I liked it. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she’s about to be deported from Japan. Is it really him? His follow-up, “China Nights (Shina no Yoru),” made it to #58 in the U.S. and was the last Japanese artist to chart here until…Being generous with the rating because the actors should get credit for participating in this mishap. What follows with its wacky premise and mixed influences is a choppy yet engaging feature that at times showcases some of the highest marks of both cowboy and samurai cinema.
He encounters a floating death trap loaded with migrants. Humberto Fuentes is a wealthy doctor whose wife has recently died. Long Shot 8. They may however be a little unexpected help from the police.Joe and his delivery company friends are back.
It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo’s booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. A member, Hazama, beeing jealous over Masakis high rank and starts planning ways to get rid of the newcomer from the gang.A female ex-soldier comes out of retirement to put a stop to the kidnapping of a young boy who is being used a political pawn.Two mysterious tough guys infuriate a local gang after helping an elderly grocery store owner with his debts by robbing a yakuza organised gambling den.Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Wanted what he was promised, Tetsuya becomes a one-man path of destruction, only to be betrayed once again…After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. Ignoring the Family executives’ mocks of “Muto escaped to prison”, Seiji prepares for the battle and attacks like a demon on behalf of his boss…The film is based around the interactions of a triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy with a heart of gold, is fresh out of prison, but it’s not long before he lands himself in trouble again. Expectations collide as the key players wonder which gang the gunman will join. If he fails, his wife’s fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutesA barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss’ life and thus makes his way up in the organization. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. That remains my favorite aspect about Miike as a filmmaker, and why I'm surely coming back to him again and again throughout the year. Welcome to September's scavenger hunt! Writer gets curious about the violent and sado-masochistic ongoings in his neighbour's apartments. With Franco Nero. Hoping to keep that up for this year, and it's a good idea to start early, and with a film of his I've wanted to watch for a while. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. From queer masterpieces to camp classics, documentaries to romantic comedies,…These are the greatest films* I have ever seen, and from which I am in the process of establishing a…First of all... What's a Black Comedy on films?, here are some definitions of this subgenre of Comedy that can…
This was already more than it needed to be.Give me the more inventive and bonkers Miike films any day.Definitely my next fashion style will be samurai of the old west with yakuza touchesThere are some really cool set pieces in this and the action is fun but none of that elevates Sukiyaki above being an average Miike production. And, several connections are made as the story develops.
Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sakuraba) goes after the gang that killed her family in Takashi Miike’s action-packed thriller. Takashi Miike directs this action-packed sci-fi thriller that takes its cues from the more mainstream Robocop but amps up the violence for maximum effect.Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa’s largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.In a world where people can wield psychic avatars, a family must unite to track down a serial killer.Shoichi Yomi bravely fights in an attempt to end an underworld battle in Hiroshima and as a result becomes a vegetable. Sukiyaki Western Django is a very creative and interesting film with a unique story, that is a melting pot of Samurai tales, folk legends, Spaghetti Westerns and Shakespeare. Miike’s sequel is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs!