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Dangerous Men is a 2005 American action thriller film written, directed, and produced by Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad, under the pseudonym John S. Rad. [1] [2] The film took twenty-one years to make and release, production beginning in 1984 and edits being made throughout the intervening years.
The 1992 film Minbo, a satirical view of yakuza activities, resulted in retaliation against the director, as real-life yakuza gangsters attacked the director Juzo Itami shortly after the release of the film. [95] Yakuza films have also been popular in the Western market with films such as the 1975 film The Yakuza, the 1989 films Black Rain and ...
The film received mixed reviews at the time of release. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 60% based on 20 reviews. [10] Roger Ebert gave the film a mixed review, awarding it two-and-a-half stars out of four. While praising the characterization and the performances of Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura, he criticized the plot ...
The Hoodlum Soldier (兵隊やくざ, Heitai Yakuza) is a Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. [1] The Hoodlum Soldier was the first of a series of nine films that followed two soldiers, Kisaburo Omiya (Shintaro Katsu), a former yakuza who has become a soldier, and Arita (Takahiro Tamura), an intellectual from a good family who has deliberately failed the officer examination.
Violent Cop (その男、凶暴につき, Sono Otoko, Kyōbō Ni Tsuki, lit. ' That Man, Being Violent ') is a 1989 Japanese neo-noir action thriller film directed by Takeshi Kitano, written by Kitano and Hisashi Nozawa, and starring Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Hakuryu, Ken Yoshizawa, and Ittoku Kishibe. [1]
Black Rain (1989 American film) The Blood of Wolves; Blood Stained Tradewinds; Blood Vendetta; Bloodstained Clan Honor; Blue Tiger (film) Blues Harp (film) Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi; Bodyguard Kiba (1993 film) Boiling Point (1990 film) Border Line (film) Born to Be King (2000 film) Branded to Kill; Brother (2000 film) Bullet Train ...
Gang vs. G-Men is the fourth in the Gyangu series of films [3] and the first in the series to be directed by Fukasaku. [2] Fukasaku went on to also direct the seventh film in the series, League of Gangsters (1963). [4] Gang vs. G-Men was the first film shot by Fukasaku in color.
Yakuza film (Japanese: ヤクザ映画, Hepburn: Yakuza eiga) is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, Japanese organized crime syndicates. In the silent film era, depictions of bakuto (precursors to modern yakuza) as sympathetic Robin Hood -like characters were common.