- Miike Marathon - Part 1:
Basically if robocop and Tetsuo had a yakuza baby.
I liked the overall flow of the story, even though in reality it’s sort of 3 stories. First is a strait forward yakuza film, with basically nothing out of the ordinary. Second switches things up and becomes a science fiction revenge story. Third takes a surprisingly dark turn that obviously isn’t unnatural for Miike films, but since the first 2/3 of the film is relatively light, the brutality of the third caught me off guard. Especially since it started with a somewhat heartfelt romantic couple scenes that I really enjoyed. Silly me. Overall though not too bad, definitely not Mike’s most intense, interesting, or disturbing. But still entertaining.
- Miike Marathon - Part 1:
Basically if robocop and Tetsuo had a yakuza baby.
I liked the overall flow of the story, even though in reality it’s sort of 3 stories. First is a strait forward yakuza film, with basically nothing out of the ordinary. Second switches things up and becomes a science fiction revenge story. Third takes a surprisingly dark turn that obviously isn’t unnatural for Miike films, but since the first 2/3 of the film is relatively light, the brutality of the third caught me off guard. Especially since it started with a somewhat heartfelt romantic couple scenes that I really enjoyed. Silly me. Overall though not too bad, definitely not Mike’s most intense, interesting, or disturbing. But still entertaining.
