I have done a review of 1970s Japanese crime thriller YAKUZA GRAVEYARD:
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This Month’s #CultShelf Yakuza film directors have been Kinji Fukasaku and Takeshi “Beat” Kitano
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Live by the streets, die by the streets; it’s the Yakuza way
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She didn’t even tie herself off- did she not pay attention when watching “Girl Gang” (1954)??
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🎶 Everybody was… holy shit! I think that dude’s dead!!! 👀
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Thanks Yakuza film😑
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JFC this is getting nasty even for a Yakuza film😱
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I guess seatbelts weren’t a thing in post-WW2 era Japan??
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This taxidermy is literal insult to injury
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Uh-oh! Internal Affairs isn’t happy with them
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As always, few weapons are as brutal as a piece of wood
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According to Fred Armisen’s episode of “Finding Your Roots” there were a lot of ethnic Koreans living in Japan who would attempt to stealthily live as Japanese to avoid post WW2 discrimination
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[Enter: uncredited American women]
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Tetsuya Watari has mean hook
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Cop on Cop violence?
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Big Mood
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A nice day-for-night beach trip before more Yakuza-related violence and political brutality
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This has just been nonstop brutality from the first frame
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Dude is feral! idk how he’s survived this long!
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His mom is real hoot- I’d watch a movie about her and other Yakuza-adjacent mothers and women
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*bracing myself for the violence of a standard Yakuza meeting*
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This makes the interrogation scenes from “Homicide: Life on the Street” look “Miss Marple”-level tame
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Are they running away with their flys open???
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JFC this one is wasting 0 time getting into it
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Relishing in the calming waves of the Toei Company logo before 90mins of Yakuza brutality
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