3 Seconds Before Explosion (Japanese, Subtitled in English)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 19, 2009
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Akira Kobayashi | |
Directed by | Motuma Ida |
Entertainment Reviews:
The action scenes here are very rough and fumbled, but I found this one... ludicrously entertaining.
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Product Description:
This late 1960s Japanese yakuza thriller from the infamous Nikkatsu studio shows that the grindhouse cinema of Japan wasn’t only interested in kinky sex--it also had a thing for gratuitous violence.
Product Description:
A lightning-paced 60’s crime film from Japan’s Nikkatsu Studios, Three Seconds to Explosion packs enough subterfuge and action into its 84 volatile minutes to fill out a dozen pictures made anywhere else.
“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki (Akira Kobayashi – The Yakuza Papers) en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone renegade from the shadowy espionage bureau that honed his killer instincts to a razor’s edge, the implacable Yabuki teams up with fellow mercenary crime fighter Yamawaki (Hideki Takahashi – Fighting Elegy). Together, they follow a trail of stolen gems leading from the final days of WWII to a contemporary conspiracy that reaches into the highest corridors of corporate power and nefarious international villainy.
A widescreen whirlwind of sharkskin thread, revenge-crazed assassins, ticking time bombs, deadly booby traps, and triple-crossing lingerie-clad femme fatales, Three Seconds to Explosion connects Nikkatsu’s “mood action” yakuza gangster films of the 50’s and 60’s to the studio’s subsequent kinky 70’s “pink films,” and is a primer in the tough, super-cool world of “no borders” exploitation cinema Nikkatsu style.
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- UPC: 738329063627
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