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Goro (Tetsuya Watari) is back to being the most feared Yakuza hitman,
and as he gets into struggle with a rival gang, his life is saved only by
Masa (Tatsuya Fuji), who is gravely wounded though and dies later in
prison while Goro himself is out on parol soon enough and once again
decides to go straight - plus he is to track down Masa's sister - but when
doing so, he gets into a net of intrigue as he tries to save honest
businessmen, a group of strippers, and most of all Isomura, the
receptionist of the hotel he briefly works at, out of the hands of the
yakuza, but whatever he does he only gets himself and those around him he
cares the most about only deeper into things, and those he tries to get
out of town and (at least temporarily) out of the yakuza's hands usually
end up dead the quickest. Well, at least he tricks Isomura into boarding a
boat by promising her a future together - but instead he (literally) jumps
ship to finally have his vendetta on all those who've wronged him ... In
a way this instalment of Outlaw: Gangster VIP is just more
of the same, a fatalistic tale of a man who just wants to leave the evil
he has helped to cause behind him but can't escape the maelstrom of the
life he once had chosen - to a very bloody outcome. But that's far from
just calling Goro the Assassin a formula movie, as the film is
well-told, energetically directed and full of interesting and colourful
characters, most of them almost as broken as Goro himself. Definitely
worth a look, and totally watchable as a standalone movie, too!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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