Hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ten best of 1997, FUDOH is a stylized Yakuza film about Riki Fudoh, a high school student whose Yakuza kingpin father murdered his other son, Riki's brother, in order to settle a business agreement. Riki witnessed the killing and vowed revenge on his father and the older generation of .. Read more
| Starring | Toru Minegishi, Riki Takeuchi, Shosuke Tanihara, Marie Jinno |
|---|---|
| Director | Takashi Miike |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
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Hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ten best of 1997, FUDOH is a stylized Yakuza film about Riki Fudoh, a high school student whose Yakuza kingpin father murdered his other son, Riki's brother, in order to settle a business agreement. Riki witnessed the killing and vowed revenge on his father and the older generation of Yakuza bosses. To exact this revenge, Riki, now a high school student, has put together a gang of his own. Comprised of pre teen assassins, schoolgirl strippers, and other teenage miscreants, Riki's gang begins a war with his father and his associates, who have no intention of bowing down to this upstart uprising. Based on the manga by Hiroshi Tanemara, FUDOH is an inventive, bloody, and often hilarious film from the Japanese director Takashi Miike (AUDITION). Though decidedly not for all tastes, FUDOH's combination of black humor, gore, and style make it one of the most audacious and entertaining films to emerge from Japan in the 1990s.
| Starring | Toru Minegishi, Riki Takeuchi, Shosuke Tanihara, Marie Jinno |
|---|---|
| Director | Takashi Miike |
| Studio | EASTERN CULT CINEMA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1996 To Rent: DVD: 21 Jun 2003 |
Stylishly-made pulp cinema at its most extreme, based on a manga: it offers eight-year old assassins and a hermaphrodite killer who has an unusual way with a blowpipe, people dying in floods of blood and children playing football with a severed head.
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Young & honour -v- Old & dishonour
This is an interesting reversal of the yakuza story and other films that complain about the lack of respect from the youth. In this film it is the youth who are... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
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Hilarious yakuza flick
I couldn't stop laughing!
After all the unnecessary bloodshed and the cheap-nineties' special effects you kinda get a sort of message...I ... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
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Gratuitous gore
Probably the most stupid film I have ever seen. How anyone that drinks a poisoned coffee ends up gushing blood from two pipes on the back of their neck is ... read more »
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Horrible
If you like weird quirky films and this is film is very 'quirky'. Then you will like this.
If however you're looking for something grown ... read more »
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