Shinjuku killers

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Movie
German title Shinjuku killers
Original title 新宿 黒 社会 チ ャ イ ナ ・ マ フ ィ ア 戦 争
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1995
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Takashi Miike
script Ichirō Fujita
production Tetsuya Ikeda ,
Toshiki Kimura ,
Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
music Atorie Shira
camera Naosuke Imaizumi
cut Yasushi Shimamura
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Rainy Dog

Shinjuku Killers ( Japanese 新宿 黒 社会 チ ャ イ ナ ・ マ フ ィ ア 戦 争 , Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensō , dt. "The Black Society of Shinjuku: The War of the Chinese Mafia") is a Japanese police thriller by the director Takashi Miike in 1995 Stripes is the prelude to a thematically but unrelated trilogy, which was followed by two sequels: Rainy Dog (1997) and Ley Lines (1999).

Miike's production premiered in Japan on August 26, 1995. In Germany, the first DVD evaluation took place on November 14, 2005.

action

Kabukichō , the red light district of Tokyo's Shinjuku district . The Taiwanese gang boss Wang, with his almost exclusively homosexual triad gang "Dragon Nail", is pushing into the lucrative drug and gay prostitution market; little by little he unrolls the underworld of Shinjuku. Wang finds support in the Chinese Karino, who strengthens him with his followers.

The rude police detective Tatsuhito Kiriya, who cares little about the correct observance of service regulations, investigates the murder of several members of a rival Yakuza clan. The investigation by the brutal police officer and thug with Chinese roots leads to a nearby nightclub owned by the Chinese Triads - a criminal organization that seems to be gaining influence. In the amusement bar, the police officer arrives at two members of the group, but an androgynous suspect who works for a certain Wang as a call boy manages to escape.

The corrupt detective is under particular pressure to succeed. Since it is impossible for him to take action against the long-established Yakuzas, they regularly "compensate" him for his passivity, Tatsuhito tries to smash the Dragon Nail Syndicate. He immediately interrogates the two arrested persons from the nightly police operation, including the prostitute Ritsuko, Karino's long-term friend. Meanwhile, the officer with certain perverse tendencies uses tough interrogation methods and rapes the Ritsuko present. A little later he was reprimanded by the prisoners' lawyers for his drastic methods. In this worrying situation, the unsuspecting policeman learns that his younger brother Yoshihito is working as a lawyer for the other side; consequently for Wang. A family conflict that has been simmering for a long time is intensifying. The committed Tatsuhito does not manage to separate his brother from the criminals. Rather, he encourages Yoshihito to strive to work even more resolutely for Wang and his henchmen.

Tatsuhito found in the course of his investigation that the extremely bloody clashes between the long-established Yakuzas and the up-and-coming Chinese were not only about the supremacy in the drug business, but also about a new source of income - the illegal organ trade . Especially for this purpose, Wang finances a state-of-the-art hospital in his Taiwanese hometown in order to remove organs from the impoverished population for a fee and to sell them at a profit to mostly wealthy Japanese. After Wang manages to crush the Yakuzas so that they no longer play a role in the area, Tatsuhito decides to fight back. His main goal is to get his younger brother out of the swamp. With the help of the prostitute Ritsuko, at the end of the film he kills all the underworld greats of the Dragon-Nail gang, only Ritsuko and the boyish callboy survive. An off-voice reveals in the last scene that the policeman will be murdered a month later.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film wrote that the violent cop / gangster film use "concepts such as honor, family and loyalty to rude to complain about morals and values decline." In addition, one could which in the early film Miike's "recognize willingness to taboos."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0258960/releaseinfo
  2. ↑ a b Shinjuku Killers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 10, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used