{"product_id":"v-cinema-essentials-bullets-betrayal-limited-edition-blu-ray","title":"V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets \u0026 Betrayal (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eV-Cinema Essentials: Bullets \u0026amp; Betrayal Blu-ray delivers a five-disc, nine-film deep dive into the raw, shot-on-video crime cinema that defined Toei’s V-Cinema movement. Fast, abrasive, and unapologetically pulpy, these films capture the energy of late-1980s and 1990s Japanese exploitation, where yakuza violence, rogue cops, hired killers, and femme fatales collide with relentless momentum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage, a revenge-fuelled action thriller following a hardboiled detective teaming up with a gun-toting nun to recover stolen church money. Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet twists yakuza loyalty and betrayal into a volatile coming-of-age nightmare, while Stranger traps viewers in suffocating paranoia as a taxi driver is stalked through the night by a mysterious pursuer. Carlos escalates the chaos with a petty criminal attempting to manipulate rival gangs, and Burning Dog delivers a tightly wound heist set against a U.S. military base in Okinawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe set also includes Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat, a late-entry spin on one of Japan’s most iconic exploitation franchises, blending prison brutality with assassin mythology. Teruo Ishii’s The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses offers operatic vengeance from one of Japanese cinema’s most notorious provocateurs, while Danger Point: The Road to Hell tests loyalty between contract killers spiralling toward disaster. The collection concludes with XX: Beautiful Hunter, a sleazy, high-octane tale of an assassin raised by a fanatical religious cult who turns against her creators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, these films showcase V-Cinema at its most ferocious and inventive, capturing a subgenre built on speed, excess, and creative freedom. Arrow Video presents the collection with extensive newly produced extras, making this an essential sampler of contemporary Japanese exploitation cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1989 \/ approx. 795 min total\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage: Japanese\u003cbr\u003eAudio: Mono, Stereo\u003cbr\u003eDiscs: 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuntime: approx. 795 minutes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arrow Video","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46123316904006,"sku":null,"price":79.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/8096\/6982\/files\/file_79338aa9-76ed-4b4f-9b5c-f35a11231601.jpg?v=1791342730","url":"https:\/\/peakbooks.co\/products\/v-cinema-essentials-bullets-betrayal-limited-edition-blu-ray","provider":"Peak Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}