Gangster Movies

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Fudoh Japan 1996 Takashi Miike (Director) Shosuke Tanihara Hilariously transgressive (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Gozu Japan 2003 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Aikawa Yûta Sone Kimika Yoshino Sakichi Sato (Actor, Writer) Kenichi Endo Renji Ishibashi Masaya Katô Hitoshi Ozawa Kazuyoshi Ozawa Tetsuro Tamba Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Kazunari Tanaka (Cinematographer) Wonderful creativity (Saturday, June 5, 2004)
	Graveyard Of Honour (Miike) Japan 2002 Takashi Miike (Director, Actor) Goro Kishitani Harumi Inoue Renji Ishibashi Yasukaze Motomiya Daisuke Ryû Yûta Sone Shun Sugata Tetsuro Tamba Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Goro Fujita (Writer) Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Less interesting than Fukasaku's original (Tuesday, October 5, 2021) I'd hoped for something more (Saturday, March 15, 2003)
	Ichi The Killer Japan 2001 Takashi Miike (Director) Tadanobu Asano Shinya Tsukamoto A dazzlingly unique and creative movie (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Blues Harp Japan 1998 Takashi Miike (Director) Hiroyuki Ikeuchi Seiichi Tanabe Saori Sekino Mickey Curtis Daisuke Iijima Atsushi Okuno (Actor, Soundtrack) Tatsuo Yamada Toshiyuki Morioka (Writer) Toshihiko Matsuo (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) A subtle and complex work (Tuesday, August 24, 2021)
	Kikoku Japan 2003 Takashi Miike (Director) Riki Takeuchi Mickey Curtis Kenichi Endo Renji Ishibashi Koichi Iwaki Hiroshi Katsuno Yûta Sone Shigenori Takechi (Writer) Disappointingly generic Yakuza movie from Miike (Wednesday, March 16, 2005)
	Osaka Tough Guys Japan 1995 Takashi Miike (Director) Not recommended (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Rainy Dog Japan 1997 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Aikawa (Actor, Actor) Gao Ming-Chun Xianmei Chen Jianqin He Blacky Ko Chang Li-Wei Zhang Shi Billy Ching Sau-Yat Tomoro Taguchi Seigo Inoue (Writer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack) One of Miike's strongest and most well balanced films. (Friday, December 13, 2002)
	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)
	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)