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Fudoh: The New Generation

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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.

Critics Reviews

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness 06/20/2005
B-
Comparatively tame when compared to Takeshi Miike's later shock cinema classics. Go to Full Review
John Petrakis Chicago Tribune 12/19/2002
3.5/4
If you're a connoisseur of this type of gory head-banging, you should be impressed. Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
4/5
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com 06/09/2005
3.5/5
Ron Wells Film Threat 12/27/2002
4/5
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. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Seattle Post-Intelligencer 09/13/2002
B
Restraint is not a concept in the cinematic vocabulary of Miike Takashi. Go to Full Review
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William D @acsdoug 03/26/2023 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. See more 10/25/2016 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. See more 10/06/2016 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. See more 08/29/2013 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. See more 02/06/2013 Lo mejor, la chava que lanza dardos mortales con propulsión vaginal!... no me pregunten a mi... See more 03/12/2012 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. See more Read all reviews
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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