Seijun Suzuki displays Japan living up in westernization process!!

The small Japanese studio Nikkatsu had the still young Seijun Suzuki at their directors, here he displays an American oriented offering nearby James Bond in western pop culture, allied with several elements that affirms such guidance as the burlesque environment as those flashy neon night clubs where gambling and dancing girls are the highlights scored by Jazz & beatnik among fancy sport car in a Japanese westernization process with a slight humor oriented neither.

In this newest colorful ambience the picture unfolds, when a private detective without any apparent purposes put himself in jeopardy against some Yakuza's mobs aided by local police to infiltrate between the criminals, a kind of lone hero, backed by strong erotic appeals as often Seijun Suzuki did in others pictures, it somehow reward the audience plenty, aside the usual mismatches the movie is utterly enjoyable mainly by the leading star Jô Shishido in flawless acting, overall it exposes a Japan in makeover process, great actioner Hollywoodian picture.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.

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