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)

Sushi gore

Director Takashi Miike ("Audition", "Dead or Alive I+II") created a dark vengeance-story that deals with a young guy named Riki Fudoh who takes bitter revenge on the Yakuza for killing his brother. Together with some classmates he starts a merciless crusade against the organized crime... However, without being too sensitive, so faint-hearted persons should stay away from the gross scenes of murder! Acid drinks, beheadings and little kids as contract killers... no doubt, "Fudoh" is bloody entertainment in perfection! It is something like teenagers on a killing spree, but fortunately far beyond political correctness and typical Hollywood-clichés - or could anyone imagine Denise Richards using vaginal firearms?!? (A delicious imagination, by the way...)... Miike´s film ran very successfully at various festivals like in Rotterdam/Netherlands, Toronto/Canada or in Germany. It was a No.1 box-office blockbuster in its home country Japan and everyone who likes violent Asian action movies should give it a fair chance! Recommended!