Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha w/SLIP King Kong Director Howard Hawks serves up

Director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of Bogart and Lauren Bacall)

unsung British films of the twenty-first century

DISC TWO: ACROSS 110TH STREET (1972 - BLU-RAY):

Disc 9 (EPs 10-11) Complex / Forward Base

Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha w/SLIP King Kong Director Howard Hawks serves upOnimasa: Matsue is the adoptive daughter of the Kiryuin House, a small yakuza clan in Shikoku. Onimasa, their leader, is the last heir to a family of samurai. He is hard in business but respected by the poor because of his fairness. Matsue lives in the middle of this society, between gang wars and rivalries among the chief's mistresses. But when Onimasa takes a chivalrous attitude and finds himself on the side of train workers on strike, it annoys the