Tag: joe shishido
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‘Tokyo Fist’ Comes at You Fast
Shinya Tsukamoto’s boxing movie turns genre norms on their head.
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‘Slap Shot’: A Sports Comedy Where Violence is the Answer
Newman’s 1977 star vehicle is one of the most palpably angry sports movies I’ve seen.
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Tokyo Drifters
Two Seijun Suzuki movies — ‘Youth of the Beast’ and ‘Gate of Flesh’ — starring Joe Shishido.
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‘Massacre Gun’ is a By-the-Book Yakuza Thriller
But it’s steadily generous to the senses.
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‘Branded to Kill’ is Thrillingly Unruly
Seijun Suzuki’s 40th film for the Nikkatsu Company was at one time a final straw.
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