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Summary: Comically violent
Review: Director Takeshi Miike is never one to hold anything back. I'm sure you will agree if you have seen any of his movies. With everything from eight year old hit men, to cute, Japanese schoolgirls accessorising their sailor uniforms with machine guns, the New Generation decides to wipe out and replace the local yakuza, and each scene continues to bring new twists: very twisted twists. And the after-school-special ambience makes every bit of it hilarious.
Rating:
Summary: Comically violent
Review: Director Takeshi Miike is never one to hold anything back. I'm sure you will agree if you have seen any of his movies. With everything from eight year old hit men, to cute, Japanese schoolgirls accessorising their sailor uniforms with machine guns, the New Generation decides to wipe out and replace the local yakuza, and each scene continues to bring new twists: very twisted twists. And the after-school-special ambience makes every bit of it hilarious.
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Summary: a kick[in] movie
Review: For those who like japanese yakuza or gangsta movies this is a must see. I throughly enjoyed this film I didn't want it to end.
I really enjoyed Riki's character, besides his character there are some pretty interesting ones in this film. For instance the beautiful misunderstood hermaphrodite.
This film could get you hooked on japanese gangsta movies if you are an action movie buff like I am I really reccomend this movie.I give it two thumbs way up!!!
Rating:
Summary: a kick[in] movie
Review: For those who like japanese yakuza or gangsta movies this is a must see. I throughly enjoyed this film I didn't want it to end.
I really enjoyed Riki's character, besides his character there are some pretty interesting ones in this film. For instance the beautiful misunderstood hermaphrodite.
This film could get you hooked on japanese gangsta movies if you are an action movie buff like I am I really reccomend this movie. I give it two thumbs way up!!!
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Summary: Sick Kicks
Review: Forget the plot and watch a mad genius work. Miike serves up plenty of cheap thrills for the jaded cineaste with this one. What could have been played as a typical adolescent male fantasy film is given a peculiar panache thanks to the sadistic imagination of its director. This is a film that is not propelled so much by a plot as it is by some ingenious shock set peices. No one does violence quite like Miike. There are quite a few "Well, I've never seen that before." moments. You will see some images in this film that would never be allowed in an American film of this type. And you have to love the gratuitous pervy sex scene which, again, does nothing to forward the plot but is so absurd and kinky that you can't help but smile. This is not a great film and it is certainly not Miike's best, however, if you are bored silly with genre films and are looking for a fix this might be the film for you.
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Summary: You won't believe your eyes...
Review: I caught this movie at a film fest two years ago and was completely BLOWN AWAY. Our main character is a high school kid who happens to be a yakuza (mob) crime boss. He decides to make a power move against some old-school rivals with the help of two female classmate/assassins(one of which is a stripper with a FASCINATING weapon, a hulking behemoth, and two deadshot tykes). The action sequences are incredible! The film critic at TIME put this on his list of Top 10 movies of the year at the time of it's Japan release. I put it on my Top 10 of all time.
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Summary: Fudoh: The New Generation DVD
Review: I was surprized by the plot twists and the violence. In reading the film discription on the package you say, well this might be an interesting action flick for a slow Friday night...
It is much more... To turn Machievelli into a young Japanese Yakuza with an atitude is one thing.... To give him a gang is another... The depiction of violence is graphic, so the faint of heart stay away. The use of sex is mild in some places and rather
graphic in others. This is not a porno flick, but some aspects may offend the anti S/M crowd. I think there is a genre for this kind of modern behind the scenes look at what it takes to rise in a yakuza family, what it is I don't know. I'm glad we just have the Mafia here in the U.S., right?
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Summary: Young generation takes over
Review: If you ever wonder how all the fuss about Miike has started then look no further. This movie brought international recognition and acclaim to his work. Althought shot for video market only, movie was screened in portugal fantastic movie festival and stirred loads of interest. As a result, a brilliant director was unearthed who's still yet to be recognised and respected in Japan.
Fudoh family serves for a Yakuza organization and father holds an important place in among his peers. After witnessing his brother's murder by the hands of his very own father (who cold bloodedly tries to cover up a mess that is caused by his elder son), youngest member of the family swears for revenge.
Fudoh is a fantastical yakuza revenge movie. Like rest of his filmography, Miike's characters are definitely original as well as absurd. In order to carry out his personal war against his father, fudoh builds his own gang which includes deadly female classmates, primary school kids that are trained to become ruthless assasins and other strange characters. Weapons, murders, other characters are all very originally constructed.
