Streaming on ARROW – electrifying Japanese underworld gems from the legendary studio Toei

From the legendary studio Toei comes an electrifying selection of Japanese video underworld gems

V-CINEMA ESSENTIALS

Streaming exclusively on ARROW this month, nine electrifying direct-to-video genre favourites from the legendary Japanese studio Toei.

Bursting with action, thrills, and double-crosses, this selection of gems from the Japanese video underworld includes Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage, Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet, Stranger, Carlos, Burning Dog, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat, The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses, Danger Point: The Road to Hell, and XX: Beautiful Hunter.

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BURNING DOG

Inspired by true events, Burning Dog is an action-packed heist film where a group of thieves plot to rob twenty million dollars from a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.

CARLOS

Veteran manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi (Be-Bop High School) takes the helm for Carlos, in which a Brazilian-Japanese petty criminal sees an opportunity to play rival yakuza gangs against each other, but bites off much more than he can chew.

CRIME HUNTER: BULLETS OF RAGE

Fast-paced and action-packed, Crime Hunter sees detective “Joker” Kawamura out for revenge against the men who gunned down his partner. Along the way he teams up with Lily, a gun-toting nun looking to get back 5 million dollars that was stolen from her church.

DANGER POINT: THE ROAD TO HELL

Show Aikawa and Jo Shishido reunite in Danger Point: The Road to Hell, as a duo of contract killers whose fragile partnership is tested when their most recent hit starts to have unforeseen consequences.

NEO CHINPIRA: ZOOM GOES THE BULLET

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet pairs rising star Show Aikawa with veteran actor Jo Shishido (Branded to Kill). Junko (Aikawa) is a wannabe yakuza who gets more than he bargained for when tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member, or face the consequences for betrayal.

FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: DEATH THREAT

The sequel to one of the most iconic Japanese franchises of all time, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat sees a female assassin hired to infiltrate a women’s prison and search for The Scorpion, a legendary rebellious prisoner hiding in the bowels of the prison.

STRANGER

In Shunichi Nagasaki’s unbearably tense thriller Stranger, a late-night taxi driver is stalked by the unseen driver of an SUV, who just might have a connection to the taxi driver’s criminal past.

THE HITMAN: BLOOD SMELLS LIKE ROSES

Immortal exploitation director Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men) turns his camera to hard-boiled crime with The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses, in which a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down those responsible for his wife’s death, killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war.

XX: BEAUTIFUL HUNTER

Assassin and femme fatale Shion rebels against the fanatical religious order who prepared her from birth to be the perfect killer in XX: Beautiful Hunter, a whirlwind of romance and violence from legendary Roman Porno director Masaru Konuma.

V-Cinema Essentials is available to stream exclusively on ARROW and will be available to own on Limited Edition Blu-ray from 28th April.

APRIL RELEASE CALENDAR

Streaming Now
Stéphane – 2023
The Outwaters – 2023
Ghost Light – 2018
Rejected (short) – 2024
FROM.BEYOND (short) – 2022
They Called Me David (short) – 2021
Booger – 2024
Burning Dog – 1991
Carlos – 1991

From April 11
Capsules – 2023
The Visitants – 1985

From April 14
Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage – 1989
Danger Point: The Road to Hell – 1991

From April 18
Xtro 3 – 1995
Hide and Go Shriek – 1988

From April 21
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes The Bullet – 1991
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat – 1991

From April 25
He Dreams of Giants – 2019
Lost in La Mancha – 2002
Purgatory – 1988
Mute Witness 4K – 1995

From April 28
Stranger – 1991
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses – 1991
XX: Beautiful Hunter – 1994

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