Cultures clash on the streets of Tokyo in one of Takashi Miike’s more subdued gangster thrillers.
Category: Crime
Life Without Principle
Life, like the stock market, is full of ups and downs in Johnnie To’s financial crime drama.
Dead or Alive: Final
The future sure is yellow in the last of Takashi Miike’s DoA trilogy.
Collectors
Double crosses, hidden motives and maybe even a sword are all unearthed in Park Jung-bae’s crime caper
Raging Fire
Benny Chan ensures he goes out guns blazing in his final theatrical film.
Z Storm
David Lam’s 90-minute commercial for the ICAC is exactly as boring as it sounds.
Lupin III: The First
Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin III returns guns blazing for his first CG animated adventure.
Voice of Silence
Two men learn to never do favours for your boss in Hong Eui-jeong’s drama.
Deliver us from Evil
A hitman is thrown into a chaotic cat-and-mouse game, just minutes away from retirement in Hong Won-chan’s action thriller. “You promised to take one last job.” These famous last words are directed at In-nam (Hwang Jung-min), a hitman who’s about ready to throw the towel in and retire to Panama, where people apparently go to … Continue reading Deliver us from Evil
The Forest of Love
Sion Sono explores guilt, trauma, madness, suicide and abuse with exactly the amount of sensitivity you’d expect.
Night in Paradise
It’s an eye for an eye, for another eye in Park Hoon-jung’s gangster drama.
A Witness Out of the Blue
Birds cannot testify in court and a man crawls like a cat in Andrew Fung’s excellent whodunnit.
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