Japan is the only country in the world that recognizes the legalization of the underworld, so what are the classic Japanese underworld movies? Here are 8 movies recommended to everyone:
01. "Hot Blood College 1-2"
Chinese Title: Hot-Blooded College
Starring: Shun Oguri / Takayuki Yamada / Kyosuke Yabe / Koichi Tsuto , Goro Kishitani / Akiaki Asaki / Kenta Kiritani / Koho Takama
Generation: 2007
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Category: Action Drama Youth School Violence (18+)
Director: Takashi Miike Takashi Miike
Author: Hiroshi Takahashi Takahashi
Screenwriter: Hiroshi Takahashi Takahashi ..... (comic)
Suzuran Boys' High School is a notorious school where a group of bad students who love to fight are known as "crows" because they symbolize unlucky events such as bloodshed, and in order to compete for school supremacy, they are divided into many factions, the two most powerful of which are the Serizawa Legion led by Serizawa Tama yu (Takayuki Yamada), the new forces of transfer students Takitani Genji (Oguri Shun) and the ground snake Kata kiritsu (Yabe Yusuke). As the contradictions between the two factions intensified, the time was coming for the two crow legions, Genji and Serizawa, to fight each other.
02. "The End of Death"
This is a work of Satoshi Ishii brewing for three years, the film consists of three stories——— "Song of Death", "Shadow", and "Flying", which tell the story of three men who are chased: the three of them appear as "desperate running", but at the moment when there is no way to retreat, something strange happens. Ishii is ambitious and wants to use this image to show the situation of the three men who are at the end of their ropes. Although the film is not long, the urgency of running makes the film extremely explosive. What unfolds before us is the escape fantasy of three repressed bodies. Tomorrow was no longer important to them, heaven or hell was no longer up to them, and they were not even willing to find a reason for their escape.
"Ending Death": A man (Yusuke Iseya) is chased and killed, and finally runs into a dead alley, with no way to escape. A figure approached him, and he attacked with an iron rod in one hand, killing a woman he had never met before. Just when he thought he had killed her by mistake, she suddenly stood up and danced...
Shadow: A man who is running away (Masatoshi Nagase) grabs the blood from his face and ends up in a dead alley. He heard footsteps behind him and turned to see only a man with a gun.
"Flying": A man (Tadanobu Asano) escapes from the police, he runs into the building, runs up the stairs, and rushes all the way to the top floor. At the same time, a woman was drying clothes on the roof, and he pointed a pistol at her and held her hostage, but she did not make a sound. Then the police arrived and tried to persuade him, but he could not hear anything, and the hostage continued to speak, but he suddenly raised his pistol and pointed it at his temple...
03. The Battle without Mercy
电 name: Battle of the Unsung | 无 义战
Director: Shinji Fukasaku
Starring: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umesaki / Hiroaki Matsukata / Nobuo Kaneko / Eiko Nakamura
Release date: 1973-01-13
Introduction:
Based on the handwriting of the leader of the Yamamura Group (changed to "Yamamori Group" in the film), it tells the history of the 30-year struggle of the Hiroshima gang after the war. In Showa 21, the Japanese underworld was in a state of chaos in a power vacuum, and the gangs fought the fiercest underworld war in Japanese history in order to compete for territory. Guangneng Changsan, a retired soldier, joined the gang by mistake and became a capable general of the mountain guard group. As the election of the city councillors began, the Yamamori group and the rival gang Doi group were in a state of sabers, and Hiromino Masazo was sent to assassinate the council-elect, but the head of the Doi group, Wakasa, was Hirono's brother, and the war between the two factions ended with Hirono's successful shooting of the Doi group leader. Hirono is imprisoned again, and Wakasa is shot and killed in retaliation against the Yamamori group. While Serving His Sentence, The young cadre of the Yamamori Group, Sakai Tetsuya, grew in power and threatened Yamamori's position. After Yamamori was released from prison, Hiranoo assassinated Sakai, which further intensified the contradiction between the two, and Guangneng saw through the essence of the so-called gang benevolence in a series of events.
04. "The New Generation of Underworld"
Movie Title: Extreme Dao Zhen Guozhi Unmoved | the new generation of underworld
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Shosuke Tanihara / Chikami Takeuchi / Mine Nomoto / Akira Kanno
Release: 1996-10-12
Ryoki Tomito is a high school student at Chungju College of Commerce. Taciturn, he seems to be elegant, but in fact he comes from a well-known underworld family in Kyushu. Ten years ago, the Night Fork Group, Kobe's largest underworld group, began a plan to annex all of Japan. A misstep of Tomitō's brother caused the entire Kyushu "Renwang Society" to fall into a stalemate with the "Night Fork Group". In order to give the group an explanation, the father silently made a cruel decision, that is, to kill Tomit's brother, and Tomito, who was only 5 years old at the time, witnessed this bloody scene. Ten years later, the young Reiki Toto became the best student in the Chushu Business Academy and the boss of a new generation of underworld in charge of the entire Nakatsu region. The soul hidden under The Weak Book is ignited by the flame of revenge, and he leads his group of seemingly weak but actually skilled die-hard loyalists Mika, Junko and others to begin his elaborate revenge plan.
