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If Japan is "perfect", how does "imperfection" look like? The protagonist in this movie embodies exactly that. Which takes away a lot of the "Scarface"-like thriller elements. There is a story about a guy stepping up in a mafia environment, but his stoic anti-will, the fact he hurts EVERYone - helpers, supporters, lovers and foes - is meant to be allegorically political.
It's stated somewhere and in fact, there's some few scenes that appear very illogical. Not so, if you watch the movies "the right way".
Movie is calm, depressing, melancholic, bloody painful, sometimes crazy (in one scene he shoots at everyone: police, bypassers etc., then going "SORRY, OUTTA AMMO!" and delivers himself).
Good, disturbing, mature Miike-movie. Not as cartoonish as most of his films.
score 7/10
LooyCyphr 10 March 2009
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