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Review: Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 (Japan 1968)

Posted on July 17, 2020 by David

Part 2 of the Goro saga moves to Tohoku, and gives us snow instead of city for a while. Tetsuya Watari is back as honorable (now former) gangster Goro – he tries to get out but they keep pulling him … Continue reading →

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Review: Outlaw: Gangster VIP (Japan 1968)

Posted on July 9, 2020 by David

First in the series (working my way through a box set I received as a present). Apparently I’d watched this before but had no memory of it. Somewhat old fashioned Yakuza high melodrama starring Tetsuya Watari covers all the cliches: … Continue reading →

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Review: Tokyo Knights (Japan 1961)

Posted on November 22, 2019 by David

This early Seijun Suzuki youth flick is basically an Elvis movie starring Koji Wada as the young heir to a construction combine mixed up in illegal shenanigans. It’s a super breezy, super jazzy (literally) play on Hamlet, and as soon … Continue reading →

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