05. "Hanabi"
Shadow name: Hanabi HANA-BI | Fireworks
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano / Kayoko Kishimoto / Akira Osugi / Akira Teraki / Koji Tsuda
Release Date: 1997-11-15 (Venice Film Festival) / 1998-03-20 (USA) / 1998-01-24 (Japan)
Nishika is a police officer, and he and Horibe are a pair of best partners. During the dynasty, the West family underwent serious changes, the son unfortunately died, and the wife who was overly grieving was suffering from leukemia and was in an advanced stage. Officer Nishi went to the hospital to visit a patient, during which time his partner Horibe was shot and injured during the mission, leaving him paralyzed in the lower body. Later, West mishandled in a hunt for the killer, resulting in the death of a junior. Officer Nishi left the police circle because of this series of events, borrowed money from The Money Bank, took care of the widow of the younger generation, covered the medical expenses of his wife, and accompanied and comforted his old friend Horibu. But the underworld chased after him for interest, all of which made Officer Xi feel overwhelmed, so he decided to take a desperate risk and put an end to everything. In the end, Officer West accompanied his wife on a trip with no way back.
06. "Extremely Evil and Non-Taoist"
Shadow name: Outrage| Outrage
Starring: Takeshi Kitano / Tomokazu Miura / Kohei Shiina / Ryo Kako / Koichiro Kitamura / Fumiyo Obinata
Release date: 2010-06-12
The leader of the Iketo group, which belongs to the Yamanokai, the number one gang organization in The Kanto, was once married to the leader of the small organization Murase group in prison. Sanno-kei is ambitious and covets Murase's turf and drug business. At the behest of Kato, the second in command of the Yamanokai, Ikemoto ordered a challenge to the Murase group. Under the fierce attack of the Otomo group and the poisonous schemes of the boss of the Yamanokai, the Murase group was gradually defeated. The Otomo group was full of talents, and the second-in-command Mizuno and the cadre Ishihara personally presided over the casino opened at the embassy of an African country, and for a time the Otomo group's wealth was rolling in. However, in the gangster society that has long abandoned the traditional benevolence and morality, various conspiracies have emerged, triggering a power war related to the survival of the underworld world, and the violent struggle under the extremely evil and inhumane has begun...
07. "Tough Boy"
Director: Yu Shinagawa
Writers: Yu Shinagawa
Starring: Hiroki Narimiya / Hiroshi Mizushima / Motoya Mikaka / Kazuki Hakuoka / Toru Wakzuki
Genre: Comedy
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release: 2009-03-20
Runtime: 122 minutes
Burned out by the hot-blooded manga, 15-year-old middle school student Yu nobu nakagawa (Narimaki Miyako) transfers from a private school to a public school, Tsune kita Junior High School, in order to become a bad boy. His short, fiery red hair quickly attracts the attention of several bad boys, and although he is beaten up by their leader Tatsuya Inguchi (Mizushima), he becomes friends with Tatsuya and his partners Moriki Takashi (Kazuki Hakuoka), Wang Gong (Wakata Tsuki), and Lupin (Yuji Kazuji Akebe), and Ayu secretly falls in love with Tatsuya's Mazi Miyuki (Honjoya). Unlike Ayu, who pays attention to his behavior, Tatsuya enjoys the hot-blooded life of a bad boy with all his heart, and the daily war is continuous, and he encounters two of the big demon leaders of Akibu Nanchu, Akagi (Shuichiro Tsukida) and Kato (レイザーラモンHG). The youth of youth is destined to be full of noise...
08. "Shinjuku Underworld"
Director: Takashi Miike
Writers: Ichiro Fujita (Ichirô Fujita)
Starring: Shiina Kohei / Taguchi Tomorowo / Yanagi Kori
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Thriller / Crime
Release: 1995-08-26
Runtime: 100 minutes
Shinjuku Kabukicho, with its mix of fish and dragons and surging undercurrents, is one of Tokyo's most chaotic and dangerous places. A policeman is killed in Kabukicho, and the inmate, Zhou Run (Mako and Hiroshi), a teenager named Kiyohide, is also the leader of his gay lover Wang Zhiming (Taguchi トモロヲ), the leader of the largest Chinese gang in Shinjuku, the Dragon Claw.
The second-generation orphan, Ryūhito Kiritani (Kirina Kirihira), investigates the matter, and during the investigation, he stumbles upon his brother Yoshihito (Morisuke Izuku) who is involved in the case. Due to his identity, Yiren has never found a sense of belonging and identity, and he is determined to use this opportunity to get ahead. And in order to protect his brother, Long Ren also did not hesitate to get involved in this filthy and evil black vortex at all costs...
Underworld movies have always been a controversial genre, and friends who like it can add a note and will often send some movies with different themes.