My Beautiful Laundrette Blu-ray Biographical/Historical Drama Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill)

Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film

the Maeda family seem ever so self-effacing - but their modest façade hides another truth

Hill revisits the film from the perspective of a contemporary era of political strife

A nostalgic look at life amid the tumult in 1960s Belfast as seen through the eyes of a young boy from a loving family

After shooting a drunk in self defence and humiliating the local newspaper editor into taking his own life

My Beautiful Laundrette Blu-ray Biographical/Historical Drama Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill)'My Beautiful Laundrette' Director: Stephen Frears (1985) Criterion Collection Blu ray 2K transfer Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid 1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between