Action and erotic scenes are guaranteed to leave you stunned and dark secrets of the characters are not forgotten and really add many interesting points to the overall absurdity of the film.Like rest of his portfolio, film has many bright ideas that are scattered in, flowing freely without following a pattern.
Also we do have Riki Takeuchi, the evil elvis of japan with long hair (and his scornful forced smile which became the trade mark of him)portraying the bad guy who's after young fudoh.
In comparison to his late work such as Ichi the killer and katakuris, movie seems a bit humble despite all the strangeness stamped all over it. But with such a small budget, director's movie passed the test of originality with flying colors.
Fudoh is a bizzare nutfeast and truly a definite watch for the fantastic movie lovers.
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Summary: A Sado-Sexual Fairy Tale for the Younger Generation
Review: Japanese director Takashi Miike is not yet too well-known in the United States--even in Japan he's a little obscure--but if the general success of his cautionary romance "Audition" is any indicator, he may become as recognized as Beat Takeshi. The comparison may be pretty apt, as both directors often hit on themes of violence and crime as corrosive agents in the lives of their characters. But if Kitano's films punctuate achingly poetic melodrama with bursts of violence, Miike throws the audience into the fray with shocking imagery from the start.
The plot to Fudoh concerns the generations of a Kyushu island-based yakuza family. Fudoh senior, forced to kill one of his sons as a peace offering to another family, unwittingly sowed the seeds of his own downfall. Riki, the 8-year-old younger brother, saw the execution and swore revenge. By 18, he has formed his own shadow gang, composed of children and aiming at eliminating all the senior gang members and seizing control of Kyushu, Japan, and theoretically the world.
While many have commented on some of the surprising scenes the movie throws out, they still retain a great deal of visceral punch and, along with a techno-metal electronic score, create a sense of rage--albeit inventive rage--that is reflected by the brooding eyes of Riki (Shosuke Tanihara) as he eavesdrops on his dad's conversations from class or extorts his teachers. Along with elementary school gunmen, a stripper-assassin who uses a vaginal dart gun, and a gigantic but amiably thug (Kenji Takano--fantastic), Fudoh dispatches the old guard of the family while protesting that such violence is merely the growing pains of a society which has become stifled by its old confines. Indeed, if not directly inspiring youth to take down their local gangs, the film does give the younger generation a fantasy where the heroes are under 20 and no one out of school can be trusted. At the same time, a theme of family torn apart by crime and revenge comes through nicely, especially as father and son sit quietly at dinner while secretly plotting each other's demise. The arrival of a half-Korean assassin, Riki's half-brother, compounds this by hinting at the oft-occuring (at least in the films of modern Japanese directors) theme of international Asian tensions, in particular the role of Koreans within Japan. Not that it will necessarily break any barriers in existence, but the scene where he beats a posh restaraunt's cooking staff for making Japanese-style kimchee has a certain bitter humor to it.
This being said, it's unfortunate that Tokyo Shock released the film on such a bare bones disc. Not even a menu is present, the movie simply keys up three trailers (which can be skipped) and then proceeds directly into the movie. While it's in Japanese with English subtitles, this also cannot be changed. However, once the film starts your irritation with the technical side of the disc is bound to fade, and by the time the children start wiping out councilmen with bloody abandon, it's doubtful you'll even remember anything else.
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Summary: Nothing Special.
Review: Lately I've been getting into Asian-Cinema, and the king of it seems to be Takashi Miike. Releasing 63 films in the last 13 years, he's certainly a busy man, and he does his best to make some of the most bizarre movies out there, this being no expection.
The first problem with this DVD is the actual DVD.
It has no DVD Menu, no Sound options (Japanese Stereo + English Subtitles), and no extra features. The movie does have 3 trailers for other films which play right before the movie (Much like a VHS Tape). The video on the DVD Is nothing special either.
The story follows young Riki (A model high school student), son of one of the biggest crime lords in japan, who murdered his other son (Riki's brother) -- Riki swears to avenge his brothers death, and recruits a group of bizarre people from his school (Including a man known as the japanese elvis!), to take out his father, and gain control of the Yakuza.
The movie sounds real interesting (And when you see some of these characters (For instance, the girl who shoots poisonous darts out of her privates)), it truly is bizarre.
Unfortunately the story doesnt unfold so well, and is a large letdown (I wanted to love this movie after hearing about it).
It does feature Miike's typical "over the top violence" at parts, but its not as good as his typical films unfortunately.
I'd recommend renting this one, but I'd hold off on purchasing this movie unless you can find it for under $10.
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