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Gokudô Daisenso (2015)

Action | 125 minutes
2,99 59 votes

Genre: Action / Horror

Duration: 125 minuten

Alternative titles: Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld / Yakuza Apocalypse / 極道大戦争

Country: Japan

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Stars: Yayan Ruhian and Hayato Ichihara

IMDb score: 5,5 (4.749)

Releasedate: 21 May 2015

Gokudô Daisenso plot

"The Great War of the Underworld."

Akira has great admiration for Genyo Kamiura, one of the most powerful men in the Yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has survived countless attacks. Hence his nickname 'the invincible'. Through Kamiura, Akira also joins the Yakuza. However, this is not easy. Because of his soft skin, Akira can't even get a tattoo. Then an assassin is hired to kill Genyo Kamiura. However, this one knows Kamiura's secret: he is a vampire.

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As much as I enjoy Sono's films, I enjoy Miike's films just as little. Maybe that's because women play a subordinate role in MIike's films, unlike Sono's films. Furthermore, the vampire stuff isn't really my thing. What saves this film somewhat are those "Kermit the Frog" scenes. That was really funny every now and then. One of those frog scenes was also in a MM contest by user Cikx. That scene was also the reason for me to watch this film, which unfortunately can't hold a candle to Sono's Tokyo Tribe, a similar film that was also about the Yakuza.

2.0*

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Hansiro

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As far as I'm concerned Miike in top form, enjoyed from the first to the last seconds. At the moment you think now we've had it Miike opens the cabinet of curiosities again, with the frog as the highlight..

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Special.

But I could have expected that from a film that Takashi Miike worked on. Right from the start, the actual opening scene, it is clear that this film is hard to take seriously as a credible film. It certainly does not seem to me to be the central focus of Miike with this film.

The remarkable beginning is then put aside for a moment to introduce the story in a remarkably strange way. Despite the fact that the second half is full of all kinds of weird elements, Miike seems to want to focus on making the plot a bit more human. It makes for a 20 short minutes that are quite unbearable.

I don't think the acting is that brilliant. For a film with so many strange characters walking around, I found very few that appealed, no matter how desperately Miike tries to make them icons. The only one that I found somewhat successful was the frog suit. But that creature is also not nearly as nicely worked out as you would think. I understand that it may be the humor. I just prefer to call it lazy.

The film is also full of scenes that I suspect simply do not have the potential due to a reluctant director. Even the beautiful locations look ugly. Almost every scene looks bare. It all feels like an easy and quickly put together film with some nice and quirky humor, which is only watchable because there is such an enormous amount of nonsense mixed in.

It's a nice watch. There is a narrative, but it mainly consists of collecting all sorts of ideas that are then mixed together. What I could still call successful in this film, were the fist fights and the mixing of sound. In addition, there is a creative brain behind the film, which only visualizes its ideas on the screen in a too easy way.

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