Subtlety has never been one of Takashi Miike’s strongpoints. His latest film, involving a Yakuza hitman and his boss, explores his familiar obsessions with extreme violence and bizarre sexual behaviour – but Ingo Ebeling thinks it’s still worth seeking out
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The Young and Dangerous series has been one of the longest-running film franchises in Asian cinema, following a group of young bloods on the mean, Triad-ruled streets of downtown Hong Kong. Ingo Ebeling examines a winning formula
»The new film from Beat Takeshi makes a surprising move away from his proccupations with duty, loyalty and violence into much gentler emotional terrain. Is Beat Takeshi going soft in his old age? Ingo Ebeling doesn’t think so
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