Radiance has announced its September Blu-ray releases, which will consist of Suzuki Seijun's classic period yakuza tale of brotherhood and honour, Tattooed Life, Damiano Damiani's Mafia drama A Man on His Knees, and two films from director Elio Petri, We Still Kill the Old Way and A Quiet Place in the Country, plus the label's first title from Grindhouse Releasing, a 2-disc edition of psychological thriller, Death Game.

TATTOOED LIFE [IREZUMI ICHIDAI] (Japan 1965)

Blu-ray | 23 September 2024 | £17.99

Tetsuo (Takahashi Hideki, Fighting Elegy [Kenka erejî]), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Hananomoto Kotobuki, This Transient Life [Mujō]), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant. Fearing repercussions from the yakuza they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs.

Suzuki Seijun (Branded to Kill [Koroshi no rakuin]) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director’s all-time classic scenes.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• High-Definition digital transfer
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Audio commentary by William Carroll, author of Seijun Suzuki and Postwar Cinema (2024)
• Newly edited archival interview with Suzuki Seijun
• Newly edited archival interview with art director Kimura Takeo
• Trailer
• Newly improved English subtitle translation
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tom Vick and a newly translated archival review of the film
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

A MAN ON HIS KNEES [UN UOMO IN GINOCCHIO] (Italy 1979)

Blu-ray | 23 September 2024 | £17.99

Mistaken as a witness to a crime, Nino (Giuliano Gemma, The Iron Prefect [Il prefetto di ferro]), learns from a friend he has been put on a Mafia hit list and is being stalked by an assassin (Michele Placido, Romanzo Criminale). A man with a troubled past, Nino knows only too well what he faces and uses all his strength and cunning to keep himself and his family alive.

Featuring stunning performances from both leads, Damiano Damiani (The Day of the Owl) applies his trademark realism and socio-political commentary to A Man on His Knees, charting Nino’s desperation as he refuses to kneel before the power of organised crime. Newly restored in 4K, Radiance Films presents one of Damiani’s finest films on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• New 4K restoration from the original negative
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Archival interviews with stars Giuliano Gemma, Tano Cimarosa and assistant director Mino Giarda
• New interview with Alberto Pezzotta, author of Regia Damiano Damiani
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
• Booklet featuring new writing by Roberto Curti
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY [A CIASCUNO IL SUO] (Italy 1979)

Blu-ray | 23 September 2024 | £17.99

After two men are killed on a hunting trip a lonely professor (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven [La classe operaia va in paradiso]), takes it upon himself to investigate what he believes was not a simple honour killing. As his search intensifies, politics and the Church become implicated in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by a powerful criminal organisation.

Elio Petri’s We Still Kill the Old Way, based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia (The Day of the Owl), is a tense paranoid thriller that features Volonté in one of his finest performances and a superb score by Luis Bacalov (Django). Winner of awards for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Actor at the Italian Golden Globes, the film is made available on home video for the first time in the UK.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• 2K restoration of the film by Movietime in association with Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
• Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Archival documentary featuring interviews with writer Ugo Pirro, composer Luis Bacalov and Paola Petri 
• Interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci 
• Interview with Roberto Curti, author of Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker 
• Interview with Fabrizio Catalano, grandson of author Leonardo Sciascia 
• Trailer
• Newly translated English subtitles 
• Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by scholar David Wingrove 
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY [UN TRANQUILLO POSTO DI CAMPAGNA]
(Italy/France 1968)

Blu-ray | 23 September 2024 | £17.99

Leonardo (Franco Nero) is a celebrated artist plagued by nightmares which stop him from completing his work. His agent and sometime lover, Flavia (Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils), encourages him to relax, so he buys a country villa. Once there he begins tracing the story of the previous owner while Flavia’s presence in the house seems to awaken something as she encounters one mysterious accident after another.

Part ghost story, part meditation on the creative process told through the excesses of the 1960s. Elio Petri (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) brilliantly fuses these ideas in ways that are at times shocking, yet thought-provoking in their investigation of art, sex and madness, set to an eerie score by Ennio Morricone.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• High-Definition digital transfer, presented with optional English and Italian audio tracks, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• New interview on the film by author Stephen Thrower (2024)
• Archival interview with actor Franco Nero
• Interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci
• Visual essay by critic and filmmaker Kat Ellinger on the theme of masculinity in the film and Petri’s work (2024)
• Trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for English audio
• Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by Simon Abrams
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

DEATH GAME (USA 1977)

Blu-ray | 23 September 2024 | £19.99

Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the ultimate 1970s psychological thriller. John Cassavetes veteran Seymour Cassel stars as George Manning, a family man whose perfect life is turned into a nightmare of sex and torture when he allows himself to be seduced by two nubile young strangers (Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp) who show up at his door on a rainy night.

Considered lost for many decades, Death Game is presented for the first time on UK home video in its original 2.39:1 aspect ratio, meticulously restored in 4K from the original camera negative.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Spectacular new 4K restoration created from the original camera negative
• Provocative, in-depth interviews with cult movie legend Colleen Camp (Game of Death, Apocalypse Now) and director Peter Traynor, conducted by Eli Roth
• Additional interviews with co-star Sondra Locke,  producer Larry Spiegel, cinematographer/editor David Worth, and screenwriter Michael Ronald Ross
• Audio commentaries by Colleen Camp & Eli Roth, and Larry Spiegel & David Worth
• 24-page full-color booklet with rare photos and liner notes
• Extensive still galleries
• AND OTHER SURPRISES!