Another belter from the late Kinji Fukasaku's back catalogue. Loosely based on a true story, Fukasaku presents a chaotic swirl of gangland melodrama torn from the prison diary of a Yakuza footsoldier (Bunta Sugawara), seasoning his wild rumination on the loss of the old warrior's code with frequent bursts of histrionic Day-Glo brutality.

Jules Dassin's 1955 heist flick is the genre's benchmark movie. The silent 28-minute set-piece robbery scene provides the film's highlight, but elsewhere there's much to admire in Jean Servais' hangdog protagonist and Dassin's pre-Nouvelle Vague documentary approach to shooting Parisian nightlife.

Jazzy debut from Anthony Hopkins' girl

Prefab Sprout mainman releases extraordinary "talking book" opus

Well-connected Cornish raver calms down a bit

Energetic, buoyant contemporary jazz

Blues-influenced US troubadour's best yet

Blue Thumb label-era Love. Includes a ho-hum summit meet with Hendrix

Two essential seminars from country-rock school of midwifery, the latter including a clutch of unreleased obscurities

Undistinguished '60s vocal group