Shin jingi no hakaba (2002)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Writers:

Goro Fujita (novel)
Shigenori Takechi (screenplay)

Release Date:

22 June 2002 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However his fear of nothing soon causes problems. |

Plot Keywords:

Yakuza | Remake | Stripper | Female Nudity | Based On Novel

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Narimi Arimori	...	Chieko Kikuta
Yoshiyuki Daichi	...	Yoshiyuki Ooshita
Hirotaro Honda	...	Correctional officer (as Hirotarô Honda)
Harumi Inoue	...	Yôko Imamura
Renji Ishibashi	...	Denji Yukawa
Gorô Kishitani	...	Rikuo Ishimatsu
Takashi Miike	...	Restaurant gunman
Ryôsuke Miki	...	Kôzô Imamura
Yasukaze Motomiya	...	Kanemoto
Mikio Ôsawa	...	Masato Yoshikawa (as Mikio Oosawa)
Daisuke Ryu	...	Tadaaki Kuze (as Daisuke Ryuu)
Harumi Sone	...	Ryuuzô Fukui
Shun Sugata	...	Toshi Nishizaki
Tetsurô Tanba	...	Tetsuji Tokura
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi	...	Shigeru Hashida
Shingo Yamashiro	...	Shinobu Sawada
Shinji Yamashita	...	Masaru Narimura
Rikiya Yasuoka	...	Aoyama (as Rikiya)

Also Known As:

Graveyard of Honor (Japan: English title)
New Graveyard of Honor (International: English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

131 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

New Zealand:R18 | Germany:18 | Japan:R-15 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company:

Daiei Motion Picture Company

Movie Connections:

Featured in Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza (2008) (TV)

Miike's baddest bad guy

This is one movie that needs to be released in the West, it is a hardcore dark violent drama, not the typical cartoony Miike. This is probably one of the better Miike movies I've seen, no bizarre cartoon violence or strange events, a straight up yakuza crime violence extravaganza, and apparently a remake of a 1975 movie of the same name. Definitely better than the sort of dragging Araburu Tamashitachi. The lead character Ishimatsu is played by Kishitani Goro, the bad guy from "Returner". In an interview on the DVD, Miike said he wanted to make a movie about a man who didn't learn to be a Yakuza by becoming a Yakuza, but who was born that way... The main character is BAD, far worse than "Ichi the Killer's" Kakihara. Whereas Kakihara is a sort of good-natured amoral sado-masochist, Ishimatsu is a bad natured insane sociopathic drug addict killer rapist. Lots of corpses in this one, men, women, doesn't matter to Ishimatsu. Even more corpses than Ichi the killer or Dead or Alive, and some real violent and realistic knife kills and handgun assassinations, pipe beatings, and other fun. Not for people who shy away from realistic violence and sadism.