Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
"Jitsuroku Andô Noboru kyôdô-den: Rekka" (original title)

When his beloved boss his killed, a dangerous young gangster cuts a path of vengeance through the Japanese mafia.

Director:

Takashi Miike

Writer:

Shigenori Takechi

Stars:

Riki Takeuchi, Ryôsuke Miki, Ken'ichi Endô

Cast

Credited cast:
Riki Takeuchi	...	Kunisada
Ryôsuke Miki
Ken'ichi Endô
Mika Katsumura
Sonny Chiba
Yûya Uchida
Tetsurô Tanba	...	Sanada
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Renji Ishibashi
Shigeo Kobayashi
Lily	...	Kunisada's Godmother
Kazuya Nakayama
Miho Nomoto
Yûta Sone
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi	...	Tabata
Joe Yamanaka

Storyline

After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.

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Plot Keywords:

yakuza | old man | friend | japanese mafia | death | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

official website

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

21 September 2002 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Violent Fire

Company Credits

Production Co:

Toei Video Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Takashi Miike cut this movie to the strains of the 1971 progressive rock album "Satori" by the Flower Traveling Band, which he learned of through costars Joe Yamanaka and Yûya Uchida, who were also the band's founding members. Miike found the album to be way ahead of its time and was delighted at how well and inconspicuously it cut into a movie made 30 years later.

User Reviews

Like an Asian Pulp Fiction on Acid

This movie did a great job of showing the bond between male friends. I absolutely loved the integration of the high fashion these sophisticated Tokyo lads portrayed. With this, they did a great job. On the other hand, I was appalled with the extreme sexual graphics and nudity that was on the screen. There were so many alternative sexual lifestyles that were thrown at the audience that I felt bombarded with pornography. I had never in my life scene people having blatant obvious sex on the movie screen like that before, this movie was completely low on character and morals. I was concerned with moms taking there young teenagers to this movie for a girls night and being outraged by what they were being exposed to. Other than this shocking experience, the movie was well done and creative about these lads and how they experienced love in the Big city, for that I give it a 7 and for the rest, I give it a 4