Rapacious Jailbreaker (Blu-ray) ***Preorder*** 5/20

Black marketeer Ueda is sent to jail after being robbed and retaliating. Sent to prison he won't let any walls stop him from getting revenge.

In the free-for-all chaos after World War II, black marketeer Ueda (Hiroki Matsukata, Cops vs Thugs) is robbed of a stash of morphine. He takes his brutal revenge, but is arrested for murder and sentenced to 20 years. He escapes and is caught, but no matter where they send him, Ueda won't let prison walls stop him. Directed by a master of the genre and based on the real exploits of a seven-time prison escapee, this ranks as one of the rawest entries in the 1970s cycle of Japanese true-account crime films.

Bonus Materials

• High-Definition digital transfer
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Audio commentary by yakuza film expert Nathan Stuart (2025)
• Visual essay on Sadao Nakajima by Tom Mes (2025)
• New English subtitle translation
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Earl Jackson and an archival review of the film