Yakuza keibatsu-shi: Rinchi! (1969)

Yakuza keibatsu-shi: Rinchi!: Directed by Teruo Ishii. With Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Bunta Sugawara, Minoru Ôki, Hiroshi Miyauchi. A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods.

“Didnu0026#39;t like this one very much. Itu0026#39;s an anthology film, with three chapters, progressing from what appeared to be the Tokugawa Shogunate, to Meiji era, to the 60u0026#39;s (canu0026#39;t be positive about any of the time periods).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBasically the flimsy plots are just an excuse to have Yakuza commit brutal acts on each other and throw lots of fake blood around. I can see how this may have been shocking or trail-blazing at the time of release, but I found it quite boring now. Without the shock value, the movie really has no center. The stories get progressively better – the first (amazingly, starring Bunta Sugawara, who usually improves anything heu0026#39;s in) is terrible, the second and third are slightly better.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSidenote – the actor who plays the alien in Goke has a small role in the final piece as a weird yo-yo obsessed Yakuza.”