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Gonin

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Gonin
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NR,1hr 49min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
January 1, 1995
Director:
Takashi Ishii
Distributor:
Tai Seng
Starring:
Toshiyuki Nagashima, Jinpachi Nezu, Koichi Sato  ...more
Synopsis: Get Carter meets Heidegger in this slick, two-fisted gangster epic brimming with furtive sex and shocking violence. The film centers on five poster-boys of Japan's post-bubble economic malaise: Bandai (Koichi Sato), the owner of a once popular nightclub who's up to his fashionable lapels in debt to the yakuza; the gay extortionist (Masahiro Motoki) who loves him; Ogiwara (Naoto Takenaka of Shall We Dance fame), a downsized salaryman on the brink of mental collapse; an drug addict ex-police detective ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Crow, AMG Review
An unflinching gaze into the abyss, Gonin is a savage, stylish, and thoroughly absorbing work that starts as a crime thriller but morphs into a jet black exploration of death, loss, and meaning. The film's gangster flick set up -- a quintet of disenfranchised losers take out a yakuza office-- dispenses with genre formula by the second act: there are no explosions, no likeable characters, and no cathartic ... Full Review
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