Gokudô sengokushi: Fudô (1996)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Takashi Miike

Writers:

Hitoshi Tanimura (comic)
Toshiyuki Morioka (screenplay)

Release Date:

12 October 1996 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Crime

Plot:

In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.

Plot Keywords:

Brother | Yakuza | Murder | Vagina | Stripper

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Shosuke Tanihara	...	Riki Fudoh
Kenji Takano	...	Akira Aizone
Marie Jinno	...	Jun Minoru
Tamaki Kenmochi	...	Touko Zenzai
Tôru Minegishi	...	Iwao Fudoh
Miho Nomoto	...	Mika
Riki Takeuchi	...	Daigen Nohma
Takeshi Caesar	...	Akihiro Gondo
Yuichi Minato
Mickey Curtis	...	Yasha Gang Assassin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Satoshi Niizuma
Rin Sakiyama

Also Known As:

Fudoh: The New Generation (USA)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Australia:R (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R18 | Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) (cut) | Australia:MA | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Excellent Film

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hostel: Part II (2007)

'Fudoh: The New Generation' is an instant classic. Fans of action, crime, or exploitation movies will eat it up!

For the most part Takeshi Miike's movies have been getting weirder and weirder, so if you've already experienced the likes of 'Ichi The Killer' and 'Visitor Q' his earlier movies (e.g. 'Rainy Dog') might seem a bit tame and too "normal". Not so 'Fudoh: The New Generation'! Eight years old, which is a lifetime in Miike's world (60 movies since 1991!), it's still as outrageous as ever. This was the movie that started Miike's reputation as being one of the most wildest and inventive directors in the world. The bare bones of the plot makes it sound like countless other yakuza movies, but Miike continually shocks and subverts his audience. This is one movie you just have to see to believe! Shosuke Tanihara plays Riki Fudoh, teenage son of crime boss Iwao Fudoh (Tôru Minegishi). Fudoh senior sacrificed Riki's older brother Ryu when Riki was a child. Now that Riki is older he plans an audacious plan of revenge, using his own gang of child assassins and sexy schoolgirls, one of whom dispatches her victims via a blow gun she fires from her vagina. 'Fudoh' will have you giggling insanely throughout. Just how does Miike get away with it?! It's also one of the most entertaining and exciting action movies I've ever seen, up there with Miller's 'Mad Max 2', Hill's 'The Driver', Peckinpah's 'The Getaway', Rodriguez's 'El Mariachi' and Ishii's 'The Black Angel'. Most Hollywood action movies these days send me to sleep. I tried watching 'The Fast And The Furious' the other night for example and gave up after becoming bored to tears. Tarantino's mind blowing 'Kill Bill: Vol 1' is the one recent notable exception. Is it any wonder that it was heavily inspired by asian cinema both old and new, including the work of Takashi Miike? I think not. If you enjoyed 'Kill Bill: Vol 1' check out Miike's 'Fudoh' and 'Ichi' and 'Dead Or Alive' trilogy, and Kinji Fukasaku's amazing 'Battle Royale', and you'll immediately see the energy and black humour that Tarantino is currently drawing upon. 'Fudoh: The New Generation' is an instant classic. Fans of action, crime, or exploitation movies will eat it up!