Nikkatsu Trailer Theatre # 2: SENSELESS CRUELTY VIVIDLY PORTRAYED!

By most accounts, Nikkatsu didn’t exactly give Seijun Suzuki’s giddy post-modern gangster romp ‘Youth of the Beast’ the big push it deserved back in 1963, but clearly that didn’t stop the studio’s trailer department going to town on it in their usual understated style.

Screengrabs and sub-titles are taken from the DVD accompanying Eureka’s recent, excellent UK blu-ray edition of the film. (Please please please do ‘Gate of Flesh’ next, if you’re reading Eureka folks.)

Nikkatsu Trailer Theatre #1: IDLENESS INTENSIFIES AND WILD EXCITEMENT ESCALATES!

One of the best things about the recent plethora of great Nikkatsu movies popping up as blu-ray releases from UK labels (primarily the ever more praise-worthy Arrow Video) is the opportunity it gives us to view the films’ original Japanese trailers with English sub-titles, thus attaining an insight into the company’s, shall we say, unique approach to promotion.

Above, you can observe their hard sell on one of my all-time favourites, Yasuharu Hasebe’s Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, and as long as the discs keep coming, there’ll be more to come in this series of posts, I’m sure.