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  • Rainy Dog review by from London, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars The hooker and the hitman with the heart of gold 12 April 2006
    ...e to escape from (Interesting from a Japanese film maker). The hit man, Yuuji, (Sho Aikawa) has his life turned upside down by the arrival of his supposed son who is cast...   Read customer review

Sho Aikawa - filmography


  • Gozu on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hideki Sone,  Kimika Yoshino,  Sho Aikawa
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Another surreal and outré film by maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike. When senior yakuza Ozaki (Sho Aikawa) starts to behave in an increasingly peculiar manner, his superiors start getting worried, and order Ozaki's immediate underling Minami (Hideki Sone) to get rid of him. On the way to the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,183 members
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  • Dead Or Alive 2 on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Edison Chen,  Noriko Aota,  Sho Aikawa
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Miike Takashi's follow-up to his ultra-violent 1999 'Dead or Alive'. Otamoko is a hired killer who accepts the contract to assassinate a vicious gangster, but is beaten to it by another assassin, who carries out the job before he gets the chance. Otamoko nevertheless decides to take the money ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,045 member
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  • Ley Lines on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Samuel Pop Aning,  Yukie Itou,  Michisuke Kashiwaya
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three boys attracted by the excitement of Tokyo city find themselves caught up in the notorious Shinjuku district and a gangster lifestlye they can't escape. Before long they find themselves on the wrong side of the local crime lord and start fearing for their lives.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 688 members
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  • Dead Or Alive on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Renji Ishibashi,  Riki Takeuchi,  Sho Aikawa
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Fast-paced, high-octane Yakuza thriller from director Miike Takashi. Ryuichi and Toji are two brothers eager to make a name for themselves in the Tokyo criminal underworld. Their nemesis is Detective Jojima, a cop who has become involved in various crooked deals in order to pay for his ailing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,325 members
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  • Eyes of the Spider/Serpent's Path (1998)
    Starring: Sho Aikawa,  Teruyuki Kagawa,  Hua Rong Weng
    Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When oddball auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an eccentric offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using the same cast, the result was the cinematic equivalent of fraternal twins. Though both Eyes of the Spider and Serpent's Path are gangster films about the desire for revenge, ..read more »
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  • Rainy Dog on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jianqin He,  Lianmei Chen,  Ming-Jun Gao
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This is the second of three films which form Miike Takashi's celebrated 'Triad Society Trilogy'. Yuuji is an outsider. As a Japanese mobster holed up in Taipei working as a hitman for a Triad boss, he is far from his roots. Added to this complicated existence is the fact that his ex-wife has just ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,005 member
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  • The Eel on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Koji Yakusho,  Misa Shimizu,  Mitsuko Baisho
    Director: Shohei Imamura
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Worker (Yakusho of Shall We Dance?) learns of his wife's infidelity. He seems quietly surprised when he brutally stabs his wife to death, and hums a gentle tune as he bicycles to the police station to turn himself in. Eight years later, he is released, and this is where our story begins. Winner of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 350 members
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