Weird, wild, and nearly incomprehensible, Seijun Suzuki’s gangster movie masterpiece recreates the Yakuza genre as a pop-art James Bond cartoon
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‘Massacre Gun’ – Japanese Gangster action on Amazon Prime
Yasuharu Hasebe, a disciple of Nikkatsu’s maverick filmmaker Suzuki Seijun, made his directorial debut with Black Tight Killers (1966), a crazy, campy spy adventure fun shot in bright, pop-art color. Massacre Gun (Japan, 1967), his follow-up feature, remains in the action genre but takes a turn into the dark alleys of gangster noir with the […]