Live Action Starting With 'Y'

Young Japan is a series of five hard-hitting & controversial titles from the greatest Japanese directors, each with a different volume of the anime Salaryman Kintaro. The second in this series is the Takashi Miike classic Ley Lines, which comes with Salaryman Kintaro Part four.

This two-DVD pack contains Takashi Miike's Young Thugs: Innocent Blood and Nostalgia.

A Takashi Miike film that is to a degree autobiographical, Young Thugs - Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving school. This is a story of rough kids trying to find their way in the world, a world of violence, sentiment, and comedy - in a film that moves at a cracking pace from the opening shot.

Young Thugs - Nostalgia is Takashi Miike's favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including inserted biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school life of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and lovable.

Enter the secret world of the Yakuza. Young Naoki Watanabe gets caught up in the wave of juvenile delinquency. He's a failure at school work and in his personal life. His mother driven by shame and despair is reunited with an old friend Mr. Imai, who offers to introduce her son into the ranks of the Yakuza. Divided by loyalties to his mother and to his new family, Naoki will have to choose between the light and the dark.