ARROW Assembled An Action-Packed And Brutal Lineup For June
Arrow Video is excited to announce the June 2023 lineup for ARROW which includes Martial Arts, Blood Money, John Cassavetes, Monte Hellman, and Sci-Fi Stunners!
June 2nd kicks off the month with ARROW’s latest curation of Paul Joyce documentaries, this time looking at legendary filmmaker John Cassavetes. Straight from the mouth of his friend and collaborator co-star Peter Falk (Columbo) in Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes.
After a six-year directing hiatus, Monte Hellman sat down with Paul Joyce and just talked for an hour while Joyce filmed. The result is Plunging on Alone: Monte Hellman’s Life In a Day.
June 2nd kicks off ARROW’s Seasons with Ero Guro: The Japanese sub-genre of horror and pink films Ero Guro combines the erotic (ero) and the grotesque (guro) to deviant, decadent, and unforgettable effect. ARROW’s Ero Guro collection features the unholy trinity of core Ero Guro films. Teruo Ishii’s Shogun’s Joy of Torture and Horrors of Malformed Men and Yasuzo Masumura’s Blind Beast. Plus plenty more exciting, explicit, and enticingly depraved delights to delve into.
Titles Include: Shogun’s Joy of Torture, Blind Beast, Irezumi
On June 6, ARROW invites subscribers to Warriors Two. After making his directorial debut with the intense The Iron-Fisted Monk and firmly solidifying his worth at Golden Harvest, Sammo Hung would be given more creative control behind the camera. Now able to inject more of his own personality, Hung would bring to life the more upbeat (yet only slightly less violent) Wing Chun cult classic: Warriors Two! Predating the Ip Man tetralogy by three decades – as well as Hung’s own The Prodigal Son (starring Yuen Biao as the younger incarnation of Leung Tsan) by a few years. Warriors Two is one of the earliest films to authentically portray the teachings of Wing Chun while also delivering the kind of kinetic and pulse-pounding fights synonymous with the name Sammo Hung!
On June 16, Splatter icon Eli Roth takes a stroll through the archives with Eli Roth Selects. “I absolutely love Arrow and have been a collector of their editions for years, and Arrow Player is the most streamed channel in my house. I’ve seen a lot of Select lists, and while I agree with them, I wanted to highlight some that people might have otherwise overlooked.”
Titles Include: Basket Case, Contamination, Madhouse
On June 19, ARROW plays Toru Murakawa’s Game Trilogy. Made at the end of the 1970s, Toru Murakawa’s Game Trilogy launched actor Yûsaku Matsuda as the Toei tough guy for a new generation. Matsuda was the definitive screen icon of the 1980s until his career was tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 40, following his Hollywood debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Rain.
On June 23, ARROW heads to the beach for some terror with shark attacks, including Cruel Jaws and Deep Blood.
For the penultimate Season, ARROW boldly goes to the stars on June 23, seeking out new life and new cinema. The Sci-Fi Stunners collection includes planet-probing, time travel, cosmos-trotting, aliens, and more.
Titles Include: No Escape, Donnie Darko, Crimes of the Future
ARROW caps off the month with Cosa Nostra Collection! The most American of directors according to celebrated critic Paolo Mereghetti, Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) nevertheless surveyed his own country’s mafia history, unlike anyone before him, to critical and box office success.
Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema, Damiani points the camera at himself and the genre as he investigates the social impact of mafia violence. A fitting end to this survey of Damiani’s Cosa Nostra.
Titles Include: Day of the Owl, The Case is Closed, Forget It, How To Kill a Judge.
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