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Gokudô kuroshakai (Criminal Underworld: Rainy Dog)

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Panos Kotzathanasis easternKicks.com Rainy Dog is a great film that manages to combine John Woo and Takashi Miike's aesthetics in great fashion. Jul 26, 2020 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...probably Miike's most accomplished and coherent effort - though it's still suffering from a whole host of problems. Rated: 2/4 Jan 2, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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JJJJJJ J Plot mediocre, acting okay, glasses 10/10. The start of this movie is quite poor. The basic premise seems very basic guy that lives terrible live filled with hedonism and no care for others is given kid gets him to turn into good warm hearted man. But that is not what this film is. Instead it is more of the bittersweat life/a company man style. In which a man is trying to deal with the lose of his job and trying to make a new life and falling on his face. This film is suppose to be somewhat humorous, at the beginning this is not completely obvious and again is part of the reason the beginning of the film does not work well. Overall I liked this movie. Again it really just gets hurt from its poor start. I'd recommend this film to any fan of crime/drama/noir, and yes the sun glasses in this film are amazing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Solid straight forward gangster movie. The only thing that kept it from being great was that nothing: gross,gay or weird happened. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member The second portion of Miike's Black Society Trilogy spoke to me a bit more than the first, as it felt like it had more heart. An exiled Yakuza is living in Taiwan when he's left with a boy who may be his son, which forces him to take the kid on the hit that he's doing for the local mob boss to make ends meet, then the kid will eventually find an unlikely mother figure in a prostitute that the his new daddy picks up. It's a really watchable film, and has some moments that will really tug at the heartstrings here and there. Worth a look. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member A rather poignant and subtle character study and meditation on violence disguised as a stark neonoir. In a directorial career filled with splatter, one of the most unsettling scenes is entirely bloodless: the mute son of a lowly thug trying to escape his life of crime absentmindedly scribbles a pistol on the ground with chalk. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Takashi Miike's first major success is much more contained than most of his other work, but non the less succeeds due to a solid script and Miike's focused direction. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Uno yakuza eiga classico per buona parte della durata, con un'attenzione sostanziale alla tematica della solitudine ed un finale molto azzeccato. Bello! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Takashi Miike