A Family

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william d @acsdoug 01/19/2023 A Family has gangster epic pretensions but falls short. The first two thirds of the film rehash every cliche of the genre, and the final third is more sappy melodrama as the gangsters confront the yakuza's decline. See more 07/13/2022 A very touching film about the tragedy of life as yakuza in Japan. Not your typical Japanese yakuza film but addresses the intersection of life as yakuza and a member of civil society that increasingly views yakuza society as a dying anachronism. Honor, duty and love find it hard to co-exist. See more 08/02/2021 A very realistic yakuza movie with deep meaning about family, loyalty and karma. Gô Ayano acting was superb, we can feel his emotion through out the entire movie. And the Ending was excellent! If you enjoy Beat Takeshi movies, then this movie is for you. See more 06/27/2021 Emotional japanese drama. Good movie See more 06/26/2021 Absolutely loved this movie. It touched my soul and dropped some tears in the end. Amazing. See more 06/22/2021 Everything had changed. A young man being taken into a yakuza group at a young age was put into prison. 14 years later, he came back and everything had changed. The first half of the movie was pretty alright. It showed the life of our main character before and during his time as a yakuza. The problem was that we knew very little what exactly the yakuza business was. The movie only showed our main character at a club that he's in charged of, and not much else behind the scene. The yakuza do a lot of corrupt and dirty stuff, and not much was shown here. Another problematic aspect was the main character's romance with a college student. I know that the movie wanted to show that our yakuza was awkward, but the romance had little screen time and felt weird and rushed. The second half became significantly better. It showed an unforgiving view of the yakuza in modern time. I couldn't help but feel terrible for our main character even though he was a yakuza. Becoming a yakuza in the modern age is like a taboo, and one is destined for loneliness. The theme of the movie was about the downfall of yakuza compared to the past in terms of philosophy and views by others. It is the type of movie that glorified the once notorious character whose life spiraled apart and found his old job the only thing he could cling into. It's similar to The Wrestler or The Wolf of Wall Street. Here, the only thing our main character could cling to was his family, the yakuza family. Overall, despite the decent first half, the second half made for one of the most unforgiving movie I have watched this year. 8/10 See more Read all reviews

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