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Giants and Toys

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Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Plot Synopsis:

Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire revolving around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry.

As a new recruit to the marketing department of World Caramel, fresh-faced graduate Nishi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) is eager to impress his ambitious and hard-nosed boss Goda (Black Test Car's Hideo Takamatsu), even if it strains his relationships with his college friend Yokoyama (Koichi Fujiyama) and budding love interest Masami (Michiko Ono), who work at the rival companies of Giant and Apollo. With World's lead over its competitors slipping badly, the two spot a chance to get back in the race in the shape of the pretty but unsophisticated 18-year-old, Kyoko (Hitomi Nozoe). Goda and Nishi get to work polishing this rough diamond as their new campaign girl, but as the three rival confectionary companies pitch themselves into an all-out advertising war that spills out onto the streets of Tokyo as it escalates to ludicrous extremes, Kyoko's newfound fame starts going to her head.

Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut, this lurid adaptation of the award-winning 1957 novel by Ken Kaiko is considered a landmark in Japanese film history and a key work by Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast, Red Angel), one of the country's most highly acclaimed directors of his generation. Its absurdist and acidly cynical take on the excesses of the media and advertising worlds recalls the work of Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?), as it presents a garish vision of a bold new postwar Japan where traditional company values come head-to-head with American-style consumer capitalism.

  • Release Details
    Release Date: May 11th, 2021
    Movie Release Year: 1958
    Release Country: United States
    Movie Studio: Arrow Video
  • Technical Specs
    Length:95 Minutes
    Specs:Blu-ray Disc
    Video Resolution/Codec:1080p AVC/MPEG-4
    Audio Formats:Japanese: LPCM Mono
    Subtitles/Captions:English
    Special Features:
    • Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar Irene González-López
    • Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns
    • In the Realm of the Publicists, a brand new visual essay by Asian cinema scholar Earl Jackson
    • Original Trailer
    • Image Gallery
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
    • First pressing only: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Michael Raine