Young Thugs: Nostalgia – Review

March 7, 2005

One of Takashi Miike’s best works. Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of Riichi, a poor kid with a jerkoff for a dad and a future that seems doomed.

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood – Review

March 7, 2005

A perceptive and even-handed study of how one boy’s troubled youth makes his inevitable maturation more complicated. Riichi returns from Young Thugs: Nostalgia.

Shinjiku Triad Society – Review

March 7, 2005

Precisely what Takishi Miike fans expect: Blood, guts, depraved sex, overblown misogyny, Yakuza, more blood, tough guys, more guts…