Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! Read More »
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Rainy Dog AKA Gokudô kuroshakai (1997) Takashi Miike, Shô Aikawa, Li Wei Chang, Shih Chang
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss Read More »
Tokyo Zombie AKA Tôkyô zonbi (2005) Sakichi Satô, Tadanobu Asano, Shô Aikawa, Erika Okuda
After getting busted for goofing off at work, lovable morons Fujio (Tadanobu Asano) Read More »
The Revenge I: A Visit from Fate AKA Fukushû: Unmei no hômonsha (1997) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shô Aikawa, Itsumi Ôsawa, Fumiyo Kohinata
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible Read More »
Neo chinpira: Zoom Goes The Bullet AKA Neo chinpira: Teppodama pyu (1990) Banmei Takahashi, Shô Aikawa, Chikako Aoyama, Nao Asuka
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi) Read More »
Eyes of the Spider AKA Kumo no hitomi (1998) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shô Aikawa, Duncan, Ren Ôsugi
Eyes of the Spider concerns Nijima, a white-collar worker who one day finds the man responsible for his young daughter’s brutal rape and murder. Read More »
Waru (2006) Takashi Miike, Shô Aikawa, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ryo Ishibashi
A member of the Yakuza is imprisoned for violent behaviour including fighting another group of thugs. Read More »
Scars of the Sun (2006) Takashi Miike, Shô Aikawa, Aiko Satô, Ken’ichi Endô
Katayama (Aikawa Sho) is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he stumbles on a gang of punks beating up an innocent man. Read More »
Nihon kuroshakai / Ley Lines (1999) Takashi Miike, Shô Aikawa, Samuel Pop Aning, Takeshi Caesar
A group of Chinese youths living in Japan struggle to make their way in life and eventually find trouble with the local crime syndicate.
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Hebi no michi / Serpent’s Path (1998) Shô Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Shiro Shitamoto, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Serpent’s Path and its companion piece Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) both start from the same premise: a man taking revenge for the murder of a child. Kurosawa used this premise as the jumping-off point for the two films rather than their definition, resulting in a pair of works which are not so much occupied with revenge, but with the mental processes of human beings in situations that have placed them outside everyday life.
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