Rent Play It Cool (1970)
3.5 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 34min
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- Synopsis:
"Play it Cool" is a chic and erotically charged drama starring popular Japanese singer of the day Mari Atsumi as a college girl negotiating her way through the male-dominated hierarchies of Tokyo's seductive but treacherous nightclub culture. Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a pretty fashion student who shares a cramped home with her mother Tomi (Akemi Negishi) and good-for-nothing stepfather Ryoichi. Tomi works at a local hostess bar and hopes for a better fate for Yumi. When Ryoichi violently forces himself upon her blossoming daughter, Tomi is not afraid to take action to protect her, an act which lands her in jail. Left to fend for herself, Yumi is taken in by her mother's former place of employment, where she finds herself fighting off the unwanted attentions of the men who swarm around her. Then one day, a rescue by handsome former lawyer Nozawa (Yusuke Kawazu) from a vicious gangster seems to offer an escape into an altogether glitzier world, albeit one that turns out fraught with similar dangers. - Actors:
- Mari Atsumi, Yûsuke Kawazu, Akemi Negishi, Kô Nishimura, Ryoichi Tamagawa, Sanae Nakahara, Tomo'o Nagai, Reiko Kasahara, Tomoko Mayama, Sei Hiraizumi
- Directors:
- Yasuzô Masumura
- Writers:
- Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, Yasuzô Masumura, Masayuki Tôyama
- Aka:
- Denki kurage / Electric Jellyfish / Electric Medusa
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/03/2025
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary with critic and Japanese cinema specialist Jasper Sharp and professor and Japanese literature specialist Anne McKnight
- Too Cool for School, brand new video essay on Play it Cool and the career of writer-director Yasuzo Masumura by Japanese film scholar Mark Roberts
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery