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Director:
Takashi Miike
Writers:
Itaru Era (screenplay)
Hiroki Yamaguchi (story)
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Release Date:
5 December 1997 (Japan) more
Plot:
Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) is a beginner in the Yakuza world , he is very fearful and nobody respect him... more | add synopsis
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Super-cheap but gleefully twisted and inventive more

Cast

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Tsuyoshi Ujiki ... Kensuke Hagane
Tomorowo Taguchi ... Genpaku Hiraga
Takeshi Caesar ... Tosa
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kazuki Kitamura ... Matsuba (as Yasushi Kitamura)
Yuichi Minato (as Yuuichi Minato)
Shôko Nakahara ... Yukari
Momoko Nishida ... Naomi
Ren Osugi ... Nakame
Kôji Tsukamoto ... Junji
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Full Metal Yakuza
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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Certification:
Germany:16 (heavily cut) | Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) (cut) | UK:18 | Canada:18+ (Quebec)
Company:
Excellent Film more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Super-cheap but gleefully twisted and inventive, 3 December 2002
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Author: Simon Booth from UK

Takashi Miike may well be the savior of modern cinema - more than any other film maker I'm aware of, Miike keeps pushing the boundaries of the art form. He's also got a deliciously sick sense of humour.

Full Metal Gokudo is an early Miike movie (with the rate he produces movies, even 5 years ago is a long way back in his career). It's a made for video ultra-cheapy, probably made in a couple of weeks for a few thousand yen. The basic premise is Robocop meets a Yakuza movie... producing the Full Metal Gokudo himself, a low ranking Yakuza gangster whose body is reanimated by a self-proclaimed genius scientist, to be a crime fighting superhero. Though things don't quite go according to his plans.

Despite the very very low budget and terrible special effects, FMG contains buckets of that Miike imagination and intellect. Subtle, dark humour occasionally gives way to comic absurdity - and occasionally to something much darker and more disturbing. Nothing as sick as you will find in Ichi The Killer or Fudoh, but enough to trouble the more squeamish viewers no doubt. There's a little bit of a heart in the movie too though, for the viewer who can look past the gore and idiocy.

Mostly though, FMG is just a silly comedy. It takes a bunch of mostly loathsome characters and puts them in a ridiculous situation, then has fun seeing how everybody reacts. It's a movie that could only have come from Japan, and probably only from Takashi Miike himself. The ultra low budget means its never going to get mainstream popularity, but it's the perfect material to become a lightweight cult classic.

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