Arrow Video Has Announced The Release Of "Battles Without Honor And Humanity"

Arrow Video has announced their November slate of releases today. They announced the huge 13-disc boxset of Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Details below:


Arrow Video has announced two titles for their November slate of releases. The first was the Blu-ray + Dvd release of Wake Up and Die (details Here) and the second is this 13-disc limited edition boxset release of Battles Without Honor and Humanity. This edition is limited to 3,000 copies in the U.S. The films contained in this release are Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Hiroshima Death Match, Proxy War, Police Tactics, and Final Episode. This limited edition boxset will also come with a 150-page hardback book. This set will be released on 11/17/15. Here are all the extras for the release:

• Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection (3,000 copies)
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of all five original films
• Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays)
• Optional English subtitles for all five films
• Remembering Kinji – a new featurette about director Kinji Fukasaku and his work, featuring interviews with Kenta Fukasaku and film critic and Fukasaku biographer Sadao Yamane
• Secrets of the Piranha Army – a new documentary about the troupe of supporting actors who appeared throughout the series, featuring new interviews with original Piranha members Masaru Shiga and Takashi Noguchi, plus second-generation Piranha, Takashi Nishina and Akira Murota
• All the Bad Guys – a new, comprehensive video guide to the actors in the films
• Fukasaku Family – a new interview with Proxy War and Police Tactics assistant director Toru Dobashi
• Man of Action – a new interview with series fight choreographer Ryuzo Ueno
• Tales of a Bit Player – a new interview with supporting actor and stuntman Seizo Fukumoto
• Last Days of the Boss – a new interview with Final Episode screenwriter Koji Takada
• Yakuza Graveyard – a new interview with Takashi Miike about Kinji Fukasaku and the yakuza film genre
• Original trailers for the series
• Original poster gallery for the series
• Limited Edition packaging and reversible sleeves for all five films including original and newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist
• THE COMPLETE SAGA [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE] - English-subtitled premiere of the 224-minute compilation edition of the first four films, previously screened only as part of a limited Japanese theatrical release in 1980 and on the Toei cable channel - Introduction by Complete Saga editorial supervisor Toru Dobashi
• THE YAKUZA PAPERS [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE] -150-page hardback book featuring writing on the history of the yakuza film genre, the background and continuing importance of the Battles series, and additional essays on the men who made them, including a newly-reprinted and fully annotated edition of Paul Schrader's classic 1974 Film Comment essay Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer, a new, exclusive English translation of screenwriter Kazuo Kasahara’s 1974 Scenario magazine essay on his writing process for the first four films, as well as new essays and interviews from critics and authors Chris D., Grady Hendrix, Patrick Macias, Tom Mes, Mark Schilling, and Jasper Sharp.

Individual releases of the films will follow sometime after the release of the boxset.

Here is the original announcement which includes additional information on the film series.


What do you think of this announcement? Will you be picking up this boxset?