Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana (1976)
18K Harumi Sone Hideo Murota Jûkei Fujioka Junkichi Orimoto Kazuo Kasahara Kei Satô Kenji Imai Kinji Fukasaku Masaru Shiga Masataka Iwao Meiko Kaji Mikio Narita Nagisa Ôshima Nenji Kobayashi Nobuo Kaneko Nobuo Yana Takuzô Kawatani Tatsuo Umemiya Tetsuya Watari Yoshio Yoshida 1976 7.1 Japan Japanese Kinji Fukasaku
Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana (1976). 1h 37m | Not Rated
“Very good and not over long, this is a splendid violent Yakusa action film, although not bloody. There is rather much shouting and screaming but the camerawork is wonderful with many tricks, freezes and hand held work. I seem not to have seen much of the director Kinji Fukasaku expect of course of Battle Royale (2000). I loved seeing Meiko Kaji here and with before so much more like Lady Snowblood (1973) and the fantastic, Female Prisoner:701 Scorpion (1972). Cinematic all the way, a little confusing now and again but it is great with that stunning camera always going on and magnificent as thrilling all the time.”
