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A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over. | add synopsisUser Comments:
excellent Yukuza moreCast
(Credited cast) | Koji Tsuruta | ... | Gunji |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Noboru Ando | ... | Shark |
| Kenji Imai | ... | Mad Dog Jiro |
| Akiko Kudo | ||
| Kenjiro Morokado | ... | Gushken |
| Hideo Murota | ||
| Tomisaburo Wakayama | ... | Yonabaru - Koza downtown boss |
| Tsunehiko Watase | ||
| Rinichi Yamamoto | ... | Haderuma |
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Sympathy for the Underdog (International: English title) (USA) (DVD title)Gambler: Foreign Opposition (USA) (festival title)
Gamblers in Okinawa (International: English title)
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Wow, I really need to check out more of these Yakuza (Japanese gangster) films as both "Tokyo Drifter" and "Sympathy for the Underdog" are well crafted, intelligent and exiting films. This genre seems quite good. Anyway, "Sympathy for the Underdog" is a simply awesome effort. This film boasts an intelligent script that allows for plenty of character development and it also contains plenty of great dialogue. This is also a well short film with great colors and director Kinji Fukasku utilizes many creative camera angles to make this more exiting. I also toughly enjoyed the score. "Sympathy for the Underdog" contains many great scenes, but I think my favorite was the shootout at the end. Now, I don't want to spoil anything by revealing the content of the scene, but stylistically this contains a lot of quick cut and shaky camera movements that fit the frantic, desperate action perfectly. The best thing of all though is that "Sympathy for the Underdog" is simply a cool movie. The gangsters all have on cool sunglasses and cool suits and exude a level of control and coolness that makes them seem sinister and magnetic at the same time. Most modern filmmakers only wish they could make a film as cool as "Sympathy for the Underdog" while at the same time still making a "good" film. "Sympathy for the Underdog" is a fantastic achievement in Japanese pop cinema; this is well worth checking out. If you are a fan of Japanese cinema, you will not be disappointed.