Fudoh: The New Generation

1996

1h 38m

Action

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7 Reviews

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5,000+ Ratings

On the surface, Riki Fudoh (Shôsuke Tanihara) appears to be a normal high school student. However, Fudoh is anything but average -- he's the disturbed son of a Yakuza mobster (Toru Minegishi) and is prone to acts of spectacular violence, just like his father. However, there's no love lost between the two. Fudoh, backed by his equally vicious gang of teen assassins, wants revenge for a murder committed 10 years earlier by his father. The school becomes a battleground for the family.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Comparatively tame when compared to Takeshi Miike's later shock cinema classics.

Rated: B-

Jun 20, 2005

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John Petrakis

Chicago Tribune

If you're a connoisseur of this type of gory head-banging, you should be impressed.

Rated: 3.5/4

Dec 19, 2002

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Film Threat

Rated: 4/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

Rated: 3.5/5

Jun 9, 2005

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Ron Wells

Film Threat

Every so often a film comes along that just breaks your heart... and then there are films like this one that hit you in the head like an aluminum baseball bat.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 27, 2002

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Sean Axmaker

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Restraint is not a concept in the cinematic vocabulary of Miike Takashi.

Rated: B

Sep 13, 2002

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William D

Someone is killed, maimed or punched about every two minutes. Writing it out like that makes the movie sound a bit silly, but this is a stylish and entertaining, albeit bloody, crime thriller. Many of the perpetrators and victims of the violence are kids and that was a bit discomforting. But discomfort is Miike's stock in trade. I'm becoming a big fan of his films.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/26/23

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Audience Member

Works as a badass, stylish Yakuza movie, and an absurd, hilarious, grotesque parody of same. It's a total blast, I had a great time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

Takashi Miike tiene una especial sensibilidad a la hora de abordar sus películas, una muy marcada por la cultura pop de su país, aunque algo distorsionada por su propia creatividad. No es de extrañar que sea tan coleguita de Tarantino. Y es que Fudoh, destila su sello en cada plano de la película, y aunque es cierto que esa sensación "mangaka" es comprensible, no te sabría decir si esto es debido al propio material original o a la genialidad de su creador. Lo que si puedo decir es que sin duda es una cinta especial como ella sola: una trama de venganzas entre Yakuzas con ese hiperbolismo del anime y manga que solo los japoneses saben hacer. Divertida sin duda.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

Kid as assassins, lady bodyguards, and an assassin using her genitalia as her weapon, these are some of the few weird characters Miike has to offer. And oh he never fails to bring a lot of bloodshed. It's a good flick really but the story is too lame.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

Lo mejor, la chava que lanza dardos mortales con propulsión vaginal!... no me pregunten a mi...

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Audience Member

Possibly the best of the "Yakuza" sub-genre, provided that you don't mind copious amounts of unrealistic gore and darts firing out of vagina. And I don't.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Akira Aizone

Marie Jinno

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Tamaki Kenmochi

Touko Zenzai

Toru Minegishi

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Synopsis

On the surface, Riki Fudoh (Shôsuke Tanihara) appears to be a normal high school student. However, Fudoh is anything but average -- he's the disturbed son of a Yakuza mobster (Toru Minegishi) and is prone to acts of spectacular violence, just like his father. However, there's no love lost between the two. Fudoh, backed by his equally vicious gang of teen assassins, wants revenge for a murder committed 10 years earlier by his father. The school becomes a battleground for the family.

Director: Takashi Miike
Producer: Yoshinori Chiba, Toshiki Kimura
Screenwriter: Toshiyuki Morioka
Production Co: Excellent Film
Genre: Action
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 38m