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Posts Tagged "yakuza"
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Showdown in Little Tokyo ** (1991, Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) – Classic Movie Review 11,340
Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee form a good screen partnership in the 1991 crime film Showdown in Little Tokyo. Producer-director Mark L Lester’s 1991 crime film Showdown in Little Tokyo is an extremely crude and […]
Black Rain **** (1989, Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura) – Classic Movie Review 9417
The 1989 neo noir action crime movie Black Rain is a thoroughly involving, beautifully crafted cop thriller from Ridley Scott, who lifts a serviceably routine plot into an exciting movie. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia […]
First Love [Hatsukoi] ** (2019, Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Becky) – Movie Review
Masataka Kubota stars in director Takashi Miike’s romantic crime drama First Love [Hatsukoi] (2019) as young boxer Leo, who is unexpectedly knocked him out in the ring, setting him off on a chain of events […]
Brother *** (2000, Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Claude Maki) – Classic Movie Review 6530
Writer-director Takeshi Kitano also stars as an exiled Japanese gangster who teams up with a US mobster (Omar Epps) to battle for Los Angeles’s prime drug turf. This violent, stylishly arty 2000 crime thriller finds […]
Boiling Point [3-4 x jûgatsu] **** (1990, Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida) – Classic Movie Review 6529
Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano’s second film (after 1989’s Violent Cop) is a typically quirky take on the Yakuza movie. As well as writing and directing, he also stars (billed as ‘Beat’ Takeshi) as Uehara, a sadistic […]
Sonatine ***** (1993, Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe) – Classic Movie Review 6528
In his masterwork so far, Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano plays Aniki Murakawa, a world-weary Tokyo mobster whose boss orders him to Okinawa to resolve a dispute with a rival Yakuza gang. This is a masterly, […]
Kids Return [Kizzu ritân] **** (1996, Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto ) – Classic Movie Review 6526
Japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano returns to form in his compassionate 1996 boxing tale about two troublesome teenage drifters, boxer Shinji (Masanobu Andô) and Yakuza gangster Masaru (Ken Kaneko), who take up boxing when their intimidation tactics […]