Bórjokugai

The first modern Hideo Goshi Yakuze movie. And at the same time the lamest one. Although it is uncompromising (and it is slightly excessive in terms of violence compared to how serious it otherwise is), the cast was based on who looks like a true Yakuza member that is typical for this kind of movie, set in the time when Ykuza begins to realize that corporate structure, contacts with politicians, lawyers or cease-fire with other clans will ensure an increase in profits and enhance the business better than they continuing to live in a box of street gangsters from illegal casinos and other hellholes. But at the same time, there are still old vets in the structures of individual clans, which don´t want the new order and would like to return the old way of doing things. It is the internal tension within the clans that is the most successful in Violent Streets, and one would even notice Gosha´s trace and his favorite topic. But the rest of it is average and perhaps it´s the only movie in his career that is rich in countless visually refined scenes to such extent that it´s almost ugly. On top of that, despite the short footage, it has a cumbersome and slow start, especially when Gosha´s heroes usually let their action to do the speaking, but in this case the characters to all the talking explaining their motivation and the past through monologues such as "Do you remember how less than a decade ago you loved the girl who left you and married boss, because whom you sacrificed yourself and went to jail. Do you still remember, right? Have you forgotten?" One would go mad. (13.08.2017)