Takashi Miikes Graveyard of Honor
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| German title | Takashi Miikes Graveyard of Honor |
| Original title | 新 ・ 仁義 の 墓 場 |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Takashi Miike |
| script | Shigenori Takechi |
| production |
Shigeji Maeda , Kazuyuki Yokoyama |
| music | Kōji Endō |
| camera | Hideo Yamamoto |
| cut | Yasushi Shimamura |
| occupation | |
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Takashi Miike's Graveyard of Honor ( Jap. 新·仁義の墓場 , Shin jingi no hakaba ) is a Japanese gangster or Yakuzafilm of director Takashi Miike in 2002. The film is a remake of the 1975 directed by Kinji Fukasaku entstandenem Graveyard of Honor and, like its predecessor, is based on a book by Gorō Fujita . Shigenori Takechi wrote the script .
The film was first released in Japan on June 22, 2002. The German first broadcast took place during the Stuttgart Halloween Film Festival on December 19, 2002 in the original language with English subtitles. The dubbed German DVD version went into video distribution on August 23, 2004.
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Japan, Heisei period . Rikuo Ishimatsu works as a dishwasher in a restaurant visited by Yakuza members. When one day he courageously knocked down a brutal contract killer in front of the eyes of Yakuza chief Sawada, the latter accepted him into his criminal organization as thanks for the failed attack. Ishimatsu rises rapidly in the hierarchy of the association due to his enormous aggressiveness and ruthlessness. At the same time he finds a strange companion in the shy Chieko. Even a five-year jail term, during which Ishimatsu met the high-ranking yakuza Imamura, does not seem to jeopardize his ascent to become a respected gangster.
This changes, however, when the disrespectful crook is undone by a little misinformation. Believing Sawada wanted to betray him for promised money, the pathologically suspicious Ishimatsu mistreated three friends of his "brothers". Then the uncompromising thug fled together with his loyal henchman Hashida to the friend Imamura, the godfather of another syndicate. Through his personal commitment, the latter initially protects him from premature death by revenge.
A little later, Ishimatsu visits his boss Sawada again to insistently demand his payment. Blind with rage, however, the impulsive intruder misjudges the situation and shoots down his former sponsor, whereupon the aging Yakuza boss briefly falls into a comatose state. With this offense begins the inevitable decline of the expelled, hunted to death. Without any perspective on life, he turns to his friend Imamura again, who protects him from the merciless search teams regardless of his own dangers. Ishimatsu becomes addicted to drugs during his crash. He finally turns into a junkie who goes over corpses for the next shot and pulls everyone involved into the downfall, including his friend Imamura - characterized by constant suspicion, he kills his friend believing that he has liquidated a traitor - and his girlfriend Chieko who dies miserably from an overdose.
A former henchman of Ishimatsu, Masato, finally manages to wound the wanted man. As a multiple murderer, he finally falls into the hands of the judiciary, where he throws himself from the roof of the prison tower with suicidal intent and dies.
Awards
- 2003: Winner in the Best Actor category for Gorō Kishitani
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an “extremely tough gangster film that tells its story with a fatalistic tone” , “whereby the extreme excesses of violence oppose any conventional dramaturgy” .
Web links
- Takashi Miike's Graveyard of Honor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Takashi Miikes Graveyard of Honor in the online movie database