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Burai Yori Daikanbu
Gangster VIP
Hoodlum - Leading Mobster
Japan 1968
produced by
Kaneo Iwai for Nikkatsu
directed by Toshio Masuda
starring Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Mitsuo Hamada, Tamio Kawachi, Kyosuke Machida, Kayo Matsuo, Yasuko Sanjo, Sanae Kitabayashi, Michitaro Mizushima, Hirohisa Toda, Tatsuya Fuji, Yoshiaki Akoi, Akiyoshi Fukae, Hiroshi, Masahiro Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Kameyama, Takeshi Yoshida, Tetsumichi Nakahira, Kaku Takashina, Misako Tominaga
screenplay by Goro Fujita, Kaneo Ikegami, Keiji Kubota, based on a story by Goro Fujita, music by Naozumi Yamamoto
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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3 years ago, Yakuza Goro (Tetsuya Watari) had been arrested after a
shoot-out between him and his childhood friend Sugiyama (Kyosuke Machida)
that happened when they found themselves in different gangs. Now Goro's
out again, and welcomed by his boss Mizuhara (Michitaro Mizushima) and
gang with open arms ... but wherever he goes, Goro finds himself running
into goons of the rival gang led by Ueno (Yoshiaki Aoki), and the fights
get increasingly violent. Goro's heart is broken when he finds out Saeko
(Yasuko Sanjo), the girl who has sworn to wait for him, has since married
a boring (yet stable) office worker, while he's more than a little
irritated by Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), a girl who has fallen in love with
him, and he just can't shake off even though he knows he'll make her
unhappy some day just because of being a Yakuza. But times change, and the
Mizuhara clan and the Ueno clan seem to broker a peace agreement after all
these years ... that only holds until Goro's best friend Takeo (Mitsuo
Hamada) is slaughtered by the Ueno clan, when he was just about to skip
town to start somewhere else anew. Then Sugiyama is released from prison
as well, and even though Goro and he almost killed each other back when,
they manage to reconcile over the lack of honour their respective gangs
show nowadays - but that seems to be a downhill trip ... Gangster
VIP is credited with being one of the first Yakuza movies to also show
the dark, gritty, realist side of a genre that has often been romanticised
- and given the story for this movie was written by an actual former
mobster, it should come as small surprise this works rather well, too ...
but it's of course also down to a clever screenplay that manages to
balance out the melodramatic with the violent, a directorial effort that
finds a way to bring both and even a little bit of humour to the screen
effectively, and spot-on performances to make the whole thing really work. Totally
worth a look, actually!
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