Black Angel 2
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Black Angel 2 |
| Original title | 黒 の 天使 Vol.2 |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Takashi Ishii |
| script | Takashi Ishii |
| production | Takashi Ishii, Kazuo Shimizu |
| music | Gorō Yasukawa |
| camera | Kazuto Sato |
| cut | Yoshio Kitazawa |
| occupation | |
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Black Angel 2 ( Japanese 黒 の 天使 Vol.2 , Kuro no Tenshi Vol. 2 ) is a melancholy action film / yakuza film by the Japanese film company Shōchiku from 1999. Directed by Takashi Ishii . After Black Angel, the staging is the second and final part of a film series that was originally conceived as a series of feature films.
The work first appeared on November 13, 1999 in Japan; the German release date was July 25, 2005 (as a purchase DVD).
action
When schoolgirl Mayo is harassed by a gang of rapists in a dark alley, a motorized two-wheeler rushes to her aid. The stranger, a handsome yakuza named Yamabe, puts the evildoers to flight at the risk of his life. Then he says goodbye to the young woman and drives away. The incident arouses feelings and a certain form of affection in both the rescuer and the rescuer.
Ten years later, Mayo, suffering from depression and severe alcohol addiction , is a tragic victim of her past. She hires herself out as a contract killer for the Yakuza. One day she is supposed to liquidate the wealthy Kobun Tōyō, a senior head of the syndicate. As the black-clad Mayo approaches the target, she is disturbed by a strange killer couple who are also after Tōyō. Shots are fired, the potential victim is warned and his bodyguards finally strike the killer duo down. Mayo tries to do her job anyway. As she approaches the yakuza, however, she recognizes a person from her past among Tōyō's men who once saved her from rape: Yamabe. Due to her hesitation, the assassination attempt fails and an uninvolved passer-by dies - Yamabe accidentally shoots him.
Tōyō then intensified his efforts to track down the alleged perpetrators. He asks Yamabe to look around the dead, a former criminal. The loyal follower then visits the widowed Suzu and gives her a large amount of cash, full of guilt. The flower seller is grateful and modest, not knowing who the noble patron is. But when she learns of a rumor that her innocent husband was murdered by the Tōyō family, she seeks revenge.
When Tōyō travels on business, Mayo is instructed by Yazaki, Tōyō's shady adversary, to do her job again and kill the long-established Yakuza. Suzu also follows Tōyō's footsteps. An attempt by the flower seller fails, Suzu is captured and subsequently severely mistreated. A short time later, Mayo kills Tōyō, but not without fighting again with the loyal Yamabe. The embittered Yamabe resigns after the murder of his Aniki and refuses allegiance to Yazaki, the new head of the organization.
The disobedience finally culminates in the liberation of Suzu and the common escape. At some point, Yamabe's attention is drawn to the delicate mayo, which also opposes Yazaki. He helps her again and escapes with her to Suzu's home. Yamabe soberly realizes there that Suzu's dead husband connects the three desperate people present. He also reveals to Mayo that he has always been driven by thoughts of a particular woman he once saved. When he identifies Mayo in the assassin of his superior, whose death goes unpunished, the film inevitably approaches the tragic showdown. Suzu's apartment is attacked by Yakuza. While on the run, the flower seller learns that Yamabe is her husband's shooter. A little later he dies in a hail of bullets when the trio is caught by Yazaki and his men. In the end, Mayo tearfully avenges the loss of her lover and kills both villain Yazaki and some of his followers.
Reviews
The two thousand and one film lexicon described the production, which is located in the milieu of organized crime, as a “complicated underworld story” that tells a “brutal story at a slow-moving pace”. Furthermore, the focus is no longer on “a radiant heroine, but a broken woman who drowns her loneliness and her disgust in alcohol”.
Web links
- Black Angel 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with director Takashi Ishii, conducted by Satoko Ishida: Black Angel 2 DVD, I-On New Media, July 25, 2005
- ↑ cf. Entry on jmdb.ne.jp
- ^ Black Angel 2. In: Lexicon of international films . Film Service , accessed December 12, 2010 .