Full metal yakuza

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Movie
German title Full metal yakuza
Original title FULL METAL 極 道
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1997
length 90 (cut)
102 (uncut) minutes
Age rating FSK 16 or SPIO / JK
Rod
Director Takashi Miike
script Itaru Era
production Fujio Matsushima
music Kōji Endō
camera Shohei Ando
occupation

Full Metal Yakuza ( Japanese FULL METAL 極 道 , Full Metal gokudô ) is an exploitation Japanese science fiction / action film directed by Takashi Miike from 1997. Itaru Era wrote the screenplay and is based on a story by Hiroki Yamaguchi . Full Metal Yakuza is a subtle parody of Verhoeven's classic Robocop , although the setting is set in the Yakuza milieu.

The early work of the “arranger”, which only gained international attention two years later with the horror film Audition , is a low-budgeted original video that, in contrast to western video productions, is characterized by a significantly higher level of quality.

The film celebrated its video premiere on December 5, 1997. The work was published in Germany on March 11, 2004.

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The good-natured and foolish failure Keisuke Hagane is a disregarded member of the clan of the powerful Yakuzas Tosa, a deputy leader of the Mutsumi group. The insignificant man is a great admirer of his brutal superior, who exudes power and potency with his colored dragon tattoos and his sword. One day Tosa gives his younger subordinate, whose name he does not know at this point, his personal notebook and asks him to take good care of the Mutsumi group as he faces a multi-year prison sentence. Previously, Tosa committed a bloodbath in an internal power struggle between two rival gangs.

Meanwhile, a bitter dispute rages over the possible successor to an aging Yakuza boss: Yomo, the lawful and unscrupulous successor to the favored Tosa. Seven years later, Tosa is released from prison. Hagane, the most incompetent yakuza in the ranks of the entire criminal organization, picks up his superiors together with other “brothers”. Together they drive to a remote country house when the idyllic atmosphere is suddenly interrupted by an armed ambush. Clan boss Tosa and the loyal Hagane are killed in this attack. The clients are people from our own ranks.

The corpses of the two murdered find their way to the mad scientist Genpaku Hiraga, who, following his childhood dream, wants to create a legendary robot figure who will protect future society. For this purpose, the idealist forms a crime-fighting superhero - a cyborg - from metal and body parts of the deceased in an elaborate operation . His created creature in human form has superhuman powers as well as Hagane's head, as well as Tosa's heart and the tattooed back. The almost invincible "new organism" with superpowers is then trained for use for the benefit of humanity, but soon pursues its own plans and begins a bloody campaign of revenge against its former comrades and murderers. In the process, Hagane, who is largely made of metal, learns that he and Tosa, the promising successor to the head of the Yakuza organization, fell victim to a murder plot. He gets rid of the majority of traitorous criminals who have no chance, but for the time being spares the life of the wire-puller Yomo, who vehemently protests his innocence.

A little later, Hagane is drawn to the beach, where he seeks and finds peace in the seclusion. Here the full metal Yakuza body meets Tosa's former girlfriend Yukari, who believes she recognizes her deceased Tosa in Hagane's mechanical body. She finally becomes mad, even begs the cyborg for physical affection, which the virtuous cyborg denies her, so that she abruptly leaves him again. The young woman is burned out physically and mentally. In this situation, she tries somewhat clumsily to murder the well-guarded yakuza chief Yomo; her plan fails, she is captured and mistreated until she kills herself with suicidal intent in the further course of the act.

Yomo seizes the opportunity and, with the capture of Yukari, blackmailed the murder of a head of the rival Musashi group in order to expand his claim to power. The angry Hagane carries out the contract killing without any resistance worth mentioning at the place where Tosa once caused a massacre. Then he remembers his humanity again, tries to save the young woman and faces the remaining villains around Yomo. With a sword he kills a multitude of yakuzas, including the patriarchal leader of the organization, the "President", but his exhausting mission comes too late, Yukari has already succumbed to her injuries. Even badly damaged and damaged, Hagane first gets rid of Yomo's young deputy at the end of the film, before killing Yomo in a bizarre way, almost incapacitated. Its mechanical body then stops working. In the last scene, the confident scientist appears with an assistant, who is remarkably happy about his creation “made entirely of metal”.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "weird action thriller in the 'Robocop' style, which stands out for its strange humor, but also for its speculative brutality". Blickpunkt: The film praised the “entertaining early work by Nippon's scandal guarantee Takashi Miike”. The magazine VideoWoche said that the director “with a lot of cheap but effective effects” knows how to stage the “sense of dry situational comedy” in a “spectacularly brutal and profoundly funny SF gangster film”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Full Metal Yakuza in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  3. ↑ a b Film review ( memento of the original from March 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at amazon  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amazon.de