Kinji Fukasaku must be considered elite among directors of gangster films. His five films for Battles Without Honor and Humanity, three installments of New Battles Without Honor and Humanity and numerous other movies get deep into the Yakuza culture. He charted the history of how organized crime rose up in post-World War II Japan from … Read more
One of the most hilarious, and also strangely depressing, aspects of the “current year” culture wars has been the corporate world’s readiness to cravenly bend the knee to whatever the latest modern insanity is. Otherwise sensible, cognisant human beings who manage to do everything from walking and breathing at the
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