Takashi Miike is truly one of the most versatile film directors working today. You cannot pigeonhole him. He slips into action, drama, comedy, family, fantasy, science fiction, manga, or art movies, or just plain weird, cultish movies, and back again, with ease, skill, and dexterity.
This movie is more or less a conventional action movie. It is a typical revenge movie, the rage of retribution by a young Yakuza gangster avenging the death of his mentor.
It is one of his neglected gems, while this might be easy to do as he has put out one hundred movies at this writings.
It also has, in my opinion, one of the best fight scenes ever committed to film, ever.
Nuff said.
This movie is more or less a conventional action movie. It is a typical revenge movie, the rage of retribution by a young Yakuza gangster avenging the death of his mentor.
It is one of his neglected gems, while this might be easy to do as he has put out one hundred movies at this writings.
It also has, in my opinion, one of the best fight scenes ever committed to film, ever.
Nuff said.