Kinji Fukasaku

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Cops vs. Thugs — dvd movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   January 17, 2007   ⋅   Comment now

Hothead cops, warring yakuza, prime waterfront real estate. It’s about as combustible a mix as one could hope for, and the backdrop of Kinji Fukasaku’s ever so bluntly titled Cops vs. Thugs. All Fukasaku’s favorite themes are present and accounted for: honorable gangsters, despicable authority figures, oppression, passion, fury, and the lone protagonist who refuses [...]

Yakuza Graveyard — dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   August 9, 2006   ⋅   Comment now

Rage, honor, betrayal, duty, racism, love. All are at the heart of Fukasaku’s magnum opus, Yakuza Graveyard, a stunning cops and Yakuza tale that stands with the best hard boilded cop films of all time, be it domestic or international.
Tetsuya Watari plays tough as rusty-nails cop, Kuroiwa. An outcast from his youth, Kuroiwa is [...]

Battle Royale II (aka: Batoru Rowaiaru II Chinkonka) — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 29, 2004   ⋅   Comments [6]

ENDLESS DISPLAYS OF STUPIDITY Every country suffers from sequelitis at some point in time. As with those spurned by occidental production companies, Asian cinema has had its fair run of sequels in the past two decades. Some have topped the originals, some managed to entertain while being vastly inferior, and some have crashed and burned [...]

Battle Royale (aka: Batoru Rowaiaru) — dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   October 18, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

SPECIAL EDITION DIRECTOR’S CUT DVD Note: While many people believe this film to be banned in America due to its “excessively violent” nature, the actual reason for its absence from American markets is due to the fact Toei, the film company behind Battle Royale, refuses to have BR distributed in America at any cost. Unfortunately [...]

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