Shinjuku Triad Society details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Kyosuke Izutsu, Kippei Shiina, Ren Osugi, Takeshi Caesar |
| Directors: | Takashi Miike, Takashi Miike |
| Genres: | Drama, World Cinema - Japanese |
| Studio: | SONY DADC |
| Name | Discs | |
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Shinjuku Triad Society |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 40 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 26 May 2003 |
| Main languages: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Bloody masterpiece
By Nostromo from Reading , 05 Jun 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
I haven't felt motivated to post a review on here for a while, but then it's not everyday I see a Takashi Miike film I find completely, unreservedly brilliant. In many respects this violent yarn about two brothers on opposites sides of the law, caught up in the mayhem caused by a gay, Taiwanese crime boss and his vicious teenage lover is standard fare for this sort of thing, but Miike's pure artistry raises his tawdry subject matter to a much higher level, easily inviting comparisons with such behemoths of the gangster movie genre as Scorsese and Godard. It's that good - and by golly, I live for films like this. The cinematography, lighting set ups and attention to colour are as good as anything I've ever seen, and far too much to take in on a single viewing. No shot, no camera movement, nothing goes to waste. Particularly impressive is the way they have captured the murky, night-time world of the Triad gangs, and the way that this mise-en-scene is used as visual metaphor for the state of being of his brutal and amoral characters, particularly in the case of the detective, who is all too chillingly complicit in the evil he is notionally meant to be fighting. Further meat is supplied by a subtext which deals with the weakening bonds of traditional family life in modern Japan and the tensions of Japanese-Chinese relations. I know that this all sounds par for the course, doesn't it? And that's true. Asian cinema has produced a thousand films just like this one, but I've seen very few that come remotely close to matching it, either for savagery, if that's what you want, or for intelligence, if you'd rather. A lost gem. Seek it out. For the record, I still haven't forgiven Miike for Happiness of the Katakuri's though. What a stinker that was.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(15)What is going on in the dark?
By f1redtiger (23 reviews) from London , 15 Apr 2012Impossible to understand film shot at night. It is like a seventies film the quality is so bad. The characters can not understand each other as some are talking Chinese some Japanese and who knows what else. Also it is a gay movies with a boy giving blow jobs to people whilst laying on a bed with silk sheet..- Was this review helpful to you?
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the plot was as confusing as the subtitles
By papatez (294 reviews) from folkestone , 24 Dec 2010English subtitles mixed with Japanese to Chinese and/or vice versa. When one of the cops says that the guy that was being interviewed ought to able to understand a chinese dialect I just didn't understand which language the heiroglyphics on the screen were in (apart from the english ones, obvously!). I also found it difficult to follow just who was doing what to whom, what language they were speaking in and which country they came from. Even so, it did have a strange fascination which kept me watching all the way through.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Once upon a time in Shinjuku
By itstinks (681 reviews) from North of Reading , 12 Aug 2008THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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good
By kartum (210 reviews) from west lothian , 22 Apr 2008very watchable much more script than normal for this type of film which i liked- Was this review helpful to you?
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Miike back on track with this movie
By filmhound (27 reviews) from London , 28 Oct 2007Miike back on track with this movie. A little main stream for him but it works thanks to a well portrayed main character. Like many of Miike's leads he is a very dead pan (rather than 'cool') and he takes rather more punishment than you might expect him to walk away from but very convincing, As usual the bad guys are ,for the most part, smooth and well cut rather than course brutes and ,ofcourse, this makes them more sinister. The female interest is ,as always, very attractive and with a sharper spark than some of those in other Miike movies. As usual the director varies the locations while still tieing them to the plot and this helps to keep the story fresh.I liked it, it wasn't startling but very watchable.- Was this review helpful to you?
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