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Tokyo Fist

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Tokyo Fist
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1hr 27min
Genre:
Horror
Release:
1995
Director:
Shinya Tsukamoto
Distributor:
Manga Video
Starring:
Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Kohji Tsukamoto  ...more
Synopsis: Tsuda (played by Shinya Tsukamoto) is a frustrated insurance salesman who lives a life of quiet desperation with his girlfriend Hizuru (Kaori Fujii). His job yields little fulfillment, his relationship lacks passion, and he feels perpetually fatigued, as if overwhelmed by the inhuman scale of Tokyo. His life takes a bizarre turn when his old high school acquaintance Kojima (Kohji Tsukamoto) pays him a visit. The wild-eyed professional boxer attempts to seduce Hizuru, driving Tsuda into a jealous ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Crow, AMG Review
As in much of Shinya Tsukamoto's work, mutilation, male rage, and latent homosexuality are at the heart of this brutally violent, strangely hilarious, wildly over-the-top film. Tsukamoto draws from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), both in showing Hizuru's evolution into something not quite human and in including the city as a central character. The director cleverly juxtaposes the static violence of ... Full Review
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