In this film, I think the most exciting thing is this poster and Kato created by Terashima Jin. Kato's loyal and loyal second-in-command image of the underworld is very attractive. As for the story, it's not as exciting as "Extremely Wicked".
The story is simple, the underworld struggle intensifies and the police force one of the parties to merge into the rival organization. Takeshi Kitano plays Toyamamoto, who is unwilling to let go of his hatred and join the Hisamatsu group. He didn't want to embarrass his sworn brother Harada, who joined the Jiusong group, so he went to the ocean to go to his younger brother A Jian. It can be seen from this that Yamamoto is a good boss who is very considerate of others. To win Kato's unwavering loyalty, it's no surprise. Most people's hearts are fleshy, how you treat others, they will treat you as well.
When he arrived in Los Angeles, he found that his younger brother, A Jian, had been abandoned in his studies, and he had been studying abroad to become Lao Bai's dealer. Moreover, the scale was very unfavorable, and he was often bullied by Mexicans. In the underworld, Yamamoto was a successful person, and he was very angry when he saw his younger brother making small troubles and being beaten at both ends for three days. He is a professional gangster and cannot tolerate the amateurish behavior of his brother and his gangsters. So, he personally went out, bullets all the way, and soon became famous.
There is a question here, is there no police in America? Kill so many people, and no one will come to the door. Possibly, this kind of violent neighborhood is the Kowloon Walled City that doesn't care. Three religions and nine streams, whoever has the bigger fist and who speaks better, this is the favorite anarchy of the national Olympics.
There's a joke that asks a black man in the same car as a Puerto Rican, who's driving? The answer is the police. It vividly shows the high crime rate of some ethnic groups and the situation that they are in the same situation as each other. Interestingly, many black people often go to war in Africa because of racial and tribal conflicts. After arriving in the United States, because of their African-American identities, they put on the same pair of pants.
In the American underworld, there is a chain of contempt. At the top of the chain, of course, is the Italian mafia with deep roots and a formalized path. With the expansion of strength, Yamamoto-gumi gradually came close to the Italians. Kuroda prepared to wipe out the oil, and the lion opened his mouth and asked for 50% of the shares. The bottom line of Yamaguchi-gumi was 20%. The differences are too great, and there is only war. At the beginning, the two sides carried out certain temptations and retaliated against each other. However, after the second character Shirase was killed by a car bomb, Yamamoto also saw that he was not an opponent of the Mafia. When a high-rise building is raised and guests are entertained, the building collapses. When he is proud, Yamamoto is absolutely mean to his subordinates and spends a lot of money. Danny's mother's birthday, Yamamoto sent a generous gift. Now that the calamity has come and gone, Yamamoto has also played a trick, not only let Danny escape with a large sum of dollars, but also let him live in peace without worrying about being hunted down, really well-intentioned. No wonder Kato died for his eldest brother in order to convince Shirase to join the organization. The eldest brother is really warm and popular.
In the end, facing the mafia in suits and shoes and armed with machine guns, Yamamoto went to death calmly, and used his own death to bring this incident to an end. If at this time, Yamamoto rushed out to start a bloody battle and finally won a tragic victory, it would not be a drama, but an action movie, and it would not be Takeshi Kitano. Takeshi Kitano's underworld movies are full of violence, but he never preaches violence. The underworld members under his camera, good or bad, are hard to escape the fate of running into the street in the end.
If the underworld were all like the Mafia, well-equipped, with great firepower, it might look less brutal. After all, one shot will kill you, and it doesn't seem to hurt too much. Like the traditional Japanese gangsters who cut their fingers at every turn, it is really scary and deterrent. When faced with the war, Kase distributed painkillers to everyone (after taking it, you can die without pain), to prevent the younger brothers from being brutally abused after being captured, and suffering in vain and dying. Then, he said to Yamamoto, the two of us don't need it anymore. Although Shirase is very young, he is also considered to be from a traditional underworld background, and he has the temperament of an old-fashioned character. This kind of temperament is also praised again and again in Kitano Takeshi's underworld films. Today, it may be a little out of place.
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