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Characters die in a storm of bullets, yet we rarely see a bullet hit a body. The A/V transfer is excellent and shows that care was put into restoring this title. Copyright © 2004-2020 TarsTarkas.NET. I'm a big fan of Hasebe's later work, and this is definitely a bit more violent than other yakuza films I've seen from the 1960s. As a trio of renegades there are more opportunities for the story as well as a much more varied approach in terms of character. Couldn't Be Happier! In response, Boss Akazawa breaks the boxer Saburo’s hands so that his boxing dream will go unfulfilled. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Very difficult but very rewarding and quirky. The director here is Yasuharu Hasebe (the amazeballs Kuroda (Jo Shishido) is an enforcer for boss Akazawa, who in the opening is ordered to murder his lover (the two were planning to try to escape together) His two brothers are club runner Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburo (Jiro Okazaki), who are both shocked at what Kuroda was forced to do and that Kuroda doesn’t seem to be doing anything in response (besides keeping brash Eiji from running off to cause trouble) Saburo beats up one of Akazawa’s boxers and declares he’s not going to box for him anymore, but instead his fingers are smashed by Akazawa’s goons, destroying his career.Kuroda has finally had enough and breaks off, turning in his pin (which causes Akazawa’s men to trash his club) and eventually the brothers start carving out their own territory, forcing the store owners to pay them the protection money instead. Shirasaka also finds strength in family, his family being Akazawa’s gang that he has been in since a child and was one of the chosen successors (the other being Kuroda) Despite the violence, director Hasebe and cinematographer Kazue Nagatsuga find places to shine, with the violence escalation being mirrored in paintings and crooked angles as things collapse into open warfare. For one thing it nicely sidesteps the stereotypical ‘one rogue against the system’ narrative by giving Kuroda two brothers. ... Review by Roger Carpenter Director Yasuharu Hasebe was a well-known director in Japan right up until his death in 2009. I thought they were just the cinema…As much as I prefer physical media, I have no interest in buying standard DVD…"I was certainly hoping for 1 more good Adkins flick this year."

The film is full of Smart gangsters in Suits, Guns but no Katana’s. Eiji decides to take Boss Akazawa’s mistress as his lover in order to get back at the old bully. More conventional in structure and storytelling than another 1967 film starring Jô Shishido, the acclaimed Branded To Kill, Massacre Gun owes much to earlier American film noir. Massacre Gun – The Blu Review. Things keep escalating until the two sides find themselves in a bloody turf war.The classic Nikkatsu gangster movies were heavily influenced by the crime films of America. Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Lets not forget the Jazzy Score played through out. The A/V transfer is excellent and shows that care was put into restoring this title. Ryuichi is conflicted, but he goes through with it, and drives her car into the ocean. When Kuroda turns his back on Akazawa, the crime boss has his men crush Saburo’s hands – ending his nascent boxing career. Unlike his brothers he is not a criminal, and they both seem keen to keep it that way. At this point the Nikkatsu borderless action films are becoming very well represented on TarsTarkas.NET, thanks in part to a large swatch of them getting wonderful restored and subtitled releases in the West, thus making watches easy.

You can still see all customer reviews for the product. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The 1930 count found 1,180 whites and 2 Blacks. Non-profit, education or personal use tops the balance in favor of fair use." The Hong Kong Massacre is a viscous game set in Hong Kong filled with guns, bullets, slow-motion and blood. The film cuts regularly from a scene of violence or intimidation to a scene of Chico performing a melancholic blues number in the piano. Bit rate is nearly maxed out most of the time between 33-37mbps. Instead, Ryuichi’s brothers Saburo (Jiro Okazaki) and Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) speak up on his behalf.