Tag Archives: yakuza

Graveyard of Honor (Jingi No Hakaba, 1975)

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Randy Byers

What Rex Baylon said. Also, he got screencaps, while I was unable to. So this is another yakuza film by Kinji Fukasaku, whose Yakuza Graveyard I watched last week. This one is based on a real life yakuza named Rikio Ishikawa, … Continue reading →

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Yakuza Graveyard (Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana, 1976)

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Randy Byers

Kinji Fukasaku was a director of popular genre films in Japan for forty years. While he tried his hand at just about every genre you can think of, including goofy international sci-fi blockbusters like Green Slime (1968), he’s probably most … Continue reading →

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Outrage (Autoreiji, 2010)

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Randy Byers

Definitely not for the faint of heart. Takeshi Kitano’s latest yakuza film is on one level a long string of violent beatings, maimings, and murder. The story is very simple, although the large cast of characters and twisting betrayals makes … Continue reading →

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