red Quay, 1958), dir: Masuda Toshio, cast: Ishihara
Yujiro, Kitahara Mie
3. (DVD) Akai Handkerchief (Red Hankerchief, 1964), dir: Masuda Toshio,
cast: Ishihara
Yujiro,Nitani Hideaki, Asaoka Ruriko


4. (NO TAPE OR DVD) Hayauchi Yaro (Fast Draw Guy, 1961), dir: Nomura
Takashi,
cast: Shishido Jo, Yoshinaga Sayuri
5. (TAPE) Rokudenashi Kagyo (Dirty Work, 1961), dir: Saito Buichi, cast:
Shishido Jo, Nitani Hideaki
6. (TAPE) Colt wa Ore no Passport (A Colt Is My Passport, 1967) dir: Nomura
Takashi, cast: Shishido Jo, Jerry Fujio
7. (NO TAPE OR DVD) Glass no Johnny (Glass Johnny, 1962) dir: Kurahara
Koreyoshi,
cast: Shishido Jo, Ashikawa Izumi, I George


8. (DVD) Daisogen no Wataridori (Wanderer on the Great Plains, 1960), dir:
Saito
Buichi, cast: Kobayashi Akira, Shishido Jo, Asaoka Ruriko
9. (SUBBED DVD) Ore ni Sawaru to Abuanai ze (Black Tight Killers, 1966) dir:
Hasebe Yasuharu, cast: Kobayashi Akira, Shishido Jo
10. (NO TAPE OR DVD) Arakure (Roughneck, 1969) dir: Hasebe Yasuharu, cast:
Kobayashi Akira, Fuji Tatsuya,Shishido Jo
11. (SUBBED TAPE) Kurenai no Nagareboshi (Velvet Hustler, 1967), dir: Masuda
Toshio, cast: Watari Tetsuya, Shishido Jo
12. (TAPE) Burai Yori Daikanbu (Gangster VIP, 1968) dir: Masuda Toshio,
cast: Watari
Tetsuya


13. (DVD) Kenju Buraicho: Nukiuchi no Ryu (Pistol Diary: Quick Draw Ryu,
1960) dir:
Noguchi Hiroshi, cast: Akagi Keiichiro, Shishido Jo
14. (DVD) Kurenai no Kenju (Red Pistol, 1961) dir: Ushihara Yoichi, cast:
Akagi
Keiichiro

15: (NO TAPE OR DVD) Kyonetsu no Kisetsu (Season of Heat, 1960) dir:
Kurahara
Koreyoshi, cast: Kawachi Tomio

16. (SUBBED DVD) Nora Neko Rock Sex Hunter (Stray Cat Rock -- Sex Hunter,
1970) dir: Hasebe Yasuharu, cast: Kaji Meiko, Fuji Tatsuya

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M Arnold" <ma_iku at hotmail.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: Nikkatsu Action line-up for Udine


> > >Is "Colt wa Ore no Passport " out on DVD in Japan?
> >
> > Not yet.
> > Don Brown
>
> I went searching for this on video last week after reading the positive
> comments from Aaron and Markus, but all I could find was one very old
rental
> VHS tape that didn't look like it could fulfill my expectations. I'll
> definitely catch it on film when it plays at Laputa. There are quite a few
> Japanese DVDs of other 1960s Nikkatsu films out now though.
>
> I have one non-Nikkatsu video question. Are any of Sakuma Yoshiko's
earliest
> Toei films (1958 or 59) out on video? I tried looking for a few of them at
> Tsutaya but the earliest thing I could find was the 1963 Jinsei gekijo
with
> Ken-san and Tsuruta Koji.
>
> (I was surprised to notice that the JMDB lists her as appearing in a 1995
> Kobayashi Satoru film, one I actually suffered through in Ueno last week .
..
>  but it's actually a different person.)
>
> Michael Arnold