best gangster movie ever
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I would most likely have to agree. I just wish Home Vision wouldn't price it at $30.
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Maybe not THE greatest, but it was great.
I bought it in a 3 pack for 18 GBP so it cost me about 15 bucks which was great!
It seems very underrated on not much seen on IMDB
"Where there's a whip, there's a will"
Not the best, but a damned fine Yakuza film, with a different feel.
I watched this film completely enthralled and appalled.
There is some very lame film making in it, but it somehow works, it somehow pulls together, and stays with you like a bleary misadventure.
Two scenes stand out.
1. On the run from the US military police out hero breaks into a girls room, waits for the police to pass, looks at the girl and rapes her. feels bad and gives her some money, leaving. A moment later he climbs back inside and takes the money back apologizing, saying he actually needs it.
2. The three swords on one, assasination at the end, with swords breaking, people slipping, and what looks like a genuine fight breaking out.
A lot of very interesting stuff here for the Japanese film fan.
I am holding off watching it again, I don't want to be disapointed.
Graveyard of Honor is definetely one of the greatest gangester movies ever, and one of my favorites.
"Stupid friends are dangerous"
It's a good film, but it's more about psychosis than the yakuza.
The guy is bad and immune to reason. He enjoys destroying everything, including himself. There's no attempt to make him likeable at all, which gives the film its fatalistic edge.
Fukasaku's gangster flicks are fairly unemotional and brutal. This is probably the coldest of them, by dint of Ishikawa's undramatic heroin habit.
It was remade by Takashi Miike in 2002, but his version is nowhere near as violent and bleak (or as gripping) as the original, which speaks volumes for Fukasaku's ability to tap directly into the raw side of human nature.
Yeah, I was pretty blown away by this one. I had written off Yakuza movies for so long due to my lukewarm reaction to Branded To Kill - that was stupid. This movie totally resparked my interest.
I was shocked at how emotionally raw this film is. *SPOILERS* The part after his wife dies and they are sorting through her bones really *beep* with me. And the final attack and suicide were strikingly emotional.
What a great film. I'm really curious to see what Miike did with it.
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Ive seen the Miike one and liked it. Now i HAVE to see the original. Im used to watching older movies like seven samurai and kwaidan so i think ill like it even more.
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Hey, don't you put down Branded To Kill---that's an excellent dark spoof of yakuza films, and just plain fun to watch---a real favorite of mine. And,yeah, this film is raw as hell, which is why it's never really been my favorite. I couldn't stand the main character, because he was such an a**hole.
Agreed. This film was quite powerful and fascinating in its uncompromising bleakness and nihilism.
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