Gangster Movies

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Shanghai 13 Hong Kong 1984 Chang Cheh (Director, Writer) Lau Kar-Wing (Action Director) Chiang Sheng (Action Director, Actor) Lu Feng (Action Director, Actor) Wong Gwok-Chue (Action Director) Cheng Tien-Chi (Action Director, Actor) Jimmy Wang Yu Ti Lung Chen Kuan-Tai Danny Lee Sau-Yin David Chiang Chi Kuan-Chun Wang Chung Chen Sing Leung Kar-Yan Andy Lau Chang Cheh goes indie (Wednesday, February 18, 2015)
	Shanghai Grand Hong Kong 1996 Poon Man-Kit (Director) Tung Wai (Action Director) Andy Lau Leslie Cheung Ning Jing Lau Shun Amanda Lee Almen Wong Wu Hsing-Guo Matt Chow (Writer) Poor attempt to convert a popular series into a movie (Thursday, December 20, 2001)
	Shanghai Triad China 1995 Zhang Yimou (Director) Gong Li Li Baotian Sun Chun Wang Xiaoxiao Li Xuejian Liu Jiang Fu Biao Shu Chen Yue Lü (Cinematographer) Guangtian Zhang (Soundtrack) Visually stunning (Sunday, January 8, 2006)
	Sharkskin Man and Peach Hip Girl Japan 1998 Katsuhito Ishii (Director, Writer) Tadanobu Asano Sie Kohinata Ittoku Kishibe Kimie Shingyôji Susumu Terajima Shingo Tsurumi Yoji Tanaka Keisuke Horibe Kanji Tsuda Hiroshi Machida (Cinematographer) Clever, funny and well-made (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Shinjuku Triad Society Japan 1995 Takashi Miike (Director) Kippei Shiina Tomoro Taguchi Takeshi Caesar Shinsuke Izutsu Eri Yu Sei Hiraizumi Ren Osugi Sabu Kazuhiro Mashiko Yoji Tanaka Ichiro Fujita (Writer) Atorie Shira (Soundtrack) Naosuke Imaizumi (Cinematographer) A distinctive early Miike outing (Tuesday, August 3, 2021)
	Sonatine Japan 1993 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor, Writer) Aya Kokumai Tetsu Watanabe Masanobu Katsumura Susumu Terajima Ren Osugi Tonbo Zushi Joe Hisaishi (Soundtrack) Beautifully meditative take on the yakuza film (Sunday, December 15, 2013)
	Swallowtail Butterfly Japan 1996 Shunji Iwai (Director, Writer) Chara Hiroshi Mikami Ayumi Ito Yosuke Eguchi Andy Hui Atsuro Watabe Kaori Momoi Tomoko Yamaguchi Nene Otsuka Yoriko Douguchi Mickey Curtis Tetsu Watanabe Tadanobu Asano Tomoro Taguchi Kaori Fujii Noboru Shinoda (Cinematographer) Takeshi Kobayashi (Soundtrack) One of the greatest movies ever made? (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Sworn Brothers Hong Kong 1987 David Lai (Director, Writer) Andy Lau Peter Yang Kwan Bill Tung Eddy Ko Chin Kar-Lok Pauline Wong Manfred Wong (Writer) Raymond Lam (Cinematographer) Ardy Lam (Cinematographer) Chris Babida (Soundtrack) contrived and over-melodramatic (Monday, January 16, 2006)
	The Blood Rules Hong Kong 2000 Marco Mak (Director) Ma Yuk-Sing (Action Director) Michael Wong Suki Kwan Jackie Lui Lam Suet Wong Tin-Lam James Yuen (Writer) Mak's debut shows promise, but he hadn't quite developed it fully (Monday, December 24, 2001)
	The City of Violence South Korea 2006 Ryu Seung-Wan (Director, Actor, Writer) Jung Doo-Hong Lee Beom-Soo Ahn Kil-Kang Kim Shi-Hoo On Joo-Wan Kim Dong-Young Jung Woo Jung Suk-Yong Kim Seo-Hyung Kim Kot-bi Park Young-Seo Kim Jeong-Min (Writer) Lee Won-Jae (Writer) Kim Young-Chul (Cinematographer) Disappointing follow up to Arahan (Thursday, June 3, 2021)