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MCT:March 29, 2008
Hyperviolent bloodletting. Beginning in postwar Japan, a small group of friends are caught in a yakuza rivalry and have to choose sides. As the title suggests, hypocrisy, betrayal, and assassinations are executed without honor or loyalty.
While the action sequences are fast and furious, the multitude of characters makes the film hard to follow at times. That is, until the characters start dying and process of elimination allows you to figure out who's left. Looking forward to seeing the complete series.
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MCT:August 6, 2007
Great opening chapter to what I'm certain will be a great movie series. This would've got a perfect score except that (and this could very well be my own fault) I couldn't keep up with who's who. Also, for all the betrayals and backstabbings, I found that the initial friendships were not focused on enough, perhaps taking away from the tradegy of the plot. Despite that though, kickass story about a henchman who over the course of his yakuzadom, learns that when you work for criminals...well, you work for scumbags. Wheras a film like Sydney Pollack's, The Yakuza, really shows the honor system within the organized crime syndicate, Fukasaku throws that all away to show it's every man for himself while holding on to the pretension of the yakuza code. Fascinating stuff, and I look quite forward to seeing the rest to the films in the series.
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MCT:May 1, 2007the score, especially of the first movie, reminds me of some spaghetti westerns, mostly companeros. every time something happens, which is usually a stabbing or shooting, the same crazy music plays. i love it, despite it being over thetop and ridiculous, its just great. all of these yakuza and samurai movies are over the top, and while kurasawa and kobayashi mastered the samurai epics, fukasaku, with the exception of suzuki owning his own niche within this, owns the yakuza genre.
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