Irezumi Faces of Death On Hard Boiled Fiction –

On Hard Boiled Fiction – Crime writer and critic Maxim Jakubowski discusses the emergence of hard boiled detective characters from the pages of the pulp magazines from the 1920s through to the 1950s

the most chilling is The Skull

makes this unique historical drama a masterwork of the screen

As a string of unexplained phenomena and horrifying apparitions start to plague the homes of his suburban Buenos Aires street

a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter

Irezumi Faces of Death On Hard Boiled Fiction –Drawn from the pen of one of Japan's foremost writers of the 20th century, Junichiro Tanizaki (A Fool's Love, The Makioka Sisters), Irezumi is a stylish tale of lust, betrayal and revenge directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Blind Beast). Masumura's muse Ayako Wakao (The Blue Sky Maiden, Red Angel) stars as Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, who is tempted by her lover, Shinsuke, a lowly employee of her father's, to elope. During their