Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)
Hot damn, I‘m watching this for the second time and its such a delicate and serene portrayele of a boy who‘s grown older and is now returning to the ways of his youth. Simultaneously the place from where he comes, is also the place those ways of dealing with things made him end up in.
Tomisaburo Wakayama only appears for maybe the last third of the movie, but he steals the show from a fabulous cast. His character really suffers and shows vulnerability in a world, where that is a death sentence.
Stylistically this plays between the loose, violent assaults later Fukasaku films could represent, and his earlier work, which comes off alot more modest and quiet. Some sentimental zooms and pans, but besides that, the action is there, the suspense is through the roof at times and the rest is just beautifully lit and captured!
Tomisaburo Wakayama only appears for maybe the last third of the movie, but he steals the show from a fabulous cast. His character really suffers and shows vulnerability in a world, where that is a death sentence.
Stylistically this plays between the loose, violent assaults later Fukasaku films could represent, and his earlier work, which comes off alot more modest and quiet. Some sentimental zooms and pans, but besides that, the action is there, the suspense is through the roof at times and the rest is just beautifully lit and captured!
