Shinjuku Triad Society Teaches Us How To Properly Use An Ice Cube

After that brief interlude with a Russian war film we're back to Miike:



This is a classic. It looks all dirty and low budget, which really lends to the type of film it is. This was very early Takashi Miike, and is the first of a thematic trilogy referred to as his Black Society Trilogy. This was an era in which Miike was making a lot more straight-to-video movies than he does now. STS, however, was a theatrical release. Take note that in Japan straight-to-video movies don't necessarily have the same stigma that they do here. As a matter of fact, they call it V-Cinema and there are people that become stars in the V-Cinema world. All the info I just gave you may be completely outdated, as I learned it around the turn of the millennium.