Tattooed Life Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), 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. Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) 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. 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 Seijun Suzuki (2006, 10 mins) Newly edited archival interview with art director Takeo Kimura (2006, 12 mins) Trailer Newly improved English subtitle translation Sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow TRAILER Press "Suzuki shows us how a creative force can take what could otherwise have been a very conventional film and make it startling visual and emotionally engaging." - Richard Durrance, UK Anime Network "thanks to Radiance Films, there’s an opportunity for a brand-new audience to see what Suzuki sees, to investigate what he values" - Douglass Davidson, Elements of Madness Year: 1965 Cert: 18 Format: Blu-ray Region: AB RAD070BD EAN: 5060974681334 Release date: 22/06/2026