Yakuza

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The Wolves (aka: Shussho Iwai) — dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   October 3, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

Director: Hideo Gosha
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Noboru Ando, Tetsuro Tamba, Kyoko Enami
Genre: Yakuza
To be completely honest, I’ve about worn myself out on Yakuza films. In fact, I really had to push myself to finally sit down and watch The Wolves (aka: Shussho Iwai). Sure, I knew it was a Hideo Gosha picture, and starred [...]

Fast and the Furious 3 Tokyo Drift movie review screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   June 14, 2006   ⋅   Comments [14]

She Said:
So I wanted to see Fast and the Furious 3 because a) it’s in Tokyo and I haven’t been there in ages b) Chris does a mean slide that will evolve into a scary drift when the popo are at bay c) what the hell, it was free. Should I also mention that I [...]

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable movie review

by Chris   ⋅   May 14, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

These days the term fierce has been so overused by hip-hop artists, Tyra Banks, and Inside Hollywood celebrity-trash mongers, it seems to have lost its meaning. But if one were forced to find a dictionary definition personification of the word fierce, that one person that would fit the bill would have to be Meiko Kaji [...]

[The Pinky Violence Collection] Criminal Woman: Killing Melody movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 23, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody, the first film in the Criminal Woman series, marks the 10th pairing of Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto, and frankly, it is one of the best.
The film opens on Reiko Ike in a trendy go-go club. Dressed in everyday housewife garb and looking quite worried, she seems incredibly out of sync [...]

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