Gokudó Daisensó
Réalisation:
Takashi MiikeScénario:
山口義高Photographie:
神田創Musique:
Kōji EndōActeurs·trices:
Hayato Ichihara, Yayan Ruhian, Riko Narumi, Lily Franky, Sho Aoyagi, Rina Kanno, ピエール瀧, Denden, Reiko Takashima, Yuki Sakurai, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, 中村靖日 (plus)Résumés(1)
Kamiura est un chef Yakuza légendaire. On dit qu'il est immortel mais en fait c'est un vampire, un chef Yakuza vampire ! Kageyama est le plus fidèle membre de son clan, mais les autres yakuzas se moquent de lui : sa peau est trop sensible pour être tatouée. Un jour, des hommes arrivent de l'étranger et lui délivrent un ultimatum : Kamiura doit retourner à un syndicat du crime international qu'il a quitté ou mourir. Kamiura refuse et son corps est démembré au terme d'une bagarre féroce. Avant de mourir, Kamiura arrive à mordre Kageyama, lui transmettant ses pouvoirs. A son réveil Kageyama, va se servir de ces pouvoirs pour venger la mort de son chef et combattre ce syndicat international du crime. (Spectrum Films)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Takashi Miike is a bum. I’d rather rewatch his Over your Dead Body than this mess. Yakuza Apocalypse has the problem of not knowing what it wants to be, a vampire horror film, a comedy or an action movie with fantasy elements, and unfortunately none of them works. If you're used to Japan, you won't be surprised by the talking severed head, the fighting stuffed animal, and a lot of other weirdness that I wholeheartedly hate. Contrary to what foreign reviews report, the film is not brutal (a little blood won't upset anyone these days). Yayan Ruhian is totally underused, the pacing is erratic, and I'm afraid to even write the word ‘story’ here. I liked only one scene and that was the breaking of a neck four times with the immediate ripping out of the head, something I have not seen anywhere else so far. Only for madmen, for me barely acceptable. 45%
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This is still Miike, whom I imagine more as an action director who doesn't hold back from any violence and doesn't hesitate to blur the boundaries between genres. On the one hand, this comes off as a pretty badass gangster movie when suddenly a frog shows up. And somehow it all works miraculously. Rough fights, great gimmicks, and again, incredible special effects.
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