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Francisco R.
22Jan12
The movie has enough style and personality to inspire five generations of filmmakers, even the narrative itself becomes more of an aesthetic element than a guide to the story. To me this is a brilliant and a rather misunderstood film.
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Harry Rossi
5Dec11
It was visually beautiful enough to keep interested but I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this one.
SeventiesSinema
26Nov11
Sloppy, lazy, and half-assed like Godard on one of his bad days. Generic genre moves are not innately interesting, so the fact that they are deconstructed does not make them any less boring or pointless.
TheBigCombo
13Oct11
Delirante mejunje camp. Como si Fuller, Sirk, Tashlin y Minelli se unieran en un inolvidable acid trip. La pelicula anda sin rumbo como el protagonista pero la batalla campal en el cabaret y el tiroteo final son una maravilla de imaginacion.
Brian Bohan
6Apr11
my first Seijun Suzuki movie and I enjoyed it quite a bit. it starts slow and confusing, but by the end I was loving every minute. great aesthetics and style and a perfect blend of 60s camp and actual substance.
Rrreeeiiiddd
19Mar11
This movie is absolutely great. Simple plot, visually striking, and invigorating. A must see for any fan of Japanese cinema.
Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
28Nov10
Honestly, I barely followed the plot, but my God this film is a dazzling example of pure style over substance. Everything explodes in color and 'Scope in a delirious mess of eye candy. A glorious film all around.
Coheed 2.0
15Sep10
Like the rest of Suzuki's work I've seen, his use of colour, lighting and space on the screen is applaudable, and certainly makes the film stunning to look at. I do feel however, considering that he made it while under the Nikkatsu Company, that he was still restricted in what he could have made and that it isn't as good as Kagero-za (1981) where he was able to make any film he could.
Christopher
26Jan10
Cinematography √ Soundtrack √ Settings √ Editing √ Did not know much about this movie before watching, what a pleasant surprise. I really like this one a lot. Mix of so many things.
Emily Doom
14Jan10
Amazing, quirky style. All I could think about during my viewing was Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino. Did he take this and catalog each shot only to reproduce it into Kill Bill? I think it's great he pays homage to Japanese cinema in the 1960s but he might have even taken too much. Either way, this film was spectacularly composed. I also loved detecting the influence of the western and elements of noir.
Silenzio
11Dec09
I remember the impact this film had on me when I first saw it years ago having rented it. Afterwards I felt almost as if i had been drugged and the whole thing was a hallucination. I have never seen anything quite like it. Only Dario Argento's Suspiria has had a similar effect on me. I've seen dozens of Yakuza films made from the 60s to the present day but Suzuki deserves credit for doing something radical with the genre.
Patricia
22Nov09
I love the use of colour, style, music, lights... the expression of the actors in this picture. A well made picture that is brillant and it just stands out. I love the beginning of this picture very different from what I have seen (so far) in Japanese pictures. Yet, I couldn't help but feel that it is very Japanese, very fitting with the culture, with the use of style and colours. I just love this movie.
