Yakuza Apocalypse
Japan’s nuttiest filmmaker Takashi Miike strikes again
"...If you’re not familiar with Japan’s most lunatic filmmaker, Yakuza Apocalypse is a perfect introduction to Takashi Miike and..."
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Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Yakuza Princess
Brazilian-set Japanese revenger could be weirder and bloodier
"...rather cheeky cameo of its own), hard-hitting crime flick Yakuza Princess takes place in a greasy, neon-lit version of..."
Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Fantastic Fest 2015: Yakuza Apocalypse
Miike’s vampiric gangster film features gore and Keroppi
"...If you’re not familiar with Japan’s most lunatic filmmaker, Yakuza Apocalypse is a perfect introduction to Takashi Miike and..."
Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
Modern Yakuza: Outlaw Killer
"...Sugawara, Noboru Ando and Mayumi Nagisa. An arrogant wannabe yakuza storms his way out of the gutter and into..."
Nov. 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Yakuza Burial: Jasmine Flower
"...cop realizes he has more in common with his yakuza adversaries than he does with his hypocritical superiors...."
Nov. 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Minbo -- Or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
"...from the glamorized vision of the Japanese mob, or yakuza, as seen in stateside action films like Black Rain,..."
Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
Adrenaline Drive
"...a member of the slightly-less-common-than-four-leaf-clovers genre known as the yakuza comedy, only adds to the confusion. Its rhythms are..."
July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Brother
"...part new jack crime-family saga, and part traditional Japanese yakuza epic, it has plenty of Kitano's trademark hyperviolence but..."
Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
This Japanese mind-twister from Shion Sono screams with madness and mayhem.
"...open Cinema Paradiso, Bruce Lee’s Game of Death, the yakuza films of Takashi Miike, and Hammer & Tongs’ Son..."
Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Versus
"...is very little plot or dialogue involved in this yakuza zombie movie, but, honestly, shouldn’t the idea of yakuza..."
July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Gozu
Watching the latest from the insanely prolific Takashi Miike is akin to having some very bad acid slipped in your drink.
"...a film that parlays the hoary clichés of the yakuza film into a stunningly surrealistic exercise in cinematic madness,..."
Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The World of Kanako
In this bloody Japanese thriller, a father searches for his daughter
"...about the face and neck by a gang of yakuza thugs rolling hard on equally awful ecstasy. Yeah, come..."
Dec. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
As If High School Isn't Tough Enough Already Without a Chainsaw for an Arm?
Ninja bloodbath
"...Ami (Minase Yashiro) as she rains destruction upon a yakuza ninja family for the murder of her little brother,..."
June 5, 2008 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Racing junkies would be better off browsing the many online drifting videos in which the camera doesn't cut and the people don't speak.
"...as it turns out, holds close ties with the yakuza. But the organized-crime subplot proves inconsequential; the film's focus..."
June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark
City of Lost Souls
"...Tokyo criminal milieu in which factions of the Japanese yakuza, Chinese triads, and Russian mafia all mix it up...."
Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
"...caused partly by Nishi's absence, and his indebtedness to yakuza mobsters a growing threat to life and limb, Nishi..."
May 22, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
The Defiant Deviant
The Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse gang up for Bloodbath and Beyond: The Extreme Cinema of Takashi Miike and more
"...gory action, fidelity, and charred black humor of his Yakuza films. Gozu (March 22) does this also, albeit with..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar
After Atom
AFS presents the films of Kinji Fukasaku, Japan's premier post-war director.
"...known in Japan for attacking, with neo-realist zeal, the yakuza organized crime genre, discarding its antiquated chivalric pretenses in..."
Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff
First Love
Japanese master Takashi Miike at his quirkiest and most romantic
"...but hilarious police sting gone wrong that pits a yakuza clan and a group of Chinese gangsters together...."
Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino goes into overdrive with this story about the bride who was left for dead on her wedding day and seeks revenge against them that done her wrong.
"...Hong Kong chopsocky free-for-alls and part tribute to Japanese yakuza fighter Sonny Chiba (who has a small but critical..."
Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Sympathy for the Underdog
"...40-year-long career of this Japanese master of the violent yakuza film, whose work is little known in the West...."
Oct. 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Sympathy for the Underdog
Schedule for AFS's Kinji Fukasaku film series
"...SUN, 11/4, 5pm Modern Yakuza -- Outlaw Killer (1972, 90 min.)..."
Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature
Non-Stop
"...or roughing up his girlfriend. Takeda (Tsutsumi), the shiny-suited yakuza heavy sent to work over Aizawa, brings up the..."
Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Beverly Hills Ninja
"...one-half of a set of stolen Treasury plates the yakuza has. The Yakuza, naturally, would like the other half..."
Jan. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Johnny Mnemonic
William Gibson wrote this screenplay from his short story about the perils of cyberspace in the 21st century.
"...and vice versa) on the run from the vicious Yakuza with only 24 hours to download 300-odd gigabytes of..."
June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More
New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest
"...a homestead which shares its borders with inescapable evil. Yakuza Apocalypse D: Takashi Miike Japan, 2015, 115 min Texas..."
Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Bullet Train
Brad Pitt bumbles entertainingly through a hyperviolent slapstick comedy
"...Of course, this being Japan there must be the Yakuza, with veteran soft-spoken heavy Hiroyuki Sanada as limping mobster..."
Aug. 5, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Arkansas
Neo-noir is more Spaghetti Western than southern-fried Tarantino
"...Whether it's omerta in the Mafia, Ninkyodo for the yakuza, or a platitude like "honor among thieves," it's nothing..."
May 8, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The J-Pop Story Behind Takashi Miike's First Love
How the Japanese director never meant to become a genre master
"...to rubber suit monster series Ultraman Max, and now yakuza romance in First Love which arrives on VOD just..."
Feb. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf
Detective Chinatown 3
Massively successful Chinese action-comedy series heads to Japan
"...again – this time heading to Japan, where a Yakuza boss calls on their peculiar mishmash of skills to..."
Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review
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