Fudoh: The New Generation

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Movie
German title Fudoh: The New Generation
Original title 極 道 戦 国 志 不 動
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1996
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK ( SPIO / JK )
Rod
Director Takashi Miike
script Toshiyuki Morioka
production Yoshinori Chiba ,
Toshiki Kimura
music Chu Ishikawa
camera Hideo Yamamoto
cut Yasushi Shimamura
occupation

Fudoh: The New Generation ( Japanese 極 道 戦 国 志 不 動 , Gokudō Sengokushi: Fudō , German about: "Report on a depraved, war-torn country: Fudō") is a Japanese gangster film / yakuzafilm by the director Takashi Miike from 1996. The Stripe is about a lonely young man who is disappointed by his environment or loved ones close to him and takes revenge for it. Toshiyuki Morioka wrote the script for the film and is based on a manga by Hitoshi Tanimura . The early work of the controversial “arranger” is a balancing act between harsh violence, grotesque scenes and breaking taboos.

The film took place in 1997 with Gokudō Sengokushi: Fudō 2 and 1998 with Gokudō Sengokushi: Fudō 3, two less popular sequels, which, however, were no longer realized by Miike.

Miike's production premiered in Japan on October 12, 1996. The work was published in Germany on June 20, 2001.

Fudō is on the one hand the surname of the protagonist and means "immobile", but also refers to the Buddhist deity Acala .

action

A power struggle between two renowned Yakuza clans has broken out, with the weaker clan fearing the revenge of the rival criminal organization. In order to avoid an escalation of the situation, Iwao Fudoh, a traditional yakuza leader, who had fallen out of favor with his colleagues and whose older son provoked that gang war, is asked to atone for his guilt and to restore “peace”. The aging boss then beheaded his older son in cold blood and presented him to his stunned superior. Unfortunately, the execution and the ensuing interview with the bosses of Fudoh's younger son Riki were prosecuted. The boy does not tell his father that he was an eyewitness to the treacherous murder. The tragic childhood trauma is the beginning of a father-son conflict that leads to open enmity.

Ten years later: Riki is a growing man who vengefully persecutes his father and the clan that once forced him to murder his son. As a schoolboy and gang boss, he gathers a group of young people, including children, with whom he now controls smaller parts of the city in addition to the school. This subordinate organization supports him, the good student, in the armed struggle against other gangsters, mainly high-ranking board members of the Yakuzas, as well as against his own father, a high-ranking and well-guarded yakuza boss. The gang is extremely unscrupulous and gradually kills the long-established underworld greats. Riki is protected by two strange students and the beefy Akira Aizone.

Due to the machinations of his son, of which he had no idea at the time, Iwao rose to become the sole leader of the Yakuza clan within the organization. He becomes the undisputed ruler of the Japanese city of Kobe . At the height of his power, he seeks a lucrative alliance with the rival Yasha clan of the wicked Daigen Nohma. His descendants try to stop this cooperation with a cowardly assassination attempt, but his plan fails, Nohma survives and Fudoh senior is informed of his son's machinations. The venerable Yakuzas now strike back for their part.

After a new English teacher had already been transferred to the school, the former girlfriend of Riki's deceased brother, Fudoh senior sent his illegitimate Korean son Akihiro, whose existence nobody knew, to the school disguised as a physical education teacher. According to the father's wish, he should liquidate the murderous junior gang of his relative and ultimately also Riki, which he at least partially succeeds in using brutal methods. Some teenagers find a sudden death when the physically superior Akihiro takes on his angry half-brother Riki in a duel. In the following argument, the hopeless Riki is almost killed, but at the last moment saved by the teacher, who shoots Akihiro in self-defense. That same night Iwao tries to kill his younger son, but Riki sees through his plans and kills his hated father.

At the end of the film, hostilities break out during Iwao's funeral, which is also attended by rival yakuza boss Daigen Nohma. Riki reveals to his counterpart that his time will soon come. A few moments later, Nohma draws his pistol, Riki his katana. The film ends abruptly at this point. What ultimately happens in the middle of this action scene, the film remains guilty of. It offers plenty of room for further interpretations.

Awards

Fantasporto - Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto
  • 1998: Fantasia Section Award in the category "Best Film - Live Action" for Takashi Miike
  • 1998: Special jury award for Takashi Miike
  • 1998: Nomination for the International Fantasy Film Award in the category "Best Film"

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "an extremely violent gangster film, which, in addition to spectacular action, offers a number of surreal-comical scenes."

Tom Mes spoke on Midnight Eye of a film that was "provocative and thoroughly inspired" .

Paul Poet said of Evolver : “Wild, perverted and crazy [...]. Very nice."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0123092/releaseinfo
  2. ↑ a b Fudoh: The New Generation in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  3. ↑ Tom Mes: Fudoh: The New Generation. In: Midnight Eye. Retrieved August 26, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Paul Poet: Basic instincts in Manga-Color. In: Evolver. October 21, 2002, accessed August 26, 2008 .