Master Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku ( Battle Royale) is known for movies about war, yakuza crime and social corruption, and for inspiring Quentin Tarantino, who dedicated Japanese release prints of Kill Bill Vol. 1 to him. Fukasaku made over 65 films, and his Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, a WWII story released in 1972, posed a number of challenges to the company preparing it for DVD release, not the least of which was that only a print was available and it was extensively stained. Chicago-based i^3 had already handled restoration and color correction for several Fukasaku films on DVD, including a boxed six-DVD set, The Yakuza Papers.
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