Favorite Yakuza Movie

by **jingai** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:17 am

Well, what's your favorite?
Do you like Beat Takeshi movies?
Suzuki Seijun?
Fukasaku Kinji?
Takakura Ken?
So many to choose from.

by **cstaylor** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 11:51 pm

Can't beat "Grand Theft Auto 3". :wink:

by **kamome** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 12:35 am

I've only seen Sonatine, when I was in the States, and the DVD was available with English subtitles. I wonder if English subtitled-DVDs are even available in Japan for any of those movies.

by **jingai** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 1:43 am

My recommendation would be to check out
http://www.yesasia.com/

They stock DVDs and VCDs from Hong Kong/Korea/Japan/US and ship to Japan. I don't know what they charge to send to Japan, as I've only ordered from the States. Worth a try, they have some great flicks!

by **kotatsuneko** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:14 pm

no mention of imho the best yakuza film ever.... Minbo no Onna?!

or even Osaka Blues...?

its not fair to offer Take chan`s films tho, hard for anyone to compare with the dude...

we saw him in london for his kids return euro premier, he even waved when we shouted take chan...

a friend of mine in london used to work in the daiwa foundation, who have an art gallery, take chan visited there and was very very quiet...

hey we even saw pei (hayashia pei is it?( he was wearing an all pink outfit, and had 2 watches, one for london time, the other for jap time,, we got a photo with him, he was rushing to the airport, but his assistant never sent it to us ..

by **Andocrates** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:16 pm

I voted for Brother and I've seen them all.

he was so good in that movie, the broken bottle in the face of Epps, the way he built his family, the way he killed, the "beat face twitch" plus there were a ton of awesome japanese lessons all through that movie.

by **bejiita** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:34 pm

kotatsuneko wrote:no mention of imho the best yakuza film ever.... Minbo no Onna?!

This is the one I would've voted for. Now give me some money dammit! :twisted:

Oops, still in extortion mode. Never mind.

Hmm, does Returner count as a Yakuza movie? It does have Yakuza in it. And a Terminator-travel-back-in-time-to-change-the-future rip-off plot, and Matrix-like special effects. Oh yeah, did I mention the aliens?

Or how about Versus? You've got a few modern Yakuza who are reincarnations of henchmen who worked for an old wizard who are currently killing zombies.

Hmmm, seems like the script is a little thin and they need to add some more plot twists to it. Maybe they should've filmed it in reverse like Memento. :roll:

by **kotatsuneko** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 3:54 pm

didnt take chan film brother an hour over the contracted time? i seem to remember it weighed in about 3 hours and the film co wasnt happy, anyone know if a directors cut ever made it out?

wasnt there a whole lot more of take chan in the butchered film hash of gibsons johnny mneumonic - i cant spell? in the jap version?

by **GomiGirl** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:53 pm

What was the English Yak movie with Michael Douglas? "Black Rain" - is that it? damn! it is years since I saw it.. I thought the young bad guy in the tight leathers was a babe... Twas a bit cheesey if I remember correctly..

by **Taro Toporific** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:31 pm

GomiGirl wrote:What was the English Yak movie with Michael Douglas? "Black Rain" - is that it? damn! it is years since I saw it.. I thought the young bad guy in the tight leathers was a babe... Twas a bit cheesey if I remember correctly..

The film was real cheese.
The villain was the real thing.

Damn, you're right about the villain the leathers Yusaku Matsuda....was a Japanese James Dean. Sorry to say, he did a Dean. He was diagnosed with cancer just after the film was made. His performance had power of a man who already had an inkling it was his last important part.

[url=http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:BLo2h6hpmHAC:[url]www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2300/words3.html+%22Black+Rain%22+film&hl=en&ie=UTF-8]Matsuda[/url] passed away at 6:45 p.m. on November 6, 1989.[/url]. The inscription on his tombstone is one word in Chinese character -- "MU" which means "Nothing."

Also loved by all as...

by **GomiGirl** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:37 pm

His official site

I didn't know that he had passed...

by **jingai** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 2:00 am

Black Rain is one of the only American Yakuza films, which makes it special. It also has Takakura Ken, so it must be good. I have to say, turning bosozoku into black-clad assasins and Osaka into Blade Runner was a bit of a stylistic stretch.

The other American Yakuza film is The Yakuza with Robert Mitchum as the American Oyaji sailor coming back to settle scores. I think Paul Schraeder (Taxi Driver, Mishima, AutoFocus) wrote the script. Damn good if you're nostalgic for early post-war Japan.

I don't consider supernatural yakuza films yakuza films. Really, you could call Johnny Mnemonic a yakuza picture but what's the point?

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