🎞️ Yakuza Graveyard / やくざの墓場 くちなしの花 (1976) x 🍶 Hagi no Tsuru Junmai Ginjo Omachi

Tetsuya Watari (and many familiar faces) stars in this gritty, cops ‘n yakuza Fukasaku classic! Matched with an elegant and punchy omachi sake from one of my favourite breweries - soft pepper and acidity, cream, and marzipan… 😋

#filmsandsake #sake #japanesecinema #nowwatching #tetsuyawatari #kinjifukasaku

#OnThisDate, August 4, 黒蜥蜴 [Kurotokage aka Kuro tokage aka Black Lizard] (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968) is the #FilmDuJour. #KinjiFukasaku #RampoEdogawa #YukioMishima #AkihiroMiwa #Japan #drama #romance #action #crime #comedy #LGBT #BookAdaptation #1960s #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film ★★★½

51 years ago:
Street Mobster (JP)
Original title: 現代やくざ 人斬り与太
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
1972-05-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/21613
#StreetMobster #KinjiFukasaku #BuntaSugawara #HideoMurota #MayumiNagisa #ToeiCompany #ClassicFilm

61 years ago:
The Challenge (JP)
Original title: 誇り高き挑戦
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of po...
1962-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/397043
#TheChallenge #KinjiFukasaku #KojiTsuruta #HitomiNakahara #TetsurTamba #ToeiCompany

55 years ago:
Blackmail Is My Life (JP)
Original title: 恐喝こそわが人生
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the busi...
1968-02-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/107634
#BlackmailIsMyLife #KinjiFukasaku #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

48 years ago:
Graveyard of Honor (JP)
Original title: 仁義の墓場
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him s...
1975-02-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/71851
#GraveyardofHonor #KinjiFukasaku #TatsuoUmemiya #ReikoIke #KunieTanaka #ToeiCompany

🆕💭Review: Battles Without Honor and Humanity [2] – Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)

All about the second episode, and the dark obsessions that send yakuza hitman Yamanaka & his nemesis Katsutoshi on path to self-destruction.

#japanesefilm #filmcrit #filmreview #yakuzaeiga #cinemastodon #kinjifukasaku #japanesecinema

https://gamblersanddrifters.com/2023/02/03/review-battles-without-honor-and-humanity-2-deadly-fight-in-hiroshima-1973/

Shame on me that I haven’t watched more Japanese #movies this #Japanuary. I just finished the 1968 #BlackLizard by #KinjiFukasaku. His direction is (willingly or unwillingly) a little incoherent, but drag-performer #AkihiroMiwa’s lavish and gender-fluid performance as the eponymous antagonist Black Lizard is a delight.

[CALENDRIER DE LA SAUCISSE J15]
Quand une distribution de cadeaux de Noël auprès de lycéens se passe mal, cela fini bien souvent, comme nous le montre Battle Royale, en bain de sang, ces derniers se retournant même contre les adultes bienveillants qui veulent les raisonner.
#bluray #physicalmedia #BattleRoyale #kinjifukasaku #takeshikitano