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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese yakuza film

Yakuza film

is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, also referred to as the Japanese Mafia.-Ninkyo eiga:...

 directed by Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike

is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

. The film reunites Miike with Riki Takeuchi

Riki Takeuchi

is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike...

, who stars as the main character.

Plot

Seiji (played by Takeuchi) grew up as an orphan who was raised by Boss Muto, whom Seiji considers his father. The Muto family is composed only of Boss Muto, Seiji and Yoshi. However they are part of the Date syndicate. A rival syndicate, the Tendo, attack the Date family, which leads to a meeting in which Boss Muto was required to pay money to help finance the impending war. However Muto does not have enough so offers an assassination instead. To stop his boss from serving a sentence for murder, Seiji informs the police where Muto hides his gun. Boss Muto gets arrested and sentenced to serve 2 years in prison. Seiji and Yoshi rob the financier of the Tendo group and buy weapons from a Taiwanese dealer. The two then attempt to murder the head boss of the 15,000 member strong Tendo group. They nearly succeed as the boss is in critical condition. The act has compromised the future of the Date family. The Tendo family respond quickly with a wave of brutal murders. Seiji and Yoshi return to the Taiwanese dealer and tell him the two plan to attack the number two man of the Tendo family. Boss Muto is expelled from the Date clan, while in prison, because of Seiji's actions. Yoshi gets killed by an assassin squad under the order of the Tendo family, while visiting his girlfriend. After hearing of his bosses expulsion Seiji returns to the Date headquarters and shoots the first person who yells at him. A member of the Date clan explains boss Muto was expelled because he went to prison as when he was supposed to commit an assassination, so they think Boss Muto himself in to police. Seiji readily explains it was him who told on the boss. Seiji carries out the assassination of the number two boss and is shot shortly after. Seiji then goes to the bar of Boss Muto's wife, who takes him to a doctor. Soon after, Boss Date is assassinated. The Taiwanese arms dealer shows up at Boss Muto's wife's house with weapons. Before he leaves he tells her that Seiji must love her because of his actions. Boss Muto is murdered in prison. Seiji then retaliates by killing boss Muto's killer on the way to his trial. Seiji and boss Muto's wife plan to escape to the Philippines. As their boat begins to arrive boss Muto's wife throws Seiji's gun into the water with hopes of a peaceful future. As they turn to get their luggage they notice a police man, who had provided information to Seiji, hanging from a crane nearby. The two become aware they are cornered at the end of the dock and their boat turns around when it sees trouble. The assassin squad closes in on them and open fire as Seiji blocks all the shots from hitting Muto's wife. As Seiji lies dead the leader of the assassin squad tells him that he's "way too cool" and walks off without harming boss Muto's wife. The ending is somewhat similar to Rainy Dog

Rainy Dog

Rainy Dog is a Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike. Although the movie contains a fair amount of controversial material, the overall theme of the movie is place on the unlikely relationships formed between a hitman and his girlfriend / hooker and son.This movie is the second part of the Black...

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Cast

• Mickey Curtis
  Mickey Curtis
  is a Japanese actor, singer, and TV celebrity. He began his entertainment career in 1958 as an actor, and later became a rockabilly singer. In 1967, he became internationally known through his avant-garde rock band "Mickey Curtis & The Samurai". After five years, Mickey disbanded the group and...
  
   as Mikkî Kâchisu
• Kenichi Endo as Ken'ichi Endô
• Renji Ishibashi
• Kouichi Iwaki
  Kouichi Iwaki
  is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Minami he hashire, umi no michi o!.-Filmography:*The Doberman Cop *Minami he hashire, umi no michi o! *Family *Kikoku...
  
   as Kôichi Iwaki
• Hiroshi Katsuno
• Ryôsuke Miki
• Yasukaze Motomiya
• Kazuya Nakayama
• Yôko Natsuki
  Yoko Natsuki
  is an actress, born 24 October 1952 in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan. She began to start her career on the movie, it was Karate for Life at 1977. One of her television roles was Osono, a ninja in the jidaigeki series Yoshimune Hyōbanki: Abarenbō Shōgun. She was also a regular star in Abare Hasshū Goyō...
  
  
• Gorô Oohashi
• Mikio Ôsawa as Mikio Oosawa
• Hideki Sone
• Riki Takeuchi
  Riki Takeuchi
  is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike...
  
   as Seiji
• Tetsuro Tamba
  Tetsuro Tamba
  was a Japanese actor.-Biography:Tamba is perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as Tiger Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice . By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: Harakiri and Kwaidan...
  
   as Tetsurô Tanba
• Columbia Top, Millionaire as Koronbia Toppu