Gokudô kuroshakai (Criminal Underworld: Rainy Dog)

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Sep 6, 2015 Solid straight forward gangster movie. The only thing that kept it from being great was that nothing: gross,gay or weird happened. See more

Jan 12, 2013 The second portion of Miike's Black Society Trilogy spoke to me a bit more than the first, as it felt like it had more heart. An exiled Yakuza is living in Taiwan when he's left with a boy who may be his son, which forces him to take the kid on the hit that he's doing for the local mob boss to make ends meet, then the kid will eventually find an unlikely mother figure in a prostitute that the his new daddy picks up. It's a really watchable film, and has some moments that will really tug at the heartstrings here and there. Worth a look. See more

Aug 15, 2012 A rather poignant and subtle character study and meditation on violence disguised as a stark neonoir. In a directorial career filled with splatter, one of the most unsettling scenes is entirely bloodless: the mute son of a lowly thug trying to escape his life of crime absentmindedly scribbles a pistol on the ground with chalk. See more

Oct 10, 2011 Takashi Miike's first major success is much more contained than most of his other work, but non the less succeeds due to a solid script and Miike's focused direction. See more

Sep 26, 2011 Uno yakuza eiga classico per buona parte della durata, con un'attenzione sostanziale alla tematica della solitudine ed un finale molto azzeccato. Bello! See more

Jun 26, 2011 Rainy Dog is a movie about a yakuza who has ended up in Taipei, apparently on the run from some gang or other. He works as a hitman for a local boss and tries to stay out of the rain. Apparently it rains a lot in Taipei. He forms the beginnings of a family when a woman he slept with many years ago turns up and announces that the mute kid she dumps on him is his. Rainy Dog is quite an unusual movie for Takashi Miike, being almost totally free of the extreme, unusual and shocking elements for which his work is known. The movie is played pretty much straight, just focussing on old fashioned elements like characters, script, cinematography and symbolism. Not a lot of dialogue, but when people do speak it is quite thoughtful and insightful. This is an artful kind of gangster movie, gently paced and philosophical. It's the closest Miike has come to making a Takeshi Kitano movie. It doesn't have anything that really leaps out and grabs the viewer by the balls like some of his other movies but it's probably one of his most well balanced films. Recommended. See more

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