Kinji Fukasaku, the madman of Japanese yakuza cinema, directs this gleefully gruesome splatter satire of teenage nihilism, adult paranoia, and social sadism.
The Japanese comedian reinvented himself as a brutal gangster and as a director of maverick crime dramas with these two films set in the Japanese underworld.
Kurosawa’s magesterial masterpiece about an aging warlord reworks Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ through the lens of a true story from sixteenth century Japan.
Kaji Meiko stars in this visually exquisite thriller of a ferocious beauty raised to take revenge on a quartet of criminals. It was a primary inspiration for for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’ films.
Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.
