Yakuza Graveyard
by Kinji Fukasaku
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Actor: Hideo Murota, Meiko Kaji, Seizô Fukumoto, Takuzô Kawatani, Tetsuya WatariDirector: Kinji Fukasaku
Brand: Kino International
Cinematographer: Tôru Nakajima
Writer: Kazuo Kasahara
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 4672
Studio: Kino Video
Product features:
- YAKUZA GRAVEYARD YAKUZA NO HAKABA KUCHI (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Yakuza Graveyard
DVD Review: Another Great Fukasaku Yakuza Film! 4 1/2 Stars!
Summary: 4 Stars
Kinji Fukasaku had a long, distinguished career as a film director in Japan. His movies were successful and highly influential within Japanese cinema, but outside of the Japan his work was only known by fans of Japanese movies - a small cult following that found collecting his movies to be difficult.
Then, at the end of his career, Fukasaku directed a movie that received considerable attention internationally - Battle Royale - and his prior works were snapped up by several distributors. The most notable of these works is, perhaps, The Yakuza Papers series (also known as Battles Without Honor and Humanity), but Fukasaku made dozens of movies, most of them quite good (among them Street Mobster, Graveyard of Honor, Cops VS Thugs, and a few great Samurai movies including Shogun's Samurai/Yagyu Clan Conspiracy, and Swords of Vengeance/The Fall of Ako Castle). All of those movies were made in the 70's - arguably Fukasaku's greatest period in his career.
During that time Fukasaku also made another great Yakuza film, this one - Yakuza Graveyard. Yakuza Graveyard focuses on a, "Cop on the edge," (before that became totally cliche'd), and his relationship with both his fellow police officers AND the Yakuza members he is supposed to stop. Without giving too much away he becomes conflicted between the two worlds, and finds that there is both honor and dishonor on both sides.
The movie is a hard edged, no holds barred movie filled with violence. It also has a very solid script as the main characters are compelling and fairly well rounded. The camera work lends itself to realism, although Fukasaku does turn the camera literally on its side for some shots.
Yakuza Graveyard is a, "Must Have," for Fukasaku fans, and for fans of the Yakuza genre in general. Even for people who have not seen many (if any) Yakuza films, but like movies like Goodfellas, this is a good film to check out and test the waters.
Kino's DVD is quite good, with good Anamorphic Widescreen picture quality and decent sound (it doesn't sound great, but it is over 30 years old and sounds good considering its age). I've read that there is some VERY mild motion blurring when people move really fast, but I looked for it and didn't see any (and I have seen it on other DVD's, so if it's there, it must be VERY minor). The color is good, the constrast level looks right, and the picture is sharp and clear.
If you like Yakuza Graveyard you will have to get the entire Yakuza Papers/Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (five films), and if you are a fan of the Yakuza Papers movies you must order Yakuza Graveyard. Now. (It's that good.)
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Description of Yakuza Graveyard
YAKUZA GRAVEYARD - DVD MovieFollowing Cops Vs. Thugs by a year, Kinji Fukasaku?s Yakuza Graveyard is even more violent and colorful, featuring several scenes that Quentin Tarantino obviously borrowed from for Kill Bill. With a similar nearly-humorous soap opera-like plot, Tarantino also adopted filmic storytelling devices used in this film, namely the freeze-frames on characters during plot summaries, and the switch to black-and-white during scenes that occurred in the past. Opening with a scene in which Nishida gang members beat up casino guests, shoot a man in a baseball stadium, then get severely abused by cops, Yakuza Graveyard continues at a ferocious pace, as the Nishida and Yamashiro families fight to take over the city. Police are inept, minus Kido Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari), a Dirty Harry-like detective who falls in love with Nishida member, Mrs. Keiko (Meijo Kaji). Kuroiwa swears brotherhood with Nishida Boss Iwata (Seizo Fukumoto), allowing him to be with Keiko, but ruining his career as a cop. As Kuroiwa?s rough bravado blurs the line between the lawmakers and the lawbreakers, the cops and the yakuza start to look equally corrupt. With his trademark use of the handheld camera during battle scenes, Fukasaku?s shots in Yakuza Graveyard are woozier, often capturing sex and violence completely sideways on the screen. Every character seems to be carrying a bottle of whisky, giving the film itself a drunk and disorderly quality. Crime doesn?t pay though it certainly looks good on a screen. --Trinie Dalton
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