Ken to Kazu

[Machine Translation] We're going to crawl up from here. The birth of an unrelenting and shocking hard noir. A debut film about men living in the darkness, tossed about by drugs and unable to escape! Although an independent film, it has won a storm of awards at various film festivals including Mainichi Film Contest, Takasaki Film Festival, Shindo Kaneto Award, and Tokyo International Film Festival! Directed, written and edited by Hiroshi Shoji, who makes his feature film debut with this film. The most controversial film of 2016 is now available on Blu-ray. --Ken and Kazu are bad friends who make money through the black market of methamphetamine. Ken, however, begins to hope for an honest life when his girlfriend, Saki, becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, Kazu is unable to confide in his mother, who suffers from dementia, that he needs money to put her in a facility. Eventually, Kazu takes the dangerous step of teaming up with a rival group in order to increase his trafficking routes. Ken decides to make this his last job, but the yakuza who control the group catches his attention and gradually catches up with him.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: theatrical trailer(s), making-of, short film "Ken to Kazu"

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ここから這い上がるんだよ―。容赦なき衝撃のハード・ノワール誕生。ヤクに翻弄され、逃れられない闇に生きる男たちを描いたデビュー作!! 自主映画ながらも毎日映画コンクール、高崎映画祭、新藤兼人賞、東京国際映画祭など各映画祭で受賞の嵐! 監督・脚本・編集は本作が長編デビューとなる小路紘史。ケン役・カトウシンスケ、カズ役・毎熊克哉の熱演はもちろん、『ライチ☆光クラブ』での好演が記憶に新しいテル役・藤原季節など、脇を固める役者の強烈な存在感にも圧倒される。2016年度最大の問題作が遂にBlu-ray化。 ――悪友であるケンとカズは、覚醒剤の闇取引で金を稼いでいた。しかし、ケンは彼女の早紀が妊娠した事によりまっとうな人生を願うようになる。一方、カズは認知症の母を施設に入れるために金が必要なことを打ち明けられずにいた。やがてカズは密売ルートを増やすため、敵対グループと手を組む危険な行動に出る。これを最後の仕事にしようと決意したケンだったが、元締めのヤクザに目をつけられ次第に追いつめられていく―。

映像特典: 劇場予告編、メイキング、アウトテイクス、短編作品「ケンとカズ」