Takashi Miike's frenetic comic yakuza thriller embodies the best and worst this notorious Japanese genre auteur has to offer: It's endlessly inventive, consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage. The ultra-violent plot is triggered when the boss of the Anjo gang goes missing, along with a 100 million yen of the Sanko syndicate's money. Anjo's devoted protégé, Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano), a bleached-blond killer with a gruesome rictus permanently carved into his face and a insatiable taste for torture, is convinced his boss has been kidnapped by the Funaki crime family. But after brutally interrogating an innocent Funaki yakuza with hooks, skewers and a pot...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
127 mins