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A pair of wayward teens stuck in a juvenile detention center find inspiration in MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura's Breaking Down competition in Miike Takashi's Blazing Fists. Ikuto (Kinoshita Danhi) and Ryoma (Yoshizawa Kaname) meet in juvenile detention after both are...

A riveting piece of cinema that plays like a superb combination of Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Kitano 'Beat' Takeshi films circa 1993, Ishii Takashi's unrelentingly violent, socially conscious 1995 neo-noir thriller Gonin (sometimes translated as The Five) undeniably served as...

While there are many films about the life of the samurai, the world of geishas seems less penetrable for filmmakers. Not too long ago there was of course Memoires of a Geisha, but with a Western Hollywood director and Chinese...