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Good, not great film from the Japanese New Wave moreCast
(in credits order) | Hiroki Matsukata | ... | Muraki |
| Tomomi Sato | ... | Otoki |
| Yôko Mihara | ||
| Tetsuro Tamba | ||
| Bin Amatsu | ||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Shigeru Amachi | ||
| Akira Jo | ... | Zero |
| Hideo Murota | ... | Seki |
| Eriko Sono | ||
| Ryohei Uchida | ||
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| Kinji Fukasaku | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Shinji Fujiwara | book | |
Produced by | |||
| Akira Oda | .... | producer | |
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| Hajime Kaburagi | |||
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| Keiji Maruyama | |||
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| Kiminobu Sato | |||
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- Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) (2004) (USA) (DVD) (subtitled)
- Raro Video (2006) (Italy) (DVD)
- Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo
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Blackmail Is My Business (USA)Blackmail Is My Life (USA) (DVD title)
Call Me Blackmail! (USA)
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The story involves four people whose work is blackmail. They're successful in their "business," but their eyes eventually get too big for their stomachs when they think they've found a way to rip off the yakuza. The job proves harder than the easy money it initially seemed. While it is generally well done, its techniques reminded me a little too much of the annoying modern style with a lot of unnecessary freeze frames, chronological jumps, and shifts from black and white to color. I also felt that the characters ought to have been more well developed; the story is good, but the style overwhelms possible substance. My favorite part of the film is the fact that the characters whistle the theme tune to Suzuki Seijun's Tokyo Drifter, which means that Suzuki had to have had some popularity if his work was quoted like this. 7/10.