Gangster Movies

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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
High & Low The Movie 3: Final Mission
Japan
2017
Shigeaki Kubo (Director) Tsuyoshi Nakakuki (Director) Takanori Iwata Hiroomi Tosaka Shô Aoyagi Shintarô Akiyama Kôsei Amano Nobuyuki Suzuki Yûya Endô Karen Fujii Yuki Yamada Masataka Kubota Kento Hayashi Keita Machida Kenjiro Yamashita Naoki Kobayashi Goro Kishitani Takashi Sasano Ryôhei Abe Keisuke Horibe Yû Inaba Joey Iwanaga Wataru Ichinose Masaya Katô Kosuke Toyohara Hôka Kinoshita Tatsuya Nakamura Kanta Satô Norihisa Hiranuma (Writer) Kei Watanabe (Writer) Yasutaka Nagano (Cinematographer) Hikaru Yasuda (Cinematographer)
A new low bar for the franchise (Sunday, March 21, 2021)
High & Low: The Movie
Japan
2016
Shigeaki Kubo (Director) Takanori Iwata Tatsuya Nakamura Kana Oya Wataru Ichinose Nobuyuki Suzuki Kenjiro Yamashita Hiroomi Tosaka Sho Aoyagi Masataka Kubota Yuki Yamada Taiki Sato Shuka Fujii Karen Fujii Seung-Ri Kento Hayashi Shintarô Akiyama Keita Machida Kei Watanabe (Writer) Norihisa Hiranuma (Writer) Yûta Nakano (Soundtrack) Terukuni Ajisaka (Cinematographer)
Reviewed by Simon (Saturday, September 26, 2020)
Ichi The Killer
Japan
2001
Takashi Miike (Director) Tadanobu Asano Shinya Tsukamoto Nao Ômori Sabu Paulyn Sun Susumu Terajima Shun Sugata Toru Tezuka Kiyohiko Shibukawa Suzuki Matsuo Jun Kunimura Sakichi Sato (Actor, Writer) Hideo Sako Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Seiichi Yamamoto (Soundtrack)
Raised the bar for on-screen depravity (Sunday, September 15, 2024)
A dazzlingly unique and creative movie (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
Jiang Hu
Hong Kong
2004
Wong Ching-Po (Director) Tung Wai (Action Director) Andy Lau Jacky Cheung Edison Chen Shawn Yu Eric Tsang Wu Chien-Lien Kara Hui Norman Tsui
Interesting, if somewhat compromised (Wednesday, July 14, 2004)
Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone
Hong Kong
2000
Dante Lam (Director) Wong Wai-Fai (Action Director) Tony Leung Ka-Fai Sandra Ng Roy Cheung Eason Chan Anthony Wong Samuel Pang Chapman To Eric Tsang Richard Ng Helena Law Lan Lee San-San Jo Kuk Lee Lik-Chi Sunny Luk Chan Hing-Kar (Writer) Amy Chin Siu-Wai (Writer) Cheung Man-Po (Cinematographer)
Not quite as topical as it once was, but still exceptional (Friday, June 24, 2022)
Masterpiece (Sunday, May 27, 2001)
Kick The Moon
South Korea
2001
Kim Sang-Jin (Director) Cha Seung-Won Lee Sung-Jae Kim Hye-Su Kang Woo-Suk (Writer)
Its by the people that made ATTACK THE GAS STATION and it's good (Sunday, June 2, 2002)
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)
Killer's Nocturne
Hong Kong
1987
Lam Nai-Choi (Director, Cinematographer) Chris Lee (Action Director) Alex Man Chin Siu-Ho Pat Ha Patrick Tse Wang Hsieh Han Ying-Chieh Shing Fui-On Bolo Yeung Manfred Wong (Writer)
Chin Siu-Ho fights a kangaroo (Sunday, June 14, 2020)
Killing End
Hong Kong
2001
Herman Yau (Director) Loletta Lee Andy Hui Simon Loui (Actor, Writer)
Poor movie, but Loletta Lee is worth watching (Thursday, January 17, 2002)
Kung Fu Hustle
Hong Kong
2004
Stephen Chiau (Director, Actor) Yuen Wo-Ping (Action Director) Sammo Hung (Action Director) Yuen Wah Yuen Qiu Lam Tze-Chung Dung Chi-Wa Chiu Chi-Ling Xing Yu Danny Chan Bruce Leung Siu-Lung Tin Kai-Man Fung Hak-On Lam Suet Poon Hang-Sang (Cinematographer) Raymond Wong Ying-Wah (Soundtrack)
a love song to kung fu films (Friday, February 25, 2005)