More Takashi Miike! This guy doesn’t ever stop making movies. Miike most recently made the films Shield of Straw and Over Your Dead Body, following 13 Assassins in 2010, and this is his latest work. Yakuza Apocalypse is a genre-mash-up described as a “comedic vampire thriller, a gangster epic, a martial-arts extravaganza and an end-of-the-world spectacle.” Apparently it’s not as epic and endlessly violent as the title indicates, according to this review: “While on paper seeming like the Takashi Miike-est Takashi Miike film ever, it might be a surprising bummer for the Midnight Madness crowd expecting a kinetic horror-action film. Every shot lasts far longer than expected and with little to no music, creating a stream of silence followed by a burst of action rhythmic pattern.” Based on the footage in this trailer, I’m still quite intrigued. ›››
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