Last of the Wolves
2021
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"The Blood of the Wolves" is a great movie, definitely among the best of the year, and hopefully, a splendid beginning in the resurrection of the Yakuza film. Full Review | Nov 30, 2019
Sep 27, 2020 Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse "The Blood of the Wolves" is a great movie, definitely among the best of the year, and hopefully, a splendid beginning in the ...
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- Kôji Yakusho
- Kazuya Shiraishi
- Toei Tokyo
Nov 20, 2020 · On paper, The Blood Of Wolves reads like twenty-thousand dirty precinct procedurals. In practice, The Blood Of Wolves amplifies free-wheeling 80s carelessness while boiling a cutthroat territory invasion. We've seen these beats, but that's never an issue. The squeaky clean rookie who learns hard-knock rules by getting pounded into concrete streets.
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Oct 26, 2018 · By Clarence Tsui. October 26, 2018 3:00am. Courtesy of Tokyo International Film Festival. “Once more, with feeling,” hollers a sadist mobster in the opening scene of The Blood of Wolves as he ...
Nov 13, 2018 · ‘The Blood of Wolves’ is more of homage paid to cult gangster cinema than an attempt to redefine and relaunch the Yakuza genre. Coupled with uncompromising visuals and fine acting from the cast, this stylish crime thriller will leave an impact on you like a fist to the face.
- Kazuya Shiraishi
- Jake Watt
- Koji Yakusho
Unfortunately, the film only delivers on the former. The gang feuds, schlock violence, gaudy neon and chintzy interiors will tick many boxes. Some elements that could do with updating are left unreformed, most notably the lack of complexity in female characters. The talents of Yoko Maki are woefully under-utilized here.
Jul 3, 2018 · The namesake of Yuko Yuzuki’s hard-boiled crime thriller, Korō no chi (The Blood of Wolves) weaves a disturbingly unpleasant, yet unflinchingly honest panorama of the convoluted relations between the Yakuza and the Japanese police in 1980’s Hiroshima, centering on a gore-encrusted set of events occurring prior to the implementation of the Anti-Organized Crime Law.
