{"product_id":"wolves-pigs-and-men-okami-to-buta-to-ningen-masters-of-cinema-special-edition-blu-ray","title":"WOLVES PIGS AND MEN Blu Ray Standard edition","description":"\u003cp data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eA standout yakuza film directed by a master of the genre in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eKinji Fukasaku\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cspan\u003eBattles Without Honour and Humanity\u003c\/span\u003e),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolves, Pigs and Men\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an uncompromising treatise on brutality and brotherhood starring\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eRentarô Mikuni\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cspan\u003eHarakiri\u003c\/span\u003e),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eKin'ya Kitaôji\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cspan\u003eBattles Without Honour and Humanity: Final Episode\u003c\/span\u003e) and the inimitable\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen Takakura\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cspan\u003eAbashiri Prison\u003c\/span\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKuroki (Mikuni), Jirô (Takakura) and Sabu (Kitaôji) are three brothers born into poverty. Kuroki, the eldest, finds an escape from his squalid beginnings by turning to organised crime – and soon both Jirô and Sabu have followed him into the yakuza lifestyle. But none of the brothers see eye to eye, each of them showing more loyalty to their criminal comrades than to their siblings. Following a stint in prison, Jirô convinces Sabu to help him pull off a potentially lucrative heist, leading to a series of betrayals and horrifically violent acts that will test the bonds of blood to their breaking point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlending the staple themes of the Japanese gangster film with narrative and aesthetic qualities borrowed from the French New Wave and American film noir,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWolves, Pigs and Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estands as one of the finest yakuza movies of the 1960s. 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