This Month’s #CultShelf Yakuza film directors have been Kinji Fukasaku and Takeshi “Beat” Kitano
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Eri Fuse in “Boiling Point” AKA “3-4 x Jûgatsu”
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Yuriko Ishida in “Boiling Point” AKA “3-4 x Jûgatsu”
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Posters for “Boiling Point” AKA “3-4 x Jûgatsu” from Japan, Sweden, Hungary and The United Kingdom
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Imagine doing all of that just to go back to sucking at baseball.. or maybe ~this was all a dream~🤔
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That sure blowed up real good
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Someone’s a fan of delicious flavor and violence* 🍍
(*mostly violence)
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Honestly, I’d take the same “security shortcut” and I don’t even carry any weapons
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a woman in a turtleneck sweater is standing in front of a mirror . ALT: a woman in a turtleneck sweater is standing in front of a mirror .

What’s surprising is that this hadn’t happened sooner
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WTF
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JFC this is somehow getting even more fucked up😱
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“Boiling Point” AKA “3-4 x Jûgatsu” if it where a Summertime Fun movie
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JFC WTF WTF
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I remember being on assignment to cover music in Japan and getting so drunk that my eyes hurt for days afterwards
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90s movies never beating the “predatory bisexual trope” allegations
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Same Energy
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Oh hey! It’s our fucked up Director!
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Yeah… that’s why this happens💩🤢
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Yeahhh.. that’s gonna be hard in a yakuza film
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A reasonable reaction
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Even Charlie Brown would think this dude is a sadsack
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Check the hot dog stand?
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Vroom Vroom
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Mopeds never really pop up in Noir/Neo-Noir/Yakuza films. I can see why though. Motorcycles, motorbikes and even some e-bikes are cooler/sexier than Mopeds, Vespas and scooters
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It’s sad that not even Japan was safe from 80s/early 90s hairstyles
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I don’t play baseball and I don’t watch baseball BUT I get the feeling that this dude sucks at baseball
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I’m at the baseball movie. I’m at the yakuza film. I’m at the baseball yakuza film.
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Bracing myself for some Beat Takeshi Yakuza weirdness and brutality
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